Monday News:

November 24, 2008 at 10:02 am
Filed under Basketball, Oregon State, Princeton, Richmond, Today's News

Richmond vs. Florida Gulf Coast - 7:00 pm ET - O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic
Yale vs. Oregon State - 10:00 pm ET

Cornell vs. Loyola (Il.) - 5:45 pm ET - NIT Preseason Tip-Off

In addition to the recap we filed yesterday, there are just two reports on the Army game from people who actually saw the action. Click to goprincetontigers.com or goarmysports.com for more.

Richmond plays the first of three games in three days on the FGC campus.

Either Yale or Oregon State will have a their first victory of the season after tonight's meeting in Corvallis.

Finally, just got word that Mercer (1-4) lost a heartbreaker to Harcum on Saturday, 63-60.

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Army pictures.

November 23, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Filed under Basketball, Brian Earl, Photos, Princeton

Pictures courtesy of Stephen Goldsmith.

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Princeton 55 Army 43.

November 23, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Filed under 08-09, Audio, Basketball, Princeton

Box Score

Postgame audio - Pawel Buczak & Doug Davis:

Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson:

Following Princeton's loss to Maine on Wednesday night, Tigers head coach Sydney Johnson felt that despite never trailing in the second half, his team did not have a good understanding that they were controlling the game.

Four days later, in their first road contest of the season, Princeton methodically turned a one point disadvantage at halftime into a 17 point lead as they took complete control of the afternoon and never let up in a 55-43 victory. It was the Tigers' first win on the road since December 30th, 2006.

"They understood," said Johnson of his team. "I thought we played to our strengths. It is a good step forward for us considering the lack of experience. To understand who we are and try to execute knowing who were are and to get the shots and how we need to defend - it's good."

"I have an emotional connection to these guys for a number of different reasons and to see them achieve the way they did tonight, we'll take it and run with it."

Freshman Doug Davis was high man for the Tigers for the third straight game, scoring 19 points on an efficient 8-11 shooting from the floor.

"Coach expects a lot out of us," said Davis. "When each person goes in they have to be ready to play, and I think we really did that tonight. We relaxed, we knew what we were doing, we knew our plays. We just had to execute and we did that."

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Sunday News:

November 23, 2008 at 9:27 am
Filed under Basketball, Denver, Georgetown, Northwestern, Oregon State, Princeton, Today's News

Today's Game: Princeton (0-2 / 0-0) vs. Army (1-2 / 0-0)
Location: Christl Arena - West Point, NY
Time: 2:30 pm ET
Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB
TV: N/A
Internet: goprincetontigers.com
Series History: Princeton leads 22-12.
Last meeting: Army 53 Princeton 52 - 12/29/79 - Rainbow Classic.

Craig Moore hit eight of his school record nine three pointers in the first half as Northwestern (3-0) beat Brown (1-3) in Providence, 73-64.

Georgetown (2-0) defeated Drexel 81-53 behind 20 points from freshman Greg Monroe.

Lamar got the best of Denver (0-2) by the score of 61-48.

Nevada pulled away from Oregon State (0-2) in the final three minutes, topping the Beavers 79-71.

While Princeton already has a 2009 recruiting class that is large in size and high on height, one that is only going to get greater in number (more on that tease soon), here's the story of a 6'10" Canadian who has received interest from Gonzaga and the Tigers.

Comcast has announced that they will shut down CN8 by the end of the year. No word on what this means for the broadcast of Princeton's season finale at Penn.

Around the Ivy League: Colorado rallied past Harvard (1-1) in the second half, 70-59. A shorthanded Cornell (2-2) fell 74-56 at Siena. Dartmouth (0-3) dropped their home opener to Colgate, 65-60. Penn (1-2) picked up their first win of the season, 83-62 over Monmouth. Columbia (2-2) lost the championship game of the Columbia Classic, 66-52 to UMBC.

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Saturday News:

November 22, 2008 at 9:49 am
Filed under Basketball, Denver, Georgetown, Northwestern, Oregon State, Today's News

Drexel vs. Georgetown - 1:00 pm ET
MCCC vs. Harcum - 3:00 pm ET
Northwestern vs. Brown - 7:00 pm ET
Denver vs. Lamar - 8:00 pm ET
Oregon State vs. Nevada - 10:00 pm ET

Harvard vs. Colorado - 4:00 pm ET
Colgate vs. Dartmouth - 7:00 pm ET
Monmouth vs. Penn - 7:00 pm ET
Cornell vs. Siena - 7:00 pm ET
UMBC vs. Columbia - 8:00 pm ET - Columbia Classic

Georgetown kicks off today's action, hosting Drexel this afternoon.

Northwestern is in Rhode Island, paying a return visit to Brown. The Wildcats are looking to start their season 3-0 for the first time in 15 years.

A second straight road game to open the year for Denver. The Pioneers travel to Lamar.

Oregon State plays at Nevada, starting a stretch of four games in eight days.

On Sunday, Konrad Wysocki and the Deutsche Bank Skyliners play Wysocki's brother's team, the New York Phantoms Braunschweig.

Around the Ivy League: Columbia (2-1) advanced to the finals of the Columbia Classic with a 70-54 win over Bryant. Yale (0-3) dropped their first game in Oregon, 77-58 at Portland.

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Craig Robinson on CBS News.

November 21, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Filed under Basketball, Craig Robinson, Oregon State, Video

Oregon State head coach Craig Robinson is profiled by Arden Farhi of the CBS News digital team.

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Friday News:

November 21, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Filed under Basketball, Chris Young, Georgetown, Princeton, Recruiting

Bryant vs. Columbia - 8:00 pm ET - Columbia Classic
Yale vs. Portland - 10:00 pm ET

Noah Savage is out for the next two months because of a fractured finger. SAM Basket Massagno has signed Rutgers' Ollie Bailey to replace Savage on their roster.

The Princeton Packet reports on the Maine/Princeton tilt.

A piece on Chris Young's charity, CY All-Stars. Young was in Anaheim recently to see his friend, "Princeton Goon" George Parros play hockey against the Washington Capitals.

DaShonte Riley has retracted his commitment to Georgetown.

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Coach Sydney Johnson - 11/21/08.

November 21, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Filed under Basketball, Coach Johnson Interview, Princeton

Princeton head coach Sydney Johnson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon caught up at Jadwin Gym on Friday morning to discuss the Tigers' two close losses to start the season and to preview this week's contests on the road at Army and at Fordham. This interview is 18:00+ in length.

Interviews with Coach Johnson appear on this site every week during the season.

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Thursday News:

November 20, 2008 at 9:46 am
Filed under Basketball, Northwestern, Princeton, Today's News

Reports on last night's Maine game are available on goprincetontigers.com, in the Trentonian, the Trenton Times, the Daily Princetonian and on goblackbears.com.

Shakespearean actor, a capella singing group member and Princeton basketball co-captain? Nick Lake is all of the above.

Three links from Princeton Alumni Weekly: Their coverage of the 42 retirement ceremony, an audio excerpt (.mp3) of Bill Bradley's speech from that evening and finally a short preview of the 2008-09 Princeton Tigers.

Northwestern (2-0) won their second straight, 66-48 over Texas A&M - Corpus Christi. In the game, Wildcat Craig Moore set the school record for most career three pointers.

Around the Ivy League: An impressive 62-57 win for Brown (1-2) at Holy Cross. Harvard (1-0) started their season in fine form, collecting an 80-69 victory at New Hampshire.

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Maine pictures.

November 19, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Filed under Basketball, Photos, Princeton

Pictures courtesy of Stephen Goldsmith.

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Maine 58 Princeton 55 (OT).

November 19, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Filed under 08-09, Audio, Basketball, Princeton

Box Score

Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson, Zach Finley & Kareem Maddox:

Princeton led for most of the night, but Maine led when it mattered most - at the final buzzer.

The visiting Black Bears rallied from seven points down with six minutes remaining to force overtime and then held off the Tigers in the extra frame for a 58-55 victory.

Maine improved to 3-0 on the season with the win while Princeton fell to 0-2.

"Our inexperience showed," said Princeton coach Sydney Johnson after the tough loss. "I don't think that we had a good understanding that we were controlling the game. It is painful to have to learn this way."

Freshman Doug Davis was the Tigers' high man for the second straight outing, scoring 14 points on 6-12 shooting. Dan Mavraides added a career-best 13 off the bench, 11 in the first half.

For Maine, Kaimondre Owes recorded 11 and Junior Bernal tallied 10. The Black Bears' leading scorer, Mark Socoby, was 0-6 from the floor and did not score until OT.

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Wednesday News:

November 19, 2008 at 10:06 am
Filed under Basketball, Northwestern, Princeton, Richmond, Today's News

Today's Game: Maine (2-0 / 0-0) vs. Princeton (0-1 / 0-0)
Location: Jadwin Gym - Princeton, NJ
Time: 7:00 pm ET
Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB
TV: N/A
Internet: goprincetontigers.com
Series History: This is the first meeting between the two teams.
Last meeting: This is the first meeting between the two teams.

Texas A&M-CC vs. Northwestern - 8:00 pm ET - bigtennetwork.com

Brown vs. Holy Cross - 7:00 pm ET
Harvard vs. New Hampshire - 7:00 pm ET

Only one preview of tonight's game - it is in the Trentonian.

Town Topics has their story about the Central Michigan game live.

Richmond (1-1) lost to Syracuse 76-71 at the Carrier Dome.

Northwestern hosts Texas A&M - Corpus Christi tonight in Evanston. Wildcat head coach Bill Carmody has more confidence in his bench this season.

Around the Ivy League: In NIT action, Cornell (2-1) rebounded with a 82-72 victory over Loyola (Md.). Penn (0-2) played at Drexel's gym for the first time, walking home with a 66-64 loss. Despite a career-high 28 points by Alex Barnett, Dartmouth (0-2) fell 100-82 to Providence. Yale (0-2) was walloped by Vermont, 89-58.

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