2010 UST Growling Tigers basketball team

The 2010 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team represented University of Santo Tomas in the 73rd season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. The men's basketball tournament for the school year 2010-11 began on July 10, 2010 and the host school for the season was De La Salle University.[1]

2010 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball
Record
Elims rank #7
Final rank#7
2010 record4–10
Head coachPido Jarencio (5th season)
Assistant coachesSenen Dueñas
Emmanuel Calipes
CaptainAC Marquez (3rd season)
Seasons
← 2009
2011 →

UST finished seventh at the end of the double round-robin eliminations. They won four games against ten losses, giving head coach Pido Jarencio his worst win–loss record in the UAAP.[2]

They had an average winning margin of 3.0 points and an average losing margin of 7.7 points.

Two of their games went into overtime. The first was an 87–81 win over the UP Fighting Maroons in the first round, and the other was a 76–81 double-overtime loss to the Adamson Falcons in the second round.[3]

The Tigers tied Adamson's 2008 record of most three-point shots made in a game which they did twice, both in the first round. They made 16 three-point shots in their overtime win against UP and then repeated the feat against Adamson for a 55.2 field goal percentage.[4]

Roster

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UST Growling Tigers roster
Players Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Height Year High School
SF 5   Kim Kaizen Lo 6'1" (1.85m) 1st St. Jude Catholic School
PG 6   Edcor Marata 5'10" (1.78m) 1st University of the Visayas
PG 7   Jeric Marco Fortuna 5'7" (1.7m) 3rd De La Salle Santiago Zobel School
PF 8   Carmelo Afuang 6'4" (1.93m) 3rd San Beda College–Rizal
SG 9   Clark Daniel Oliver Bautista 5'9" (1.75m) 3rd Benedictine International School
SF 10   Aljon Mariano 6'3" (1.91m) 2nd San Beda College–Rizal
PF 11   Andre Charles Marquez (C) 6'3" (1.91m) 3rd La Salle Greenhills
PF 12   Christopher Camus 6'4" (1.93m) 4th Sunny Hills High School
C 13   Paulo Lorenzo Pe 6'4" (1.93m) 1st Ateneo de Manila
C 14   Vincent Roberto Tinte 6'7" (2.01m) 1st Urdaneta City National High School
SG 16   Jeric Allen Teng 6'2" (1.88m) 2nd Xavier School
SG 17   Fritz Harmon Delgado 6'0" (1.83m) 1st San Sebastian College-Recoletos
SF 18   Eduardo Daquioag, Jr. 6'1" (1.85m) 1st RTU Laboratory High School
SG 19   Eduardo Aytona, Jr. 5'10" (1.78m) 2nd University of Santo Tomas
C 20   Kenneth Mamaril 6'5" (1.96m) 1st San Sebastian College-Recoletos
PG 21   Jackson Wong 5'10" (1.78m) 2nd Philippine Academy of Sakya-Manila
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
  • Senen Dueñas
  • Emmanuel Calipes
  • Ma. Genevieve Francisco
  • Rodil Sablan
Strength & conditioning coach(es)
  • Yi Ming Liu
Team manager
  • Clarence Aytona
  • Timmy Chong
  • Rudy Yu

Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  •   Injured

Depth chart

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Pos. Starting 5 Bench 1 Bench 2
C Pe Mamaril Tinte
PF Camus Afuang Marquez
SF Mariano Daquioag Lo
SG Teng Bautista Marata
PG Fortuna Aytona Wong

Roster changes

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The Growling Tigers have lost Season 72 MVP and scoring leader Dylan Ababou as well as Khasim Mirza and Allein Maliksi to graduation, while Tiger Cubs and incoming college freshmen Kyle Neypes and Cedric Labing-isa, both of whom were shoo-ins to the UST Senior team decided to join the rival NU Bulldogs.[5]

This year's roster includes Season 72 Rookie of the Year Jeric Teng, three-point specialists Jeric Fortuna and Tata Bautista, and big man Chris Camus among a handful of veterans. Nearly half of the roster are rookies with Ilocos Norte standout Ed Daquioag who was a former high school teammate of Bautista and Cebuano guard Pipoy Marata, who was named NBTC's Most Outstanding Player leading the pack.[6]

Subtractions

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Pos. No. Nat. Player Height Year High school Notes
C 5   Darell John Green 6' 3" 2nd Colegio de San Juan de Letran Academic deficiencies
SF 6   Dylan Simon Ababou 6' 3" 5th Siena College of Quezon City Graduated
SF 13   Hadi Rushdy 6' 2" 2nd Colegio San Agustin – Makati Academic deficiencies
SF 14   Khasim Ali Mirza 6' 4" 5th La Salle College Antipolo Graduated
SG 17   Aljohn Gil Ungria 6' 1" 2nd Colegio de San Lorenzo Relegated to Team B
PF 18   Allein Gail Maliksi 6' 4" 4th Camarin High School Graduated
SG 20   Andrew Joseph Felix 5' 11" 2nd PAREF Southridge School Academic deficiencies
SF 21   Marco Martin Cam 6' 0" 2nd San Sebastian College-Recoletos Transferred to College of Saint Benilde

Additions

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Pos. No. Nat. Player Height Year High school Notes
SF 5   Kim Kaizen Lo 6' 1" 1st St. Jude Catholic School Rookie
PG 6   Edcor Marata 5' 10" 1st University of the Visayas Rookie
C 13   Paulo Lorenzo Pe 6' 4" 1st Ateneo de Manila Rookie
C 14   Vincent Roberto Tinte 6' 7" 1st Urdaneta City National High School Transferred from Far Eastern University
SG 17   Fritz Harmon Delgado 6' 0" 1st San Sebastian College-Recoletos Rookie
SF 18   Eduardo Daquioag, Jr. 6' 1" 1st RTU Laboratory High School Rookie
C 20   Kenneth Mamaril 6' 5" 1st San Sebastian College-Recoletos Promoted from Team B
PG 21   Jackson Wong 5' 10" 2nd Philippine Academy of Sakya-Manila Returning from Season 71

Schedule and results

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Preseason tournaments

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In October 2009, speculations that head coach Pido Jarencio had been fired began to surface. This was related to the past unsuccessful seasons that followed their 2006 championship. Manila Bulletin had written an article about it on October 5, but the school's Institute of Physical Education and Athletics officials, namely Director Fr. Ermito de Sagon and Assistant Director Mrs. Felicitas Francisco were quick to dismiss them as rumors. Jarencio's live contract will expire in March 2010 and from then officials will make an assessment of his tenure. The coach himself dismissed the rumor during an interview in July. He had confirmed receiving offers from the NU Bulldogs, but also said that he "never thought of leaving UST unless they didn't want him there anymore."[7][8]

Jarencio's contract was extended to December 2010.

According to Jarencio, "UST did not join the major preseason games for fear that it would affect the morale of the players." Another reason for skipping the summer tournaments, was the problems that they encountered in recruiting players. UST Tiger Cubs standouts Neypes and Labing-isa have decided to play for National University after graduation and are currently undergoing residency. Neypes was actually included in the Bulldogs' roster when they competed in the 2010 Filoil Preseason Cup.[9]


Preseason game log
2010 Millennium Basketball League–Open Basketball championship: 1–4
Game Date • Time Opponent Result Record High points High rebounds High assists Location
1 Apr 9 Foscon Ship Management L 80–83 0–1 Teng (18) Lyceum Gym
Manila
2 Apr 17 Lyceum Pirates W 88–85 1–1 Fortuna (20) Lyceum Gym
Manila
3 Apr 22 Forward Taguig L 83–92 1–2 Bautista (39) Lyceum Gym
Manila
4 May 20 MLQU Stallions L 96–98 1–3 Teng (23) Tiger City Gym
Mandaluyong
5 May 26 Foscon Ship Management L 65–75 1–4 Fortuna (24) Aquinas Gym
San Juan
(#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.
All times are in UTC+08:00.

UAAP games

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Elimination games were played in a double round-robin format and all of UST's games were aired on Studio 23 and Balls.

UAAP Season 73 game log
Elimination round: 4–10
Game Date • Time Opponent Result Record High points High rebounds High assists Location
1 Jul 10 • 4:00 pm UE Red Warriors W 80–67 1–0 Teng (15) Camus (15) Fortuna (4) Araneta Coliseum
Quezon City
2 Jul 18 • 2:00 pm Ateneo Blue Eagles L 56–68 1–1 Bautista (11) Camus (10) Fortuna (3) PhilSports Arena
Pasig
3 Jul 22 • 2:00 pm UP Fighting Maroons W 87–81OT 2–1 Fortuna (29) Tied (6) Daquioag (4) Araneta Coliseum
Quezon City
4 Jul 25 • 4:00 pm Adamson Soaring Falcons L 71–75 2–2 Teng (23) Camus (12) Tied (6) PhilSports Arena
Pasig
5 Jul 29 • 4:00 pm NU Bulldogs W 59–58 3–2 Afuang (15) Camus (7) Fortuna (9) Araneta Coliseum
Quezon City
6 Aug 1 • 4:00 pm De La Salle Green Archers L 53–61 3–3 Bautista (18) Fortuna (7) Tied (5) PhilSports Arena
Pasig
7 Aug 7 • 4:00 pm FEU Tamaraws
End of R1 of eliminations
L 57–65 3–4 Camus (16) Camus (14) Fortuna (7) The Arena
San Juan
8 Aug 12 • 2:00 pm UE Red Warriors L 65–75 3–5 Fortuna (14) Afuang (11) Bautista (3) Araneta Coliseum
Quezon City
9 Aug 15 • 4:00 pm Adamson Soaring Falcons L 76–812OT 3–6 Camus (17) Camus (14) Tied (2) PhilSports Arena
Pasig
10 Aug 21 • 4:00 pm FEU Tamaraws L 67–76 3–7 Fortuna (12) Afuang (9) Fortuna (7) PhilSports Arena
Pasig
11 Aug 28 • 2:00 pm UP Fighting Maroons W 68–66 4–7 Teng (17) Afuang (8) Fortuna (4) Araneta Coliseum
Quezon City
12 Sep 2 • 4:00 pm De La Salle Green Archers L 69–78 4–8 Afuang (19) Camus (9) Fortuna (5) Araneta Coliseum
Quezon City
13 Sep 5 • 4:00 pm Ateneo Blue Eagles L 77–81 4–9 Teng (23) Afuang (9) Fortuna (8) Araneta Coliseum
Quezon City
14 Sep 9 • 2:00 pm NU Bulldogs
End of R2 of eliminations
L 54–62 4–10 Teng (20) Pe (9) Tied (3) Araneta Coliseum
Quezon City
(#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.
All times are in UTC+08:00.
Source: inboundPASS

UAAP statistics

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Player GP GS MPG FGM FGA FG% 3PM 3PA 3P% FTM FTA FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TOV PPG
Jeric Teng 14 29.4 63 173 36.4 26 77 33.8 29 42 69.0 4.3 1.9 0.8 0.1 2.7 12.9
Tata Bautista 14 21.1 47 131 35.9 40 111 36.0 22 30 73.3 1.3 1.2 0.6 0.1 1.3 11.1
Jeric Fortuna 14 33.2 55 157 35.0 22 66 33.3 13 18 72.2 3.6 4.7 1.1 0.1 3.1 10.4
Chris Camus 14 31.7 56 141 39.7 4 18 22.2 14 33 42.4 8.9 1.6 1.1 0.7 1.9 9.3
Melo Afuang 14 24.9 47 102 46.1 1 7 14.3 22 31 71.0 6.4 0.8 0.6 0.4 2.1 8.4
Aljon Mariano 14 19.4 42 87 48.3 14 28 50.0 10 19 52.6 3.0 0.9 0.2 0.4 1.9 7.7
Paolo Pe 14 21.1 21 51 41.2 0 1 0.0 5 15 33.3 3.7 0.4 0.2 0.4 1.2 3.3
Ed Daquioag 14 9.2 14 36 38.9 4 17 23.5 6 12 50.0 1.4 0.9 0.6 0.0 0.9 2.7
Eddie Aytona 12 4.8 3 12 25.0 0 2 0.0 2 2 100.0 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.7
Pipoy Marata 6 2.8 2 3 66.7 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.8 0.7
Kenneth Mamaril 12 2.7 2 3 66.7 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.6 0.8 0.0 0.2 0.5 0.3
Vince Tinte 8 2.9 1 2 50.0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.8 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.3
Kim Lo 11 4.2 0 7 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.6 0.4 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.0
Jackson Wong 8 2.4 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.9 0.0
AC Marquez 5 4.0 0 3 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total 14 41.1 353 908 38.9 111 327 33.9 123 200 61.5 34.9 12.8 5.3 2.5 16.9 67.1
Opponents 14 41.1 369 865 42.6 66 253 26.1 189 307 61.6 38.7 15.6 5.6 3.8 16.7 71.0
Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FGM  Field-goal made  FGA  Field-goal attempts  FG%  Field-goal percentage
 3PM  3-point field-goal made  3PA  3-point field-goal attempts  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage
 FTM  Free-throw made  FTA  Free-throw attempts  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  TOT  Turnovers per game  PPG  Points per game
Source: inboundPASS

Aftermath

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Because the Growling Tigers did not participate in any major preseason tournaments, they were not scouted by the other UAAP schools and were able to pull off wins early in the first round of eliminations. They were even third in the standings at 3–2 at one point late in the first round.

Like the other UST Growling Tigers teams, the 2010 squad had heavily relied on their three-point shooting, and when their shots had failed to connect, the losses began to pile up, mostly on double-digit deficits.

According to head coach Pido Jarencio, this team was more of a stop-gap in preparation for the university's quadricentennial celebration. "Some of the players I recruited are really made for 2011." One of the players that he was referring to was incoming Cameroonian rookie Karim Abdul who had undergone a one year residency and will be able to suit up for the Tigers next season to beef up the team's short front line.

Jarencio who has a deep pool of players from the Team B training team, has plans for a major revamp on the current team. "If nothing happens (to UST) next year, I will exit the team," added the coach.[10]

References

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  1. ^ Chavez, Leilani. "UAAP teams wary of Season 73". ABS-CBN Sports. Retrieved 5 Jul 2010.
  2. ^ "No more tomorrow for the Growling Tigers in Season 73". The Varsitarian. Retrieved 17 Sep 2010.
  3. ^ Almo, Alder. "Tigers drop bombs on Maroons". ABS-CBN Sports. Retrieved 22 Jul 2010.
  4. ^ Divinagracia, Anthony. "Falcons escape three-point savvy Tigers". ABS-CBN Sports. Retrieved 26 Jul 2010.
  5. ^ "UAAP piracy turns Tigers into Bulldogs". The Varsitarian. Retrieved 1 Jul 2010.
  6. ^ "Guard-heavy Tigers get size upgrade". The Varsitarian. Retrieved 1 Jul 2010.
  7. ^ "Pido's status in limbo". The Varsitarian. Retrieved 2 Dec 2009.
  8. ^ "Jarencio stays with UST, eyes Final 4 return". The Varsitarian. Retrieved 1 Jul 2010.
  9. ^ "Tigers' fate could change as season 73 progresses". GMA News Online. Retrieved 25 Jul 2010.
  10. ^ "Unable to join the party, four teams look forward to next season". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 15 Sep 2010.