The 2024 PBA Philippine Cup, also known as the 2024 Honda PBA Philippine Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the second and final conference of the 2023âÂÂ24 PBA season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The 45th PBA Philippine Cup started on February 28 and ended on June 16, 2024. The tournament does not allow teams to hire foreign players or imports.
The opening was originally scheduled on March 3, but was moved earlier to February 28 to give way for the Philippines men's national basketball team's participation in the FIBA Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament to be held on July 2âÂÂ7, 2024.
Format
- All participating teams play in a single round-robin elimination, with each team playing 11 games throughout the duration of the conference.
- Teams are ranked by win-loss records with the top eight teams advancing to the playoffs. Any ties are broken using tiebreaker criteria.
- If there is a tie for 8th place, a one-game playoff is instead used to determine which team gets the final playoff spot.
- The playoff formats are as follows:
- Quarterfinals:
- Twice-to-beat matches: 1st vs. 8th, 2nd vs. 7th
- Best-of-three matches: 3rd vs. 6th, 4th vs. 5th
- Semifinals (best-of-seven series):
- Matches: 1st/8th vs. 4th/5th; 2nd/7th vs. 3rd/6th
- Finals (best-of-seven series)
Elimination round
Team standings
Results table
Eighth seed playoff
Bracket
Quarterfinals
(1) San Miguel vs. (8) Terrafirma
San Miguel has the twice-to-beat advantage; they have to be beaten twice, while their opponents just once, to advance.
(2) Barangay Ginebra vs. (7) Magnolia
Barangay Ginebra has the twice-to-beat advantage; they have to be beaten twice, while their opponents just once, to advance.
(3) Meralco vs. (6) NLEX
This is a best-of-three playoff.
(4) TNT vs. (5) Rain or Shine
This is a best-of-three playoff.
Semifinals
(1) San Miguel vs. (5) Rain or Shine
(2) Barangay Ginebra vs. (3) Meralco
Finals
Awards
Players of the Week
Statistics
Individual statistical leaders
Individual game highs
Team statistical leaders
Final rankings
References