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Ateneo–La Salle rivalry Ateneo and La Salle in UAAP Season 86 basketball Sports Various Location Philippines Teams Ateneo Blue Eagles De La Salle Green Archers First meeting 1924 (NCAA) Latest meeting October 26, 2024 (UAAP) Stadiums Araneta Coliseum Mall of Asia Arena Statistics Most wins Ateneo (basketball, 56–41) Largest victory Ateneo: 25 points, 80–55 (September 14, 1996) La Salle ...
With a 14–0 sweep giving them a bye up to the best-of-3 finals, La Salle won their first thirteen games; their last game was against arch rival Ateneo. The two teams were locked 43–all when Wesley Gonzales, Rich Alvarez, Larry Fonacier and Andrew Cruz engineered a 21–3 run to put Ateneo up 64–46 with eight minutes left in the fourth quarter.
Both UP and La Salle won the semifinals match-ups, setting up a rematch from last year's finals. For the fourth consecutive season, the men's basketball finals series lasted 3 games - the longest so far for the tournament in UAAP Final Four history. UP defeated La Salle to win their 4th men's championship.
Ateneo needed their twice-to-beat advantage to outlast La Salle in a fight-marred series to advance to the Finals, while FEU needed one game to eliminate a stubborn UE team. In the Finals, FEU coach Koy Banal led the team to victory over a tired Ateneo team coached by his brother Joel to win FEU's first UAAP men's basketball championship since ...
Since La Salle, Ateneo and UE finished the eliminations with identical 10-4 cards, the quotient system was used. La Salle emerged with the best quotient among the three, so UE and Ateneo figured for a one-game playoff for the third seed. The winner will face the second seed, while the loser will face the first seed.
La Salle's Mark Cardona scored 13 points to give the Green Archers a 41–34 lead early in the game. Early in the third quarter, La Salle scored eight unanswered baskets to give them a 15-point lead; later in the quarter, Ateneo's top scorer JC Intal, who was suffering from fever, fouled out with six points.
This is the fifth overall Finals matchup between the De La Salle Green Archers and the Ateneo Blue Eagles. The Blue Eagles won their last encounter in 2008 . ABS-CBN
Their second round loss to La Salle meant that the Final Four will be played in the usual format for first time since 2013. [52] The Ateneo Blue Eagles booked the last ticket to the Final Four. This was their first playoff appearance since 2015 .