The 1975 UAAP men's basketball tournament was the 38th year of the men's tournament of the

University Athletic Association of the Philippines The University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), established in 1938, is an athletic association of eight Metro Manila universities in the Philippines. The eight-member schools are Adamson University (AdU), Ateneo de Manila Univers ...

(UAAP)'s basketball championship. Hosted by

University of the East The University of the East ( fil, Pamantasan ng Silangan), also known as UE, is a leading private university located in Manila, Philippines. Founded in 1946, business tycoon Lucio Tan acquired the university in 1990. UE was once labeled as the ...

, the

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defeated the

FEU Tamaraws The FEU Tamaraws are the varsity teams of Far Eastern University in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). The collegiate women's varsity teams are called the ''Lady Tamaraws'' while the high school varsity teams are cal ...

in the finals taking their fourteenth overall and back-to-back UAAP men's basketball championship.

Finals

, with Tito Varela providing the hustle and power and Emer Legaspi humbling the number of guards thrown to him, beat

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, 85-80, to retain the title it won from the same team the prior year. Emer Legaspi, the same Warrior the Tamaraws limited to 11 in their clash a week before the championship fight, finished with 31. FEU's Anastacio Deles and Pablo Javier, failed miserably in containing the UE hotshot who got all the screens he needed from Varela and Benjie Chua. Varela showed his national teammate Nicanor Bulaong what power in basketball could be. FEU's duo of Bulaong and Anthony Dasalla proved no match to UE's head-shaven hero.

References

*http://www.gameface.ph/showthread.php?30055-Retro-1970s-basketball-articles *http://rpbasketballphotos.blogspot.com/2013/09/1975-1976-uaap-senior-basketball-title.html *https://www.ue.edu.ph/news/?p=2980 {{DEFAULTSORT:Uaap 38 1975 in Philippine basketball