Ateneo–La Salle rivalry

Ateneo Blue Eagles – De La Salle Green Archers
History (Basketball)
1st Meeting (NCAA)	1924
Last Meeting (UAAP)	August 28, 2011
Next Meeting	TBD
Rivalry Series (UAAP)	39-28 (.582) Ateneo
Largest Margin of Victory	80–55 Ateneo (September 14, 1996)
Post Season Basketball History
Championship Meetings (Basketball)	Ateneo leads, 5-4
1939 NCAA Basketball Championship	La Salle won 27-23
1958 NCAA Basketball Championship	Ateneo won 105-103
1974 NCAA Basketball Championship	La Salle won 90-80
1988 UAAP Basketball Championship	Ateneo won 76-70
2001 UAAP Basketball Championship	La Salle won 2-1
2002 UAAP Basketball Championship	Ateneo won 2-1
2008 UAAP Basketball Championship	Ateneo won 2-0
2008 Phil. Collegiate Championship	La Salle won 71-62

The Ateneo-La Salle rivalry is a school rivalry between two private universities in the Philippines, the Ateneo de Manila University and De La Salle University. Both are private, Catholic academic centers within the Metropolitan Manila area. Ateneo Men's varsity team is known as Ateneo Blue Eagles, Women's varsity team as Lady Eagles, and high school team as Ateneo Blue Eaglets. La Salle Men's varsity team is known as De La Salle Green Archers, Women's varsity team as Lady Archers, and high school team as Junior Archers. Ateneo rocks. La Salle sucks.

History

Both squads were co-founders of the NCAA and now compete in the UAAP. The rivalry began in the early years of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines) and was carried over to the University Athletic Association of the Philippines when La Salle transferred in 1986. The rivalry was intense in the NCAA but not as pronounced as is currently in the UAAP, since Ateneo's rival then was San Beda College, and La Salle developed theirs against Colegio de San Juan de Letran in the 1970s. In the early 20s through the late 40's football (soccer) was reported to be the most popular sport in the Philippines and was replaced by basketball from the 50s through the present. Basketball is currently the most anticipated match-up between La Salle and Ateneo, drawing huge crowds of students and alumni. Both schools have extended their academic competition to various sports. Outside the NCAA and the UAAP both schools have also met in various dual meets involving different sports.

The earliest basketball games between both schools were played at the open basketball courts of UP Campus in Ermita and shortly thereafter at Nozaleda Park. The venue later moved to the US Army's 31st Infantry Gym and UST Gym with the games being finally played in a covered court. The games then moved to the Rizal Memorial to accommodate bigger crowds, and at one point included the Loyola Center, Cuneta Astrodome, and PhilSports Arena. Currently, Araneta Coliseum is the main venue for the sold out games also seen on national television.

Head-to-head records by sport

Seniors' Division

As of October 2010 the De La Salle Green Archers has more collegiate championships compared to Ateneo in the NCAA and UAAP combined. La Salle has 134 collegiate titles versus Ateneo Blue Eagles with 56 collegiate titles. La Salle also has 5 Overall (General) Collegiate Championships versus Ateneo with 1 Overall (General) Collegiate Championship. This count excludes additional collegiate titles and the 3 General Collegiate Championships also won by De La Salle-College of St. Benilde since it participated in the NCAA in 1998.

La Salle leads Ateneo 11-3 in different all-time sports categories.

• Badminton - Ateneo (5) - La Salle (5)
• Basketball - Ateneo (23) - La Salle (16)
• Baseball - La Salle (3)- Ateneo (None)
• Chess - La Salle (8) - Ateneo (None)
• Football - La Salle (31) - Ateneo (12)
• Fencing - Ateneo (1) - La Salle (None)
• Judo - Ateneo (5) - La Salle (None)
• Softball - La Salle (3) - Ateneo (1)
• Swimming - La Salle (15) - Ateneo (1)
• Taekwondo - La Salle (6) - Ateneo (None)
• Table Tennis - La Salle (6) - Ateneo (None)
• Tennis - La Salle (6) - Ateneo (2)
• Track and Field - La Salle (13) - Ateneo (6)
• Volleyball - La Salle (12) - Ateneo (2)

Both schools have yet to win collegiate championships in beach volleyball and cheerdance.

Overall Championship

Note that all championships listed are NCAA General Championships; either school has yet to win a UAAP Overall Championship.

• La Salle (5)- 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, and 1980
• Ateneo (1) - 1968

Juniors' Division

As of October 2010, the La Salle Junior Archers has more high school titles than the Ateneo Blue Eaglets in both the NCAA and UAAP combined (La Salle's juniors team was represented first by the De La Salle High School from 1924–68, then La Salle Green Hills from 1969–81, and currently De La Salle-Santiago Zobel School since 1986). La Salle has won 99 high school titles versus Ateneo with 96 titles. La Salle has 10 Overall (General) High School Championships versus Ateneo with 4 Overall (General) High School Championships. This count excludes the additional high school titles and the 4 General High School Championships won by La Salle Green Hills after it began to represent De La Salle-College of St. Benilde in the NCAA Juniors division in 1998.

Basketball

Overall

In terms of total college and high school basketball titles won in the NCAA and UAAP, Ateneo leads La Salle, 49-23. In Men's basketball, Ateneo has a total of 21 men's titles whereas La Salle has 12. The Ateneo has 14 NCAA Men's Basketball titles to La Salle's 5 whereas La Salle leads the Ateneo in UAAP Men's Basketball titles, 7-6. In Juniors basketball, the Ateneo has 9 NCAA titles and 17 UAAP titles, for a total of 26, whereas La Salle has 5 NCAA titles and 2 UAAP titles, for 7 total. In women's basketball, both schools have only won titles in the UAAP (the NCAA doesn't have a women's basketball program), where La Salle leads Ateneo, 4-2.

The Ateneo Blue Eagles and De La Salle Green Archers have met in the championships of the NCAA and UAAP at least seven times. The Blue Eagles won the men's basketball title over La Salle in 1958, 1988, 2002, and 2008, whereas the Green Archers prevailed in 1939, 1974, and 2001.

In the junior division, the De La Salle Junior Archers defeated the top-seeded Ateneo Blue Eaglets in 2007. In 2009, the Eaglets defeated the top-seeded Junior Archers.

Collegiate Titles of National Scope

In terms of collegiate titles of national scope, Ateneo leads 3 titles to 2. Ateneo won the Collegiate Champions League title in 2007, and won back to back the Philippine Collegiate Championship (PCC) in 2009 and 2010. La Salle won the Philippine Inter-collegiate title in 1988 and the Philippine Collegiate Championship in 2008 with La Salle winning over Ateneo.

Ateneo won the 2007 Collegiate Champions League title against the University of the Visayas Green Lancers, 71-54. The Collegiate Champions League (CCL), was then reformatted and became the Philippine Collegiate Championship (PCC). It is currently the national collegiate basketball championship tournament, sanctioned by the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, the country's official basketball federation. College teams from all over the country participate in the tournament. The tournament also has a Sweet 16 similar to the United States' NCAA Basketball Tournament during "March Madness."

La Salle's Green Archers won the 2008 PCC title. La Salle defeated the second-seeded NCAA champion San Beda Red Lions and arranged a finals meeting with the top-seeded UAAP champion Ateneo Blue Eagles, who defeated the Letran Knights in the final four. In the championship match, the De La Salle Green Archers prevailed over the Ateneo Blue Eagles, 71-62.

In the 2009 season of the Philippine Collegiate Championship, the Blue Eagles defeated the FEU Tamaraws in three games to clinch their second national title, whereas the Green Archers were eliminated by the Letran Knights in their first game in the round of 16.

In the 2010 season of the Philippine Collegiate Championship, the Blue Eagles defeated the Adamson Falcons in three games to clinch their third and back-to-back national titles, while the Green Archers settled for 3rd-placed beating the UC Webmasters despite having 4 players injured and 10 players in the line-up.

Ateneo has also won back-to-back titles in the annual University Games, winning in 2008 and 2009.

Championship Streaks

Ateneo was 3-peat NCAA champion from 1931 through 1933, and its record of collegiate titles remained unsurpassed by any school in the NCAA until the late 1990s and 2000s.

Ateneo scored two championships in the late 1980s by winning back to back titles in 1987 and 1988, They are currently four-peat champions from 2008 to 2011.

La Salle became the first school to be three-peat UAAP basketball champions in the both Men's and Women's division in 1999, 2000, and 2001.

Both schools have also managed to post what are regarded as "double championships" by winning both the seniors and juniors titles in the same year. The Ateneo Blue Eagles still have the most number of double titles in NCAA history, with 4 double championships, including the NCAA's second back-to-back double championships in 1975 and 1976 (the first was accomplished by the University of the Philippines in 1925 and 1926).

Ateneo holds the distinction of being the only double three-peat champion in the Senior and Junior levels from 2008 to 2010 whether in the NCAA or the UAAP. and has posted two four-peats and three back-to-back title streaks in the UAAP juniors division.

After winning two championships in 1989 and 1990 in the UAAP, La Salle temporarily gained the upper hand, further dominating in the late 1990s through the turn of the millennium as 4-peat champion from 1998 to 2001.

La Salle does not have any such streaks in the NCAA, but won back-to-back titles once and also posted a rare four-peat in UAAP men's basketball, combined with another rare four-peat in Women's basketball both during the same period. These are at present the longest UAAP basketball title streaks in the Final Four era, tied with the Ateneo.

La Salle, accomplished the double championship once during its stint in the NCAA and UAAP.

NCAA Basketball

In 1939 La Salle defeated Ateneo in both the Seniors and Juniors NCAA Championship. A legend states that the rivalry reputedly started that year when after La Salle defeated Ateneo, then the defending champions, La Salle students threw fried chicken outside the gates of the old Ateneo campus in Manila. Ateneo and La Salle would not meet in the championship again until 1958 where Ateneo defeated La Salle by a basket in overtime. Another finals meeting of both schools took place in 1974 with La Salle prevailing over Ateneo in the championship. Ateneo and La Salle left the NCAA in 1978 and 1981 respectively after games turned into full-blown riots, with Ateneo leaving after losing the 1978 championship against San Beda in closed doors, and La Salle after fan disturbance in their 1980 second round game against Letran.

UAAP Basketball

Ateneo prevailed over La Salle in the 1988 in the first head to head championship match up. However, La Salle 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 then won the next four championships. In 2008, Ateneo defeated La Salle in all of their matches, including a two-game sweep of the championship series. In 2009, Ateneo defeated La Salle in both elimination matches before La Salle eventually failed to clinch a semifinals spot. In 2010, La Salle won the first meeting between the two teams, but lost to Ateneo in the second round before being eliminated in the semifinals. In 2011, Ateneo swept La Salle, winning both of their elimination matches. La Salle did not qualify for the Final Four while Ateneo went on to win the championship, completing their record-tying four-peat streak.

2001 Finals: Last of the Four-peat

Game	Winner	Loser	Series
Game 1	La Salle 74	Ateneo 68	La Salle 1–0
Game 2	Ateneo 76	La Salle 72	Tied 1–1
Game 3	La Salle 93	Ateneo 88	La Salle 2–1

La Salle was the defending three-time champions, while Ateneo were in a 13-year championship drought; Ateneo started well, but La Salle had a relentless fourth quarter run, capped off by Manny Ramos' insurance free-throws to seal the game with 3.9 seconds left. At Game 2, Enrico Villanueva scored 22 points to lead the Eagles to a series-extending win. After Mike Cortez tying the game at 72–all, Villanueva passed the ball to teammate Magnum Membrere who scored a three-pointer, on the next possession, Ren-Ren Ritualo failed to answer with a game-tying three of his own to force a sudden-death Game 3, scoring Ateneo's first win against La Salle in the season after three games. In the deciding game, Carlo Sharma scored a UAAP career-high 22 points, 11 in the final quarter to prevent an Ateneo victory; Ateneo's rookie L.A. Tenorio had 30 points of his own, but it wasn't enough, as La Salle coach Pumaren remarking that "This was the sweetest of the four championships because we're able to erase the stigma of our 1988 loss to Ateneo."

2002 Finals: 14 year Ateneo drought is over

Prior to the Finals, Ateneo prevented a 14–0 elimination round sweep of La Salle that would had given a bye up to the best-of-3 Finals. Instead, Ateneo defeated La Salle in the elimination round finale 76-63. La Salle defeated rival University of Santo Tomas (UST), and Ateneo overcame #2 seed University of the East (UE) in two games, with the second game ending in a buzzer beater by Gec Chia to push Ateneo into the Finals anew.

Game	Winner	Loser	Series
Game 1	Ateneo 72	La Salle 70	Ateneo 1–0
Game 2	La Salle 85	Ateneo 77	Tied 1–1
Game 3	Ateneo 77	La Salle 70	Ateneo 2–1

Game 1 ended with Villanueva scored Ateneo's last ten points, and teammate Larry Fonacier blocking two shots by Mark Cardona that would've forced overtime to give Ateneo a 1–0 series lead. In Game 2, with the Ateneo team noted as being "tense," La Salle had an 18-point lead at halftime, which Ateneo cut down to three, 80–77, but Sharma and Adonis Santa Maria converted crucial free-throws that gave La Salle enough breathing space to force another Game 3. In Game 3, La Salle player Mike Cortez missed 11 of 13 shots, which caused La Salle students and alumni to accuse him of throwing the game, as Ateneo eventually won the title to deny La Salle a fifth-consecutive championship.

2003–2005: Semifinal meetings

Ateneo and La Salle would play second fiddle to Far Eastern University (FEU) from 2003 to 2005, with the Tamaraws defeating Ateneo in 2003, losing to La Salle in 2004 and defeating La Salle in 2005.

Along the way, the two teams met in the semifinals, where the higher seed gets the twice-to-beat advantage. In 2003, La Salle forced #1 seed Ateneo into a rubber match after a 76–72 overtime win, with the game being halted after a brawl erupted between the two teams. With Ateneo's LA Tenorio and La Salle's Ryan Araña suspended for the deciding game, Ateneo eliminated La Salle from Finals contention in the deciding game with a 74–68 triumph.

In 2004, La Salle and Ateneo finished the elimination round tied for second place, so a playoff game was played to determine which team gets the twice-to-beat advantage. La Salle won the game, and ended Ateneo's season in the semifinals, to face FEU in the Finals. La Salle would win in three games to deny FEU which had defeated Ateneo a season before, a back-to-back championship run.

In 2005, three teams, La Salle, Ateneo and UE, were all tied for second place. La Salle won the tiebreaker with a superior point differential on games played by the three teams, causing Ateneo and UE to play for the right to face La Salle with the twice-to-win disadvantage in which the Eagles won. However, La Salle defeated Ateneo in the semifinals to clinch another Finals appearance against FEU.

2006: La Salle suspension

After FEU swept La Salle in the 2005 championship series, La Salle admitted it fielded two ineligible players from 2003 to 2005, albeit it claimed not to be aware of their ineligibility which caused them to return the 2005 runner-up trophy and the 2004 championship trophy they won against FEU (The league would later award FEU the trophy). The league suspended La Salle in 2006 for a year due to negligence, with all of their games during that period also forfeited. Ateneo faced UST in the 2006 Finals, a series UST won in three games.

2007: "Two is greater than three"

Upon their return in 2007, UE swept the elimination round 14–0, with their last game against La Salle going into overtime with the Warriors still prevailing. With Ateneo also losing their last game, the two teams were again tied for second place, and La Salle won the playoff game to clinch the twice-to-beat advantage. Prior to this, Ateneo won the two elimination round games against La Salle.

Unlike earlier match-ups where the team with the advantage won the first game, Ateneo won the first game, with Chris Tiu playing pivotal roles in crunch time where he scored the winning lay-up with 7.3 seconds remaining to force a deciding game. In their fifth meeting of the season, Pocholo Villanueva scored a three-pointer to add La Salle's lead to nine with less than three minutes in the game left. After an Ateneo 6–2 run, Villanueva scored a jump-shot anew, padding the lead to seven. After Ford Arao later cut the lead to five, La Salle's OJ Cua missed two free-throws with 23.9 seconds remaining. Chris Tiu passed the ball to Nonoy Baclao who scored a three-pointer to cut the lead to two, but JV Casio converted both of his free-throws with 4 seconds left to punch La Salle's ticket to the Finals. This had been the only time Ateneo and La Salle played for five games in a season without both the teams advancing to the Finals.

La Salle would eventually sweep UE in the Finals 2–0 to cap their seventh men's basketball championship. After the season, La Salle coach Franz Pumaren remarked that "This is the only time that two is greater than three, they beat us three times, but we beat them when it counted the most."

2008 Finals: Double Championship

Game	Winner	Loser	Series
Game 1	Ateneo 69	La Salle 61	Ateneo 1–0
Game 2	Ateneo 62	La Salle 51	Ateneo 2–0

Ateneo would later claim their fourth UAAP title in 2008 against defending champions La Salle by sweeping the finals series 2–0. In Game 1, Rabeh Al-Hussaini scored 31 points to lead Ateneo to a win. In Game 2, Ateneo led by 15 points at halftime, but La Salle came back cutting the lead to three, 50–47 at the end of the third quarter. However, La Salle forward Rico Maierhofer was ejected just before the end of the third after the officials said that he flashed the dirty finger, although Maierhofer denied the charge. A La Salle scoring drought saw the lead balloon to eight in the last two minutes, and Ateneo never looked back after a Jai Reyes three-point play to secure Ateneo's fourth UAAP men's basketball title.

2009–11: Ateneo championships

La Salle paraded several rookies for the 2009 season, while Ateneo emerged with only Chris Tiu as the major graduating player. With these conditions, the first Ateneo–La Salle game came at the heels of former President Corazon Aquino's death, and as a result, spectators wore yellow as a sign for respect for Aquino. Ateneo outlasted La Salle in overtime to end the first round with a solitary loss. The two teams met a week later, but this time Ateneo had a big enough lead to prevent La Salle from catching up. Ateneo qualified for the semifinals as the #1 seed, eventually winning the championship; La Salle missed out on the Final Four on the final day after being defeated by NU. The 2009 season would be the first time Ateneo and La Salle would not meet in the playoffs since 2001, not including their Finals encounter in 2008 and the DLSU suspension in 2006.

In 2010, parading some new players and an improved set of veterans, the Green Archers defeated the Blue Eagles, 66-63, with the Blue Eagles still feeling the loss of three of the previous season's starters and sophomore guard Sam Marata shooting hot in the end game. This was the first official win of the Green Archers against the Blue Eagles in UAAP action since 2007. In the second round encounter, the Ateneo Blue Eagles were threatened with falling into a tie in the standings had they lost to DLSU. After falling behind 4-9, the Blue Eagles went on a 10-0 scoring run to take a double digit lead, and went on to defeat the Archers decisively, 74-57.

2010 was the second straight year that Ateneo and DLSU would not meet in a post eliminations series. DLSU managed to reach the Final Four after missing it in the previous season, but fell to the top-seeded FEU Tamaraws in overtime. The Blue Eagles defeated the Adamson Falcons in the Final Four, and went on to sweep the Tamaraws for their third consecutive title in spite not having any player in the Mythical Team.

In 2011, the Ateneo Blue Eagles team headlined by two rookies defeated DLSU again in both their elimination matches. It is also the third straight year that Ateneo and DLSU would not meet in a post elimination series, since the DLSU failed to qualify once again for the Final Four. The Ateneo was the top-seeded team in the semifinals and defeated the UST Growling Tigers in one game. The Blue Eagles then proceeded to sweep the finals series against the FEU Tamaraws.

Juniors' basketball rivalry

The two universities are also represented in the high school level, with the Ateneo de Manila High School and La Salle Green Hills (1968–1981), De La Salle Zobel (1986–present). And a similar rivalry, although on much lesser scale, currently exists. When La Salle Green Hills used to be the Juniors' team of the Green Archers in the NCAA though, the rivalry between the Ateneo and La Salle in the high school level was much stronger, considering that both the Ateneo High School and the LSGH High School are both all-male schools, igniting a huge rumble in 1978. But this rivalry has since faded, with AHS being in the UAAP and LSGH staying in the NCAA. Still, the remnants of this rivalry live on in the UAAP with LSGH's sister school De La Salle-Santiago Zobel School, the juniors representative of De La Salle University in the UAAP, taking its place.

In Juniors basketball, the Ateneo has 9 NCAA titles and 17 UAAP titles, for a total of 26, whereas La Salle has 5 NCAA titles and 2 UAAP titles, for 7 total.

La Salle Greenies defeated the Ateneo Blue Ateneo Eaglets in the 1939 NCAA Junior Championship. Ateneo High School and De La Salle Santiago Zobel School (DLSZ) met twice in the UAAP juniors' basketball finals; in 2007 in which DLSZ won in two games dethroning the Eaglets in the process, and in 2009 in which the Blue Eaglets won the best-of-three series, 2-1. In addition, the Junior Archers weren't able to defend their 2005 championship due to their suspension along with their seniors' counterparts.

National Seniors Open Championship

The National Seniors Open was a tournament participated by top commercial (MICAA) and collegiate teams in the country. La Salle won the 1939 and 1949 Championships. Ateneo has not won a National Seniors Open championship.

National Open

La Salle also won the National Open in 1983.

Other sports

Both schools have also competed in various sports including badminton, baseball, chess, football (soccer), softball, swimming, taekwondo, table tennis, track and field, tennis, and volleyball during various periods of the NCAA and UAAP.

Football (soccer)

Football, the most popular sport in the world, was also reported to be the top sport in the Philippines from the 1920s, 1930s, and shortly after World War II. In terms of the total number of collegiate and high school titles in the NCAA and UAAP combined La Salle leads Ateneo 62-16.

La Salle has the most number of collegiate championships in NCAA history with 21 versus Ateneo with 6. The Green Achers were 9-peat champions from 1932 through 1940. In the UAAP La Salle also leads with a combined 10 titles, made up of 3 Men's and 7 Women's titles, versus Ateneo's 7 Men's titles. The Ateneo Men's football team were 3-peat champions twice in the UAAP, from 1998 through 2001 and 2003 through 2005.

In the NCAA Junior division La Salle has 30 titles versus Ateneo's 2 titles. La Salle Junior Archers were twice 5-peat champions from 1937 through 1941 and 1971 through 1976. Both high schools have 1 title apiece in the UAAP which only considers the Junior division football a demonstration sport.

For the De La Salle Zobel Men's football team; they have maintained 5 years of high school football championships in the RIFA cup 1 and 2 where Ateneo was not successful in winning any match against De La Salle Zobel which totaled 9 championship titles from 2001 to 2005. From 2001 to 2005, De La Salle Zobel were RIFA 1 and 2 champions 9 times, most of them back to back champions in every year. The only loss La Salle Zobel encountered was a loss from Xavier high school during the RIFA 2 championship in 2004.

In the inaugural UAAP Juniors Football Championship in 2007-08, De La Salle Zobel won the demonstration championship. Ateneo won the demonstration championship the following year. In 2009-10, Ateneo won the fist official UAAP Juniors Football Championship.

Volleyball

In volleyball, one of the most popular collegiate sports, La Salle leads with 12 championships compared to Ateneo with 2 championships. La Salle was 4-peat Men's NCAA champions from 1977 through 1980 (considered their golden era). The Green Archers were also UAAP Men's champions in 2001 and 2003. The Lady Archers were 3-peat UAAP champions from 2003 through 2005. They were the first NCAA champions in 1975 and had two additional UAAP titles in 1999 and 2008. Ateneo was Men's and Women's NCAA champion in 1976.

Badminton

La Salle has had 5 and Ateneo 4 total badminton collegiate championships. The last badminton crown for La Salle came in 2009 and for Ateneo in 2004. Both schools have had fairly strong teams over a number of years in collegiate badminton.

Taekwondo

In another popular collegiate sport, Taekwondo, La Salle has 6 collegiate titles whereas Ateneo has no titles to date.

Judo

In Judo Ateneo has the upper hand with 6 collegiate titles. La Salle has yet to win a title in this sport category. La Salle almost won their first Judo championships in Season 71 with 3 gold medals and the Ateneo with 2. Ateneo was able to clinch championships with bronze medals that boosted them to the overall championship.

In 2010, the Ateneo Blue Judokas won their third straight Judo title in UAAP Judo, together with the Ateneo High School Judokas, that won their fifth straight title.

Swimming

La Salle has 15 collegiate swimming titles versus Ateneo with 1 swimming title. La Salle was 3-peat champion in the Men's division in 2000, 2001, and 2002 as well as 2-peat champion in the Women's division in 2002 and 2003. Ateneo won the Women's title in 2000.

Baseball

La Salle has had the upper hand in Ateneo-La Salle match ups. Prior to Ateneo's 10-year curse, in 1991, La Salle lost to Ateneo 10-5 for Ateneo's last victory before the infamous losing streak. It took 13 years before Ateneo could beat La Salle when in 2004, Johnel Clemente's game-winning RBI single off La Salle pitcher Angel Gabriel nailed Ateneo's victory, 9-8. In 2006, Ateneo handed La Salle its first humiliating 10-run loss, 17-7, on Jonathan Sibal's 2-RBI single off pitcher Jeff Ardio which ended the game prematurely at the 8th inning (mercy rule). La Salle actually led 7-4 in the 4th inning before Ateneo exploded for 9 runs and put the game out of reach. In 2009, Ateneo and La Salle combined for what may be the highest scoring game in UAAP Baseball history when Ateneo defeated La Salle, 27-14.

Fan support

Due to many socialites watching the games live, La Salle head coach Franz Pumaren said that "The janitors in Araneta always say, 'If there's an Ateneo-La Salle game, once everybody's out of the coliseum, it still smells good because of the all the socialites watching.' " In the late 1990s, former first daughter and actress Kris Aquino would call Ateneo head coach Joe Lipa to check on the team's progress, according to Ricky Dandan, Lipa's former assistant and brother of former NU Bulldogs coach Manny. Joel Banal, Ateneo's head coach from 2002 to 2003, used to have nightmares about La Salle's dreaded press, and considers the 2002 championship as his greatest accomplishment, after which Ateneo alums would pay for his restaurant bills.

Furthermore, Ateneo alumni installed the playing floor on the 2000 NBA All-Star Game to the Moro Lorenzo Sports Center, while shipping magnate Enrique Razon, Jr. donated about USD1 million to refurbish La Salle's sporting facilities.

During the collegiate games between both schools, notably basketball, televised coverage would occasionally flash famous alumni from entertainment, politics, business, education, and other fields watching from the sidelines. Former Ateneo cheerleader and current Senator Richard Gordon is renowned for sideline antics like jumping on the scorer's table to rile up the crowd. Gary Valenciano entertained the crowds during the recent UAAP 73 opening ceremonies.

Orlando Magic player Gilbert Arenas described the Ateneo-La Salle game as "you split the crowd in half, 50-50. One side of their gym was blue and one side of their gym was green and everybody was just yelling."

Men's basketball results

Men's basketball games between the two in the UAAP are the most anticipated match-ups in the season, with most games being sold out. Both teams are guaranteed to face each other at the elimination round (regular season) twice, while they can meet for a maximum of three times in the playoffs (up to three times in the semifinals, or twice in the semifinals plus a seeding playoff).

The games were played consistently from 1986 until 2006 when La Salle was suspended for fielding two ineligible players.

Official UAAP league records since 1986 show that head to head championships between the teams have Ateneo leading 3 championships to 1. Including regular season, Final Four and Championship games in the UAAP, Ateneo leads 39 games to 28 as seven La Salle wins from 2003 to 2005 were forfeited due to the use of ineligible players using falsified documents. If La Salle's forfeited games are counted as wins, the head-to-head record is 35–32 in favor of La Salle.

Date	Ateneo	La Salle	Venue	Note/s
1939	Ateneo 23	La Salle 27		First Ateneo-La Salle championship game results with La Salle winning their first NCAA title.
1958	Ateneo 105	La Salle 103	Rizal Memorial Coliseum, Manila	OT; NCAA championship, Ateneo wins second consecutive title.
1968	Ateneo 48	La Salle 49	Blue Eagle Gym, Quezon City	NCAA second round
1969	Ateneo 93	La Salle 88	Blue Eagle Gym, Quezon City	NCAA First Round
1974	Ateneo 80	La Salle 90		La Salle wins NCAA championship
1986	Ateneo	La Salle		Ateneo won their first four meetings against La Salle in the UAAP.
1986	Ateneo	La Salle
August 23, 1987	Ateneo 95	La Salle 91	Rizal Memorial Coliseum, Manila
September 26, 1987	Ateneo 98	La Salle 89	Rizal Memorial Coliseum, Manila
August 13, 1988	Ateneo 76	La Salle 78	Rizal Memorial Coliseum, Manila	First win of La Salle against Ateneo in the UAAP.
October 2, 1988	Ateneo 73	La Salle 72	Rizal Memorial Coliseum, Manila
October 7, 1988	Ateneo 76	La Salle 70	Rizal Memorial Coliseum, Manila	UAAP Finals–Game 1; first championship meeting between Ateneo and La Salle in the UAAP.
August 27, 1989	Ateneo 69	La Salle 77	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 17, 1989	Ateneo 67	La Salle 61	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
August 12, 1990	Ateneo 57	La Salle 64	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 16, 1990	Ateneo 64	La Salle 66	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
August 10, 1991	Ateneo 77	La Salle 99	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 7, 1991	Ateneo 75	La Salle 79	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
July 25, 1992	Ateneo 64	La Salle 70	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 5, 1992	Ateneo 89	La Salle 94	Blue Eagle Gym, Quezon City
August 7, 1993	Ateneo 71	La Salle 81	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 18, 1993	Ateneo 77	La Salle 66	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
August 13, 1994	Ateneo 66	La Salle 81	Cuneta Astrodome, Pasay
September 3, 1994	Ateneo 73	La Salle 72	Cuneta Astrodome, Pasay
August 5, 1995	Ateneo 49	La Salle 54	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 2, 1995	Ateneo 58	La Salle 66	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
July 27, 1996	Ateneo 69	La Salle 77	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 14, 1996	Ateneo 80	La Salle 55	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
July 26, 1997	Ateneo 54	La Salle 61	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 6, 1997	Ateneo 66	La Salle 68	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
August 1, 1998	Ateneo 50	La Salle 64	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 12, 1998	Ateneo 75	La Salle 87	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
July 31, 1999	Ateneo 60	La Salle 57	Cuneta Astrodome, Pasay	BJ Manalo's first game against Ateneo
August 28, 1999	Ateneo 59	La Salle 70	PhilSports Arena, Pasig
July 15, 2000	Ateneo 70	La Salle 94	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 16, 2000	Ateneo 66	La Salle 63	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
July 15, 2001	Ateneo 76	La Salle 91	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 16, 2001	Ateneo 63	La Salle 76	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 27, 2001	Ateneo 68	La Salle 74	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	UAAP Finals–Game 1
October 4, 2001	Ateneo 76	La Salle 72	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	UAAP Finals–Game 2
October 16, 2001	Ateneo 88	La Salle 93	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	UAAP Finals–Game 3; La Salle wins fourth consecutive title.
August 10, 2002	Ateneo 60	La Salle 70	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 14, 2002	Ateneo 76	La Salle 63	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	La Salle had a 13–0 record prior to the game.
September 26, 2002	Ateneo 72	La Salle 70	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	UAAP Finals–Game 1
September 29, 2002	Ateneo 77	La Salle 85	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	UAAP Finals–Game 2
October 5, 2002	Ateneo 77	La Salle 70	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	UAAP Finals–Game 3; Ateneo ends 14-year title drought.
August 9, 2003	Ateneo 82	La Salle 68	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	First game with ineligible La Salle players.
September 13, 2003	Ateneo 98	La Salle 89	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 25, 2003	Ateneo 72	La Salle 76	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	OT; UAAP semifinals, marred by a brawl that halted the game for several minutes.
September 30, 2003	Ateneo 74	La Salle 68	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	UAAP Semifinals; Ateneo lost in the Finals vs. FEU.
July 11, 2004	Ateneo 75	La Salle 72	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
August 22, 2004	Ateneo 61	La Salle 72	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 14, 2004	Ateneo 69	La Salle 82	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	2nd-seed game
September 19, 2004	Ateneo 55	La Salle 69	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	UAAP semifinals; La Salle was later stripped of their championship.
July 10, 2005	Ateneo 60	La Salle 78	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 15, 2005	Ateneo 55	La Salle 72	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 25, 2005	Ateneo 57	La Salle 74	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	UAAP semifinals; La Salle lost in the Finals vs. FEU.
July 26, 2007	Ateneo 80	La Salle 77	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	OT; first game since the La Salle suspension.
September 9, 2007	Ateneo 89	La Salle 87	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 18, 2007	Ateneo 69	La Salle 70	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	2nd-seed game
September 27, 2007	Ateneo 65	La Salle 64	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	UAAP semifinals
September 30, 2007	Ateneo 60	La Salle 65	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	UAAP semifinals; La Salle went on to win the championship vs. UE.
July 6, 2008	Ateneo 79	La Salle 73	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 6, 2008	Ateneo 65	La Salle 57	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
September 21, 2008	Ateneo 69	La Salle 61	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	UAAP Finals–Game 1
September 25, 2008	Ateneo 62	La Salle 51	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	UAAP Finals–Game 2; Ateneo wins second championship in 6 years.
August 9, 2009	Ateneo 76	La Salle 72	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	OT; Game played with a tribute to the late president Corazon Aquino. Some supporters from both sides wore yellow.
August 16, 2009	Ateneo 81	La Salle 65	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	Ateneo goes on to win their second consecutive championship.
July 24, 2010	Ateneo 63	La Salle 66	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
August 22, 2010	Ateneo 74	La Salle 57	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	Ateneo goes on to win their first three-peat in UAAP men's basketball. Their juniors squad also wins to make it a double three-peat, the first in UAAP and NCAA combined history.
July 16, 2011	Ateneo 81	La Salle 72	Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
August 28, 2011	Ateneo 79	La Salle 62	Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	Ateneo had a 10–0 record prior to the game and later went on to win their fourth consecutive championship.

See also

• La Salle-UST rivalry