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UNTV Cup Season 4 | |
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League | UNTV Cup |
Season | 2015–16 |
Duration | August 24, 2015 – March 14, 2016 |
Games played | 56 |
Teams | 12 |
TV partner(s) | UNTV |
Elimination round | |
Top seed | AFP Cavaliers |
Season MVP | Antonio Lustestica, Jr. (NHA Home Masters) |
Finals | |
Champions | AFP Cavaliers |
Runners-up | PNP Responders |
Semifinalists | MMDA Blackwolves (Third placers) NHA Home Masters |
Finals MVP | Boyet Bautista (AFP Cavaliers) |
Awards | |
Scoring Champion | Antonio Lustestica, Jr. (NHA Home Masters) |
Most Improved Player | Samuel Ignacio (Malacañang Patriots) |
Records | |
Highest scoring | AFP Cavaliers 111–98 HOR Solons |
The UNTV Cup Season 4 was the 2015–2016 season of the public service-based basketball league, the UNTV Cup, based in the Philippines. It was opened on August 24, 2015 at the SM Mall of Asia Arena, Pasay, as part of the activities for the 11th anniversary of UNTV Life.[1][2] Its final games was ended on March 14, 2016 at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City.
BMPI-UNTV chairman and CEO, and league founder Daniel Razon, together with the Vice President for Operations Gerry Panghulan and UNTV cup commissioner Fortunato "Atoy" Co, led the opening ceremonies, together with government officials including Sen. Sonny Angara, Sen. Bam Aquino, Pasig Rep. Roman Romulo and Court Administrator Midas Marquez, followed by the drawing of lots to determine the first teams to compete in the first game.
In the finals, the AFP Cavaliers and the PNP Responders competed in a best-of-three championship series, of which the AFP crowns as the champion. AFP Cavaliers has received 4 million pesos prize (3.5 million pesos for beneficiaries and 500 thousand pesos for the champion team),[3] while the second-placer, PNP Responders has received a 4 million pesos prize. wherein 3.5 million will go to their chosen beneficiary, the AFP Educational Benefit System Office. Ten other teams will also receive cash grants for their donors and the team at the end of the season.