2020 PBA D-League Aspirants' Cup

2020 PBA D-League Aspirant's Cup
The 9th PBA Aspirant's Cup
Duration	March 2–March 11 (suspension)
Number of teams	12
TV partner(s)	One Sports PBA Rush
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The 2020 PBA D-League Aspirants' Cup is the ninth Aspirants' Cup season of the PBA D–League, the official minor league basketball organization owned by the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The conference is slated to commence on February 13. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a concern for the league organizers, halting the season opening as a preventive measure against the outbreak. The conference started on March 2 but the league forced indefinite suspension of games nine days later.

Format

Twelve teams participate in the conference. The tournament will be conducted in four stages:

• Single round-robin elimination, where a team plays the other teams once. The six teams with the worst records are eliminated. The top two placers advance to the semifinals outright.
• The quarterfinals, #3 seeded team faces #6 seeded team and #4 seeded team plays the #5 seeded team. Higher seeds possess the twice-to-beat advantage.
• The semifinals, #1 seeded team faces the winner of #4 vs #5 quarterfinals while #2 seeded team plays the winner of #3 vs #6 quarterfinals. This is a best-of-three playoff.
• The finals, which is a best-of-three series.

Venues

Most games will be played at the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig. Other venues include the Paco Arena in Manila and JCSGO Gym in Quezon City. Filoil Flying V Centre was only used on the opening games of the season.

Teams

The following are the participating teams:

Team		Head coach
AMA	AMA Online Education Titans	Mark Herrera
CEU	Karate Kid	Jeff Napa
DIL	Diliman Blue Dragons	Rensy Bajar
DLS	Eco Oil	Derrick Pumaren
FEU	Seaoil	Olsen Racela
FME	FamilyMart–Enderun Titans	Pipo Noundou
LET	Wang's	Bonnie Tan
MAP	Marinerong Pilipino Skippers	Yong Garcia
MAU	ADG Dong	Randy Alcantara
SSC	Apex	Edgardo Macaraya
TIP	TIP Engineers	Sebastian de Vera
UST	Builders	Aldin Ayo

Elimination round

Team standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Builders	2	2	0	1.000	—	Advance to the semifinals
2	Marinerong Pilipino Skippers	2	2	0	1.000	—
3	Eco Oil	2	2	0	1.000	—	Twice-to-beat in the quarterfinals
4	Apex	1	1	0	1.000	0.5
5	Seaoil	1	1	0	1.000	0.5	Twice-to-win in the quarterfinals
6	ADG Dong	1	0	1	.000	1.5
7	Diliman Blue Dragons	1	0	1	.000	1.5
8	FamilyMart–Enderun Titans	1	0	1	.000	1.5
9	TIP Engineers	1	0	1	.000	1.5
10	Wang's	1	0	1	.000	1.5
11	AMA Online Education Titans	1	0	1	.000	1.5
12	Karate Kid	2	0	2	.000	2

Updated to match(es) played on March 9, 2020. Source: PBA.ph
Rules for classification: 1) winning percentage; 2) if two teams are tied, head-to-head record; if three or more teams are tied, head-to-head goal average (quotient); 3) overall quotient 4) coin toss

Schedule

Team ╲ Game	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
AMA Online Education Titans	SSC	TIP	LET	CEU	UST	DLS	FEU	FME	MAU	MAP	DIL
Karate Kid	MAP	DLS	DIL	AMA	TIP	SSC	FME	FEU	LET	MAU	UST
Diliman Blue Dragons	UST	CEU	SSC	MAU	MAP	DLS	LET	TIP	FME	FEU	AMA
Eco Oil	LET	CEU	MAP	MAU	FME	AMA	DIL	SSC	FEU	TIP	UST
Seaoil	FME	SSC	TIP	LET	MAP	MAU	AMA	CEU	DLS	UST	DIL
FamilyMart–Enderun Titans	FEU	LET	UST	MAP	DLS	CEU	MAU	AMA	DIL	SSC	TIP
Wang's	DLS	FME	AMA	FEU	SSC	TIP	DIL	MAU	CEU	MAP	UST
Marinerong Pilipino Skippers	CEU	MAU	DLS	FME	FEU	DIL	UST	TIP	SSC	AMA	LET
ADG Dong	MAP	UST	DLS	DIL	FEU	TIP	FME	LET	AMA	CEU	SSC
Apex	AMA	FEU	DIL	TIP	LET	CEU	UST	DLS	MAP	FME	MAU
TIP Engineers	UST	AMA	FEU	SSC	CEU	LET	MAU	MAP	DIL	DLS	FME
Builders	TIP	DIL	MAU	FME	AMA	MAP	SSC	FEU	DLS	CEU	LET

Source:
  = Win;   = OT win;   = Loss;   = OT loss

Results

Teams	AMA	CEU	DIL	DLS	FEU	FME	LET	MAP	MAU	SSC	TIP	UST
AMA Online Education Titans	—	Mar 23	May 7	Apr 6	Apr 13	Apr 23	Mar 19	Apr 30	Apr 28	67–113	Mar 12	Mar 30
Karate Kid		—	Mar 16	73–79	Apr 21	Apr 16	Apr 27	57–93	May 4	Apr 7	Apr 2	May 7
Diliman Blue Dragons			—	Apr 13	May 4	Apr 28	Apr 20	Apr 6	Mar 30	Mar 23	Apr 23	93–106
Eco Oil				—	Apr 27	Apr 2	102–90	Mar 16	Mar 23	Apr 20	Apr 30	May 5
Seaoil					—	99–82	Mar 26	Mar 30	Apr 6	Mar 12	Mar 19	Apr 30
FamilyMart–Enderun Titans						—	Mar 12	Mar 26	Apr 20	May 4	May 7	Mar 19
Wang's							—	May 5	Apr 23	Apr 2	Apr 7	May 11
Marinerong Pilipino Skippers								—	83–69	Apr 27	Apr 21	Apr 13
ADG Dong									—	May 11	Apr 16	Mar 16
Apex										—	Mar 26	Apr 16
TIP Engineers											—	62–115
Builders												—

Updated to match(es) played on March 9, 2020. Source: PBA.ph
Legend: Blue = left column team win; Red = top row team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

Playoff bracket

	Quarterfinals #3 & #4 have twice-to-beat advantage						Semifinals Best-of-three series						Finals Best-of-three series
							1	-	-	*
							?	-	-	*
	4		-	*
	5		-	*
													?	-	-	*
													?	-	-	*
							2	-	-	*
							?	-	-	*
	3		-	*
	6		-	*

Quarterfinals

#3 vs #6

No. 3 seeded team has a twice-to-beat advantage.

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#4 vs #5

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Semifinals

This is a best-of-three playoff.

#1 vs W-4V5

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#2 vs W-3V6

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Finals

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