2016 PBA D-League Foundation Cup

The 2016 PBA-D-League Foundation Cup is the second conference of the 2015-16 PBA Developmental League season. Seven (7) teams including new team Blustar Detergent Dragons composed of the Westports Malaysia Dragons players will be compete in the two-month conference that will start on June 2, 2016 at the Ynares Sports Arena, Pasig City.^[1] The games will be aired on AksyonTV, Hyper and Sports5.ph.

Teams

Format

Conference format as it follows:^[3][4]

• All seven teams will play in a double round-robin elimination phase.
• Top 4 teams of the elimination round will advanced in the semifinals round.
• In case of ties in the elimination round standings, it will be broken via the quotient system.
• Top 2 teams will get a twice-to-beat semifinals incentives.
• The two teams who won the semifinals matches will battle in a best-of-3 finals series.

Eliminations

Eliminations matches will be held at the Ynares Sports Arena, Pasig and the JCSGO Gym, Quezon City. The league also had a out-of-town game held on June 23, 2016 at the Strike Gym, Bacoor, Cavite.^[5]

Standings

These are the team standings at the end of the elimination round:

Team	Win	Loss	PCT	Qualification
Racal Tile Masters	10	2	.875	Twice-to-beat advantage in the semifinals
Phoenix Petroleum Accelerators-FEU	9	3	.750
Cafefrance Bakers-CEU	9	3	.750	Twice-to-beat disadvantage in the semifinals
Tanduay Rhum Masters	8	4	.667
AMA Online Education Titans	4	8	.333	Eliminated
Blustar Detergent Dragons	2	10	.167
Topstar Z.C. Mindanao Aguilas	0	12	.000

Schedule

Teams	Round 1						Round 2
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
AMA	TAN	RCL	PNX	CFE	BLU	PNX	TSR	BLU	CFE
Blustar Detergent	TAN	CFE	PNX	RCL	TSR	AMA	TAN	CFE	RCL	AMA	BLU
Café France-CEU	TSR	RCL	BLU	TAN	AMA	RCL	BLU	PNX	TAN	AMA
Phoenix-FEU	TAN	TSR	AMA	BLU	TSR	RCL	TAN	AMA	CFE	RCL
Racal	AMA	CFE	TSR	BLU	TAN	CFE	PNX	TSR	BLU	PNX	TAN
Tanduay	AMA	PNX	BLU	CFE	RCL	BLU	TSR	PNX	TSR	CFE	RCL
Topstar Z.C. Mindanao	CFE	PNX	RCL	BLU	PNX	TAN	RCL	TAN	AMA	BLU

  Win
  OT Win
  Loss
  OT Loss

Results

Team	AMA	Blustar Detergent	Café France-CEU	Phoenix-FEU	Racal	Tanduay	Topstar Z.C. Mindanao
AMA		81–78	86–70	89–97	67–100	66–72	109–84
Blustar Detergent	84–113		83–98	94–97	60–122	71–94	89–75
Café France-CEU	92–86	90–61		96–93	83–79	80–84	89–64
Phoenix-FEU	109–70				78-93	98–79	108–78
Racal		90–83	72–78	90–88		96–90	102–83
Tanduay		105–102	75–74	95–108	81–90		84–81
Topstar Z.C. Mindanao		93–98		77–126	65–124	78–133

  Win
  OT Win
  Loss
  OT Loss

Playoffs

	Semifinals #1 & #2 have twice-to-beat advantage						Finals (Best-of-three series)
	1	Racal Tile Masters	86	70
	4	Tanduay Rhum Masters	88	81
							4	Tanduay Rhum Masters	76	89	78
							2	Phoenix-FEU Accelerators	84	75	87
	2	Phoenix-FEU	68	89
	3	Cafefrance-CEU	78	78

Semifinals

Racal vs. Tanduay series

AksyonTV

August 11 4:00 pm

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Tanduay Rhum Masters 88, Racal Tile Masters 86
Scoring by quarter: 22-22, 33-21, 17-20, 16-23
Pts: Alolino 26 Rebs: Celda 8 Asts: Celda 6		Pts: Grey 21 Rebs: Grey 6 Asts: Grey 4

Strike Gym, Bacoor, Cavite

AksyonTV

August 15 7:00 pm

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Racal Tile Masters 70, Tanduay Rhum Masters 81
Scoring by quarter: 13-15, 25-16, 16-28, 16-32
Pts: Ortuoste 16		Pts: Celda 21 Rebs: Celda 8 Asts: Alolino, Celda 4 each
Tanduay wins series, 2-0

Strike Gym, Bacoor, Cavite

Phoenix vs. Cafefrance series

AksyonTV

August 10 6:00 pm

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Phoenix-FEU Accelerators 68, Cafefrance-CEU Bakers 78
Scoring by quarter: 16-12, 18-17, 18-26, 16-23
Pts: Belo 23 Rebs: Belo 11 Asts: Tolomia 3 Steals: Tolomia 2		Pts: Ebondo 19 Rebs: Ebondo 18 Blks: Ebondo 2

Strike Gym, Bacoor, Cavite

AksyonTV

August 16

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Cafefrance-CEU Bakers 78, Phoenix-FEU Accelerators 89
Pts: Ebondo 25 Rebs: Ebondo 19		Pts: Tolomia 31 Rebs: Belo 14 Asts: Tolomia 4
Phoenix wins series in two games

Strike Gym, Bacoor, Cavite

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