Roster
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Depth chart
| Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 |
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| C | Cruz | Taylor | Camus |
| PF | Canlas | Gile | Afuang |
| SF | Ababou | Mirza | |
| SG | Allera | Bautista | Fenequito |
| PG | Cuan | Fortuna | Vargas |
| 2008 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball | |
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| Record | |
| Elims rank | #5 |
| Final rank | #5 |
| 2008 record | 6–8 |
| Head coach | Pido Jarencio (3rd season) |
| Assistant coaches | Senen Dueñas Beaujing Acot |
| Captain | Francis Allera (5th season) |
The 2008 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team represented University of Santo Tomas in the 71st season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. The men's basketball tournament for the school year 2008-09 began on July 5, 2008 and the host school for the season was the University of the Philippines who were celebrating their centennial year. [1]
UST finished fifth at the end of the double round-robin eliminations. They won six games against eight losses. Two of their games went into overtime. The first was an 86–80 win over the Adamson Falcons in the first round, and the other was a 69–74 loss to the FEU Tamaraws in the second round.
The Tigers' second round losses to FEU and to the De La Salle Green Archers meant that they needed to win their last two games to at least tie the UE Red Warriors to gain a playoff for the fourth and final seed heading into the Final Four. They were fifth in the standings at 5 wins and 7 losses, while UE was fourth with a 7–5 record. They were also hoping for the Red Warriors to lose their remaining two games for a playoff to happen.
The game resulted to a two-point loss for UST. The Tigers had struggled throughout the game with errors and inconsistencies. Their opponent had led by 22 points at the end of three quarters. Head coach Pido Jarencio got ejected, but in a display of grit and determination, UST fought back and chipped away at UE's lead, resulting to a 24–1 run. The Tigers who got eliminated ended up scoring 35 points in the fourth quarter. [2]
Season 70 MVP Jervy Cruz was included in the Mythical team selection during the presentation of awards for Season 71. He had played the entire season while nursing a hamstring injury and even led the MVP race at the end of the eliminations with 75.1 statistical points, on top of a double-double average of 19.8 points and 13.7 rebounds per game. He has led the league in rebounds since his first playing year in 2006. The MVP award eventually went to Ateneo's Rabeh Al-Hussaini who was second in running with 71.1 statistical points. [3]
The Growling Tigers was the season's top rebounding team with a 48.4 per game average.
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| Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 |
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| C | Cruz | Taylor | Camus |
| PF | Canlas | Gile | Afuang |
| SF | Ababou | Mirza | |
| SG | Allera | Bautista | Fenequito |
| PG | Cuan | Fortuna | Vargas |
The Growling Tigers have lost three of their veterans in center June Dizon, point guards Jun Cortez and Rum Perry Scott, and team captain Anthony Espiritu to graduation and are parading eight new players composed of rookies, transferees and players from the Team B training pool. [4]
| Pos. | No. | Nat. | Player | Height | Year | High school | Notes |
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| SG | 5 |  | John Hector Badua | 5' 11" | 2nd | University of Santo Tomas | Transferred to José Rizal University |
| SF | 8 | | Anthony Espiritu | 6' 4" | 5th | University of Santo Tomas | Graduated |
| PF | 10 | | June Dizon | 6' 4" | 5th | San Sebastian College-Recoletos | Graduated |
| SG | 11 | | John Darryl Basa | 6' 1" | 2nd | University of Santo Tomas | Relegated to Team B |
| PG | 12 | | Jose Cortez, Jr. | 5' 10" | 5th | University of Santo Tomas | Graduated |
| C | 19 | | Francis Soriano | 6' 6" | 4th | ||
| PG | 21 |  | Rum Perry Scott | 5' 9" | 5th | St. Joseph School | Graduated |
| Pos. | No. | Nat. | Player | Height | Year | High school | Notes |
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| SG | 5 | | Clark Daniel Oliver Bautista | 5' 9" | 1st | Benedictine International School | Promoted from Team B |
| PG | 8 | | Emilian Vargas | 5' 11" | 2nd | Transferred from Emilio Aguinaldo College | |
| PG | 10 | | Jeric Marco Fortuna | 5' 7" | 1st | De La Salle Santiago Zobel School | Rookie |
| PF | 11 | | Carmelo Afuang | 6' 4" | 1st | San Beda College–Rizal | Promoted from Team B |
| PF | 12 | | Christopher Camus | 6' 4" | 2nd | Sunny Hills High School | Transferred from San Beda College |
| SG | 19 | | Carlos Amador Fenequito | 6' 0" | 3rd | Transferred from José Rizal University | |
| PG | 21 | | Jackson Wong | 5' 10" | 1st | Philippine Academy of Sakya-Manila | Rookie |
| PF | 22 | | Allein Gail Maliksi | 6' 4" | 3rd | Camarin High School | Transferred from University of Manila |
The Growling Tigers did not join any major preseason tournaments on two reasons: their veteran players had been busy playing for their commercial teams in the Philippine Basketball League in the summer; and eight of their players suffered various injures before the UAAP tournament. [5]
Elimination games were played in a double round-robin format and all of UST's games were televised on Studio 23 and Balls.
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| Player | GP | GS | MPG | FGM | FGA | FG% | 3PM | 3PA | 3P% | FTM | FTA | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TOV | PPG |
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| Jervy Cruz | 14 | 32.5 | 103 | 188 | 54.8 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 71 | 95 | 74.7 | 13.7 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 2.4 | 19.8 | |
| Dylan Ababou | 14 | 28.2 | 74 | 163 | 45.4 | 14 | 53 | 26.4 | 58 | 80 | 72.5 | 6.6 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 3.1 | 15.3 | |
| Francis Allera | 14 | 23.4 | 52 | 139 | 37.4 | 22 | 78 | 28.2 | 13 | 17 | 76.5 | 5.6 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 9.9 | |
| Tata Bautista | 14 | 15.6 | 31 | 98 | 31.6 | 25 | 82 | 30.5 | 10 | 14 | 71.4 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 6.9 | |
| Khasim Mirza | 11 | 16.5 | 23 | 74 | 31.1 | 12 | 41 | 29.3 | 13 | 19 | 68.4 | 4.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 6.5 | |
| Badong Canlas | 14 | 21.4 | 32 | 93 | 34.4 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 23 | 41 | 56.1 | 4.8 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 6.2 | |
| Japs Cuan | 10 | 20.3 | 14 | 31 | 45.2 | 1 | 6 | 16.7 | 9 | 20 | 45.0 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 3.8 | |
| Jeric Fortuna | 14 | 15.9 | 15 | 56 | 26.8 | 7 | 23 | 30.4 | 15 | 24 | 62.5 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 3.7 | |
| Allein Maliksi | 1 | 5.0 | 1 | 3 | 33.3 | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | |
| Chris Camus | 12 | 8.1 | 14 | 40 | 35.0 | 1 | 11 | 9.1 | 3 | 4 | 75.0 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 2.7 | |
| Chester Taylor | 14 | 11.2 | 14 | 42 | 33.3 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 2 | 2 | 100.0 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 2.7 | |
| Milan Vargas | 7 | 6.1 | 6 | 14 | 42.9 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 5 | 20.0 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 2.0 | |
| Mel Gile | 11 | 10.2 | 6 | 18 | 33.3 | 1 | 5 | 20.0 | 5 | 10 | 50.0 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 1.6 | |
| Carlos Fenequito | 14 | 8.0 | 6 | 19 | 31.6 | 2 | 7 | 28.6 | 5 | 6 | 83.3 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.4 | |
| Melo Afuang | 5 | 1.8 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 4 | 50.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
| Jackson Wong | 3 | 1.3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
| Total | 14 | 40.7 | 391 | 982 | 39.8 | 81 | 296 | 27.4 | 231 | 343 | 67.3 | 48.4 | 12.9 | 4.0 | 2.8 | 17.2 | 78.1 | |
| Opponents | 14 | 40.7 | 369 | 943 | 39.1 | 80 | 294 | 27.2 | 252 | 392 | 64.3 | 39.0 | 14.9 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 14.5 | 75.9 |
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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 |
| Name | Award | Date | Ref. |
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| Jervy Cruz | Mythical team | 24 Sep 2008 | [8] |
| Clark Bautista | Tokyo Tokyo All-rookie team |
Jervy Cruz was picked fourth in the first round of the 2009 PBA draft by the Caloy Garcia-led Rain or Shine Elasto Painters team on August 2, 2009. Francis Allera was also selected in the same rookie draft as the 13th overall pick by the Yeng Guiao-coached Burger King Whoppers before getting traded to the Coca-Cola Tigers. [9]
Badong Canlas applied for the 2010 PBA draft but went unselected. He was picked up by the Shopinas.com Clickers the following year, where he reunited with former teammates Jojo Duncil and Khasim Mirza under coach Franz Pumaren. [10] [11]
| Year | Round | Pick | Overall | Player | PBA team |
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| 2009 | 1 | 4 | 4 | Jervy Cruz | Rain or Shine Elasto Painters |
| 2 | 4 | 13 | Francis Allera | Burger King Whoppers | |
| 2011 | Signed as a free agent | Mark Canlas | Shopinas.com Clickers | ||
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