In October 1989, five months after playing his final game in Jadwin Gym, former Princeton guard Bob Scrabis returned to the Tigers’ home court as a member of the New Jersey Nets training camp – postponing a trip to England after receiving an invitation from Nets GM Willis Reed.
Asked about Scrabis and Yale’s Paul Maley ’88, who was also in the Nets’ camp, New Jersey head coach Bill Fitch told the Trenton Times: “I think it’s great that they’re here. I know that Bob, playing for the guy with the cigars, what’s his name? Pete something? I know I won’t have to teach him any fundamentals. I know he’ll have been the best coached guy out there. They have a chance. They can obviously play, otherwise they wouldn’t be here.”
Scrabis strained his hamstring on the second day of camp and was waived nine days later.
Chris Young will make a third rehab start on Saturday night. This time out Young will take the ball for the Lake Elsinore Storm in the first game of the Class A California League Southern Division finals.
Andy Glockner from Sports Illustrated includes the 1998 Princeton team on his list of the most compelling college basketball teams since the early-90s UNLV squad.
Dave Blatt talks to the Associated Press about Thursday’s game between Russia and the United States at the 2010 FIBA World Championship.
Richmond has released their 2010-11 basketball schedule.
A memorial on the Princeton campus for Marvin Bressler will be held on October 10th.
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In addition to the above video, there’s a great piece on Russian national coach and Princeton alum Dave Blatt in today’s New York Times. Russia meets New Zealand later today in the Eighth Finals of the 2010 FIBA World Championship, with the winner likely to face the United States on Thursday.
3 1/3 scoreless innings in his second rehab start for the Portland Beavers yesterday pleased Chris Young.
Georgetown has added a difficult home game versus Utah State to their 2010-11 schedule. The two teams will meet on December 4th.
Drew Crawford scored 21 points as Northwestern won their final game in Italy 77-55 against Pallacanestro Pavia. The Wildcats went 4-0 overseas.
Denver concluded its tour of Spain 4-2 with a four point win over Caja de Avila.
Craig Robinson will be the guest speaker at the United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley’s fundraising lunch on September 16th.
My latest $0.99 eBay steal is another late-1970s Princeton program, this from the Tigers’ first meeting of the 1978-79 season with eventual Final Four participant Penn. On the cover you’ll find 6’11″ senior center Tom “Too Tall” Young (#45).
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John Shurna made all seven of his three point attempts as Northwestern won their second straight game against Italian competition.
Tuesday’s rehab start for Chris Young went well. Young allowed two hits (one a solo home run) over three innings for AAA Portland and threw 24 of his 31 pitches for strikes.
Richmond will play Georgia Tech on December 18th in the Bahamas.
Paul Buker of The Oregonian got a first-hand look at Oregon State’s 2010-11 squad during informal five-on-five action.
Denver dropped its second straight to a top-flight Spanish opponent.
Princeton has announced three additional details about this season’s schedule: The game at Duke will start at 5:00 pm ET. ESPNU has picked up the Tigers’ home game with Harvard and when Princeton hosts Penn, tipoff is at 7:00 pm ET.
Having successfully completed a second simulated game late last week, Chris Young is returning to the mound. He’ll be making a rehab start for the Portland Beavers in Reno on Tuesday.
Speaking of Beavers, the 2010-11 Oregon State basketball schedule has been released. This year’s DC-area game is against Howard the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Denver improved to 2-0 in Spain with an 81-79 victory over Lobe Huesca.
CB Gran Canaria officially introduced Judson Wallace as the newest member of their team.
A near-7 footer from central PA has committed to La Salle over apparent interest from Princeton and other Ivy programs.
Harvard is the latest member of the Ancient Eight to unveil their full basketball schedule.
Marcus Schroeder will go wherever he has the best chance to continue his basketball career.
“I’m trying to play next year. Overseas, anywhere – it doesn’t really matter,” Schroeder said from a hotel in the Emerald City. “I do not have an agent. I’ve been trying to represent myself, using different contacts that I’ve developed throughout my college career.”
While Schroeder, who averaged 5.2 ppg running the point his four years at Princeton and finished his collegiate career fourth all-time in the Tiger record book for assists and fifth all-time in steals, had been focusing his attention on potential opportunities in Europe and Asia, his high school coach Frank Allocco from De La Salle brought an open tryout with the Reno Bighorns of the NBA Developmental League to Schroeder’s attention.
For four hours yesterday afternoon at the Golden State Warriors’ practice facility in Oakland, Schroeder and several dozen free agents competed for a small number of training camp invites.
Former Princeton point guard Marcus Schroeder ’10, seen here driving at Columbia last season, is expected to attend the Reno Bighorns’ open tryouts in Oakland on Saturday.
The camp for the third-year Developmental League franchise will be led by former NBA head coach Eric Musselman.
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