2019 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team
The 2019 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team represented University of Santo Tomas in the 82nd season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. The men's basketball tournament for the school year 2019-20 began on September 4, 2019 and the host school for the season was Ateneo de Manila University.[1]
2019 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball | |
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UAAP Season 82 runner-up | |
Record | |
Elims rank | #4 |
Final rank | #2 |
2019 record | 11–8 (8–6 elims) |
Head coach | Aldin V. Ayo (2nd season) |
Assistant coaches | Jiniño Y. Manansala Rodolfo Carlos, Jr. McJour B. Luib Jason G. Misolas |
Captain | CJ Cansino (2nd season) |
The Tigers made it back to the playoffs for the first time since Season 78 after finishing the double-round eliminations at fourth place with 8 wins against 6 losses. The FEU Tamaraws had the same win–loss record but were ranked higher on a superior +6 quotient over UST.
They then eliminated FEU in the first round of the stepladder semifinals and went on to defeat the second seeded UP Fighting Maroons who held a twice-to-beat advantage over them in the next round to advance to the finals against the undefeated Ateneo Blue Eagles.
The Blue Eagles went on to sweep the finals series for an unprecedented 16–0 season and capped a three-peat championship run that began in Season 80.[2] UST, who had nine new players in their roster was the only team to have lost to Ateneo by a solitary point this season. Their first round match ended with a score of 70–71.[3]
Beninese center Soulémane Chabi Yo was named Most valuable player of the season, while former Tiger Cubs' one-and-done and mythical team member Mark Nonoy won the Rookie of the Year award. This was the first time in a decade for players from UST to win the MVP and the Rookie of the Year awards. Dylan Ababou was the MVP, while Jeric Teng was the Rookie of the Year in 2009.[4]
Rhenz Abando, a transferee from Pangasinan's Philippine College of Science and Technology was chosen Player of the Week by the UAAP Press Corps for the duration of September 4–8,[5] while team captain CJ Cansino, who had a season-ending ACL injury the previous year got the citation during the week of October 16–20, 2019.[6]
Season records
UST had an average winning margin of 12.8 points and an average losing margin of 8.7 points.
They had a blowout win over the UE Red Warriors, defeating them 101–73 in the second round of eliminations. Their 101-point output was the highest scored by a team in the season.[7] It eclipsed their opening day record of 95 points which was also against UE.[8] Prior to the game, the Tigers had not scored more than 90 points since Aldin Ayo took over as head coach. It was during the first round of Season 80 when UST scored 91 points in a losing effort to also the Red Warriors on their 11th consecutive loss that dated back to the second round of Season 79.[9]
UST made a record 49 three point shot attempts in their opening game against UE, 15 of which were by Abando.[10] The Tigers also have the most number of three-point field goals converted with 16, as well as the highest total field goal attempts made in a game with 95, converting also a record high 39 shots.
The team also held the most number of free throw attempts and conversions with 42 and 28 respectively. This was during their second-round game against the Adamson Falcons where both teams committed a combined total of 21 team fouls in the first quarter.
UST also recorded the fewest turnovers made in a game with 6 during their second round match against UP.[11]
Roster
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Roster changes
Cameroonian center Steve Akomo has used up his eligibility but is ably replaced by Beninese Soulémane Chabi Yo, a transferee from Colegio de San Lorenzo who led the Griffins to the 2017 UCBL championship.[12]
Mario Bonleon and Season 81 team captain Marvin Lee decided to forego their 5th playing year to join the commercial leagues. Bonleon announced to the team that he was not coming back for his final playing year due to recurring injuries. He had made his decision before the Tigers played their last game of the season.[13] Lee was the team's second leading scorer last season behind Renzo Subido and had played long minutes in UST's preseason games but was advised by their head coach to pursue playing in the MPBL in lieu of his final year in college. His Season 81 scoring average was 14.4 points per game.[14]
Germy Mahinay and Joshua Marcos also played in the preseason, but both decided to transfer to other schools with Mahinay going to National University[15] and Marcos to College of Saint Benilde. Toby Agustin, who saw limited action last season also transferred to Mapúa University.[16]
Aldin Ayo's two-fold rebuilding plan to hold on to players from the UST high school program and to find talents from the countryside could not be any more evident this season with the arrival of UST Tiger Cubs' mythical team member Mark Nonoy, La Union native Rhenz Abando, and Davao City rookie standout Deo Cuajao.
Nonoy himself was scouted while he was in his junior year at Hua Siong College in Iloilo. He was representing Western Visayas in the Palarong Pambansa where he scored 43 points in a game against the Northern Mindanao team.[17] He earlier scored 41 points for Hua Siong in their championship win over Bacolod Tay Tung High School in the 2018 Iloilo Invitational 17 Under Boys Basketball tournament.[18]
Subtractions
Pos. | # | POB | Player | Height | Year | High school | Notes |
C | 0 | Steve Cedrick P. Akomo | 6' 9" | 4th | Lycée bilingue de Fondonera | Age ineligibility | |
SF | 4 | Mario Emmanuel T. Bonleon, Jr. | 6' 3" | 5th | La Salle Greenhills | Foregone final year to play in the MPBL | |
PG | 6 | Dean Marvin M. Lee | 5' 8" | 5th | Far Eastern University–Diliman | Foregone final year to play in the MPBL | |
SG | 7 | Joshua Miguel S. Marcos | 6' 0" | 2nd | La Salle Greenhills | Transferred to College of Saint Benilde | |
SG | 8 | John Kenneth M. Zamora | 5' 11" | 3rd | Arellano University High School | Relegated to Team B | |
PG | 10 | John Mark M. Lagumen | 5' 11" | 2nd | San Beda University–Rizal | Transferred to Arellano University | |
SG | 15 | Toby Bryan P. Agustin | 6' 1" | 2nd | José Rizal University | Transferred to Mapúa University | |
C | 26 | Germy A. Mahinay | 6' 6" | 2nd | San Beda University–Rizal | Transferred to National University |
Additions
Pos. | # | POB | Player | Height | Year | High school | Notes |
SF | 3 | Brent Isaac P. Paraiso | 6' 2" | 3rd | De La Salle Santiago Zobel School | Transferred from De La Salle University | |
PG | 6 | Mark J. Nonoy | 5' 8" | 1st | University of Santo Tomas | Rookie | |
PF | 8 | Sherwin E. Concepcion | 6' 3" | 1st | Malayan High School of Science | From Team B | |
SG | 10 | Rhenz Joseph M. Abando | 6' 2" | 3rd | Bactad East National High School | Transferred from PhilCST | |
SG | 17 | Miguel T. Pangilinan | 6' 0" | 1st | Nazareth School of National University | From Team B | |
SF | 19 | Ferdinand J. Asuncion, Jr. | 6' 2" | 1st | Chiang Kai-shek College | From Team B | |
SG | 21 | Alberto C. Bordeos, Jr. | 6' 0" | 1st | La Salle Greenhills | Rookie | |
C | 23 | Soulémane Chabi Yo | 6' 6" | 2nd | Université d'Abomey-Calavi | Transferred from Colegio de San Lorenzo | |
SG | 30 | Vince Petdeo D. Cuajao | 6' 1" | 1st | Holy Child College of Davao | Rookie |
Coaching staff
Aldin Ayo went into his second year as the head coach of the Growling Tigers, but not without controversies. A rumor that originated from an anonymous tweet in April claimed that Ayo had been fired as coach of the Growling Tigers, but UST's school publication, The Varsitarian later clarified that he was actually giving up his post as consultant of the juniors' basketball program to concentrate on rebuilding the seniors' team.
This led Bonnie Garcia to step down from the seniors' coaching staff to replace Ayo in the juniors' program. Garcia is the coach of the UST Tiger Cubs basketball team that placed fifth in Season 81 on a 7–7 win–loss record.
The Varsitarian further clarified that Ayo had actually signed a three-year contract and not six years as reported last year.[19]
Aside from Garcia, assistant coach Randy Alcantara also left Ayo's coaching staff after he was selected by the Mapúa University Cardinals senior men's basketball team in December 2018 to replace Atoy Co as their new head coach. Alcantara was the coach of Mapúa's juniors' team who had just won their third straight NCAA championship earlier in November.[20]
Tapped to replace Garcia and Alcantara were former Arellano Baby Chiefs player JR Carlos and former captain of the Growling Tigers Jiniño Manansala.
Jiniño, the son of former Philippine Basketball Association Rookie of the Year Jimmy Manansala played for Aric del Rosario alongside Cyrus Baguio, Niño Gelig, Alwyn Espiritu, Christian Luanzon & Emerson Oreta. He is the current head coach of reigning NAASCU champions Saint Clare College of Caloocan. He has also coached the AMA University Titans to the 2006 NAASCU championship and the University of Manila Hawks to the 2010 NAASCU crown.[21]
This season also saw a change in the team manager position with Jimi Lim of Ironcon Builders replacing Chuck Dumlao of FMR Corporation.[22]
Preseason tournaments
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UAAP Season 82 games results
Elimination games were played in a double round-robin format. All games were aired on ABS-CBN Sports and Action & Liga.
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(#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. All times are in UTC+08:00. Source: Pong Ducanes, Imperium Technology |
Eliminations
Player | GP | GS | MPG | FGM | FGA | FG% | 3PM | 3PA | 3FG% | FTM | FTA | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TOT | PPG |
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Soulémane Chabi Yo | 14 | 14 | 31.3 | 94 | 182 | 51.6% | 0 | 8 | 0.0% | 49 | 70 | 70.0% | 14.7 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 16.9 |
Rhenz Abando | 13 | 5 | 22.3 | 53 | 148 | 35.8% | 32 | 104 | 30.8% | 21 | 37 | 56.8% | 5.0 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 12.2 |
Mark Nonoy | 14 | 6 | 20.7 | 42 | 145 | 29.0% | 26 | 98 | 26.5% | 34 | 51 | 66.7% | 3.9 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 10.0 |
Renzo Subido | 14 | 9 | 22.0 | 38 | 94 | 40.4% | 20 | 56 | 35.7% | 19 | 27 | 70.4% | 2.1 | 3.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 8.2 |
Sherwin Concepcion | 14 | 3 | 16.7 | 33 | 109 | 30.3% | 25 | 74 | 33.8% | 14 | 17 | 82.4% | 4.4 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 7.5 |
Brent Paraiso | 14 | 10 | 20.6 | 34 | 94 | 36.2% | 19 | 62 | 30.6% | 6 | 13 | 46.2% | 4.4 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 6.6 |
CJ Cansino | 14 | 8 | 17.2 | 31 | 82 | 37.8% | 13 | 41 | 31.7% | 10 | 17 | 58.8% | 4.3 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 6.1 |
Zach Huang | 14 | 4 | 14.8 | 29 | 65 | 44.6% | 12 | 26 | 46.2% | 13 | 24 | 54.2% | 3.9 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 5.9 |
Dave Ando | 14 | 1 | 12.5 | 20 | 46 | 43.5% | 1 | 2 | 50.0% | 3 | 6 | 50.0% | 3.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 3.1 |
Ira Bataller | 13 | 9 | 16.8 | 8 | 37 | 21.6% | 0 | 6 | 0.0% | 11 | 21 | 52.4% | 2.9 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 2.1 |
Nat Cosejo | 4 | 0 | 2.3 | 2 | 3 | 66.7% | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 2 | 50.0% | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 |
Deo Cuajao | 11 | 1 | 5.8 | 5 | 24 | 20.8% | 3 | 14 | 21.4% | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.2 |
Migs Pangilinan | 4 | 0 | 3.1 | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
Albert Bordeos | 6 | 0 | 4.7 | 0 | 7 | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 0.0% | 1 | 2 | 50.0% | 0.5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
Enric Caunan | 2 | 0 | 5.4 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Junjun Asuncion | 1 | 0 | 3.3 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Total | 14 | 40.4 | 387 | 1,038 | 37.3% | 151 | 498 | 30.3% | 184 | 287 | 64.1% | 49.9 | 15.9 | 3.7 | 2.8 | 15.4 | 79.2 | |
Opponents | 14 | 40.4 | 402 | 1,011 | 39.8% | 114 | 374 | 30.5% | 141 | 238 | 59.2% | 45.1 | 15.5 | 4.9 | 3.1 | 14.7 | 75.6 |
Playoffs
Player | GP | GS | MPG | FGM | FGA | FG% | 3PM | 3PA | 3FG% | FTM | FTA | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TOT | PPG |
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Soulémane Chabi Yo | 5 | 5 | 32.1 | 35 | 65 | 53.8% | 0 | 3 | 0.0% | 18 | 28 | 64.3% | 14.2 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 17.6 |
Mark Nonoy | 5 | 0 | 22.6 | 23 | 67 | 34.3% | 13 | 45 | 28.9% | 15 | 20 | 75.0% | 4.2 | 4.6 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 2.6 | 14.8 |
Rhenz Abando | 5 | 1 | 24.4 | 15 | 42 | 35.7% | 9 | 29 | 31.0% | 17 | 27 | 63.0% | 5.8 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 11.2 |
Renzo Subido | 5 | 5 | 24.6 | 19 | 53 | 35.8% | 14 | 46 | 30.4% | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 2.2 | 4.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 3.2 | 10.4 |
Brent Paraiso | 5 | 4 | 21.2 | 13 | 39 | 33.3% | 9 | 28 | 32.1% | 6 | 10 | 60.0% | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 2.6 | 8.2 |
Sherwin Concepcion | 5 | 0 | 12.3 | 8 | 27 | 29.6% | 7 | 23 | 30.4% | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 5.0 |
CJ Cansino | 5 | 5 | 20.4 | 8 | 32 | 25.0% | 0 | 8 | 0.0% | 7 | 8 | 87.5% | 7.8 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 4.6 |
Dave Ando | 5 | 1 | 11.4 | 7 | 15 | 46.7% | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 1 | 2 | 50.0% | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 3.0 |
Zach Huang | 5 | 0 | 13.0 | 4 | 17 | 23.5% | 1 | 7 | 14.3% | 6 | 9 | 66.7% | 3.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 |
Ira Bataller | 5 | 4 | 17.0 | 2 | 8 | 25.0% | 1 | 2 | 50.0% | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 1.0 |
Deo Cuajao | 1 | 0 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Migs Pangilinan | 1 | 0 | 3.1 | 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 | 5 | 40.0 | 134 | 365 | 36.7% | 54 | 192 | 28.1% | 72 | 105 | 68.6% | 46.2 | 17.2 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 17.0 | 78.8 | |
Opponents | 5 | 40.0 | 149 | 362 | 41.2% | 39 | 141 | 27.7% | 45 | 71 | 63.4% | 44.8 | 15.4 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 16.2 | 76.4 |
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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
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Awards
Name | Award | References |
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Team | UAAP Season 82 men's basketball runner-up | [23] |
Soulémane Chabi Yo | Season MVP | [23][24] |
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Mark Nonoy | Rookie of the Year | [23][24] |
Rhenz Abando | Player of the Week — September 8, 2019 | [25] |
CJ Cansino | Player of the Week — October 20, 2019 | [26] |
Players drafted into the PBA
Renzo Subido was drafted 24th overall in the second round of the 2019 PBA draft by Pido Jarencio-led NorthPort Batang Pier.[27]
Year | Round | Pick | Overall | Player | PBA team |
2019 | 2 | 12 | 24 | Renzo Subido | NorthPort Batang Pier |
Notes
- Arvin Marzan is still in high school & is currently part of the UST Tiger Cubs basketball team
- Mahloney Tarranza, Ian Herrera, Francis Batuzolele, Renzel Yongco, Carlos Sumabat, Cleg Moukengue & Paul Manalang are all in the Team B roster
- Game was stopped after a bench-clearing brawl between UST and Enderun
- Joshua Garing, Paul Manalang, Christian Manaytay & Ian Herrera replaced Renzo Subido, Zach Huang, Enric Caunan & Nat Cosejo in the roster
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