| Filoil EcoOil Preseason Cup | |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Other Titles: | 17th Filoil EcoOil ECJ Preseason Cup |
| Country: |  Philippines |
| City: | San Juan |
| Num Teams: | 18 |
| Dates: | May 11 – June 12, 2024 |
| Venues: | Filoil EcoOil Centre |
| Count: | 2 |
| Prev Season: | 2023 (16th) |
| Next Season: | 2025 (18th) |
The 2024 Filoil EcoOil Preseason Cup, officially referred to as the 17th Filoil EcoOil ECJ Preseason Cup, was the seventeenth edition of the collegiate basketball tournament organized by Filoil EcoOil Sports. The tournament began on May 11, 2024 and is contested by all 18 teams from the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).[1] [2] [3] The tournament concluded on June 12, 2024. All games are held at the Filoil EcoOil Centre in San Juan.
On May 10, 2024, Filoil EcoOil Sports announced that the 17th Preseason Cup would be named after late sports patron Eduardo Cojuangco Jr.. The trophy in which the eventual champions will receive is also renamed as the ECJ Cup.[4]
The UP Fighting Maroons enter this tournament as the defending Preseason Cup champions.[5] UP would then go on in successfully defend their title in the championship game after defeating the De La Salle Green Archers in a 69–66 come-from-behind win.
In the elimination round, the teams are grouped by association. From there, the teams play in a single round-robin tournament. UAAP teams will play seven games while NCAA teams play nine. Teams are ranked by win-loss records with the top four teams from each association group advancing to the playoffs.
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won in regulation | Lost in regulation | |||
| Won in overtime | Lost in overtime | |||
| (*) Number of asterisks denotes number of overtime periods | ||||
| Team | Game | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||
| UE 57–65 | FEU 67–77 | DLSU 72–80 | ADMU 61–59 | NU 57–53 | UP 46–68 | UST 54–58 < | -- Ateneo --> | |
| AdU 59–61 | UST 52–63 | NU 64–66 | FEU 46–65 | UP 75–82 | DLSU 61–98 | UE 62–74 < | -- De La Salle --> | |
| UP 77–89 | UST 68–61 | AdU 80–72 | UE 77–74 | ADMU 98–61 | FEU 81–76 | NU 52–81 < | -- Far Eastern --> | |
| AdU 77–67 | UE 80–76 | UP 84–95 | ADMU 65–46 | NU 59–91 | DLSU 76–81 | UST 79–72 < | -- National --> | |
| UE 64–72 | UST 75–76 | UP 63–73 | ADMU 66–64 | AdU 53–57 | FEU 91–59 | DLSU 81–52 < | -- University of the East --> | |
| AdU 65–57 | FEU 76–80 | NU 72–64 | UP 60–71 | DLSU 74–77 | UST 66–60 | ADMU 74–62 < | -- University of the Philippines --> | |
| DLSU 89–77 | UST 76–73 | UE 71–60 | NU 73–63 | FEU 95–84 | ADMU 82–75 | AdU 68–46 < | -- University of Santo Tomas --> | |
| DLSU 61–68 | UP 73–76 | NU 76–75 | ADMU 63–52 | UE 60–66 | AdU 58–54 | FEU 72–79 | ||
| Source: Schedule | ||||||||
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won in regulation | Lost in regulation | |||
| Won in overtime | Lost in overtime | |||
| (*) Number of asterisks denotes number of overtime periods | ||||
| Team | Game | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||
| JRU 80–79 | SSC–R 105–95 | EAC 77–80 | UPHSD 68–65 | CSJL 75–80 | CSB 58–72 | LPU 82–88 | MU 71–79 | SBU 70–73 < | -- Letran --> | |
| SBU 69–76 | UPHSD 69–77 | CSB 80–71 | LPU 91–86 | AU 80–75 | JRU 68–66 | SSC–R 81–79 | MU 96–92 | EAC 84–81 < | -- Benilde --> | |
| CSJL 71–80 | MU 72–59 | SSC–R 86–64 | JRU 86–80 | AU 72–58 | SBU 71–69 | LPU 95–89 | UPHSD 77–72 | EAC 70-75 < | -- Emilio Aguinaldo --> | |
| SBU 76–67 | UPHSD 60–49 | AU 80–77 | JRU 66–73 | LPU 93–81 | MU 71–75 | SSC–R 86–94 | CSJL 81–84 | CSB 75–70 < | -- José Rizal --> | |
| UPHSD 89–91 | AU 79–80 | EAC 73–66 | CSB 80–86 | CSJL 66–68 | MU 89–93 | SBU 62–75 | SSC–R 95–87 | LPU 70–74 < | -- Lyceum --> | |
| MU 67–75 | SBU 66–76 | SSC–R 94–89 | CSJL 86–91 | EAC 81–93 | UPHSD 72–76 | AU 88–82 | CSB 89–95 | JRU 74–70 < | -- Mapúa --> | |
| LPU 75–67 | UPHSD 67–76 | CSB 59–72 | SBU 67–64 | SSC–R 79–80 | EAC 75–71 | JRU 93–89 | CSJL 92–96 | AU 79–71 < | -- San Beda --> | |
| CSJL 76–69 | LPU 76–66 | EAC 67–76 | MU 64–67 | UPHSD 75–44 | SSC–R 77–64 | CSB 69–71 | JRU 75–62 | AU 73–70 < | -- San Sebastian --> | |
| LPU 89–94 | AU 95–105 | CSB 64–86 | MU 80–79 | SBU 64–77 | CSJL 79–81 | EAC 94–86 | UPHSD 78–71 | JRU 87–95 < | -- Perpetual --> | |
| JRU 91–89 | CSJL 77–69 | MU 76–67 | EAC 49–60 | AU 65–68 | SBU 44–75 | LPU 76–72 | SSC–R 71–78 | CSB 72–77 | ||
| Source: Schedule | ||||||||||
The single-elimination playoffs will begin on June 8, 2024 with the crossover quarterfinals, where the first-seeded teams play the fourth-seeded team from the opposing association group, same goes for the second-seeded and third-seeded teams.
This year's championship game was a rematch of last year's championship game, where the UP Fighting Maroons beat the De La Salle Green Archers, 87–76. It was also a rematch of the UAAP Season 86 men's basketball finals, where La Salle beat UP in a three-game series.
UP would come back from a 20-point deficit at the half to defend their title and become the second back-to-back Preseason Cup champions. Coincidentally, the only other team to do so was La Salle in the first two editions of the tournament (2006 and 2007).