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This is a list of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's basketball final four results. The list includes NCAA men's basketball games played under the final four format since the 1997 season, the year the format was instituted.

The results include one-game playoffs where teams tied after the elimination round for a final four berth played an extra game to determine which team clinches the higher seed in the playoffs.

Since the NCAA is not a home-and-away league, the position of season host rotates among member universities, and the host pays for the arena rental and other facilities. Since the 2004 season, most final four games are held at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, the Philippines largest indoor arena, unless the Big Dome is unavailable.

The league uses a modified Shaughnessy playoff system: the top four teams enter the playoffs, while the top two seeds are given the "twice-to-beat" advantage, that is, in order for them to be eliminated in the semifinals, they have to be beaten twice by the No. 3 and No. 4 seed, with them needing to win only once in order to advance. The winners in the semifinals dispute the championship trophy in a best-of-three series.

In its institution in 1997, if a team wins all of its elimination round games (the "sweep"), the sweeping team advances outright to the finals possessing the twice-to-beat advantage, while the No. 3 and No. 4 seeds figure in a playoff to face the No. 2 seed. In 1997, the San Sebastian Stags swept the elimination round, earning a finals berth and a twice-to-beat advantage. After the San Sebastian juniors team swept the elimination round in 2008, the twice-to-beat incentive was dropped and the finals was turned into a best-of-three series. When the San Beda seniors team swept the elimination round in 2010, the No. 1 seed has a thrice to beat advantage in the finals, while the opponent has to be beaten twice to be defeated.

A third place playoff, a one-game playoff between losing semifinalists, was added in 2023.

Results

For the semifinal columns, the No. 1 vs. No. 4 matchup is given first.

Legend
Arellano Arellano University  Letran Colegio de San Juan de Letran  Benilde De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde  EAC Emilio Aguinaldo College  JRU José Rizal University  Lyceum Lyceum of the Philippines University	Mapúa Mapúa University  PCU Philippine Christian University  San Beda San Beda University  SSC–R San Sebastian College–Recoletos  Perpetual University of Perpetual Help System DALTA (OT) Game went into overtime.

Year	Finals/third-place playoff			Semifinals			One-game playoff
	Higher seed	Scores	Lower seed	Higher seed	Score/s	Lower seed	Winner	Score	Loser	Seed
1997	SSC–R	84–72	San Beda	San Beda	72–65	Letran	None
				Letran	68–57	Mapúa
1998	Letran	81–74 (OT)	SSC–R	Letran	def.	San Beda
				SSC–R	def.	Perpetual
1999	JRC	74–75 0–20	Letran	SSC–R	63–65 def. by	Letran
				JRC	84–63	Perpetual
2000 (details)	Benilde	66–64 74–61	SSC–R	JRC	53–60 79–97	SSC–R
				Perpetual	70–73 73–86	Benilde
2001 (details)	JRU	74–77 95–81 62–95	SSC–R	JRU	94–98 99–76	Benilde
				SSC–R	58–65 48–44	Mapúa
2002 (details)	SSC–R	79–78 86–69	Benilde	SSC–R	102–96 (OT)	JRU
				Benilde	93–95 (OT) 106–87	PCU
2003 (details)	Letran	89–73 77–85 64–59	SSC–R	Letran	72–66	Mapúa
				SSC–R	81–73	JRU
2004 (details)	Perpetual	68–70 60–72	PCU	Perpetual	48–57 58–56	San Beda	San Beda	59–52	Mapúa	4th
				PCU	64–65 85–80 (OT)	Letran
2005 (details)	Letran	74–79 78–60 62–54	PCU	Letran	93–60	SSC–R	None
				PCU	76–53	Mapúa
2006 (details)	San Beda	71–57 50–72 68–67	PCU	San Beda	55–51	Mapúa	PCU	67–62	Letran	2nd
				PCU	72–50	Letran
2007 (details)	San Beda	76–68 76–64	Letran	San Beda	74–64	Mapúa	None
				Letran	70–61	JRU
2008 (details)	San Beda	72–68 60–62 85–69	JRU	San Beda	51–53 60–53	Mapúa	JRU	57–53	SSC–R	2nd/4th
							Letran	62–52	Mapúa	2nd/4th
				JRU	63–61	Letran	JRU	69–53	Letran	2nd
							Mapúa	63–54	SSC–R	4th
2009 (details)	San Beda	68–72 (2OT) 61–76	SSC–R	San Beda	82–76	Letran	San Beda	71–65	SSC–R	1st
				SSC–R	65–72 79–64	JRU
2010 (details)	San Beda	93–73 85–70	SSC–R	SSC–R	61–52	JRU	None
				JRU	60–54	Mapúa
2011 (details)	San Beda	75–63 57–55	SSC–R	San Beda	83–74	JRU	San Beda	88–85	SSC–R	1st
				SSC–R	62–70 63–56	Letran
2012 (details)	San Beda	62–60 55–64 67–39	Letran	San Beda	56–52	Perpetual	Perpetual	73–68	JRU	4th
				SSC–R	74–92 70–73	Letran
2013 (details)	San Beda	80–68 74–79 60–56	Letran	San Beda	70–51	Perpetual	SSC–R	81–71	Perpetual	3rd
				Letran	85–58	SSC–R
2014 (details)	San Beda	74–65 89–70	Arellano	San Beda	81–75	Perpetual	San Beda	97–69	Arellano	1st
				Arellano	72–65	JRU
2015 (details)	San Beda	90–94 68–61 82–85 (OT)	Letran	San Beda	78–68	JRU	San Beda	83–78	Letran	1st
				Letran	91–90	Mapúa	Mapúa	81–76	JRU	3rd
2016 (details)	San Beda	88–85 83–73	Arellano	San Beda	83–87 78–63	Perpetual	San Beda	80–73	Arellano	1st
				Arellano	92–80	Mapúa
2017 (details)	Lyceum	87–94 82–92	San Beda	San Beda	76–71	SSC–R	SSC–R	74–69	Letran	4th
				JRU	73–85	SSC–R	Letran	70–68	Arellano	4th
2018 (details)	San Beda	73–60 71–56	Lyceum	San Beda	83–72	Perpetual	None
				Lyceum	109–85	Letran
2019 (details)	San Beda	64–65 79–76 79–81	Letran	Lyceum	88–92	Letran
				Letran	85–80	SSC–R
2020	Not held – Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Metro Manila
2021 (details)	Letran	68–63 75–65	Mapúa	Letran	77–75	Perpetual	San Beda	63–57	Benilde	Play-in
							Perpetual	59–52	Arellano
				Mapúa	67–73 (OT) 70–67	San Beda	Perpetual	76–64	Benilde
2022 (details)	Benilde	75–81 76–71 67–81	Letran	Benilde	62–61	San Beda	None
				Letran	67–58	Lyceum
2023 (details)	Mapúa	68–63 65–71 66–76	San Beda	Mapúa	78–67	Benilde
	Lyceum	83–93	Benilde	Lyceum	68–89 72–82	San Beda
2024 (details)	Mapúa	84–73 94–82	Benilde	Mapúa	89–79	Lyceum
				Benilde	79–63	San Beda

Notes

1. Game 2 of the 1999 finals was abandoned after a fracas where Letran point guard John Prior elbowed JRC's John Dale Valeña, with Letran leading 83–60. This caused the gallery to pelt debris to the court which caused the NCAA Commissioner to order JRC to concede the game.
2. ^ With four teams tied for second place in 2008, a mini-tournament was held to determine the 2nd–4th seeds in which the team with the best head-to-head record among the four (SSC-R) meets the team with the worst head-to-head record (JRU), with the other two (Letran and Mapúa) meeting each other in classification games. The winners of both games faced each other for the No. 2 seed while the losers faced for the No. 4 seed.
3. ^ With three teams tied for fourth place in 2017, two tie-breaker games were held to determine who the 4th seed shall be. SSC-R, who has the best head-to-head record among the three, gets a bye, with the other two teams (Letran and Arellano) playing the first tie-breaker game. The winner of the Letran-Arellano game meets SSC-R in the second tie-breaker game.
4. 2020–21 season had a basketball tournament, but it was basically a skills showdown, due to the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.
5. 2021–22 season was played in early 2022.
6. The teams that finished 3rd and 4th after the elimination round; the winner is the #3 seed and advances to the semifinals against the #2 seed, while the loser is relegated to the fourth seed playoff. The teams that finished 5th and 6th after the elimination round; the winner advances to the fourth seed playoff, while the loser is eliminated. The winner is the #4 seed and advances to the semifinals against the #1 seed.

See also

• UAAP Final Four
• List of UAAP Final Four results

References

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Seasons	Pre-war era 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 Pennant era 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 Best-of-3 finals era 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Final four era 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021* 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Rivalries	Arellano vs. San Beda Battle of Intramuros Letran vs. San Beda Letran vs. San Sebastian San Beda vs. San Sebastian San Beda vs. Perpetual San Sebastian vs. JRU
*Played in early 2022

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