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The Blue Eagles have had several rivalries throughout the years. Before the NCAA was founded and into the early years after its foundation (1924), Ateneo's fiercest basketball rivals were the UP Fighting Maroons (then known as the Maroon and Greens).
The Ateneo Blue Eagles are sometimes called the Hail Mary Quintet by the sports press. This moniker was given to the Blue Eagles in 1926 when sports press noticed that the team would pray the Hail Mary (as the school’s patroness is the Immaculate Conception ) during game time-outs and would win by the skin of their teeth.
Ateneo Blue Eagles: Blocks Ateneo Blue Eagles: 10 De La Salle Lady Archers UE Lady Warriors: Field goal percentage UST Tigresses: 52.0% FEU Lady Tamaraws: Three-point field goal percentage Ateneo Blue Eagles: 52.0% UP Fighting Maroons: Free throw percentage NU Lady Bulldogs: 100% Adamson Lady Falcons: Turnovers Ateneo Blue Eagles: 38
Aboy Castro succeeds Joe Lipa as the new head coach of the UP Fighting Maroons, after Lipa led his team to a 0–14 record in Season 70.Castro was an assistant coach of Glenn Capacio for the FEU Tamaraws, and of Chot Reyes for the Philippines men's national basketball team, the San Miguel Beermen and Talk 'N Text Phone Pals.
Adamson Baby Falcons outclassed Ateneo Blue Eaglets, 79–67, on the final day of the eliminations on September 29 at the Loyola Center to finish with a 13-win, 1-loss record. The Baby Falcons advanced to the playoffs with a twice-to-beat advantage over the second-seeded Eaglets, needing to beat Ateneo only once to clinch their third straight ...
Finals Most Valuable Player: Thirdy Ravena (Ateneo Blue Eagles) Ateneo started Game 1 on an 18–2 run and never looked back to take a wire-to-wire victory. A UST scoring run led by Mark Nonoy cut the lead to two in the second quarter, but that's the closest the Tigers could get as Ateneo had its own 13–1 to end the first half.
The UAAP Season 79 basketball tournaments are held in school year 2016–17. University of Santo Tomas is the season host while Far Eastern University are the defending champions. [1]
The UAAP Season 84 men's basketball tournament is the basketball event of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines for its 2021–22 school year.This was the first tournament since 2019, the year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Philippines.