University of Santo Tomas became the first team to breach the 100-point mark in the UAAP Season 88 men’s basketball tournament on Saturday at its own Quadricentennial Pavilion.
The Growling Tigers dismantled University of the East, 111-99, with Nic Cabañero leading the way on offense as usual.
The graduating guard, though, deflected the credit and said his teammates pushed him to headline the highest-scoring output of a UAAP team in recent years.
‘It’s my fifth year here in the UAAP, I already know our approaches with different teams and I just stick to the system given to me,’ he said after UST improved to 3-1.
‘Without my teammates, I wouldn’t score this much. They just give me confidence,’ he added.
Cabañero tallied a team-high 22 points to go along with eight assists, three rebounds and two steals in the squad’s third win of the season.
The Growling Tigers’ victory is also the second-highest scoring output of any team in the post-pandemic era, just behind La Salle’s 112-83 win over-coincidentally-UST in 2022.
Cabañero had plenty of help as Forthsky Padrigao and Collins Akowe also posted 18 points apiece in the win.
UST looks to unload more high-powered offense when it faces Ateneo next Saturday at Blue Eagle Gym.