2011 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team

The 2011 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team represented University of Santo Tomas in the 74th season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. The men's basketball tournament for the school year 2011-12 began on July 10, 2011 and the host school for the season was Ateneo.[1]

2011 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball
Record
Elims rank	#4
Final rank	#4
2011 record	8–7 (8–6 elims)
Head coach	Alfredo M. Jarencio (6th season)
Assistant coaches	Ernesto C. Ballesteros Senen Z. Dueñas
Captain	Jeric Fortuna (4th season)

The Tigers, who had celebrated their quadricentennial year, finished fourth at the end of the double-round eliminations. They won eight games against six losses. They lost to the first-seed Ateneo Blue Eagles, who had a twice-to-beat advantage in the semifinals.[2]

They had an average winning margin of 8.9 points and an average losing margin of 13.0 points.

They experienced blowout losses twice in the tournament, both during the second round: against Ateneo by 25 points,[3] and against the NU Bulldogs by 24 points.[4]

Rookie center Karim Abdul was chosen Player of the Week by the UAAP Press Corps for the duration of August 11-14, 2011,[5] while third year guard Jeric Teng got the citation during the week of September 1-4, 2011.[6]

Abdul led the league in rebounds with an 11.5 per game average.

Roster

UST Growling Tigers roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Height Year High School SF 4 Javier, Ron Kristoffer N. 6'1" (1.85m) 1st University of Santo Tomas SG 5 Lo, Kim Kaizen G. 6'1" (1.85m) 2nd St. Jude Catholic School PG 6 Sheriff, Sheak Jamil, Jr. 5'9" (1.75m) 1st Loyola Catholic Secondary School PG 7 Fortuna, Jeric Marco G. (C) 5'7" (1.7m) 4th De La Salle Santiago Zobel School PF 8 Afuang, Carmelo S. 6'4" (1.93m) 4th San Beda College–Rizal SG 9 Sarcia, Jaypee D. – 1st University of Santo Tomas SG 10 Ungria, Aljohn Gil P. 6'1" (1.85m) 2nd Colegio de San Lorenzo PG 11 Tan, Robin Allan L. 5'7" (1.7m) 1st Xavier School PF 12 Camus, Christopher I. 6'4" (1.93m) 5th Sunny Hills High School C 13 Pe, Paulo Lorenzo V. 6'4" (1.93m) 2nd Ateneo de Manila SF 14 Ferrer, Kevin M. 6'4" (1.93m) 1st University of Santo Tomas SG 16 Teng, Jeric Allen U. 6'2" (1.88m) 3rd Xavier School SG 17 Aytona, Eduardo, Jr. D. 5'10" (1.78m) 3rd University of Santo Tomas SF 18 Vigil, Louie Philippe V. 6'3" (1.91m) 1st José Rizal University SF 19 Lao, Kent Jefferson S. 6'4" (1.93m) 1st Saint Stephen's High School C 20 Abdul, Karim 6'6" (1.98m) 1st Sta. Clara International Academy	Head coach Alfredo M. Jarencio Assistant coach(es) Senen Z. Dueñas Ernesto C. Ballesteros Alvin A. Grey Christopher A. Cantonjos Ma. Genevieve R. Francisco (statistics) Rodil S. Sablan (academic adviser) Strength & conditioning coach(es) Emmanuel Calipes Yi Ming Liu Team manager Clarence D. Aytona Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2
C	Paolo Pe	Karim Abdul
PF	Chris Camus	Melo Afuang
SF	Kevin Ferrer	Kent Lao	Louie Vigil
SG	Jeric Teng	Kim Lo	Aljohn Ungria
PG	Jeric Fortuna	Jon Sheriff	Robin Tan

Roster changes

Subtractions

Pos.	#	POB	Player	Height	Year	High school	Notes
PG	6		Edcor C. Marata	5' 10"	2nd	University of the Visayas	Relegated to Team B
SG	9		Clark Daniel Oliver M. Bautista	5' 9"	4th	Benedictine International School	Academic deficiencies
SF	10		Aljon E. Mariano	6' 3"	3rd	San Beda College–Rizal	Out due to fractured right ankle
PF	11		Andre Charles D. Marquez	6' 3"	4th	La Salle Greenhills
C	14		Vincent Roberto P. Tinte	6' 7"	2nd	Urdaneta City National High School	Transferred to Adamson University
SG	17		Fritz Harmon L. Delgado	6' 0"	2nd	San Sebastian College-Recoletos
SF	18		Eduardo D. Daquioag, Jr.	6' 0"	2nd	RTU Laboratory High School	Out due to rheumatic fever
C	20		Kenneth B. Mamaril	6' 5"	2nd	San Sebastian College-Recoletos	Relegated to Team B
PG	21		Jackson V. Wong	5' 10"	3rd	Philippine Academy of Sakya-Manila	Transferred to Trinity University of Asia

Additions

Pos.	#	POB	Player	Height	Year	High school	Notes
SF	4		Ron Kristoffer N. Javier	6' 1"	1st	University of Santo Tomas	Rookie
PG	6		Sheak Jamil Sheriff, Jr.	5' 9"	1st	Loyola Catholic Secondary School	Rookie
SG	9		Jaypee D. Sarcia		1st	University of Santo Tomas	Rookie
SG	10		Aljohn Gil P. Ungria	6' 1"	2nd	Colegio de San Lorenzo	Returning from Season 72
PG	11		Robin Allan L. Tan	5' 7"	1st	Xavier School	Rookie
SF	14		Kevin M. Ferrer	6' 4"	1st	University of Santo Tomas	Rookie
SF	18		Louie Philippe V. Vigil	6' 3"	1st	José Rizal University	Rookie
SF	19		Kent Jefferson S. Lao	6' 4"	1st	Saint Stephen's High School	Rookie
C	20		Karim Abdul	6' 6"	1st	Sta. Clara International Academy	Rookie

Preseason tournaments

2011 Filoil Flying V Preseason Premier Cup

• Tournament rank: 6th (3W–4L)

Date	Time	Opponent	Score	Venue	Top scorer
Apr 9	5:00 pm	De La Salle Green Archers	W 79–70	Filoil Flying V Arena	Fortuna - 20 pts
Apr 13	4:00 pm	National University Bulldogs	L 52–60	Filoil Flying V Arena	Abdul - 13 pts
Apr 16	12:30 pm	San Sebastian Stags	W 104–102 ^2OT	Filoil Flying V Arena	Abdul - 23 pts
Apr 30	4:00 pm	Ateneo Blue Eagles	L 46–59	Filoil Flying V Arena	Bautista - 14 pts
May 21	12:30 pm	Lyceum Pirates	W 65–55	Filoil Flying V Arena	Ferrer - 17 pts
May 27	3:15 pm	Arellano University Chiefs	L 63–64	Filoil Flying V Arena	Abdul - 18 pts
Jun 4	12:30 pm	San Beda Red Lions	L 72–85	Filoil Flying V Arena	Fortuna - 22 pts

Times listed above are in UTC+08:00

UAAP Season 74 games results

Elimination games were played in a double round-robin format. All games were aired on Studio 23 & Balls.

Date	Time	Opponent	Venue	Result	Record
First round of eliminations
Jul 14	1:00 p.m.	NU Bulldogs	Araneta Coliseum • Quezon City	W 73–72^OT	1–0
Game Highs: Points: Fortuna – 23; Rebounds: Ferrer – 11; Assists: Teng – 5
Jul 17	3:00 p.m.	UE Red Warriors	Araneta Coliseum • Quezon City	W 70–63	2–0
Game Highs: Points: Ferrer – 19; Rebounds: Abdul – 9; Assists: Fortuna – 8
Jul 24	3:00 p.m.	Adamson Falcons	PhilSports Arena • Pasig	L 71–81	2–1
Game Highs: Points: Teng – 15; Rebounds: Abdul – 10; Assists: Ferrer, Fortuna – 4
Jul 30	3:00 p.m.	FEU Tamaraws	Araneta Coliseum • Quezon City	L 59–62	2–2
Game Highs: Points: Teng – 23; Rebounds: Abdul – 11; Assists: Camus – 3
Aug 4	3:00 p.m.	Ateneo Blue Eagles	Araneta Coliseum • Quezon City	L 53–66	2–3
Game Highs: Points: Fortuna – 18; Rebounds: Camus – 11; Assists: Fortuna – 3
Aug 7	1:00 p.m.	UP Fighting Maroons	Araneta Coliseum • Quezon City	W 68–49[lower-alpha 1]	3–3
Game Highs: Points: Fortuna – 16; Rebounds: Abdul – 14; Assists: Fortuna, Camus, Ferrer – 2
Aug 11	3:00 p.m.	De La Salle Green Archers	Araneta Coliseum • Quezon City	L 71–74	3–4
Game Highs: Points: Abdul – 21; Rebounds: Abdul – 11; Assists: Fortuna – 4
Fifth place after 1st round (3 wins–4 losses)
Second round of eliminations
Aug 14	1:00 p.m.	UP Fighting Maroons	Araneta Coliseum • Quezon City	W 77–70	4–4
Game Highs: Points: Abdul – 21; Rebounds: Camus, Abdul – 11; Assists: Fortuna – 6
Aug 20	3:00 p.m.	Ateneo Blue Eagles	Araneta Coliseum • Quezon City	L 57–82[lower-alpha 2]	4–5
Game Highs: Points: Teng – 20; Rebounds: Abdul – 19; Assists: Teng – 4
Aug 25	3:00 p.m.	De La Salle Green Archers	Araneta Coliseum • Quezon City	W 60–52[lower-alpha 3]	5–5
Game Highs: Points: Teng – 14; Rebounds: Abdul – 12; Assists: Fortuna, Abdul – 3
Aug 28	1:00 p.m.	UE Red Warriors	Araneta Coliseum • Quezon City	W 54–45	6–5
Game Highs: Points: Abdul – 16; Rebounds: Abdul – 13; Assists: Fortuna – 3
Sep 3	3:00 p.m.	Adamson Falcons	Araneta Coliseum • Quezon City	W 74–58	7–5
Game Highs: Points: Teng – 20; Rebounds: Abdul – 14; Assists: Teng – 6
Sep 8	3:00 p.m.	FEU Tamaraws	Araneta Coliseum • Quezon City	W 77–73	8–5
Game Highs: Points: Abdul – 20; Rebounds: Abdul – 13; Assists: Camus, Fortuna – 3
Sep 11	1:00 p.m.	NU Bulldogs	Araneta Coliseum • Quezon City	L 49–73	8–6
Game Highs: Points: Teng – 19; Rebounds: Ungria – 7; Assists: 5 players tied – 1
Fourth place at 8 wins–6 losses (5 wins–2 losses in the 2nd round)
Final four match[lower-alpha 4]
Sep 15	12:00 p.m.	Ateneo Blue Eagles	Araneta Coliseum • Quezon City	L 66–69	0–1 (8–7)
Game Highs: Points: Abdul – 16; Rebounds: Abdul – 16
Eliminated from the Finals

Times listed above are in UTC+08:00

Source: HumbleBola Stats

Individual statistics

Player	GP	GS	MPG	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PM	3PA	3FG%	FTM	FTA	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TOT	PPG
Jeric Teng	14	13	29.6	59	184	32.1%	17	74	23.0%	61	79	77.2%	4.4	2.2	0.8	0.3	2.9	14.0
Jeric Fortuna	14	14	30.1	73	206	35.4%	26	79	32.9%	19	23	82.6%	4.0	3.1	1.3	0.0	2.3	13.6
Karim Abdul	13	3	27.2	58	129	45.0%	0	0	0.0%	41	76	53.9%	11.5	1.4	1.0	1.5	3.0	12.1
Kevin Ferrer	14	9	27.0	30	111	27.0%	10	56	17.9%	36	54	66.7%	5.4	1.3	0.4	0.1	2.2	7.6
Chris Camus	14	13	27.8	40	114	35.1%	2	7	28.6%	14	26	53.8%	7.6	1.5	1.1	1.5	2.0	6.9
Melo Afuang[lower-alpha 5]	11	5	20.5	30	61	49.2%	0	0	0.0%	13	20	65.0%	4.6	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.5	5.2
Kim Lo	13	1	10.0	14	39	35.9%	0	0	0.0%	9	11	81.8%	2.4	0.5	0.5	0.0	1.1	2.9
Eddie Aytona	1	0	2.0	1	1	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	0	0.0%	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0
Paolo Pe	14	9	15.1	12	39	31.0%	0	0	0.0%	1	2	50.0%	3.4	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.7	1.8
Louie Vigil	13	0	5.0	7	27	25.9%	2	6	33.3%	1	2	50.0%	0.8	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.8	1.3
Jon Sheriff	13	0	6.5	3	16	18.8%	0	1	0.0%	3	4	75.0%	1.2	0.8	0.2	0.0	0.7	0.7
Aljohn Ungria	8	1	4.4	0	3	0.0%	0	0	0.0%	3	6	50.0%	1.5	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.4	0.4
Robin Tan	14	0	5.9	0	9	0.0%	0	5	0.0%	0	0	0.0%	0.9	0.5	0.2	0.0	0.8	0.0
Kent Lao	6	2	5.2	0	2	0.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	2	0.0%	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.7	0.0
Ron Javier	1	0	3.0	0	1	0.0%	0	1	0.0%	0	0	0.0%	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Jaypee Sarcia	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	0	0.0%	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Total	14		40.4	327	942	34.7%	57	229	24.9%	196	304	64.5%	48.3	11.9	6.1	3.9	18.3	65.2
Opponents	14		40.4	334	916	36.5%	59	287	20.6%	193	289	66.8%	42.1	15.7	5.3	5.6	16.4	65.7

Source: HumbleBola Stats

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

Postseason tournaments

2011 Philippine Collegiate Championship

• Tournament rank: 11th

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Record
Luzon/Metro Manila Main draw bracket
Nov 21	De La Salle Green Archers	Filoil Flying V Arena • San Juan	L 67–72	0–1
Game Highs: Points: Ferrer – 23; Rebounds: Abdul – 7; Assists: Sheriff – 5
Eliminated from Regional Quarterfinals[lower-alpha 6]

Notes

1. Jeric Teng did not finish the game due to an ankle sprain
2. UST committed a season record of 23 turnovers in the game
3. The Growling Tigers had a team-high 63 rebounds in the game
4. Ateneo held a twice-to-beat advantage over UST
5. Afuang missed the last three games of the second round of eliminations due to a gall bladder operation. He came back for the semifinal match against Ateneo
6. Fortuna & Teng did not play as they were part of the national team that competed in the 26th Southeast Asian Games in Jakarta

References

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