UAAP Season 22 men's basketball tournament

1959 UAAP season

Host school

Men's Finals	1	2	Wins
UST Glowing Goldies	66	—	1
UE Red Warriors	55	—	0

Duration

September 15, 1959

Arena(s)

Rizal Memorial Coliseum

Winning coach

Felicisimo Fajardo

The 1959 UAAP men's basketball tournament was the 22nd year of the men's tournament of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP)'s basketball championship. Hosted by University of Santo Tomas, the UST Glowing Goldies defeated the UE Warriors in a single game finals taking their tenth UAAP men's basketball championship.

Finals

The University of Santo Tomas displayed a well-knit man-to-man defense to smother the defending champion University of the East, 66-55, and regain the UAAP basketball crown before 9,000 fans at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum.

It was the first title for the Goldies after four years of so-so performances. Far Eastern University won it in 1956 and UE took over the next two years. FEU was eliminated by UST in the playoffs, 84-67. The victory was largely the work of two men who spent most of their playing time on the UST bench this season – rangy Asencion Aparicio and ex-Goldie skipper Angel Pavilano – and old reliable and slippery Rosendo Libunao. Established stars of the season – UST’s Ramon Cotia and Reynaldo Arenas and UE’s Roehl Nadurata, Mario Uson, Herman Dionisio and Tomas Paredes – failed to shake off the jitters. Nadurata, who was usually good for 20 points in tight and crucial matches, was held down to four measly points, all scored from the charity stripe, by the 6’3” Aparicio.

The lanky Tommie center didn’t only excel in the guarding department. He also spearheaded UST’s offensive by scoring 20 points, two points better than Warriors pointman Rizaldo Pabillore’s output. Aparicio was assisted ably by Libunao whose flawless heaves from quartercourt went for 16 points and Pavilano who checked top UE scoring aces Dionisio, Pabillore and Maximiano Concepcion from doing too much damage. This championship was the 10th the Goldies bagged since the loop commenced and, with it, they grabbed the second leg of the three-foot trophy, donated in 1955, that would go to the team that tops the loop thrice.

References

Preceded by Season 21 (1958)	UAAP basketball seasons Season 22 (1959) basketball	Succeeded by Season 23 (1960)

University Athletic Association of the Philippines men's basketball tournaments

Final Four
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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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