a developmental basketball league for collegiate and club teams
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Luzon-wide conferences for collegiate and club sides, run from the Marikina Sports Center, built on an inter-scholastic challenge for players ten and under that first tipped off in 2018.
Champions
Every title on the public record, with the final score and the award where the press reported one.
Open conference · Season 2
2023
Cocogen Ballout Hoops Founder's Cup
Source: The Manila Times, 1 Mar 2023; Dugout Philippines, 28 Feb 2023; Philstar, Jan to Feb 2023
Open conference · Season 1
2022
Ballout Hoops Luzon Challenge Open Tournament
Source: Philstar, Aug to Sep 2022; The Manila Times, 23 and 27 Aug 2022; Manila Standard, Aug 2022
Ten and under · Season 3
2019
Ballout Hoops Challenge
Source: Dugout Philippines, 10 Jul 2019; BusinessWorld, 27 Aug 2019; Claret School of Quezon City, 2019-20 roundup
Seasons
Two tracks, numbered the way the press numbered them: the open conferences for collegiate and club teams, and the Hoops Challenge for players ten and under.
Champion: Marikina Shoelanders · def. Xentro Mall Rizal, 84-73
Marikina Sports Center
Source: The Manila Times, 1 Mar 2023; Dugout Philippines, 28 Feb 2023; Philstar, Jan to Feb 2023
Champion: MPAMS-San Mateo · def. AMA University
University of Makati Gym
Source: Philstar, Aug to Sep 2022; The Manila Times, 23 and 27 Aug 2022; Manila Standard, Aug 2022
Champion: Claret School of Quezon City
Blue Eagle Gym, Ateneo de Manila University
Source: Dugout Philippines, 10 Jul 2019; BusinessWorld, 27 Aug 2019; Claret School of Quezon City, 2019-20 roundup
Source: Dugout Philippines, 10 Jul 2019
Source: Dugout Philippines, 10 Jul 2019
Format
Two divisions, NCR and provincial, play a single elimination round.
The top two of each division meet in a knockout division final.
The two division champions play one game for the conference title.
Collegiate and club teams; MPBL squads have used it as a preseason.
School-based teams only, grouped East, West, North, and South, each division under its own deputy commissioner.
Each division crowns a champion.
The four division champions play a single round for the Grand Champion.
Players ten and under, with Division Champion, Grand Champion, and perpetual trophies.
Cris BautistaFounder
Founder
Coached the Ateneo women's team in the UAAP and La Salle Greenhills in the NCAA, and headed the basketball program at Jubilee Christian Academy, before building leagues: the ten-and-under Hoops Challenge in 2018, the open Ballout conferences, the revived VisMin Super Cup, the Pilipinas Super League from 2023, and NAASCU basketball from 2025.
On recordPSL President's Cup 2024-2025, in cooperation with Ballout
“Napansin lang kasi namin yung 10-under kids, naiiwan.”
We noticed the ten-and-under kids were being left behind.
Front office
The names the press attached to Ballout, league side first, with the seasons they served.
Since 2018
Founder, president and chief executive officer
Former La Salle Greenhills and Ateneo Lady Blue Eagles coach who started the ten-and-under challenge in 2018 and grew it into the open conferences. Named president of the Pilipinas Super League in 2023.
Source: BusinessWorld, Aug 2019; Philstar, Feb 2023; PSL 2023-24
2022 to 2023
Commissioner, open conferences
Former commissioner of the UAAP, the Philippine Collegiate Champions League, and the Filoil Flying V preseason, and the national coach who led Allan Caidic and Jerry Codinera to the 1986 Asian Games bronze.
Source: Philstar, 6 Jan 2023; Dugout Philippines, 28 Feb 2023
From 2023
Head of basketball operations
Part of FEU's 1997 UAAP champion team, then three seasons with Barangay Ginebra from 2000 before Purefoods and Coca-Cola.
Source: Daily Tribune, 14 Jan 2023; Philstar, 6 Jan 2023
From 2023
Deputy for operations
Runs the floor alongside the head of operations.
Source: Philstar, 6 Jan 2023
2019
Commissioner and tournament director, Hoops Challenge
Barangay Ginebra guard, San Beda and Ateneo before that, who fronted the third season of the ten-and-under challenge at his alma mater's gym.
Source: Dugout Philippines, 10 Jul 2019
2019
Deputy commissioner, Hoops Challenge
One of the four division deputies of the 2019 season.
Source: Dugout Philippines, 10 Jul 2019
Teams
MPBL franchises, universities, a navy side, and club squads from Rizal, Cavite, Pampanga, and Camarines Norte.
2023
2022
Partners on record
Cocogen Insurance
Main presenter, Founder's Cup, 2023 · Daily Tribune, 14 Jan 2023
One4BF, MDC, KalosPh, Chachago, Motolite, Details Avenue, Snazzy, Mighty Sports Apparel, Mt. Fuji Restaurant, Disenyo Footwear
Supporters, Luzon Challenge, 2022 · Philstar, 22 Aug 2022
Next conference
To be announced by the leagueThe page has not posted a new conference since the Founder's Cup. Teams and partners who want in on the next one should message the page directly.
Teams
Collegiate and club sides, NCR or provincial.
Partners
Presenters and supporters for the next conference.
Schools
Ten-and-under squads for the Hoops Challenge.
Ballout HOOPS Challenge on Facebook is the league's only public channel on record.