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October 4–11, 2007

Start date
  
July 7, 2007

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Araneta Coliseum

Host school
  
University of Santo Tomas

UAAP Season 70 basketball tournaments

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UAAP Season 70, UAAP Season 69, UAAP Season 68, UAAP Season 72

The basketball tournaments of University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Season 70 started on July 7, 2007 at the Araneta Coliseum with University of Santo Tomas (UST) Rector Very Rev. Fr. Ernesto Arceo, O.P. delivering the speech. Manuel V. Pangilinan of the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas and United States ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney were the guests.

Contents

Former UST Growling Tigers basketball player Ed Cordero is the season's commissioner. The theme is "Winners All, Recreating the Value of Honesty through Sports" The Studio 23 coverage uses the theme "Madrama" (Tagalog for "full of drama").

Despite a 14-0 sweep by the University of the East (UE) Red Warriors in the elimination round, they were in turn swept by the De La Salle University-Manila Green Archers 2-0 in the finals after UE had a half-a-month's rest. De La Salle Santiago Zobel School (DLSZ) Junior Archers clinched their second championship by beating the Ateneo High School Blue Eaglets with their own 2-0 sweep. Ateneo took home the women's championship with their own version of a sweep against the University of the Philippines Lady Maroons.

Tiebreakers

  • Ateneo and La Salle, which are tied for second place, played for the #2 seed, the twice-to-beat advantage and the bye up to the semifinals in a classification game.
  • FEU and UST, which are tied at fourth place, played for the #4 seed, the last berth to the first round of the playoffs.

    • Awards

  • Finals Most Valuable Player: co-awardees, JV Casio and Pocholo Villanueva (La Salle)
  • Season Most Valuable Player: Jervy Cruz (UST)
  • Rookie of the Year: JR Cawaling (FEU)
  • Defensive Player of the Year: Edwin Asoro (NU)
  • Mythical Five:
  • Chris Tiu
  • JV Casio
  • Mark Borboran
  • Rico Maierhofer
  • Jervy Cruz

    • Awards

  • Finals Most Valuable Player: Katrina Quimpo (Ateneo)
  • Season Most Valuable Player: Cassandra Tioseco (Ateneo)
  • Rookie of the Year: Cindy Resultay (UE)

    • Awards

  • Finals Most Valuable Player: Joshua David Webb (La Salle)
  • Season Most Valuable Player: Samuel Joseph Marata (UPIS)
  • Rookie of the Year: David Kurt De Guzman (FEU-FERN)
  • Mythical Five:
  • John David Dumrique
  • Juan Miguel Tiongson
  • Kevin Michael Batac
  • Josh David Webb
  • Mark Jovet Mendoza

    • De La Salle Green Archers

    Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

    References

    UAAP Season 70 basketball tournaments Wikipedia
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