No championship was awarded in 1933. The next year, however with the Far Eastern Games gasping its final beneath, the 60th US coast Artillery prevailed.Then, University of SantoTomas parted the curtains or the Commonwealth by taking the title in 1935.
The scepter would remain in the hands of the student players, marking the era o dominant college ball. San Beda triumphed in 1936, UST bounced back the next year and in 1938, the Visayan Institute in Cebu. Since then, the Visayas has been known as a rich breeding ground of crack cagers.
La Salle Green Archers dethronedtheCebuanos in 1939 before the UST Goldies shone anew in 1940 and 1941.The schools played a major role in the swift development of the sport. Basketball was already among the events in most calendars of interprovincial groups. Then in 1924, sports leaders of UP, UST, University of Manila, Ateneo, San Beda and La Salle organized the National Collegiate Association. Eight years later, another battle ground for college ball emerged when UP, UST, and Far Eastern University seceded from NCAA to form the University Athletic Association of the Philippines.
Another big boost was the inclusion of basketball as one of the regular events when the Interscholastics was officially organized in 1938. The PAAF was not likewise idle. Through its committees, a national inter-secondary basketball championship was formed and has been conduct since 1932.
What sparked the country's love affair with basketball was the Philippine team's fifth place finish in the Berlin Olympiad in 1936, when the sport took its tow as an Olympic event. Dr. James Naismith, the game's inventor, declared open tournament, which drew a field of 12 countries.
The games were played outdoors on a clay court and the Filipinos,skippered by Ambrosio Padilla, who later became a Philippine Senator and President of the PAAF, won four (4) of the five (5) games losing only to the United States, 56-23. The Americans won the gold medal, but the Filipinos were ranked fifth while Mexico, which lost to the Philippines, was billed third. Still that fifth place remains unrivaled by any Asian country.
After the second World War, new breed of champions came. As College Graduates blossomed in the Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association (MICAA) which played under the shadow of NCAA and the UAAP since its reception in 1938, commercial teams became prominent.
Spearheaded by Carlos Loyzaga, dubbed as the Great Difference and the best basketball player the country has ever produced, the YCO painters established a dizzying second of seven straight National Open Championships starting in 1954.
Underscoring basketball's big stride in the country was the Philippine's third place finish in the World Basketball Championship in Rio de Janeiro in 1954. Two years later, in the Melbourne Olympics, the Filipinos landed seventh.
The scepter would remain in the hands of the student players, marking the era o dominant college ball. San Beda triumphed in 1936, UST bounced back the next year and in 1938, the Visayan Institute in Cebu. Since then, the Visayas has been known as a rich breeding ground of crack cagers.
La Salle Green Archers dethronedtheCebuanos in 1939 before the UST Goldies shone anew in 1940 and 1941.The schools played a major role in the swift development of the sport. Basketball was already among the events in most calendars of interprovincial groups. Then in 1924, sports leaders of UP, UST, University of Manila, Ateneo, San Beda and La Salle organized the National Collegiate Association. Eight years later, another battle ground for college ball emerged when UP, UST, and Far Eastern University seceded from NCAA to form the University Athletic Association of the Philippines.
What sparked the country's love affair with basketball was the Philippine team's fifth place finish in the Berlin Olympiad in 1936, when the sport took its tow as an Olympic event. Dr. James Naismith, the game's inventor, declared open tournament, which drew a field of 12 countries.
The games were played outdoors on a clay court and the Filipinos,skippered by Ambrosio Padilla, who later became a Philippine Senator and President of the PAAF, won four (4) of the five (5) games losing only to the United States, 56-23. The Americans won the gold medal, but the Filipinos were ranked fifth while Mexico, which lost to the Philippines, was billed third. Still that fifth place remains unrivaled by any Asian country.
After the second World War, new breed of champions came. As College Graduates blossomed in the Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association (MICAA) which played under the shadow of NCAA and the UAAP since its reception in 1938, commercial teams became prominent.
Spearheaded by Carlos Loyzaga, dubbed as the Great Difference and the best basketball player the country has ever produced, the YCO painters established a dizzying second of seven straight National Open Championships starting in 1954.
Underscoring basketball's big stride in the country was the Philippine's third place finish in the World Basketball Championship in Rio de Janeiro in 1954. Two years later, in the Melbourne Olympics, the Filipinos landed seventh.
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