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 de Manila University.

The Tigers, who had celebrated their quadricentennial year, finished fourth at the end of the double round-robin eliminations. They won eight games against six losses. They lost to the No. 1-ranked Ateneo Blue Eagles, who had a twice-to-beat advantage in the semifinals.

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. The first was against Ateneo by 25 points on August 20, and the other was against the NU Bulldogs by 24 points in the last playing date of the eliminations on September 11.

Team captain Jeric Fortuna was chosen Player of the Week by the UAAP Press Corps for the duration of July 14–17. Cameroonian rookie center Karim Abdul was also chosen Player of the Week for August 11–14, and third year guard Jeric Teng got the citation during the week of September 1–4, 2011.

Abdul who was third in the MVP tally with 60.3 statistical points was disqualified from the Mythical team due to a suspension from a game for two unsportsmanlike fouls that he committed in the eliminations. He had a double-double average of 12.1 points and a league-best 11.5 rebounds on top of the 1.5 blocks per game that he amassed in the season.

Roster

Depth chart

Roster changes The Tigers shored up on their front line with the arrival of Karim Abdul who immediately made an impact when he led the league in rebounds at the end of eliminations. In Season 73, the team ranked last in rebounds with an average of only 35.4 per game. They also lagged behind in defensive boards with 22.1 and blocks with 2.5 per game averages.

UST was also able to recruit blue chips from the high school ranks, with UST Tiger Cub Kevin Ferrer who was hailed the UAAP Season 73 Juniors MVP and José Rizal University's Louie Vigil, the Juniors MVP of the NCAA in Season 85 coming onboard.

Subtractions PG 6 Edcor Marata 5' 10" 2nd University of the Visayas Relegated to Team BSG 9 Clark Daniel Oliver Bautista 5' 9" 4th Benedictine International School Academic deficienciesSF 10 Aljon Mariano 6' 3" 3rd San Beda College–Rizal Out due to fractured right anklePF 11 Andre Charles Marquez 6' 3" 4th La Salle Greenhills GraduatedC 14 Vincent Roberto Tinte 6' 7" 2nd Urdaneta City National High School Transferred to Adamson UniversitySG 17 Fritz Harmon Delgado 6' 0" 2nd San Sebastian College-Recoletos Academic deficienciesSF 18 Eduardo Daquioag, Jr. 6' 1" 2nd RTU Laboratory High School Out due to rheumatic feverC 20 Kenneth Mamaril 6' 5" 2nd San Sebastian College-Recoletos Relegated to Team BPG 21 Jackson Wong 5' 10" 3rd Philippine Academy of Sakya-Manila Transferred to Trinity University of Asia

Additions SF 4 Ron Kristoffer Javier 6' 1" 1st University of Santo Tomas RookiePG 6 Sheak Jamil Sheriff, Jr. 5' 9" 1st Loyola Catholic Secondary School RookieSG 9 Jaypee Sarcia 1st University of Santo Tomas RookieSG 10 Aljohn Gil Ungria 6' 1" 2nd Colegio de San Lorenzo Returning from Season 72PG 11 Robin Allan Tan 5' 7" 1st Xavier School RookieSF 14 Kevin Ferrer 6' 4" 1st University of Santo Tomas RookieSF 18 Louie Philippe Vigil 6' 3" 1st José Rizal University RookieSF 19 Kent Jefferson Lao 6' 4" 1st Saint Stephen's High School RookieC 20 Karim Abdul 6' 6" 1st Sta. Clara International Academy Rookie

Schedule and results Preseason tournaments

The Filoil Flying V Preseason Premier Cup games were aired on Studio 23.

UAAP games

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

Postseason tournament

UAAP statistics 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 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

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Awards Team 2011 Millennium Basketball League champions19 May 2011Jeric Fortuna 2011 Millennium Basketball League MVP Player of the Week14–17 Jul 2011 Karim Abdul Player of the Week11–14 Aug 2011 Jeric Teng Player of the Week1–4 Sep 2011

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