Like Gabe Lewullis, John Rogers (center) is also in Sports Illustrated’s “Where Are They Now?” issue. Rogers can be found in a special section about YouTube sensations.
Bob Scrabis gets a brief mention in the same SI as part of “Men Of The Moment,” which updates the lives of significant players from the last quarter century of NCAA Tournaments. Unfortunately, the picture accompanying Scrabis’ blurb is actually one of Kit Mueller!
Northwestern is off to a good start with their 2012 recruiting class.
The Wildcats’ Alex Marcotullio averaged 13.9 ppg for Great Britain at the FIBA U20 European Championship.
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.
I don’t remember how I talked them into it, but on the first Saturday of March in 1989, I somehow convinced my parents (and extremely skeptical younger sister) that we should load up the car and go to the Princeton/Harvard game outside Boston as a family.
We didn’t head all the way up to Dartmouth the previous night, where the Big Green had been victorious 53-43 over the Tigers. Now the losers of two straight, Princeton needed to win their final conference game to claim the program’s first Ivy League championship in five years.
A loss to the Crimson (who beat the Tigers by six at Jadwin Gym a month previous) combined with a Dartmouth win over Penn and the two teams would end the season tied at 10-4 for the 1988-89 Ivy crown.
Perhaps it was impending history that sold my folks on making this trip? Perhaps I just begged to the proper degree? Whatever it was, this is a game that cemented my teenage love affair with Princeton basketball.
While my memories of the contest two decades later consist solely of the gym at Harvard being extraordinarily dimly lit and the dogpile of orange and black at center court after the final buzzer, I’ve always been glad the 15 year-old me captured three blurry pictures after the game on my tiny camera and kept these grainy documents tucked away in my old bedroom.
The first, of Princeton senior captain Bob Scrabis (#34) talking to WHWH broadcaster David Brody, is scanned above.
Two more pictures and some notes about the game can be found after the jump.
On the heels of last week’s discovery of 1980s Princeton basketball highlights comes another unexpected treat - nine short clips from earlier in the decade documenting a variety of successful Princeton basketball plays.
My educated guess is that this clip and several others after the jump come from the second game of the 1984-85 season, a 51-48 loss at Delaware, as Joe Scott (who would have been a sophomore) and Howie Levy (who would have been a senior) are on the same team. That’s Levy scoring inside above.
I’ve tried to add details where I could figure them out, but if you can contribute additional notes, please share in the comments!
An unexpected find this morning - five short clips from the late 1980s documenting five different successful Princeton basketball plays. I’ve tried to add details where I could figure them out, but if you can contribute additional notes, please share in the comments!
Given the existence of the three point line and Joe Scott (#4) on the floor for the Tigers, I believe the above Alan Williams (#24) to Dave Orlandini (#21) layup comes from a 93-77 win over defending Ivy champion Brown on January 30th, 1987.
That is John Thompson III wearing #22. Also on the floor - Mike Harnum (#30).
Scott scored 23 and Williams added 21 for Princeton, who shot 8-11 from three.
One more from the archives, before I settle down on the couch for today’s games.
I grabbed this off the wall outside of the Wawa on University Place in early 1989.
Scrabis had joined Princeton’s 1,000 point club earlier in the year - on a free throw, pausing to look to his left before shooting as he always did - and would lead his team to the 1989 Ivy League title, clinching the championship with a victory at Harvard in the final game of the season.
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Princeton/Georgetown game.
With that fact in mind, I finally went into my old bedroom at my parents’ house and opened up one of the many boxes I’ve collected over the years labeled “Princeton basketball.”
Near the top of the first box I took out of the closet was a copy of the March 21, 1989 Princeton Packet. I’ve scanned the box score off the cover of the sports section. Click to enlarge.
These boxes are a treasure trove of old magazine articles, newspapers, game programs and photographs that I hope to share over the summer.
In the meantime, you can buy a DVD of this classic NCAA tournament contest here.
Feel free to share your memories of that game in the comments.
My sophomore year in high school was the first season where I started to consistently attend Princeton basketball games. A group of friends and I would sit in the bleachers next to the student section, usually behind the Tiger band, doing a whole lot more yelling and screaming than I do 20 years down the line.
By going to every game, we built a rapport with other regulars in our section at Jadwin, one of whom was the mother of senior Princeton captain Bob Scrabis.
Because she lived in Avon-By-The-Sea, outside of 1350 WHWH’s broadcast radius, she asked us to tape her son’s games off the radio, and I’d give her a cassette of one or two recent contests before the start of the next home game.
At the end of the 1988-89 season, to show her thanks, Ms. Scrabis sent me the above framed enlargement of that year’s pocket schedule, signed by her son.
While it doesn’t technically qualify as a Senior on a Stick, it is still worth sharing.
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