NCAA Season 97 basketball tournaments

NCAA Season 97 seniors' basketball tournament is the basketball tournaments of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines) for its 2021–22 season. This will be the first tournament since the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, and since 2019. Only the seniors' tournament for college students shall be held; the juniors' tournament for senior high school students last held in 2019 will still not be held.

Tournament format

The season will be held with five gamedays a week calendar, with two games being played in each gameday. These gamedays are scheduled from Tuesday to Sundays.[1]

  • Round robin tournament
  • Teams will be ranked by winning percentage.
  • Top two teams will be given the twice-to-beat advantage in the semifinals. Next four teams will participate in the play-in tournament.
    • Third and fourth placed teams will play for the third seed
    • Fifth and sixth placed teams will play for a berth in the fourth seed playoff, to face the loser of the third seed playoff.
  • The finals shall be a best-of-three series.

Teams

All ten schools are participating.

College Seniors' team Seniors' coach
Arellano University (AU) Chiefs Cholo Martin
Colegio de San Juan de Letran (CSJL) Knights Bonnie Tan
De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde (CSB) Blazers Charles Tiu
Emilio Aguinaldo College (EAC) Generals Oliver Bunyi
Jose Rizal University (JRU) Heavy Bombers Louie Gonzalez
Lyceum of the Philippines University (LPU) Pirates Gilbert Malabanan
Mapua University (MU) Cardinals Randy Alcantara
San Beda University (SBU) Red Lions Boyet Fernandez
San Sebastian College – Recoletos (SSC-R) Golden Stags Egay Macaraya
University of Perpetual Help System DALTA (UPHSD) Altas Myk Saguiguit

Coaching changes
Team Outgoing coach Manner of departure Date Replaced by Date
Perpetual Altas Frankie Lim Resignation September 16, 2020[2] Myk Saguiguit December 1, 2020[3]
Lyceum Pirates Topex Robinson Signed by Phoenix Super LPG Fuel Masters September 12, 2020[4] Jeff Perlas October 6, 2020[5]
Benilde Blazers Ty Tang End of contract June 18, 2021[6] Charles Tiu December 2, 2021[7]
Lyceum Pirates Jeff Perlas Resignation December 13, 2021[8] Gilbert Malabanan December 13, 2021[8]

Venues
St. Benilde Gym
Filoil Flying
V Centre
Mall of Asia Arena
Venues in Metro Manila.

St. Benilde Gym in La Salle Green Hills (LSGH), Mandaluyong is the exclusive venue of the tournament. All games will be held behind closed doors, with teams being transported to LSGH from their schools every game day.[9]

In April, the NCAA announced that fans will be allowed back to watch the games at the venue for the last game day of the elimination round, the play-in tournament, semifinals, and first two games of the finals, which will be held at the Filoil Flying V Centre in San Juan, with a potential game 3 of the finals in the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay.[10]

Squads

Each NCAA team can have up to 15 players on their roster.

Starting this season, all teams in all sports are banned from including foreigners in their rosters.[11] Squads were released on March 22.[12]

Elimination round

Team standings

Pos Team W L PCT GB Qualification
1  Letran Knights 9 0 1.000 — Twice-to-beat in the semifinals
2  Mapúa Cardinals 7 2 .778[lower-alpha 1] 2
3  San Beda Red Lions 7 2 .778[lower-alpha 1] 2 Proceed to third seed playoff
4  Benilde Blazers (H) 5 4 .556 4
5  Perpetual Altas 4 5 .444[lower-alpha 2] 5 Proceed to qualifying playoff
6  Arellano Chiefs 4 5 .444[lower-alpha 2] 5
7  EAC Generals 3 6 .333[lower-alpha 3] 6
8  San Sebastian Stags 3 6 .333[lower-alpha 3] 6
9  Lyceum Pirates 2 7 .222 7
10  JRU Heavy Bombers 1 8 .111 8
Source: GMA Network-NCAA Philippines
Rules for classification: 1) winning percentage; 2) head-to-head record; 3) head-to-head point differential; 4) overall point differential
(H) Host
Notes:
  1. Head-to-head record: Mapúa 1–0 San Beda
  2. Head-to-head record: Perpetual 1–0 Arellano
  3. Head-to-head record: EAC 1–0 San Sebastian

Schedule
Updated to match(es) played on April 29, 2022. Source: GMA Network-NCAA Philippines
  = Win;   = OT win;   = Loss;   = OT loss

Results

Results on top and to the right of the dashes are for first-round games.

Teams AU CSJL CSB EAC JRU LPU MU SBU SSC-R UPHSD
Arellano Chiefs — 67–96 71–76 70–55 65–62 66–70 72–63 68–82 65–63 70–87
Letran Knights — 67–63 83–62 81–59 80–77 80–60 59–56 73–69 68–57
Benilde Blazers — 78–68 68–74 79–68 65–84 63–67 71–62 83–73
EAC Generals — 80–65 70–69 67–73 81–85 63–60 60–63
JRU Heavy Bombers — 75–82 56–59 53–67 64–70 56–77
Lyceum Pirates — 65–75 76–84 71–83 69–72
Mapúa Cardinals — 68–54 65–59 95–83
San Beda Red Lions — 61–60 78–71
San Sebastian Stags — 63–58
Perpetual Altas —
Updated to match(es) played on April 29, 2022. Source: GMA Network
Legend: Blue = left column team win; Red = top row team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

Play-in tournament

  Play-in games Fourth seed playoff Final seeds
                           
3  San Beda 63  
4  Benilde 57         3  San Beda  No. 3 seed 
      4  Benilde    No. 4 seed 
  5  Perpetual  
5  Perpetual 59
6  Arellano 52  

Third seed playoff

This is between the teams that finished 3rd and 4th after the elimination round; the winner is the #3 seed and advances to the semifinals against the #2 seed, while the loser is relegated to the fourth seed playoff.

May 1, 2022
12:00 p.m.
San Beda Red Lions  63–57  Benilde Blazers
Scoring by quarter: 18–7, 8–13, 14–17, 23–20
Pts: James Kwekuteye 17
Rebs: JB Bahio 10
Asts: Alfaro, Cortez, 4 each		 Pts: Robi Nayve 10
Rebs: Will Gozum 11
Asts: Robi Nayve 3
San Beda advances to the semifinals

Qualifying playoff

This is between the teams that finished 5th and 6th after the elimination round; the winner advances to the fourth seed playoff, while the loser is eliminated.

May 1, 2022
3:00 p.m.
Perpetual Altas  59–52  Arellano Chiefs
Scoring by quarter: 13–14, 12–10, 19–19, 15–9
Pts: Kim Aurin 16
Rebs: Mark Omega 9
Asts: Jielo Razon 6		 Pts: Jordan Sta. Ana 12
Rebs: Justin Arana 17
Asts: Maui Cruz 4
Perpetual advances to the fourth seed playoff

Fourth seed playoff

The winner is the #4 seed and advances to the semifinals against the #1 seed.

Bracket

  Semifinals
(Nos. 1 & 2 have twice-to-beat advantage)		 Finals
(Best-of-three playoff)
                       
1  Letran    
4    
   
   
2  Mapúa  
3  San Beda    

Semifinals

The top 2 seeded teams have the twice-to-beat advantage. In case a team wins all elimination round games, the stepladder format won't be used since the elimination round is shortened to just one round instead of the usual two.[13]

Letran vs. #4 team

Letran qualified to its third consecutive playoffs.

May 8, 2022
12:00 p.m.
Letran Knights  vs. #4 team
May 11, 2022
Letran Knights  vs. #4 team*

*If necessary

Mapúa vs. San Beda

This is the first meeting between Mapúa and San Beda in the semifinals since 2008 and fourth overall. Meanwhile, this is Mapúa's first semifinals appearance since 2016 and the first time they have the twice-to-beat advantage. while San Beda's streak of having the twice-to-beat advantage since 2005 was broken.[14]

*If necessary

Finals

The finals is a best-of-three series.

May 15, 2022
#1 vs #4 winner vs. #2 vs #3 winner
May 22, 2022
#1 vs #4 winner vs. #2 vs #3 winner
May 29, 2022
#1 vs #4 winner vs. #2 vs #3 winner*

*If necessary

See also

References
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