UST Growling Tigers basketball
Intercollegiate men's basketball program
The UST Growling Tigers basketball is the intercollegiate men's basketball program of the University of Santo Tomas. The school has won 19 basketball titles including one in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). They are one of the winningest teams in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) with 18 championships, the last coming in 2006 during Pido Jarencio's rookie year of coaching. Jarencio returned as the team's head coach after ten years since resigning in 2013. He formally replaced Bal David on February 3, 2023.
Schedule overview
The Growling Tigers' preparation for the season begins in late-March, or at the tail end of the academic year. It was recently moved to late-April following a shift in the opening of the school calendar from June to August. UST usually plays in two major preseason tournaments for two to three months and they sometimes join provincial pocket tournaments in the lead-up to the UAAP tournament. On many occasions, a Team B lineup from their training pool is fielded to competitions that run parallel to another tournament.
Among the offseason tournaments that the Growling Tigers participate in are the Filoil Flying V Preseason Cup, the MILCU U-25 Summer tournament, the Breakdown Basketball Invitational tournament, PBA D-League Aspirants' Cup and the Father Martin Cup.
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