2007 UST Growling Tigers basketball team information
Basketball team which represented University of Santo Tomas
2007UST Growling Tigers men's basketball
Record
Elims rank
#T-4
Final rank
#4
2007 record
9–7 (8–6 elims)
Head coach
Pido Jarencio (2nd season)
Assistant coaches
Senen Dueñas Beaujing Acot
Captain
Anthony Espiritu (5th season)
Seasons
← 2006
2008 →
The 2007 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team represented University of Santo Tomas in the 70th season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. The men's basketball tournament for the school year 2007-08 began on July 7, 2007 and the host school for the season was also UST.[1]
The Tigers, the Season 69 champions, ended the double round-robin eliminations in joint fourth place with the FEU Tamaraws with eight wins and six losses. They then won over FEU in the playoff for the fourth and final semifinal slot. UST held the Tamaraws to a season-low of 6 points in the second quarter. They were eliminated by the Ateneo Blue Eagles in a knockout game of the first round of the stepladder Semifinals for the right to face the second-seeded De La Salle Green Archers in the second round.[2][3][4]
UST suffered back-to-back losses at the start of the season but recovered by winning four of their next five games to finish the first round at third place with a 4–3 record.[5]
Two of their games went into overtime and were both against La Salle who had rejoined the league after serving a one-year suspension in Season 69 for fielding ineligible players in the past three years.. The first was an 86–90 first round loss and the other was an 81–73 win. They have defeated the Green Archers for the first time since the 1999 Finals where the Tigers lost in a three-game series with Game Three also going into overtime.[6][7]
Jervy Cruz was named Most Valuable Player of the season. He topped the statistical points tally with 75.9 at the end of the second round of eliminations on top of 11 double-doubles that included two playoff games. The last UST player to win the MVP was Chris Cantonjos in 1995. Cruz was third in the league in scoring with an average of 16.7 points per game behind the 21.3 average of Adamson's Patrick Cabahug and the 17.6 points per game of NU Bulldogs' Edwin Asoro. He led the league in rebounds with a 15.4 per game average.[8][9]
Francis Allera was chosen Player of the Week by the UAAP Press Corps for the duration of July 19–22, while Khasim Mirza received the citation twice on the weeks of August 2–5 and 23–26.[10][11][12]
^"UAAP all set to open 70th season on July 7". GMA News Online. Retrieved 2 Jul 2007.
^Cordero, Abac. "Warriors cap historic sweep over Archers". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 14 Sep 2007.
^Cordero, Abac. "Wounded Tigers stay in the hunt". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 18 Sep 2007.
^Cordero, Abac. "Eagles have landed – almost". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 24 Sep 2007.
^Cordero, Abac. "Tigers on a roll, clip Eagles' wings". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 5 Aug 2007.
^"La Salle suspended for 1 year, banned from all UAAP events". GMA News Online. Retrieved 21 Apr 2006.
^Payo, Jasmine. "Tigers beat Archers at last". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 12 Aug 2007.
^"UST's Jervy Cruz is UAAP Season 70 basketball MVP". GMA News Online. Retrieved 7 Oct 2007.
^Ramos, Gerry. "Cruz has come a long way". People's Journal. Retrieved 6 Oct 2007.
^Payo, Jasmine. "Allera puts Tigers back in the hunt". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 24 Jul 2007.
^"UST's Mirza is UAAP Player of the Week". GMA News Online. Retrieved 7 Aug 2007.
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