UAAP Season 72

UAAP Season 72 was the 2009–2010 season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. It was hosted by Far Eastern University, with opening rites on July 11, 2009 at the Araneta Coliseum. The men's basketball tournament and the women's volleyball tournament were aired by ABS-CBN's UHF Studio 23 for the tenth consecutive year.

UAAP Season 72
One color. One goal
Host school	Far Eastern University
Overall
Seniors	UST Growling Tigers
Juniors	Ateneo Blue Eaglets
Seniors' champions
Sport Men Women Basketball  Ateneo  Adamson Volleyball  UST  UST Chess  FEU  FEU Table tennis  FEU  FEU Taekwondo  UST  FEU Judo  Ateneo  UP Swimming  La Salle  UP Beach Volleyball  UST  Adamson Track and field  UE  FEU Football  FEU  La Salle Fencing  UE  UE Tennis  UST  La Salle Badminton  UST  La Salle Baseball  Adamson N/A Softball N/A  UST Cheerdance  FEU (Ex - Coed)
Juniors' champions
Sport Boys Girls Basketball  Ateneo N/A Volleyball  UE  UST Chess  Adamson Table tennis  UE Taekwondo  UST Judo  Ateneo Swimming  Ateneo  UST Beach Volleyball  UP Track and field  Ateneo Football  Ateneo
(NT) = No tournament; (DS) = Demonstration Sport; (Ex) = Exhibition;
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The opening ceremonies for the 72nd UAAP games was held at the Araneta Coliseum last July 11, 2009. The opening rites featured different student organizations from the host Far Eastern University including other participants from the other 7 UAAP member universities. With the season's theme One Color. One Goal. the event participants wore white costumes, symbolizing unity in the league, introduced the league member universities through flags and the sarimanok, bearing the member schools' respective colors.

The schedule of the sporting events will be changed this season. Badminton will be held in the first semester, instead of chess.

With ABS-CBN's contract to broadcast the UAAP expiring on March 31, 2010, two other TV networks are bidding for exclusive television rights for the league, although ABS-CBN has the right of first refusal. Solar Entertainment Corporation's sports section Solar Sports will join the bidding for the TV rights, with a Solar official naming GMA Network as another interested party. The UAAP has been broadcast by ABS-CBN for ten years already at their UHF station Studio 23.^[1] UAAP president Anton Montinola said the league considers "to project the league not just nationally but also globally" due to "a lot of followers abroad, mostly alumni". Montinola further said the league has been satisfied with ABS-CBN's coverage of both the basketball and volleyball games. The volleyball tournament was even moved from the first semester (July–October) to the second semester (November–March) to maximize the TV coverage.^[2]

Confirming Solar's earlier revelation, GMA has joined the bidding, submitting theirs at a UAAP board meeting on March 19, 2009. In order to strengthen its position, ABS-CBN's bid includes airing the men's basketball championship series at their flagship VHF station Channel 2 instead of airing it on Studio 23, where ABS-CBN has aired the men's basketball tournament for the past nine seasons.^[3] Solar will air it on VHF C/S 9 of which they a block-timer. All three submitted five-year bids.^[3] GMA will air the games on its VHF channel Q.^[4]

Despite the TV rights row on the Pacquiao-Hatton boxing bout between ABS-CBN on one hand and Solar Sports and GMA on the other, Solar has confirmed it will stand by their UAAP bid, with Solar offering a possible linkage either to ABS-CBN's The Filipino Channel (on which the games currently air) or to GMA Pinoy TV to air the games internationally.^[4] With ABS-CBN's current contract worth P75 million, Montinola has expressed delight that "there are three TV networks that are very, very much interested to become our partner next season," noting that it is "the first time that this is happening." Montinola clarified that the UAAP is not "rushing things" to determine which among the three networks have the best offer, and declined to comment on the financial offers, saying, "We [UAAP, GMA 7, ABS-CBN and Solar] are still far from that discussion."^[5]

On October 4, right before the tip-off of Game 2 of the men's basketball finals, the UAAP and ABS-CBN agreed in principle and signed a memorandum of agreement giving the broadcasting network the right to air the league's games for another five-year period starting UAAP Season 73.^[6]

The UAAP Season 72 basketball tournament began on July 11, 2009 at the Araneta Coliseum in Cubao, Quezon City. The tournament host was Far Eastern University and tournament commissioner was Jose "Joe" Lipa, Jr.

Seniors division

Men's tournament

The opening ceremonies and the opening day doubleheader were the first programs in the Philippines to be broadcast in high definition, although only SkyCable subscribers with HD boxes were able to watch them.

Elimination round

Team standings

Template:UAAP Season 72 men's basketball

Playoffs / Finals

Template:RPFinalFourbracket

Awardees

• Most Valuable Player: Dylan Ababou (University of Santo Tomas)
• Rookie of the Year: Jeric Teng (University of Santo Tomas)

Women's tournament

Elimination round

Team standings

Template:UAAP Season 72 women's basketball

Playoffs / Finals

Template:RPFinalFourbracket-ko

Awardees

• Most Valuable Player: Analyn Almasan (Adamson University)
• Rookie of the Year: Miller Joy Ong (De La Salle University)

Juniors division

Boys' tournament

Elimination round

Team standings

Template:UAAP Season 72 juniors' basketball

Playoffs / Finals

Template:RPFinalFourbracket

Awardees

• Most Valuable Player: Terrence Romeo (Far Eastern University)
• Rookie of the Year: Kevin Ferrer (University of Santo Tomas)

Men's tournament

Elimination round

Team standings

Template:UAAP Season 72 men's volleyball

Playoffs / Finals

Template:UAAP Season 72 Men's volleyball (Bracket)

Awardees

• Season Most Valuable Player: Andre Joseph Pareja (Ateneo)
• Rookie of the Year: Christopher Michael Antonio (La Salle)
• Finals Most Valuable Player: Henry James Pecana (UST)

Women's tournament

Elimination round

Team standings

Template:UAAP Season 72 women's volleyball

Playoffs / Finals

Template:RPFinalFourbracket

Awards

• Season Most Valuable Player: Cherry May Vivas (FEU)
• Rookie of the Year: Joanne Siy (DLSU)
• Finals Most Valuable Player: Rhea Katrina Dimaculangan (UST)

Men's tournament

Elimination round

Team standings

  Qualified to the semifinals with the twice-to-beat advantage
  Qualified to the semifinals

Playoffs / Finals

Template:RPFinalFourbracket

Awardees

• Most Valuable Player:
• Rookie of the Year:
• Most Improved Player:

The UAAP Season 72 taekwondo tournaments were held on September 16, 2009 at the University of Santo Tomas Gymnasium.^[7]

Seniors division

Juniors division

Boys' tournament

Team standings

Awardees

• Most Valuable Player: Keiffer Mikhael Cedro (FEU)
• Rookie of the Year: Clint Ferrer (UST)

Seniors division

Men's tournament

Elimination round

Team standings

  Qualified to the semifinals

Playoffs / Finals

Awardees

• Most Valuable Player: Paolo Dawal (UST)
• Rookie of the Year: Toby Gadi (Ateneo)
• Most Improved Player: Salvador Kapunan (UST)

Women's tournament

Elimination round

Team standings

  Qualified to the semifinals

Playoffs / Finals

Awardees

• Most Valuable Player: Descka Calimlim (La Salle)
• Rookie of the Year: Danica Bolos (La Salle)
• Most Improved Player: Rochelle Reyes (FEU)

The UAAP Judo Championships was held on October 4, 2009 hosted by the Ateneo de Manila University at the Blue Eagle Gym. It was a one-day tournament.

Seniors division

Juniors division

Boys' tournament

Team standings

The UAAP Track and Field Championships was held on February 7, 2010 at the Rizal Memorial Track and Football Stadium.^[8]

Seniors division

Juniors division

Boys' tournament

Team standings

Awardees

• Most Valuable Player: Patrick Unso (UST)
• Rookie of the Year: Christian Ferrer (UP)

The UAAP Season 72 chess tournament started on January 10, 2010 at the Tan Yan Kee Student Center of the University of Santo Tomas. After fourteen rounds, the FEU Tamaraws came up on top, dominating both the Seniors Men and Women Tournaments.^[9] It could have scored a first ever triple championship in the UAAP Chess competition but its juniors team finished second to the Baby Falcons of Adamson.

Seniors division

Juniors division

Boys' tournament

Team standings

Awardees

• Most Valuable Player: Jesse Abucejo (Adamson)
• Rookie of the Year: Robert Paul Evangelista (FEU)

The UAAP Cheerdance Competition was held on September 13, 2009 at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City. The event was shown live on TV by Studio 23 and was hosted by Boom Gonzalez, Megan Young and the various UAAP courtside reporters. Cheer dance competition is an exhibition event. Points for the general championship are not awarded to the participants.

Host team in boldface. "Order" refers to order of performance.

The winner of the General Championship is determined by a point system. The system gives 15 points to the champion team of a UAAP event, 12 to the runner-up, and 10 to the third placer. The following points: 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 are given to the rest of the participating teams according to their order of finish.

Seniors' Division

General championship tally

Template:UAAP Season 72 Seniors Division championships

Juniors' Division

General championship tally

Template:UAAP Season 72 Juniors Division championships

Template:UAAP Season 72 Overall championship race

• Athlete of the Year:
  • Seniors: Marlon Avenido (UST men's taekwondo)
  • Juniors: Gian Daniel Berino (UST boys' swimming)

• NCAA Season 85

• ABS-CBN official website for the UAAP
• UAAP men's basketball in Inboundpass.com
• UAAP men's basketball in UBelt.com