The 2012 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team represented University of Santo Tomas in the 75th season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. The men's basketball tournament for the school year 2012-2013 began on July 14, 2012 and the host school for the season was National University.
The Tigers made it back to the Finals for the first time since winning the championship in 2006 after finishing the double round-robin eliminations at second place with 10 wins against 4 losses. They defeated the NU Bulldogs who had qualified to the Final Four for the first time in 11 years, and lost to the Ateneo Blue Eagles in the best-of-three championship series via sweep, making their opponents five-peat champions of the tournament.
UST later won the Philippine Collegiate Champions League title in December and avenged their UAAP Finals loss to Ateneo by beating them in a best-of-three series, 2-1.
Jeric Teng, who was named PCCL's tournament MVP missed three games in the elimination round of the UAAP due to an MCL injury in August, while PCCL Coach of the year Pido Jarencio missed Game One of the PCCL Finals when he got infected with measles.
Roster
Depth chart
Roster changes Subtractions SF 4 Ron Kristoffer Javier 6' 1" 2nd University of Santo Tomas Transferred to Adamson UniversityPG 6 Sheak Jamil Sheriff, Jr. 5' 9" 2nd Loyola Catholic Secondary School Out on injurySG 9 Jaypee Sarcia 2nd University of Santo Tomas Relegated to Team BSG 10 Aljohn Gil Ungria 6' 1" 3rd Colegio de San Lorenzo Relegated to Team BPF 12 Christopher Camus 6' 4" 5th Sunny Hills High School GraduatedSG 17 Eduardo Aytona, Jr. 5' 10" 4th University of Santo Tomas Relegated to Team BSF 19 Kent Jefferson Lao 6' 4" 2nd Saint Stephen's High School On leave–with Men's U-18 national team
Additions SG 6 Eduardo Daquioag, Jr. 6' 1" 2nd RTU Laboratory High School Returning from Season 73SG 9 Clark Daniel Oliver Bautista 5' 9" 4th Benedictine International School Returning from Season 73SF 10 Aljon Mariano 6' 3" 3rd San Beda College–Rizal Returning from Season 73PG 12 Janrey Garrido 5' 6" 1st Hope Christian High School RookieC 15 Roberto Hainga 6' 7" 3rd Iloilo Central Commercial High School Transferred from University of Perpetual HelpSG 17 Christian Errol Villar 6' 0" 1st Hope Christian High School RookieC 19 Kenneth Mamaril 6' 5" 2nd San Sebastian College-Recoletos Returning from Season 73
Schedule and results Preseason tournaments
The Tigers participated in only one offseason tournament, the 2012 Filoil Flying V Preseason Hanes Cup, where they advanced to the quarterfinal round but bid goodbye in the tournament after losing to the NU Bulldogs 68–77.
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. All games were aired on Studio 23 and Balls. The first game of the Finals series was aired on ABS-CBN and Balls.
Postseason tournament
UAAP statistics Karim Abdul 14 14 34.6 89 189 47.1 0 0 0.0 59 90 65.6 12.2 1.9 1.5 2.0 3.1 16.9 Jeric Teng 11 11 28.4 53 139 38.1 23 61 37.7 21 31 67.7 4.3 1.1 0.6 0.0 1.9 13.6 Aljon Mariano 14 10 28.8 73 172 42.4 9 25 36.0 31 49 63.3 7.1 2.0 0.8 0.7 3.0 13.3 Tata Bautista 14 0 24.3 40 122 32.8 26 92 28.3 15 20 75.0 2.9 1.8 0.6 0.1 0.9 8.6 Jeric Fortuna 14 14 33.8 46 129 35.7 7 44 15.9 18 22 81.8 5.1 5.5 1.1 0.0 1.7 8.4 Kevin Ferrer 14 2 20.9 26 86 30.2 11 45 24.4 9 19 47.4 4.6 1.2 0.5 0.6 1.0 5.1 Louie Vigil 12 5 6.8 13 30 43.3 3 9 33.3 4 9 44.4 1.3 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.6 2.9 Melo Afuang 14 5 17.3 14 46 30.4 0 0 0.0 3 9 33.3 2.9 0.8 0.1 0.0 0.4 2.2 Kim Lo 14 8 7.7 11 28 39.3 0 4 0.0 5 8 62.5 1.1 0.5 0.4 0.0 0.6 1.9 Ed Daquioag 11 1 4.4 4 17 23.5 2 9 22.2 1 1 100.0 0.5 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.4 1.0 Paolo Pe 14 0 5.6 5 11 45.5 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 1.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.7 Janrey Garrido 2 0 1.5 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 1 2 50.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.5 Robert Hainga 3 0 1.7 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 Robin Tan 1 0 5.0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 1.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 Total 14 41.1 375 969 38.7 81 292 27.7 167 260 64.2 44.2 15.1 6.0 3.6 14.9 71.3 Opponents 14 41.1 346 896 38.6 80 269 29.7 198 296 66.9 42.6 15.6 3.9 5.2 17.3 69.3
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Awards Team UAAP runners-up11 Oct 2012 2012 PCCL champions7 Dec 2012Jeric Teng 2012 PCCL MVP 2012 PCCL Mythical team Jeric Fortuna 2012 PCCL Mythical team Pido Jarencio 2012 PCCL Coach of the YearKarim Abdul 2012 PCCL Mythical team UAAP Season 75 Mythical team11 Oct 2012
Players drafted into the PBA Jeric Fortuna was picked 14th overall in the second round of the 2013 PBA draft by the Bong Ramos-led Barako Bull Energy Cola team on November 3, 2013. 2013 2 4 14 Jeric Fortuna Barako Bull Energy Cola
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