UAAP Season 67 men's basketball tournament
| Host school | De La Salle University | |||||||||||||||
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| Duration | September 23 to 30 | |||||||||||||||
| Arena(s) | Araneta Coliseum | |||||||||||||||
| Finals MVP | Mark Cardona | |||||||||||||||
| Winning coach | Franz Pumaren | |||||||||||||||
| Semifinalists |
 Ateneo Blue Eagles UE Red Warriors
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| TV network(s) | Studio 23 and TFC | |||||||||||||||
| Qualified for semifinals with twice to beat advantage | |
| Qualified for semifinals |
The UAAP Season 67 men's basketball tournament refers to the men's basketball tournament of UAAP Season 67 (2004–05 season) of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). The tournament was hosted by De La Salle University. ABS-CBN covered the games on Studio 23.
Defending champions FEU Tamaraws finished first after the elimination round clinching the twice-to-beat advantage; a game behind was last season's finalist Ateneo Blue Eagles and archrival De La Salle Green Archers, and a further two games behind are the UE Red Warriors. La Salle defeated Ateneo on the playoff for the second seed, hence clinching the twice-to-beat advantage. In the semifinals, both top seeded teams eliminated their opponents. The heavily favored Tamaraws were dealt with a shock loss by La Salle in the first game of the finals, but they rebounded on the second game to extend the series into a deciding third game. In a game that had plenty of lead changes in the final two minutes, La Salle's JV Casio converted a three-point shot to put La Salle up for good to win the championship. Mark Cardona was named finals Most Valuable Player (MVP).
FEU's Arwind Santos was named the season MVP, and Marcy Arellano was awarded the Rookie of the Year honors.
La Salle would return the 2004 championship and the 2005 runner-up trophies in 2005 after it was revealed that two of their players used spurious records to enroll at the school; since the players are not eligible to be college students, they were ineligible to play as varsity players. The league later suspended all of La Salle's teams in both divisions for the 2006 season, forfeited all of La Salle's wins from 2003 to 2005, and gave the 2004 championship trophy to FEU, the defeated finalists. This gave FEU three consecutive championships from 2003 to 2005. La Salle's varsity teams would return for the 2007–08 season.
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