UAAP Season 85 Basketball Tournaments

The UAAP Season 85 basketball tournaments are the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) basketball tournaments for the 2022–23 school year.

The collegiate men's and women's tournaments began on October 1, 2022.

Richard "Dickie" Bachmann, former Alaska Aces governor in the Philippine Basketball Association, was appointed as the UAAP basketball commissioner for this season. Bachmann's term as basketball commissioner will extend to the league's 86th season.

Tournament format

The UAAP will continue to use the UAAP Final Four format.

Fr. Aldrin Suan, UAAP president, said that the league will revert to its pre-pandemic Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday schedule.

The league will also include a "head coaches' challenge" based on the FIBA challenge system. This gives each team one challenge per game to review questionable calls by the officials.

Teams

Name changes

* Ateneo Lady Eagles and Ateneo Blue Eaglets: On May 5, 2022, Ateneo announced that all of its UAAP teams, regardless of gender, sport or division will now be called the "Blue Eagles".

Coaching changes

Venues

The UAAP released its schedule on September 28. Opening weekend is at SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay, with games at PhilSports Arena in Pasig, Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, and at the Ynares Center in Antipolo, Rizal.

For Wednesday quadrupleheaders, the women's tournament will play at the Quadricentennial Pavilion in UST's Manila campus; on all other game days, the women's teams will play on the same venue and day as their corresponding men's team.

Squads

Each team has a 20-player roster, of which four are reserves. Only one foreign student athlete (FSA) or import is allowed to be on the active roster.

Imports

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Men's tournament

Elimination round

Team standings

Match-up results

Scores

Results on top and to the right of the grey cells are for first-round games; those to the bottom and to the left of it are second-round games.

Postponed games:
* October 29 men's games (UST vs. La Salle, Ateneo vs. Adamson) were postponed due to Tropical Storm Paeng.

Fourth seed playoff

La Salle and Adamson finished the elimination round tied for fourth. This is a one-game playoff to determine the #4 seed.

Bracket

Semifinals

UP and Ateneo have the twice-to-beat advantage which means they have to win only once, and their opponents twice in the semifinals to advance to the Finals.

Ateneo vs. Adamson

The Ateneo Blue Eagles qualified for their eighth consecutive Final Four appearance, and their sixth consecutive tournament with the twice-to-beat advantage – the longest active streak in the Final Four era of UAAP men's basketball. Adamson returns to the Final Four for the first time since 2018.

UP vs. NU

This is the first meeting between UP and NU in the semifinals in UAAP men's basketball history. UP is in its fourth straight playoffs appearance, and its third consecutive tournament with the twice-to-beat advantage. The NU Bulldogs returned to the semifinals for the first time since 2015 after missing out the past 5 seasons.

Finals

The Finals is a best-of-three series. This is the second consecutive (and third overall) Battle of Katipunan finals. For the first time in the Final Four era of UAAP men's basketball, UP clinched their second consecutive finals appearance. Ateneo clinched their sixth consecutive finals appearance – the school's longest overall championship appearance streak in UAAP men's basketball.

* Finals Most Valuable Player:

Awards

The awards were handed out prior to Game 2 of the Finals at the Araneta Coliseum.

* Most Valuable Player:
* Rookie of the Year:

* Mythical Five:
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* Lazada Swag Player of the Season:
* PSBankable Player of the Season:

Players of the Week

The Collegiate Press Corps awards a "player of the week" on Tuesdays for performances on the preceding week.

Player suspensions

* Adama Faye of the UST Growling Tigers for an unsportsmanlike foul against Luis Villegas of the UE Red Warriors. He served his one-game suspension in the game of UST versus FEU Tamaraws.
* CJ Austria of the De La Salle Green Archers for an unsportsmanlike foul against Patrick Sleat of the FEU Tamaraws. He served his one-game suspension in the game of La Salle versus NU Bulldogs.
* Evan Nelle of the De La Salle Green Archers for an unsportsmanlike foul against Jerom Lastimosa of the Adamson Soaring Falcons. He served his one-game suspension in the game of La Salle versus FEU Tamaraws.
* Kean Baclaan of the NU Bulldogs for faking a foul against De La Salle Green Archers. He served his one-game suspension in the game of NU versus Adamson Soaring Falcons.

Statistical leaders

Statistical leaders' averages after the elimination round.

Statistical points leaders

Player game highs

Player season highs

Team game highs

Team season highs

Women's tournament

Elimination round

The NU Lady Bulldogs' 108-game winning streak – the longest by any sporting team in UAAP history – was snapped by the De La Salle Lady Archers on November 24, when the Lady Archers won in overtime, 61–57. NU's last defeat was in the 2013 Finals also against La Salle.

Team standings

Match-up results

Scores

Results on top and to the right of the grey cells are for first-round games; those to the bottom and to the left of it are second-round games.

Bracket

Semifinals

NU and La Salle have the twice-to-beat advantage, which means they have to win only once, and their opponents twice in the semifinals to advance to the Finals.

NU vs. Ateneo

The NU Lady Bulldogs have qualified to the Final Four anew. Their second round loss to La Salle meant that the Final Four will be played in the usual format for first time since 2013. The Ateneo Blue Eagles booked the last ticket to the Final Four. This is their first playoffs appearance since 2015.

La Salle vs. UST

The De La Salle Lady Archers and UST Tigresses have qualified to the Final Four.

Finals

The Finals is a best-of-three series. NU qualified to its eighth consecutive Finals. La Salle, meanwhile, enters the Finals for the first time since UAAP Season 79.

* Finals Most Valuable Player:

Awards

The awards were handed out prior to Game 2 of the Finals at the SM Mall of Asia Arena.

* Most Valuable Player:
* Rookie of the Year:

* Mythical Five:
**
**
**
**
**

Players of the Week

The Collegiate Press Corps awards a "player of the week" on Tuesdays for performances on the preceding week.

Player suspensions

* Fina Niantcho Tchuido of the De La Salle Lady Archers for an unsportsmanlike foul against Kristine Cayabyab of NU Lady Bulldogs. She served her one-game suspension in the game of La Salle versus UE Lady Red Warriors.
* Sarah Makanjuola of the Ateneo Blue Eagles for an unsportsmanlike foul against Kamba Kone of UE Lady Red Warriors. She served her one-game suspension in the game of Ateneo versus UP Fighting Maroons.

Statistical leaders

Statistical leaders' averages after the elimination round.

Statistical points leaders

Player game highs

Player season highs

Team game highs

Team season highs

High school tournaments

The UAAP is expected to hold tournaments in the High School division in January 2023 for the first time since the pandemic.

The boys' tournament will also be a qualifying tournament for the 2023 National Basketball Training Center (NBTC) championship.

Overall championship points

Collegiate division

High school division

In case of a tie, the team with the higher position in any tournament is ranked higher. If both are still tied, they are listed by alphabetical order.

How rankings are determined:
* Ranks fifth to eighth determined by elimination round standings.
* Loser of the #1 vs #4 semifinal match-up is ranked fourth
** If stepladder: Loser of stepladder semifinals round 1 is ranked fourth
* Loser of the #2 vs #3 semifinal match-up is ranked third
** If stepladder: Loser of stepladder semifinals round 2 is ranked third
* Loser of the finals is ranked second
* Champion is ranked first

See also

* NCAA Season 98 basketball tournaments

References

{{UAAP men's basketball

UAAP basketball tournaments
2022–23 in Philippine college basketball