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Thursday News:

Scott Greenman is leaving Georgetown to become an assistant coach on Mike Brennan's staff at American.

Princeton recruit Amir Bell took part in the Southern Jamfest with Team Jersey Elite and earned praise from an observer.

Will Venable is finding his power stroke at home, yet batting him second is causing one writer pain. You can watch video of Venable's seventh home run this season here.

In his most recent start for AAA Syracuse, Chris Young pitched four scoreless innings before allowing damage in his fifth and final frame.



Thursday News:

Basketball is a small world. Princeton recruit Spencer Weisz will join Howie Levy's son Lior and Scott Greenman's brother Michael on the United States' Youth Team coached by Harvard assistant Yanni Hufnagel at the 19th Maccabiah Games in Israel this July.

Kareem Maddox Made both the BBL's Team of the Year and Defensive Team of the Year.

Georgetown's Otto Porter has declared for the NBA Draft while Oregon State's Eric Moreland will remain with the Beavers for another season.

The way 2012-13 concluded still stings for Mitch Henderson.

Chris Mooney will compete in a crosstown cooking competition against VCU's Shaka Smart.

The deep ties John Rogers has to the Obama administration are discussed.



Thirteen years of season openers.

Above, the Jadwin Jungle waits for the opening tip of the 2005-06 season.

This post was originally penned in 2009 as "A Decade of Season Openers." I've added last season's home defeat to Wagner as part of an annual revamp for each upcoming season.

Many of these pieces come from the listserv that predated this web site.

With less than week until the 2012-13 season begins, read on for the stories of the past 13 Tiger tipoffs in sequential order...

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YouTube potpourri LXXVIII.

Here's the latest collection of videos from various corners of the Princeton basketball family. Above, students polled by the Daily Princetonian seem to remember who Doug Davis is.

Six additional videos - primarily footage of recruit Spencer Weisz - follow after the jump.

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Throwback Thursday: three schedule cards.

A lighter "Throwback Thursday" this week, as I really need to finish writing this season's fundraising appeal, so enjoy a trio of schedule cards from the 2000s.

Above, a well-worn Scott Greenman card for the 2005-06 season.

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Thursday News:

Scott Greenman is one of those scheduled to suit up at the 24th Annual Chuck’s 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament.

The Cornell schedule for 2012-13 has been released, allowing the insertion of games versus the Big Red and Columbia in the tentative schedule to your right.

I think it is fair to also expect the Dartmouth/Harvard road trip to be the weekend of February 16th and those two teams to return to Jadwin in reverse order the weekend of March 1st. If Penn concludes the conference slate (as tradition has dictated), the only remaining question is where the first game versus the Quakers slots and whether that would come prior to the exam break or not.

Will Venable (video) dropped in a two run double to give San Diego a lead they would not relinquish versus San Francisco yesterday.



Saturday News:

American vs. Georgetown - 12:00 pm ET - MASN/ESPN3
Central Connecticut vs. Northwestern - 2:00 pm ET
MCCC vs. Frederick (Md.) - 3:00 pm ET - Verizon Center
Boise State vs. Denver - 6:30 pm ET - Root Sports
Richmond vs. Bucknell - 7:00 pm ET

Elon vs. Dartmouth - 12:00 pm ET
Albany vs. Cornell - 2:00 pm ET

Princeton recruit Hans Brase had a big game on the opening day of the Dave Mercer Invitational Tournament.

Fellow future Tiger Mike Washington, Jr. went for 21 in Oak Harbor's loss to Shorewood.

If you spent any time around the Princeton program in the mid-2000s, one constant was Scott Greenman's kid brother Mikey dribbling a basketball everywhere he went. Now a sophomore in high school, the younger Greenman is the centerpiece of a story on the psychological pressure young athletes face.

Georgetown looks to continue an early season roll today versus American.

Going the Verizon Center? Stick around after the game to watch Howie Levy's Mercer County Community College Vikings against Frederick (Md.) on the same floor.

Central Connecticut State visits Northwestern.

Denver hosts Boise State.

It will be interesting to see how Richmond performs at Bucknell.



Princeton vs. Rider: Where it takes nine years to travel 6.6 miles.

I had such a good time putting together Rutgers: Past, Present, Future last week that I decided to dig into the archives once more and pull up what I wrote the prior two times Princeton played Rider. This home and home series took place in 2001 and 2002. Full recaps of both contests can be found after the jump.

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Twelve years of season openers.

Above, the Jadwin Jungle waits for the opening tip of the 2005-06 season.

This post was originally penned in 2009 as "A Decade of Season Openers." I've added last season's game against Rutgers as part of an annual revamp for each upcoming season.

Many of these pieces come from the listserv that predated this web site.

With a week until the 2011-12 season begins, read on for the stories of the past 12 Tiger tipoffs in sequential order...

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2011 Summer Reading (and listening too).

In addition to this site's weekly in-season interviews with John Thompson III, Joe Scott and Sydney Johnson, princetonbasketball.com has produced numerous pieces with former Princeton players over the past decade+.

The summer struck me as a good time to collect the archived links to all of the Q&As, transcripts, email correspondence and audio files into one post for newer members who might have missed some of these when they originally ran.

I believe this is a complete list, but if I'm missing anyone let me know!

-Bill Bradley
-Mike Brennan
-Pete Carril
-Scott Greenman
-Kyle Koncz
-Nick Lake and Noah Savage
-Jimmy Lane
-Howie Levy
-Kevin "Moon" Mullin
-Ed Persia
-Craig Robinson
-Mason Rocca
-Judson Wallace
-Chris Young and Will Venable

Want more? There's also an interview with "Outside The Limelight" author Kathy Orton.

Finally, from back in the "Catching Up With..." listserv days - conversations with Mitch Henderson, Sean Jackson, Sydney Johnson, Jamie Mastaglio, Frank Sowinski and Mike Stephens.



Thursday News:

Scott Greenman has been promoted at Georgetown. He is now the Hoyas' Director of Basketball Operations. Greenman also popped up on Twitter, so I've added him to our updated list of current and former Princeton players working with 140 characters or less.

The Town Topics talked to Noah Savage about the marathon he is running in June.

Craig Robinson continues to make the talk show rounds, including an appearance on the Mike Wise Show (audio). Robinson's Oregon State team will play at the Meadowlands in early November for the championship portion of the Legends Classic.

Later that same month Northwestern will visit Georgia Tech in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. Bill Carmody announced today that Tavaras Hardy is now the Wildcats' associate head coach.

Mitch Henderson is keeping the Princeton pipeline flowing.

Future Tiger Denton Koon was honored with the Kansas City Recruiting Battalion's Top Performer Award.

Dan Mavraides told the Hellenic Voice about his tattoo.



Awards Banquet.

Princeton held its awards banquet in the lobby of Jadwin Gym tonight.

The worthy recipients of honors at the 2010-2011 banquet included:

Class of 1959 Bob Rock Sixth Man Award - Kareem Maddox.
B.F. Bunn Trophy - Dan Mavraides & Kareem Maddox.
Friedman Memorial Award Trophy - Dan Mavraides.

It was the second straight year that Maddox took home the Bob Rock Award and the second straight year where Mavraides heard his name called for the Friedman Award.

All three seniors gave excellent speeches full of genuine laughs and honest emotion as they recalled the journey from a 6-23 freshman season to the 2011 Ivy title.

I was personally extremely honored to be thanked by each of these guys. That's worth saying publicly.

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