# 2012 PBA D-League Aspirants' Cup

The 2012 PBA D-League Aspirant's Cup is the first of the two conferences of the 2012-13 PBA Developmental League season. There are three new teams participating the league: JRU Heavy Bombers, Fruitas Shakers and Informatics Icons.

## Format

The following format will be observed for the duration of the tournament:
* Single-round robin eliminations; 10 games per team; Teams are then seeded by basis on win–loss records. In case of tie, playoffs will be held only for the #2 and #6 seeds.
* The top two teams after the elimination round will automatically advance to the semifinals.
* Quarterfinals:
** QF1: #3 team vs. #6 team (#3 seed twice-to-beat)
** QF2: #4 team vs. #5 team (#4 seed twice-to-beat)
* The winners of the quarterfinals will challenge the top two teams in a best-of-three semifinals series. Matchups are:
** SF1: #1 vs. QF2
** SF2: #2 vs. QF1
* The winners in the semifinals advance to the best of three Finals.

## Team standings

| Team | Wins | Losses | PCT | GB | PD |
| NLEX Road Warriors | 9 | 1 | 0.900 | -- | |
| Black Water Sports | 8 | 2 | 0.800 | 1.0 | |
| Cagayan Rising Suns | 6 | 4 | 0.600 | 3.0 | +18 |
| Big Chill Super Chargers | 6 | 4 | 0.600 | 3.0 | −18 |
| JRU Heavy Bombers | 5 | 5 | 0.500 | 4.0 | +32 |
| Cebuana Lhuillier Gems | 5 | 5 | 0.500 | 4.0 | +3 |
| Fruitas Shakers | 5 | 5 | 0.500 | 4.0 | −35 |
| Boracay Rum Waves | 4 | 6 | 0.400 | 5.0 | +4 |
| Café France Bakers | 4 | 6 | 0.400 | 5.0 | −4 |
| Erase XFoliant Erasers | 2 | 8 | 0.200 | 7.0 | |
| Informatics Icons | 1 | 9 | 0.100 | 8.0 | |

### Schedule

| Team ╲ Game | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Big Chill | JRU | BWS | CLG | BRW | NRW | FRU | EXF | CRS | INF | CFB |
| Black Water | BCSC | BRW | FRU | JRU | INF | NRW | CFB | CLG | CRS | EXF |
| Boracay Rhum | CLG | CRS | NRW | BWS | BCSC | JRU | INF | EXF | CFB | FRU |
| Café France | FRU^ | CRS | EXF | CLG | INF | NRW | BWS | JRU | BRW | BCSC |
| Cagayan | INF | BRW | EXF | CFB | CLG | NRW | JRU | BCSC | FRU | BWS |
| Cebuana Lhuillier | BRW | FRU | BCSC | CFB | CRS | EXF | NRW | BWS | INF | JRU |
| Erase XFoliant | NRW | CRS | INF | CFB | FRU | CLG | BCSC | BRW | JRU | BWS |
| Fruitas | CFB^ | CLG | BWS | NRW | EXF | BCSC | INF | JRU | CRS | BRW |
| Informatics | CRS | EXF | NRW | JRU | CFB | BWS | BRW | FRU | BCSC | CLG |
| JRU | BCSC | NRW | INF | BWS | BRW | CRS | CFB | FRU | EXF | CLG |
| NLEX | EXF | BRW | JRU | INF | FRU | BCSC | CRS | CFB | BWS | CLG |
$^^$ Fruitas eventually won the game, 88-82 but their win was forfeited because of fielding an ineligible player that gave the win to the Bakers.

### Results

| Team | BCSC | BWS | BRW | CFB | CRS | CLG | EXF | FRU | INF | JRU |
| Big Chill | | 74–63 | 68–59 | 76–69 | 59–77 | 81–61 | 88–68 | 81–88 | 87–94 | 77–76 |
| Black Water | | | 84–60 | 81–60 | 93–70 | 91–80 | 82–76 | 69–64 | 67–64 | 88–83 |
| Boracay Rhum | | | | 62–58 | 79–88 | 76–86 | 82–61 | 61–73 | 74–66 | 63–53 |
| Cafe France | | | | | 70–85 | 68–76 | 73–58 | 82–88 | 78–66 | 62–66 |
| Cagayan | | | | | | 86–82 | 78–91 | 107–75 | 89–85 | 100–103* |
| Cebuana Lhuillier | | | | | | | 92–74 | 90–91 | 112–94 | 77–73 |
| Erase XFoliant | | | | | | | | 73–78 | 79–68 | 61–74 |
| Fruitas | | | | | | | | | 85–74 | 64–100 |
| Informatics | | | | | | | | | | 74–86 |
| JRU | | | | | | | | | | |
| NLEX | 91–67 | 70–68 | 88–73 | 52–66 | 84–75 | 89–76 | 101–71 | 92–73 | 88–81 | 91–87 |

## Bracket

| Quarterfinals (#3 & #4 seed twice-to-beat) | Quarterfinals (#3 & #4 seed twice-to-beat) | Quarterfinals (#3 & #4 seed twice-to-beat) | Semifinals (Best-of-3) | Semifinals (Best-of-3) | Semifinals (Best-of-3) | Finals (Best-of-3) | Finals (Best-of-3) | Finals (Best-of-3) |
| | | | 1 | NLEX | 2 | | | |
| 4 | Big Chill | 0+1 | 5 | JRU | 1 | | | |
| 5 | JRU | 2 | | | | 1 | NLEX | 2 |
| | | | | | | 3 | Cagayan | 0 |
| | | | 2 | Black Water | 1 | | | |
| 3 | Cagayan | 1+1 | 3 | Cagayan | 2 | | | |
| 6 | Cebuana Lhuillier | 1 | | | | | | |

## Quarterfinals
### Cagayan vs. Cebuana Lhuillier

* February 5
* San Juan Arena, San Juan City
* February 7
Cagayan Rising Suns 88, Cebuana Lhuillier Gems 73 :
* Cagayan wins series in two games ||
* Ynares Sports Arena, Pasig

### Big Chill vs. JRU

* February 5
* San Juan Arena, San Juan City
* February 7
Big Chill Super Chargers 71,  JRU Heavy Bombers 80 :
* JRU wins series in two games ||
* Ynares Sports Arena, Pasig

## Semifinals
### NLEX-JRU series

* February 12
* Ynares Sports Arena, Pasig
* February 14
* Ynares Sports Arena, Pasig
* February 19
NLEX Road Warriors 87, JRU Heavy Bombers 85 :
* NLEX wins series, 2–1 ||
* San Juan Arena, San Juan City

### Black Water-Cagayan series

* February 12
* Ynares Sports Arena, Pasig
* February 14
* Ynares Sports Arena, Pasig
* February 19
Black Water Sports 68, Cagayan Rising Suns 80 :
* Cagayan wins series, 2–1 ||
* San Juan Arena, San Juan City

## Finals

* February 21
* Blue Eagle Gym, Quezon City
* February 26
NLEX Road Warriors 82, Cagayan Rising Suns 71 :
* NLEX wins series, 2-0 ||
* San Juan Arena, San Juan City