To somehow help us determine the nation’s best, the Philippine Collegiate Champions League (PCCL) was established. PCCL was known as Collegiate Champions League (CCL) in the past before the Samahang Basketball ng Pilipinas, the country’s national basketball federation rebooted the grandest basketball tournament in the country.

PCCL aims to crown the champion of champions. The ultimate survivor, the best collegiate basketball team in the Pearl of the Orient Seas.

This year’s champions league, UAAP Champion Ateneo de Manila University Blue Eagles edged the Colegio de San Juan de Letran Knights while UAAP runner-up De la Salle University’s Green Archers trumped the NCAA Champion San Beda Red Lions to set a UAAP-like finals where the DLSU Green Archers had exacted their revenge on the AdMU Blue Eagles.

The Green Archers ended the search for the national collegiate champion. They showed that they deserve it more than the other 35 teams, including their greatest rival, Ateneo.

PCCL also arguably set UAAP as the premiere collegiate league in the Philippines. For the pas six (6) years of its existence, the Collegiate Champions League Champion of Champions came from the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. FEU along with UE, has two (2), Ateneo bagged one last year and La Salle got it this year.

The NCAA has set its plan of expansion. Division II, as it will be called, will be composed of newly admitted schools. The league has already visited and issued invitations to schools such as Arellano University, Emilio Aguinaldo College and the Lyceum of the Philippines University.

With the graceful exit in the League of Philippine Christian University next season, the Association will go down to seven schools. It would mean, less games, less competition and may also mean less excitement.

For years, the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) arguably surpassed the NCAA in terms of crowd, fans, supporters, and.. drama.

Yes, the NCAA is the talk of the town lately. Thanks to the four way tie in the Basketball Tournament. But it will not last.

Fret not.

If Arellano University, Emilio Aguinaldo College and the Lyceum of the Philippines University would ever be allowed to join the league to make it a ten (10) school league, it will bring back glory to the league.

Centro Escolar University, Angeles University Foundation, Don Bosco-Makati, Technological Institute of the Philippines and Lyceum University are also looking forward in joining the NCAA.