2023 UST Growling Tigers basketball team

2023 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball
2023 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball
Record
Elims rank	#8
2023 record	1–7
Head coach	Pido Jarencio (9th season)
Assistant coaches	Japs Cuan; Bam Ledesma
Captain	Paul Manalang (3rd season)

The 2023 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team is representing University of Santo Tomas in the ongoing 86th season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. The men's basketball tournament for the academic year 2023-24 began on September 30, 2023, and the host school for the season is the University of the East.[1]

Roster

The Growling Tigers came out with an 18-player roster in the days leading to the start of the UAAP tournament. Sophomore guard Soysoy Escobido and former Tiger Cubs playmaker Jethro Escoto did not make the cut to the official 16-man roster.[2]

UST Growling Tigers roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Height	Year	High School
SG	0	Ivan Lazarte	6'2" (1.88m)	2nd	Malayan High School of Science
PG	1	Bevir Ivanne Calum	6'0" (1.83m)	1st	St. Louis School – Don Bosco
SG	2	Kylle Matthew Magdangal	6'0" (1.83m)	2nd	Marina High School
C	3	Prudencio Adrian Esmeña, III	6'6" (1.98m)	1st	National University Nazareth School
PF	4	Christian Manaytay	6'4" (1.93m)	3rd	Sacred Heart School-Ateneo de Cebu
SF	8	Vincent Gabriel Ventulan	6'4" (1.93m)	5th	Fort Pierce Central High School
SG	9	Nicael Dominie Cabañero	6'3" (1.91m)	3rd	University of Santo Tomas
PF	10	Mark Angelo Crisostomo	6'5" (1.96m)	1st	Sta. Teresita National High School
C	11	Joachim Eddie Laure	6'5" (1.96m)	2nd	National University Nazareth School
SF	12	Saentis James Moore	6'2" (1.88m)	1st	Arellano University High School
PF	14	Mark Allen Llemit	6'3" (1.91m)	1st	University of Santo Tomas
SG	15	Kenji Trey Duremdes	6'2" (1.88m)	2nd	National University Nazareth School
SF	17	Miguel Pangilinan	6'0" (1.83m)	4th	National University Nazareth School
PG	22	Paul Matthew Manalang (C)	5'10" (1.78m)	3rd	National University Nazareth School
C	23	Adama Faye	6'8" (2.03m)	2nd	Le Pionnier
SF	24	Jonathan Ralf Gesalem	6'0" (1.83m)	3rd	Sacred Heart School-Ateneo de Cebu

Head coach

Alfredo Jarencio

Assistant coach(es)

John Paul Cuan
Juben Ledesma
Jeric Marco Fortuna
Alfredo Jarencio, II

Team manager

Waiyip Chong
Eric Ang

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2	Bench 3
C	Manaytay	Crisostomo	Laure
PF	Duremdes	Llemit	Esmeña
SF	Pangilinan	Gesalem	Ventulan
SG	Cabañero	Lazarte	Moore	Magdangal
PG	Manalang	Calum

Roster changes

Subtractions

Pos.	No.	Player	Height	Year	High school	Notes
PF	1	Recaredo Calimag Jr.	6' 4"	2nd	Diamond Bar High School	Transferred to San Beda University
C	5	Ian Joseph Herrera	6' 6"	4th	La Salle Greenhills	Graduated
SF	12	Royce Deakin Mantua	6' 4"	3rd	Far Eastern University-Diliman	Transferred to Adamson University
SF	18	Vincent Raymund Escobido	6' 2"	2nd	University of Santo Tomas	Relegated to Team B
SG	20	JC Alvin Garing	5' 9"	3rd	Lyceum of the Philippines University	Graduated
SG	33	Kendall Xavier Valentin	6' 2"	2nd	Adamson University	Relegated to Team B

Additions

Pos.	No.	Player	Height	Year	High school	Notes
PG	1	Bevir Ivanne Calum	6' 0"	1st	St. Louis School – Don Bosco	Transferred from Adamson University
C	3	Prudencio Adrian Esmeña, III	6' 6"	1st	National University Nazareth School	Promoted from Team B
SF	8	Vincent Gabriel Ventulan	6' 4"	5th	Fort Pierce Central High School	Transferred from Ave Maria University
PF	10	Mark Angelo Crisostomo	6' 5"	1st	Sta. Teresita National High School	Promoted from Team B
SF	12	Saentis James Moore	6' 2"	1st	Arellano University High School	Rookie
PF	14	Mark Allen Llemit	6' 3"	1st	University of Santo Tomas	Rookie

Recruiting class

Name	Pos.	Height	High school	Hometown	Commit date
SJ Moore	SF	6' 2"	Arellano University High School	Baclayon	24 Mar 2023
SJ Moore	2023 NBTC rank: #15, NBTC Nationals All-Star game MVP
Mark Llemit	PF	6' 3"	University of Santo Tomas	Laak, Davao de Oro	13 Apr 2023
Mark Llemit	2023 NBTC rank: #19, NBTC Nationals Division 1 semifinalists
Sources:

Schedule and results

Elimination games are played in a double round-robin format and all of UST's games are televised on One Sports and the UAAP Varsity Channel.

UAAP Season 86 game log

Elimination round: 1–7
Game	Date • Time	Opponent	Result	Record	High points	High rebounds	High assists	Location
1	Sep 30 • 2:11 pm	UE Red Warriors	L 70–80	0–1	Cabañero (18)	Tied (8)	Tied (2)	Mall of Asia Arena Pasay
2	Oct 4 • 3:02 pm	Adamson Soaring Falcons	L 76–79^OT	0–2	Pangilinan (18)	Crisostomo (7)	Llemit (5)	Mall of Asia Arena Pasay
3	Oct 7 • 4:05 pm	De La Salle Green Archers	L 71–91	0–3	Cabañero (25)	Laure (10)	Tied (2)	Araneta Coliseum Quezon City
4	Oct 11 • 4:35 pm	NU Bulldogs	L 69–87	0–4	Manaytay (18)	Manaytay (9)	Manalang (4)	Mall of Asia Arena Pasay
5	Oct 14 • 4:40 pm	UP Fighting Maroons	L 79–110	0–5	Cabañero (24)	Cabañero (8)	Calum (3)	Mall of Asia Arena Pasay
6	Oct 18 • 10:08 am	Ateneo Blue Eagles	L 77–97	0–6	Cabañero (21)	Tied (7)	Manalang (7)	Mall of Asia Arena Pasay
7	Oct 22 • 1:07 pm	FEU Tamaraws End of R1 of eliminations	W 68–62	1–6	Cabañero (23)	Manaytay (11)	Duremdes (5)	Mall of Asia Arena Pasay
8	Oct 25 • 11:02 am	De La Salle Green Archers	L 69–100	1–7	Cabañero (13)	Llemit (6)	Cabañero (6)	Mall of Asia Arena Pasay

(#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.
All times are in UTC+08:00.
Source: Imperium Technology

Individual statistics

Player	GP	GS	MPG	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TOV	PPG
Nic Cabañero	8	8	34.2	59	138	42.8	11	35	31.4	28	51	54.9	6.0	2.5	1.0	0.0	4.0	19.6
Christian Manaytay	8	7	25.3	33	78	42.3	3	12	25.0	38	50	76.0	6.8	0.9	1.3	0.3	2.9	13.4
Migs Pangilinan	8	4	25.7	20	70	28.6	14	48	29.2	13	15	86.7	3.1	1.0	1.4	0.3	0.9	9.4
Gelo Crisostomo	8	5	18.1	27	44	61.4	0	1	0.0	1	4	25.0	5.5	0.1	0.4	0.8	0.8	6.9
Echo Laure	8	1	17.8	18	34	52.9	0	2	0.0	4	6	66.7	4.0	1.0	0.4	0.1	1.0	5.0
Ivanne Calum	8	4	14.3	11	34	32.4	4	10	40.0	11	15	73.3	1.9	1.6	1.3	0.0	1.0	4.6
Kenji Duremdes	8	2	12.7	12	27	44.4	3	7	42.9	2	6	33.3	2.8	1.9	0.8	0.5	1.8	3.6
Paul Manalang	8	4	21.1	9	31	29.0	2	16	12.5	5	6	83.3	2.5	2.6	0.6	0.0	2.1	3.1
SJ Moore	6	2	8.7	5	16	31.3	0	2	0.0	6	11	54.5	1.3	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.5	2.7
Mark Llemit	8	0	10.4	4	12	33.3	0	4	0.0	8	11	72.7	2.5	1.5	0.5	0.0	0.8	2.0
Vince Ventulan	6	0	4.7	5	8	62.5	0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	1.0	0.5	0.2	0.0	0.5	1.7
JJ Gesalem	8	1	4.3	3	15	20.0	3	14	21.4	1	2	50.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.4	1.3
Ivan Lazarte	8	1	4.0	3	16	18.8	0	5	0.0	3	7	42.9	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.5	1.1
Adama Faye	2	1	5.3	0	2	0.0	0	0	0.0	1	2	50.0	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5
Kylle Magdangal	6	0	3.1	0	5	0.0	0	4	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
Thirdy Esmeña	3	0	3.3	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.7	0.0	0.7	0.0	0.3	0.0
Total	8		40.6	209	530	39.4	40	161	24.8	121	186	65.0	40.0	14.8	9.1	2.3	17.9	72.4
Opponents	8		40.6	250	572	43.7	79	236	33.5	127	194	65.5	46.4	21.5	10.0	4.4	16.6	88.3

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: Imperium Technology

References

Garcia, John Mark. "UAAP Season 86 to begin Sept. 30 with men's basketball tilt". SPIN.ph. Retrieved 15 Sep 2023.
"Adama Faye named UST's foreign student-athlete for UAAP Season 86". FastBreak. Retrieved 18 Sep 2023.

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[1] Garcia, John Mark. "UAAP Season 86 to begin Sept. 30 with men's basketball tilt". SPIN.ph. Retrieved 15 Sep 2023.

[2] "Adama Faye named UST's foreign student-athlete for UAAP Season 86". FastBreak. Retrieved 18 Sep 2023.