michigan last won the final four in 1989.
michigan last won the final four in 1989.
when did michigan last win the final four?
1989
ateneo won the championship in 1987 by prevailing over ue in the first head to head championship match up between the two schools. la salle won back-to-back titles in 1989 and 1990, and won four straight titles from 1998 to 2001, with la salle beating ateneo in the 2001 finals, capping its 4-peat title run. ateneo subsequently defeated la salle in the 2002 championship to end its 14-year title drought. in 2003, ateneo eliminated la salle in the semifinals, breaking a streak of la salle appearances in the finals. la salle won the 2004 title after eliminating ateneo in the semifinals, but was stripped off the title when they were suspended for fielding two ineligible players. la salle swept the ue red warriors to win the 2007 title after the suspension, a season that saw them meet the blue eagles five times, lose thrice, but win two crucial games including the one that paved the way for a finals appearance. ateneo defeated la salle in all four encounters in 2008, including the finals, thereby dethroning dlsu. ateneo then went on to win all matches against la salle on the way to winning a running total of five consecutive uaap titles, except for a lone la salle victory in the first round of eliminations in 2010. the two teams most recently met in a final four encounter, where the blue eagles defeated the green archers, eliminating la salle from contention. with its 2012 title victory, the ateneo broke its deadlock of uaap titles with la salle and exceeded la salle's championship streak with the longest in the final four era, and now has the longest held by only one uaap school. ateneo failed to enter the final four in 2013 while la salle won the title for the first time since 2007. both teams failed to enter the finals in 2014. in 2015, both teams failed once again to enter the finals with la salle missing the final four for the first time since 2011, while ateneo made it to the semifinals but lost to the eventual champions feu tamaraws, who also ousted la salle in their last game (a game in which la salle needed to win to stay in contention and force a knockout match) for the last final four slot in which enabled the erstwhile defending champions nu bulldogs to grab the #4 position in the playoffs. in 2016 both teams met in the finals for the first time since 2008 with both schools taking the top 2 spots at the end of the elimination rounds and having the twice to beat advantage, with la salle outlasting adamson in one game, while ateneo used their twice to beat advantage to take out the defending champions feu tamaraws in a hard-fought series with ateneo winning the second game in an overtime thriller in which both teams did not score more than five points in the extra period. in the finals the green archers swept the blue eagles to win their 9th title and break the tie among them for the number of uaap titles. in 2017, both ateneo and la salle met once again in the finals and the first back-to-back ateneo-la salle finals series since 2002 with ateneo winning this time in a 3-game series that ended their 5-year title drought and dethroned la salle.
ateneo–la salle rivalry
the euroleague final four is the final four format championship of the european-wide top-tier level euroleague professional club basketball competition. the euroleague basketball company used the final four format for the first time in 2002, following the 2001 fiba suproleague final four, which was the last final four held by fiba europe. in the original fiba europe competition, as seen below, the final four was used for the first time at the 1966 fiba european champions cup final four. the final four format was used again the next year, with the 1967 fiba european champions cup final four, but was then abandoned.
euroleague final four