The 2009–10

2009–10 PBA season

The 2009–10 PBA Season was the 35th season of the Philippine Basketball Association . The season formally opened on October 11, 2009 and ended on August 18, 2010...

 Philippine Basketball Association

Philippine Basketball Association

The Philippine Basketball Association , is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 10 company-branded franchised teams. It is the first and oldest professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the NBA...

 (PBA) Philippine Cup

PBA Philippine Cup

The Philippine Basketball Association Philippine Cup is the award given at PBA's all-Filipino conference. The tournament does not allow teams to hire foreign players or imports. Prior to 2004-05 season, the tournament was then known as the PBA All-Filipino Cup...

or known as the 2009–10 KFC

KFC

KFC, founded and also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is a chain of fast food restaurants based in Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States. KFC has been a brand and operating segment, termed a concept of Yum! Brands since 1997 when that company was spun off from PepsiCo as Tricon Global...

 PBA Philippine Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the first conference of the 2009–10 PBA season

2009–10 PBA season

The 2009–10 PBA Season was the 35th season of the Philippine Basketball Association . The season formally opened on October 11, 2009 and ended on August 18, 2010...

. The tournament started on October 11, 2009 and ended on March 3, 2010. The conference featured Smart Gilas

Smart Gilas

Smart Gilas Pilipinas is a developmental Philippine national basketball team sponsored by Smart Communications and the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas...

 as guest team. The tournament is an All-Filipino format, which doesn't require an import or a pure-foreign player for each team.

Format

The following format will be observed for the duration of the conference:

• Double-round robin eliminations; 18 games per team; Teams are then seeded by basis on win-loss records. Ties are broken among points differences of the tied teams. Guest team Smart Gilas
  Smart Gilas
  Smart Gilas Pilipinas is a developmental Philippine national basketball team sponsored by Smart Communications and the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas...
  
   will only compete for the first round of eliminations and result of its games will not reflect on the standings of its opponents.
• Teams seeded #6, #7, #8 and #9 play in a knockout wildcard playoffs for the final berth in the quarterfinals. Matchups are:
  • #6 team vs. #9 team
  • #7 team vs. #8 team
  • Winners of the first round for the last quarterfinal berth.
• #3, #4 and #5 teams automatically advance to the best of five quarterfinals:
  • #3 team vs. winner of wildcard playoffs
  • #4 vs. #5 teams
• #1 and #2 teams automatically advance to the best of seven semifinals:
  • Winner of first quarterfinal vs. #1
  • Winner of second quarterfinal vs. #2
• The winners in the semifinals advance to the best of seven Finals. The losers dispute the third-place trophy in a one-game playoff.

Team standings

	Qualified for semifinals
	Qualified for quarterfinals
	Qualified for wildcards
	Eliminated

#	|Team	W	L	PCT Winning percentage In sports, a winning percentage is the fraction of games or matches a team or individual has won. It is defined as wins divided by wins plus losses . Ties count as a ½ loss and a ½ win...	GB Games behind In sports, the phrase games behind or games back , is a common way to reflect the gap between a leading team and another team in a sports league, conference, or division...	PD Goal difference In sports such as ice hockey and association football, goal difference is often the first tiebreaker used to rank teams which finish a league competition with an equal number of points....
1	Alaska Aces Alaska Aces (PBA) The Alaska Aces is a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association since 1986 under the ownership of the Alaska Milk Corporation and the owner of 13 PBA championships with the 2010 PBA Fiesta Conference as their latest...	13	5	.722
+17
2	San Miguel Beermen San Miguel Beermen The Petron Blaze Boosters is a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association. The team has been a member of the league since its inception in 1975 and hold the most PBA titles with 19.The team is owned by the Petron Corporation, a subsidiary of the Philippines' largest food...	13	5	.722
−17
3	Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants	12	6	.647	1	0; +85
4	Barangay Ginebra Kings Barangay Ginebra Kings The Barangay Ginebra Kings is a professional basketball team of the Philippine Basketball Association founded in 1979 and owned by the Ginebra San Miguel, Inc., a subsidiary of the San Miguel Corporation...	12	6	.667	1	0; +75
5	Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters	11	7	.611	2
6	Sta. Lucia Realtors Sta. Lucia Realtors The Sta. Lucia Realtors was a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association.The Universal Robina Corporation team is one of the founding members of the PBA. Formerly known as Great Taste and Presto-Tivoli Ice Cream, they have won a total of 6 championships. Sta...	10	8	.556	3
7	Coca-Cola Tigers Coca-Cola Tigers The Powerade Tigers is a professional basketball team of the Philippine Basketball Association founded in 2002 when the then-San Miguel Corporation-owned Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines bought the RFM-owned Cosmos Bottling Corporation. In 2006, the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company under the Coca-Cola...	6	12	.333	7	+10
8	Burger King Whoppers	6	12	.333	7	−10
9	Rain or Shine Elasto Painters	4	14	.222	9
10	Barako Bull Energy Boosters	3	15	.167	10
	Smart Gilas Smart Gilas Smart Gilas Pilipinas is a developmental Philippine national basketball team sponsored by Smart Communications and the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas... †	3	6	.333	5.5

†Games involving Smart Gilas are not included in the team standings.

Tiebreakers:

• Alaska defeated San Miguel in both of their elimination round games.
• Purefoods and Barangay Ginebra split their elimination round games, and both won by eight points against each other. Purefoods won by having a better overall point differential.
• Coca-Cola and Burger King split their elimination round games, Coca-Cola won by having a better point differential in games between the two teams.

Results

The score given first is for the team indicated at the left-most column. Results to the right and top of the black cells are first round games, those to the left and below are second round games.

	Win
	Win via OT
	Loss
	Loss via OT

Left / Top	|ALA Alaska Aces (PBA) The Alaska Aces is a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association since 1986 under the ownership of the Alaska Milk Corporation and the owner of 13 PBA championships with the 2010 PBA Fiesta Conference as their latest...	|BAR	|BGK Barangay Ginebra Kings The Barangay Ginebra Kings is a professional basketball team of the Philippine Basketball Association founded in 1979 and owned by the Ginebra San Miguel, Inc., a subsidiary of the San Miguel Corporation...	|BK	|Coke Coca-Cola Tigers The Powerade Tigers is a professional basketball team of the Philippine Basketball Association founded in 2002 when the then-San Miguel Corporation-owned Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines bought the RFM-owned Cosmos Bottling Corporation. In 2006, the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company under the Coca-Cola...	|PF	|ROS	|SMB San Miguel Beermen The Petron Blaze Boosters is a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association. The team has been a member of the league since its inception in 1975 and hold the most PBA titles with 19.The team is owned by the Petron Corporation, a subsidiary of the Philippines' largest food...	|SG Smart Gilas Smart Gilas Pilipinas is a developmental Philippine national basketball team sponsored by Smart Communications and the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas...	|SLR Sta. Lucia Realtors The Sta. Lucia Realtors was a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association.The Universal Robina Corporation team is one of the founding members of the PBA. Formerly known as Great Taste and Presto-Tivoli Ice Cream, they have won a total of 6 championships. Sta...	|TNT
Alaska Alaska Aces (PBA) The Alaska Aces is a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association since 1986 under the ownership of the Alaska Milk Corporation and the owner of 13 PBA championships with the 2010 PBA Fiesta Conference as their latest...		99–83	105–96	87–73	100–79	101–87	81–86	85–74	130–99	91–83	110–106
Barako Bull	88–99		86–94	86–102	83–71	77–92	89–81	89–104	96–91	77–80*	90–93
Brgy. Ginebra Barangay Ginebra Kings The Barangay Ginebra Kings is a professional basketball team of the Philippine Basketball Association founded in 1979 and owned by the Ginebra San Miguel, Inc., a subsidiary of the San Miguel Corporation...	93–90	88–76		83–79	113–104	95–87	86–77	98–86	100–72	72–93	72–87
Burger King	87–80	102–99	104–122		91–89	83–90	89–91	99–117	115–105	93–101	105–118
Coca-Cola Coca-Cola Tigers The Powerade Tigers is a professional basketball team of the Philippine Basketball Association founded in 2002 when the then-San Miguel Corporation-owned Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines bought the RFM-owned Cosmos Bottling Corporation. In 2006, the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company under the Coca-Cola...	105–92	91–89	97–106	106–94		93–79	84–92	84–107	93–98	76–95	94–103
Purefoods	94–77	70–66	89–81	85–74	88–79		103-69	76–92	99–81	68–63	108–102
Rain or Shine	94–95	88–72	97–101	99–101	83–105	88–101		77–93	89–96	90–95*	76–85
San Miguel San Miguel Beermen The Petron Blaze Boosters is a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association. The team has been a member of the league since its inception in 1975 and hold the most PBA titles with 19.The team is owned by the Petron Corporation, a subsidiary of the Philippines' largest food...	116–122*	94–85	91–86*	100–85	107–118	87–80	104–90		96–109	88–69	100–90
Smart Gilas Smart Gilas Smart Gilas Pilipinas is a developmental Philippine national basketball team sponsored by Smart Communications and the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas...	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		95–96	70–103
Sta. Lucia Sta. Lucia Realtors The Sta. Lucia Realtors was a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association.The Universal Robina Corporation team is one of the founding members of the PBA. Formerly known as Great Taste and Presto-Tivoli Ice Cream, they have won a total of 6 championships. Sta...	77–85	108–86	93–88	83–79	98–92	78–88	95–91	94–110	—		83–100
Talk 'N Text	113–119*	97–99	82–105	115–104	107–104	101–98	93–95	93–91	—	117–112

*overtime, italicized = not counted in the standings

Bracket

Wildcard phase

Purefoods–Rain or Shine series

Barangay Ginebra–Talk 'N Text series

Alaska–Barangay Ginebra series

San Miguel–Purefoods series

Third–place playoff

Finals

External links

• PBA.ph