PBA draft by numbers

The PBA draft will take place at Market! Market! in Taguig this afternoon and with the expectation of a bumper crop, the No. 1 overall pick is anybody’s guess. It could be Stephen Holt of St. Mary’s College or Ricci Rivero of La Salle/UP or Zavier Lucero of California State University Maritime Academy/UP or Luis Villegas of Stanislaus State/UE or Deschon Winston of Central Michigan University/La Salle or Keith Datu of Chico State. Terrafirma has the first crack and coach Johnedel Cardel could pick either the best available talent at any position or the top big man to complement star guard Juami Tiongson.

From an original list of 128 applicants, the list was trimmed to 124. Here’s how the draft looks by the numbers.

4 – Struck out from the roster of draft applicants: 5-9 1/4 Justin Caganda, 22, of Marikina Polytechnic, 5-7 Ivan Sanchez, 20, of Arellano, 6-7 1/2 Tsutomu Tateishi, 25, of UST/Benilde and 5-6 1/2 Dickson Ty, 30, of La Salle. Caganda and Ty failed to show up on the second day of the draft combine at Gatorade Hoops Center, Mandaluyong. Sanchez never appeared. Tateishi withdrew his application.

3 – Players with US NCAA D-1 creds: 6-4 Holt, 6-1 1/2 Winston, 6-6 Christian David of Butler University.

33 – Players standing less than 6-0. The shortest is 5-5 3/ 4 Raphael Mallari of Adamson.

12 – Players standing at least 6-6. The tallest is 6-9 1/4 Cliff Jopia of San Beda.

2 – Players who are 31. The oldest in the batch: Holt and 6-1 1/ 4 Richard Velchez of New Era.

11 – Players weighing at least 220 pounds with 6-4 3/4 Henry Galinato of Benedictine University at Mesa/UP the heaviest at 245.

1 – Player who is 22, the youngest in the batch: 6-0 Shean Jackson of Cheyenne High School, Las Vegas.

9 – Countries where the players were born in: USA (8), Australia (2), New Zealand (3), Saudi Arabia (2), Italy, Hong Kong, Thailand, Qatar and the Philippines.

10 – Players from San Sebastian College, the most from any school. They are Camillus Altamirano, Michael Are, Larry Arpia, Raymond Binuya, Romel Calahat, Anmar Cosari, Ryan Costelo, Jessie Sumoda, Kenneth Villapando and Rhinwill Yambing. Ateneo is next in the ladder with eight players – BJ Andrade, Matthew Daves, Andree Flores, Inand Fornilos, Pat Maagdenberg, Troy Mallillin, Jolo Mendoza and Raffy Verano. UST, Mapua and UE are contributing seven each. From UST are Regie Basibas, Enrique Caunan, Sherwin Concepcion, Ian Herrera, Bryan Santos, Jose Gomez de Liano and Zach Huang. The Cardinals are Warren Bonifacio, Christian Bunag, Darrell Menina, Adrian Nocum, Jeric Pido, Jeffrey Sapinit and Laurenz Victoria. The Red Warriors are Leon Lorenzana, Nikko Paranada, Buenaventura Raflores, Richard Rodger, Jan Sobrevega, Hero Tomilloso and Villegas.

29 – Fil-foreign players who are draft applicants.

4 – PBA teams with two first-round picks: Terrafirma (Nos. 1, 12), Rain or Shine (Nos. 3, 4), Converge (Nos. 9, 10) and NorthPort (Nos. 5, 11).

4 – PBA teams with no first-round pick: San Miguel Beer, Barangay Ginebra, Magnolia and TNT.