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Tigers maul Warriors to bolster Final Four bid

The University of Santo Tomas Growling Tigers mauled the University of the East Red Warriors, 97-70, at the Smart Araneta Coliseum Wednesday, November 11, 2026 to strengthen their UAAP Season 89 men's basketball Final Four bid.

UST pulled away from a 12-9 lead against UE with a 23-10 run to end the first canto with a 35-19 lead and never looked back.

The Growling Tigers continued their onslaught of the Red Warriors and led by as many as 31 points, 91-60, following a 3-point play completion by Andrew Chio with 5:35 left.

Taking its second straight win, UST improved to 6-6 for fifth place.

UE dropped to 1-11.

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00:00Thank the UST community, Father Rodel, we want to thank you, Father Rector, also.
00:06This is the testament of what we do behind the scenes.
00:10Peter was never not a part, he was always a part of the team.
00:15We have two FSAs and he's the other one.
00:17It turned out well for today, so he's going to give us problems in the future to Coach Pido and
00:25the managers and the rest.
00:26So, we're so happy with the way he performed today and we're looking forward to maybe giving him another opportunity.
00:35Hey, smile.
00:39I'm just about well with Coach.
00:43Today, I just stick with what the coaches told me.
00:49I play, nothing special, just play with the team, do my job, that's it.
00:58That's all.
00:59I'm very happy for Peter because I've seen his work every single day he's working out and he's always present
01:17in our practice.
01:18So, that's why I'm so happy because he gave us an opportunity to play this season and now he's clean
01:26up, so I'm very happy for him.
01:29That's part of it, the matchup with UE.
01:32The first time we played them, they were running and running and we said that we needed an FSA who
01:37would match the energy.
01:39If you remember our first game versus UE, it was a close one, but we were up by 25 and
01:45then suddenly we just, some of the players relaxed and then we didn't want that to happen again, so we
01:50know that this guy will give energy to us.
01:53And secondly, this is a second game of a three-game stretch.
01:57We have Athene who's playing after us and we have them on Sunday, we want, we're going, we want to
02:06use whoever FSA we're going to use for that game to be fresher than if he played a three-game
02:13stretch.
02:15I just focused on the game, focused on the next game, focused on defense.
02:20First of all, I'm here to play, I was here to play defense for all of the team.
02:24So, yeah, I, I, I stayed focused by listening to the coaches and the team tenders.
02:33Oh, it'd be, I, where I used to be in the R1 to pressure myself, like, echo this, so, and
02:40it's one, one of the, one of the players in the U.S.T. I look up to, um, I
02:44know I have been in U.S.T. before in, but, uh, I'm still learning, so I learned from him,
02:49so I just listened to it at Paris and it's applied to the game as well.
02:53So, uh, for me po kasi, uh, during these times na po na, yun, medyo nagkakaroon na kami ng momentum,
03:01so, uh, gusto ko lang na, may baling yung kumpiansa ko, then yung kumpiansa din ang team, so, parang ang
03:08mindset ko na lang is, keep, keep pushing na lang, keep moving forward, whatever happens, happens, so, uh, parang gala
03:16lang po yung nagiging mindset ko all throughout this game, so, uh, yun, uh, syempre, uh,
03:22uh, lahat naman ang pinaghihirapan ko na kami, siguro, talagang narinawar dyan, so, yun, uh, very proud of this team
03:29kasi, patuloy po kami niyong halaman.
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