Indiana/Northwestern highlights.
All five starters in double figures as the Wildcats win their fifth Big Ten game.
Monday News:
Northwestern (16-7) beat Indiana for the third straight time, 78-61.
Former Princeton player Luke Owings was at the Harvard game and has posted his observations.
Bruce Wood wrote the Basketball-U Gamecenter for Princeton/Dartmouth.
In addition to the Daily Princetonian review of the weekend’s games, Ashley Wolf guests with a piece on how the only way she could get into Lavietes Pavilion was by sitting on press row.
The Dartmouth provides the Big Green’s side of Saturday’s game.
Updated Plus/Minus numbers.
For the third time this year, Princeton’s athletic department was nice enough to update this season’s plus/minus numbers.
This handy chart shows the number of minutes played by each Tiger this season and the difference in points scored by the team while each player was on the floor versus points allowed by the Tigers during the same span.
Player Minutes +/- Schroeder 604:22 +114 Mavraides 538:58 +113 Hummer 331:36 +76 Maddox 190:38 +76 Davis 555:22 +67 Saunders 318:08 +63 Buczak 448:53 +33 Barrett 170:38 +23 Finley 214:59 +19 Connolly 50:56 +11 Foley 15:07 +7 Comfort 12:13 +4 Darrow 6:23 +4 Lake 100:17 +3 Sherburne 26:53 -17
Individual single game highs and lows have not changed. Douglas Davis was +39 against Goucher and Pawel Buczak was -23 at Cal.
The most successful lineup combination is still the one that has played the most minutes together. Marcus Schroeder, Dan Mavraides, Pawel Buczak, Douglas Davis and Patrick Saunders are +41 in 145:00 of court time.
The least successful five? Lake, Schroeder, Zach Finley, Mavraides and Buczak, combining to go -19 in 20:04 of play.
Finley has jumped from -6 to +19 after four Ivy games.
Schroeder improved from +59 to a team-best +114 during this stretch.
Compare these numbers to past +/- tables here.
Super Bowl Sunday News:
Indiana vs. Northwestern - 2:30 pm ET - Big Ten Network
In addition to our recap, read about Princeton’s fourth straight Ivy win on goprincetontigers.com and on dartmouthsports.com.
Former high school teammates Patrick Saunders and Dartmouth reserve Kirk Crecco are the subject of a piece in the Concord Monitor.
Jason Clark was 6-7 from three point range on his way to a career high 24 and Georgetown (17-5) beat #2 Villanova, 103-90.
Richmond (18-6) made a statement with a 71-54 win over #17 Temple.
The game between Harcum and Mercer was snowed out and will be played on February 18th.
Denver (14-9) got back on track, besting Florida Atlantic by 10. The Pioneers have won 13 straight at home.
Oregon State (10-12) made it a perfect Saturday for the “Carril Cradle,” sweeping the Civil War from Oregon by 20.
Luka Mirkovic and Northwestern host Indiana.
Around the Ivy League: Cornell (20-3 / 6-0) needed to close on a 16-4 run to stop Brown (7-16 / 1-5), 74-60. Yale (9-14 / 3-3) took a 19 point halftime lead and coasted past Columbia (8-12 / 2-4). Harvard (15-5 / 4-2) mixed up their starting lineup and raced by Penn (3-15 / 2-2), 80-66.
Princeton 54 Dartmouth 38.
Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson:
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Postgame audio - Ian Hummer & Pawel Buczak:
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Letdown to shutdown.
After a uninspired first half rightfully put Princeton down 21-19 on the road at Dartmouth, a stellar defensive performance was the spark.
The Tigers outscored the Big Green 35-15 before the benches emptied, on their way to their largest margin of victory in Hanover since 1998.
“You have to bring your energy and focus every time out,” said Princeton head coach Sydney Johnson. “I did think that missing a few chippies and some threes let us settle into a funk and thankfully we were able to get out of that at halftime.”
One night after limiting Harvard to 36.0% shooting, Dartmouth connected at a similar 36.4% clip.
Ian Hummer scored a team-best 11 off the bench and while Kareem Maddox did not have the same impact in the scoring column that he did one night previous versus Harvard, he did grab nine boards, hand out three assists and block two shots. The length of both players caused Dartmouth fits once Princeton’s defensive adjustments limited the Big Green’s drives.
“We knew coming out of halftime that we had to play with more energy and be more aggressive,” said senior center Pawel Buczak, who scored seven points after the break. “Once we started out quickly in the second half it just kept going.”
Robbie Pride’s 10 led Dartmouth in defeat.
Villanova/Georgetown postgame.
Century of the Storm! Hoyas break triple digits in 103-90 victory over #2 Villanova.
Here’s footage of John Thompson III, Greg Monroe, Jason Clark & Austin Freeman speaking with the media after the game.
Not pictured: 30″ of snow outside the Verizon Center.
Saturday News:
Today’s Game: Princeton (12-5 / 3-0) vs. Dartmouth (4-15 / 0-5)
Location: Leede Arena - Hanover, NH
Time: 7:00 pm ET
Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB
TV: N/A
Internet: goprincetontigers.com
Series History: Princeton leads 136-61.
Last meeting: Dartmouth 66 Princeton 63 - 2/21/09.
| Princeton | Dartmouth | |
| 5-1 | Home Record | 4-6 |
| 7-4 | Away Record | 0-9 |
| 0-0 | Neutral Record | 0-0 |
| 111 | RPI | 326 |
| 130 | Sagarin | 334 |
| 119 | Pomeroy | 332 |
| 59.9 | Points / Game | 54.1 |
| 53.8 | Points Allowed / Game | 64.5 |
| .429 | FG% | .385 |
| .740 | FT FG% | .625 |
| .364 | 3PT FG% | .283 |
| 29.7 | Rebounds / Game | 29.9 |
| 8.5 | Off. Rebounds / Game | 10.5 |
| -0.9 | Rebounding Margin | -7.2 |
| 12.0 | Assists / Game | 10.5 |
| 13.8 | Turnovers / Game | 14.1 |
| 3.2 | Blocks / Game | 2.5 |
| Davis: 13.7 | Points | Dixon: 8.3 |
| Mavraides: 4.8 | Rebounds | LaBove: 4.8 |
| Schroeder: 3.5 | Assists | Pride: 2.2 |
| Schroeder: 2.1 | Steals | Rufful: 1.6 |
| Buczak: 0.8 | Blocks | Weeden: 0.6 |
| Finley: .583 | FG% (Min: 10 FGM) | Pride: .429 |
| Schroeder: .875 | FT% (Min: 10 FTM) | Dixon: .767 |
| Saunders: .486 | 3PT FG% (Min: 10 3PTM) | Trotter: .341 |
Villanova vs. Georgetown - 12:00 pm ET - ESPN
Temple vs. Richmond - 2:00 pm ET - ESPNU
Harcum vs. MCCC - 3:00 pm ET
Florida Atlantic vs. Denver - 6:00 pm ET
Oregon vs. Oregon State - 6:00 pm ET - FSN NW
Brown vs. Cornell - 7:00 pm ET
Yale vs. Columbia - 7:00 pm ET
Penn vs. Harvard - 7:00 pm ET
In addition to our recap, read about Princeton’s triumph over Harvard on goprincetontigers.com, in the Boston Herald, in the Boston Globe, in the Crimson and on gocrimson.com.
Princeton assistant Brian Earl is interviewed by The Central Record.
College Hoops Net spoke with Sydney Johnson before yesterday’s game.
Weather permitting, Georgetown looks to rebound against #2 Villanova. The Washington Post has more on this game.
Down the road, Richmond welcomes Temple to the Robins Center.
Oregon pays a visit to Oregon State.
Denver is back at home for a game against Florida Atlantic.
Princeton recruit T.J. Bray scored 23 as Catholic Memorial bested Waukesha West by six.
Here’s a Princeton Packet article published prior to the Harvard/Dartmouth weekend.
Around the Ivy League: Cornell (19-3 / 5-0) stayed perfect in the conference, beating Yale (8-14 / 2-3) by a 90-71 score. Columbia (8-11 / 2-3) rallied for a 65-54 win over Brown (7-15 / 1-4). Penn (3-14 / 2-1) survived four shots by Dartmouth (3-15 / 0-5) in the final 15 seconds of a 53-51 Quaker win.
Princeton 56 Harvard 53.
Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson, Kareem Maddox, Marcus Schroeder & Dan Mavraides:
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The question came last, from the back of the abandoned locker room turned into a makeshift press conference location.
It was directed at senior co-captain Marcus Schroeder, after Princeton’s unexpected 56-53 win at Harvard to improve to 3-0 in Ivy League play.
How had things changed since his first year as a Tiger?
Schroeder danced around an answer before settling on a satisfactory sentence.
“I don’t think it is time to look back yet. We have some more work to take care of.”
That work includes 11 more Ivy contests, which Schroeder hopes will turn out the same way tonight’s game did.
Jeremy Lin’s deep three point shot at the buzzer came up short of the mark and Princeton was able to escape a hostile Lavietes Pavilion with the victory - the first team to beat Harvard at home this year.
Junior forward Kareem Maddox, who was part of a team defensive effort that troubled Lin into 6-16 shooting, scored a season high 14 off the bench, finishing three different backdoor lobs from Schroeder.
“Kareem does a great job of cutting and he’s long,” Schroeder said. “I just kind of lob it up there and he does of a good job of going and getting it and then he takes his time and finishes it.”
Dan Mavraides also had 14 for Princeton, including a three from the far corner off an inbounds pass from Schroeder that put the Tigers up 47-33 with 4:55 to go.
A furious Crimson comeback ended with Lin pulling up from several steps behind the arc and hoisting a shot that bounded harmlessly off the front rim.
Lin finished with 19, but had difficulty finding unobstructed paths to the basket throughout the night.
