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The UAAP basketball sport has a rich history of schools establishing dynasties. UE won a record seven consecutive basketball titles from 1965 to 1971 albeit the third one was a shared championship with UST. Ateneo had a 5-year winning streak from 2008 to 2012. Two other schools ended their championship streak at four.
The NU Lady Bulldogs 108-game winning streak was snapped in the elimination round by the De La Salle Lady Archers, but NU still won in the Finals against La Salle to win their 7th consecutive title. The high school boys' tournament began on January 15, 2023, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Both UP and La Salle won the semifinals match-ups over Adamson and UST, respectively, marking their second overall head-to-head UAAP Finals matchup. For the fourth consecutive season, the men's basketball finals series reached a do-or-die third game - the longest such streak so far for the tournament in UAAP Final Four history.
The NU Lady Bulldogs advance to the best-of-three finals by winning all 14 elimination round games. The Lady Bulldogs have not lost for 78 consecutive games, and have swept the elimination round for the past five seasons. [27] This is a rematch of the 2014 Finals where the Lady Bulldogs won, and was the last Finals appearance of the Lady Tamaraws.
On a seven-year losing streak, La Salle had to win via overtime to break UST's streak. A win over last year's Finals opponent Ateneo assured the Tigers of an above-.500 record at the end of the first round. On their rematch with the Green Archers, the Tigers forced overtime after coming up with a 13–0 run at the final two minutes of regulation.
[51] [52] The Fighting Maroons ended the Blue Eagles' all-time UAAP men's basketball record 39-game win streak, [53] [54] and won the title via do-or-die game in Season 84 in 2022, [55] [56] before defeating them in the Final Four the following year to end Ateneo's six consecutive seasons of UAAP Finals appearances and podium finishes from 2016 ...
[110] [111] Ateneo prevailed in three games to deny the UP Fighting Maroons their bid for an unprecedented double UAAP championship streak in a single calendar year, anchored by Ange Kouame, the first naturalized and overall player in UAAP men's basketball history to win Rookie of the Year, and Season and Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards.
ABS-CBN Sports is the broadcaster of the UAAP Season 82 Men's Basketball games aired on S+A and Liga. However, their contract with the network's sports division expired due to the issue of legislative franchise renewal and the denial of the franchise, which led to the sports division's dissolution following their retrenchment on August 31, 2020.