There’s a Q&A with Mason Rocca on the Princeton SID web site.
Pawel Buczak files a postcard from his summer vacation in Europe.
Chris Young took another baby step forward, throwing a 38 pitch simulated game on Saturday.
Iona will host Richmond on November 18th.
Denver arrives in Spain on Thursday and will play six games against Liga ACB teams.
Watch a 1999 interview with Bill Bradley on Charlie Rose.
A handful of videos I didn’t find the right moment to post while I was on vacation, starting with a fan-driven campaign to keep Judson Wallace at Treviso.
If you’ve never seen the 1965 Princeton basketball highlight film “The Year of the Tiger” before, it is (finally) available to stream on-line. Much higher quality than my beat-up VHS dub, too!
Bill Bradley discusses the current state of the NBA with SB Nation.
Chicago Magazine interviews John Rogers.
Craig Robinson is profiled by the Los Angeles Daily News.
Team captain Mason Rocca was one of four Armani Jeans Milano players in double figures as the “Little Red Shoes” took a 1-0 series lead over Pepsi Caserta in the Lega A semifinals.
Richmond will play in fifth annual Chicago Invitational.
Not much new on the Will Venable front, so enjoy video of a sliding catch he made in a game versus the Cardinals last week.
This afternoon’s flash thunderstorm means less time spent weeding the front walk and more time spent scanning Princeton basketball programs from the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Anyone know when Sean Jackson wore #31 during a game at Jadwin Gym? My guess was a JV game his “freshman” year, but the cheerleaders in the background poke holes in this theory.
Seven additional images after the jump.
A second MRI confirmed a shoulder strain for Chris Young. He will be re-evaluated in a handful of weeks.
Padres announcer Dick Enberg talked with CBS-8 in San Diego. One of his stories was about how Young gave him a game ball autographed by the team after an Spring Training win.
Back in February, we reported that Bill Bradley would be honored by the NABC with their Court of Honor Award. The gala event is on Monday night, and you can find all the details here.
The Carroll County Times and Frederick News Post have pieces on Robert Burke’s hiring at Mount St. Mary’s.
If you were at Bob Ruxin’s excellent reception after the Princeton/Harvard game, you would have noticed an exceptionally tall high school student there as part of of the Milton Academy basketball team. While the Tigers were one of his potential collegiate destinations, he will instead play for Boston College, Steve Donahue’s first official recruit.
A 6′10″ sophomore center from Illinois has Princeton on his lengthy list of prospective schools.
Northwestern will host Georgia Tech in the 2010 Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
Sean Gregory interviews Ice Cube.
Fordham vs. Richmond - 7:00 pm ET
Penn State vs. Northwestern - 8:30 pm ET - Big Ten Network
In addition to our recap, read about Princeton’s second straight win over Penn on goprincetontigers.com, in the Trentonian, in the Daily Princetonian, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, in the Daily News and on pennathletics.com.
Philly College Sports has more on last night’s game.
Two articles worth reading in the Daily Pennsylvanian , a game story and a column praising Princeton’s defense.
The Princeton Packet story on the Cornell game is live.
Bill Bradley will be honored by the NABC with the Court of Honor Award.
Richmond hosts Fordham tonight. The Times-Dispatch writes about Spiders senior David Gonzalvez, who once sought to leave the team but had a change of heart.
Penn State visits John Shurna and Northwestern.
Princeton recruit Ben Hazel scored 10 as Good Counsel defeated St. John’s, 49-44.
Andy Glockner of Sports Illustrated has a piece on Cornell big man Jeff Foote that was completed after the Big Red’s trip to Princeton.
MCCC vs. Essex - 7:00 pm ET
In advance of Sunday’s game, I did a Q&A with the web site UNC Basketball Fan, which I hope you will read. The reciprocal preview of the Spartans will run on this site on Friday morning.
Princeton recruit Ben Hazel led Good Counsel with 22 points as the Falcons defeated Georgetown Prep, 78-59. You can watch some of Hazel’s highlights here.
Madison Square Garden announced its “All-Time Top 10 College Basketball Moments” on Wednesday. Bill Bradley scoring 41 points in a 1964 loss to Michigan was third on this list.
The latest Schuylkill 16 is out. Princeton sits in 10th place through five weeks of voting.
Around the Ivy League: Harvard (7-2) knocked off Boston College for the second straight year, 74-67. Yale (4-6) beat winless Bryant by 15.
Happy Thanksgiving! Hard to believe, but Christmas and Hanukkah are both less than a month away. Looking for something special to buy for the basketball fan in your life? Don’t go for what’s in the mystery box! Try one of the following items from the 2009 princetonbasketball.com Holiday Gift Guide instead. A percentage of all purchases support this site. Something missing that you think people would enjoy? Please drop a line.
Reading Materials:
Earlier this month I spoke with author Kathy Orton about her new book Outside the Limelight: Basketball in the Ivy League, which follows the league through the highs and lows of the 2005-06 season.
A companion to Orton’s book is Playing the Game: Inside Athletic Recruiting in the Ivy League by Chris Lincoln, the first book to detail the Academic Index and the ins/outs of recruiting in the Ancient Eight.
Alexander Wolff’s Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure starts at Jadwin Gym and then circles the globe, from remote mountaintops to the Palestra and across to China. The first book this web site was ever thanked in!
There’s always The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril, the second book about the legendary Princeton coach.
I’ve read it hundreds of times, but if you’ve never enjoyed John McPhee’s A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton, give it a go this year.
Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference features an introduction by Bill Bradley and has a wide range of scribes (George Vecsey, John Irving, Frank Deford…) telling tales of coaches that impacted their lives.
Bradley is also the author of Values of the Game, The New American Story and Life on the Run.
There was no better, more beautifully detailed basketball book I read this summer than When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball, about Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and the 1978-79 college basketball season. No direct Princeton content, but well worth your time.
He’s written a good deal about Princeton basketball over the ages, but Grant Wahl’s true passion is soccer. The Beckham Experiment: How the World’s Most Famous Athlete Tried to Conquer America looks at the most famous player in the beautiful game’s journey to the MLS.
I know I’m getting the latest iteration for Hanukkah every year, and I love traveling with books in this series. Best American Sports Writing always has incredible pieces written by well-known and newly discovered authors.
Interested in the history of college hoops? Pick up the Official 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Records Book, full of information about every season.
Get lost in the ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men’s Game or Sports Illustrated’s The Basketball Book.
Diagrams and descriptions more your thing? Then perhaps Basketball’s Princeton-Style Offense: A Simplified Approach for High School Coaches will interest you.
Someday I dream of having a web site that looks as good as FreeDarko presents The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac: Styles, Stats, and Stars in Today’s Game does.
Video Games:
The best college basketball video game out there is EA’s NCAA Basketball 10, available for the Playstation 3 and XBox. You can even run the “Princeton Offense” as one of the game’s many sets.
Sporting Goods:
Actually want to play the game? The Wilson NCAA Solution Game Ball lets you use the same basketball as Division I players.
While dribbing, look sharp in this Princeton replica jersey by Nike, available in youth and adult sizes and emblazoned with Bill Bradley’s #42.
How about some Chris Young replica jerseys?
Youth 2009 Majestic Road Khaki Replica #32
Adult 2009 Majestic Road Khaki Replica #32
San Diego Padres Home White MLB Replica Jersey
DVDs (NCAA tournament games):
Relive some of the great postseason moments in Princeton basketball history with these official NCAA videos.
1998 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball 1st Round - UNLV vs. Princeton
1996 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball 2nd Round - Mississippi State vs. Princeton
1996 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball 1st Round - Princeton vs. UCLA
1992 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Regionals - Syracuse vs. Princeton
1991 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Regionals - Villanova vs. Princeton
1989 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Regionals - Georgetown vs. Princeton
DVDs (instructional):
Want to teach the game? Look no further than the following.
Kevin Pigott: The Princeton Offense: Back Door to Success
Lee DeForest: Winning with the Princeton Style Offense
If you have 87 free minutes today, you can stream Bill Bradley & Ken Dryden’s panel from September at Cornell entitled “Lives on the Run: Sports, Service and Leadership” in its entirety.
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Fri. November 12
vs Rutgers
7:00 pm ET
Fri. 11/12 Rutgers
Sun. 11/14 at Duke ##
Mon. 11/22 at James Madison ##
Tue. 11/23 vs. Bucknell ##
Wed. 11/24 vs. Presbyterian ##
Sun. 11/28 Siena
Tue. 11/30 at Lafayette
Sun. 12/5 Saint Joseph's
Wed. 12/8 at Monmouth
Sun. 12/12 at Tulsa
Fri. 12/17 at Wagner
Wed. 12/22 at Towson
Wed. 12/29 vs. Northeastern **
Thu. 12/30 vs. Furman / UCF **
Wed. 1/05 Marist
Sun. 1/23 TBA
Fri. 01/28 Brown
Sat. 01/29 Yale
Fri. 02/04 Harvard
Sat. 02/05 Dartmouth
Tue. 02/08 Penn
Fri. 02/11 at Columbia
Sat. 02/12 at Cornell
Fri. 02/18 at Yale
Sat. 02/19 at Brown
Fri. 02/25 Cornell
Sat. 02/26 Columbia
Fri. 03/04 at Dartmouth
Sat. 03/05 at Harvard
Tue. 03/08 at Penn
## College Basketball Experience
** UCF Holiday Classic
at St. Louis
69-59 L CBI
at IUPUI
74-68 W 2OT CBI
vs Duquesne
65-51 W CBI
vs Penn
68-56 W
vs Harvard
54-51 W
vs Dartmouth
71-43 W
at Columbia
67-52 W
at Cornell
50-47 L
vs Brown
57-54 L
vs Yale
82-58 W
at Penn
58-51 W
vs Cornell
48-45 L
vs Columbia
55-45 W
at Dartmouth
54-38 W
at Harvard
56-53 W
at Yale
58-45 W
at Brown
63-46 W
vs Goucher
88-35 W
at Marist
77-58 W
at Maine
52-50 L
at St. Joe's
70-62 W
vs Wagner
45-42 W
vs Monmouth
46-42 W
at UNC Greensboro
65-50 W
vs Lafayette
62-48 W
at Rutgers
58-44 L
at Cal
81-60 L
at George Washington
65-50 L
vs Army
56-52 L
vs Manhattan
61-54 W
at Central Michigan
71-68 W
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