UAAP Season 61

UAAP Season 61
UAAP Season 61
Host school	University of the East
Tagline	The Filipino Spirit Shining Through Sports
Overall
Seniors	UST Growling Tigers
Juniors	UST Tiger Cubs
Seniors' champions
Sport
Sport
Basketball
Juniors' champions
Sport
Sport
Basketball
	(NT) = No tournament; (DS) = Demonstration Sport;; (Ex) = Exhibition;

UAAP Season 61 is the 1998–99 season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines which was hosted by the University of the East. The season opened on 11 July 1998, thirty days after the nation's 100th anniversary of declaration of independence from Spain and eleven days after the installation of Joseph Ejercito Estrada as the nation's 13th president.

Basketball

Pos	Team	W	L	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	De La Salle Green Archers	13	1	.929	—	Twice-to-beat in the semifinals
2	FEU Tamaraws	11	3	.786	2	Twice-to-beat in the semifinals
3	UE Red Warriors (H)	7	7	.500	6	Twice-to-win in the semifinals
4	UST Growling Tigers	7	7	.500^[a]	6	Twice-to-win in the semifinals
5	UP Fighting Maroons	7	7	.500^[a]	6
6	Ateneo Blue Eagles	5	9	.357	8
7	NU Bulldogs	5	9	.357	8
8	Adamson Falcons	1	13	.071	12

Source: 1998–99 UAAP basketball tournament
Rules for classification: 1)

point differential

; 5) overall point differential
(H) Hosts
Notes:


Semifinals (Nos. 1 & 2 have twice-to-beat advantage)			Finals (Best-of-three series)



La Salle	51	56

UST	55	51
			1	La Salle	72	63

			2	FEU	47	59
FEU	68	83

UE	81	61

The host school is boldfaced. Final.

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