UAAP Season 24 men's basketball tournament

1961 UAAP season

Host school

Men's Finals	1	2	Wins
FEU Tamaraws	105	—	1
UE Red Warriors	84	—	0

Duration

September 30, 1961

Arena(s)

Rizal Memorial Coliseum

Winning coach

Jose "Peping" Yee

The 1961 UAAP men's basketball tournament was the 24th year of the men's tournament of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP)'s basketball championship. Hosted by Far Eastern University, the FEU Tamaraws defeated the UE Warriors in a single game finals taking their sixth overall UAAP men's basketball championship.

Finals

Far Eastern University's 5 year long quest for a UAAP basketball diadem came to an end when it trampled University of the East, 105-84, before 8,000 fans at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum.

The Tamaraws, playing headly and steady basketball, swept their title-round engagements to nail down the UAAP flag.

The victory was FEU's first championship since 1956 and its sixth since the loop was burn in 1938. UE deprived the Tamaraws the title by a margin of only one point during the previous year's finals.

Coach Peping Yee used only eight men — Arturo Valenzona, Romy Diaz, Rohimust Santos, Oscar Lopez, Domiciano and Alberto Legaspi, Josefino Roa, and season MVP Joselino Roa — in fashioning out the easy vengeance win.

The Tamaraws outdueled the Warriors in a frenzied shooting battle to take the halftime lead, 51-37. An air-tight zone defense rattled UE throughout and a brilliant teamwork, spearheaded by Arturo Valenzona who tallied 32 points, spelled the victory for FEU.

References

Preceded by Season 23 (1960)	UAAP basketball seasons Season 24 (1961) basketball	Succeeded by Season 25 (1962)

University Athletic Association of the Philippines men's basketball tournaments

Final Four
- Results

Teams

Seasons

Round robin era	1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951

Pennant era	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

Twice to beat Finals era	1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992

Final Four era	1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

University Athletic Association of the Philippines (2016–17)

Members

Men	Adamson Falcons Ateneo Blue Eagles De La Salle Green Archers FEU Tamaraws NU Bulldogs UE Red Warriors UP Fighting Maroons UST Growling Tigers

Junior	Adamson Baby Falcons Ateneo Blue Eaglets De La Salle Zobel Junior Archers FEU Diliman Baby Tamaraws NU Bullpups UE Junior Warriors UPIS Junior Maroons UST Tiger Cubs

Women	Adamson Lady Falcons Ateneo Lady Eagles De La Salle Lady Archers FEU Lady Tamaraws NU Lady Bulldogs UE Lady Warriors UP Lady Maroons UST Tigresses

Sports

Rivalries

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