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.
Northwestern vs. Minnesota - 12:00 pm ET - Big 10 Tournament - Big 10 Network
Richmond vs. Dayton - 9:00 pm ET - Atlantic 10 Tournament - Comcast Network
Richmond (18-14) advanced to the second day of the Atlantic 10 Tournament with a 65-49 win over St. Bonaventure. The Spiders play Dayton tonight in the quarterfinals.
Stanford rallied past Oregon State (13-17) in Pac-10 Tournament play. The Cardinal's 62-54 victory ended the Beavers' season.
Princeton recruit Will Barrett fouled out with five minutes left in regulation, but Central Bucks South still pushed 29-1 York William Penn to triple overtime before falling by four in the PIAA Class AAAA quarterfinals.
Ian Hummer, who was in the stands at the Palestra on Tuesday night, was named Washington Catholic Athletic Conference Player of the Year.
Northwestern tips off at high noon against Minnesota in the start of the Big 10 Tournament.
Among the excerpts of old Frank Deford pieces in the new Princeton Alumni Weekly are three great paragraphs about Butch van Breda Kolff.
The final Schuylkill 16 of the season is out, with Princeton finishing in 10th place overall.
Less than 24 hours after the end of Penn's season, the Quakers' third-leading scorer, Harrison Gaines, has announced he is transferring.
The Ivy League announced its 2008-09 All-Ivy team today. Princeton freshman Douglas Davis (above) and junior center Pawel Buczak were named Honorable Mention All-Ivy. No other Tigers were recognized.
Alex Barnett of Dartmouth is the Player of the Year. Cornell's Chris Wroblewski is Rookie of the Year and Big Red center Jeff Foote is the first Ivy Defensive Player of the Year. You can read the full press release from the league office here.
2008-09 All-Ivy Men's Basketball
First Team
Matt Mullery, Brown (Jr., F, Millstone, N.J.)
Louis Dale, Cornell (Jr., G, Birmingham, Ala.)
*Ryan Wittman, Cornell (So., F, Eden Prairie, Minn.)
*Alex Barnett, Dartmouth (Sr., G/F, St. Louis, Mo.)
Jeremy Lin, Harvard (Jr., G, Palo Alto, Calif.)
* unanimous selection
Second Team
Jason Miller, Columbia (Sr., F, Hamilton, Ohio)
Jeff Foote, Cornell (Sr., C, Lockwood, N.Y.)
Drew Housman, Harvard (Sr., G, Calabasas, Calif.)
Ross Morin, Yale (Sr., F, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Travis Pinick, Yale (Sr., G/F, Orange, Calif.)
Honorable Mention
Peter Sullivan, Brown (So., F, Willmette, Ill.)
Tyler Bernardini, Penn (So., G/F, Carlsbad, Calif.)
Pawel Buczak, Princeton (Jr., C, Moorestown, N.J.)
Douglas Davis, Princeton (Fr., G, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Alex Zampier, Yale (Jr., G, East Greenbush, N.Y.)
Player of the Year
Alex Barnett, Dartmouth
Rookie of the Year
Chris Wroblewski, Cornell (Fr., G, Highland Park, Ill.)
Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson, Douglas Davis & Dan Mavraides:
Princeton head coach Sydney Johnson has cried at the Palestra.
He cried in the locker room his freshman year, his sophomore year and his junior year after his Tiger teams came up short against the Penn Quakers.
A decade later, in his second season as Princeton's head coach, and for the first time in five years, the Tigers went into the Palestra on Tuesday night and came away with a victory.
"I told the guys in the locker room, I cried like a baby when I lost here and I lost here three times. I shed a lot of tears," an emotional Johnson said after his first win over Penn as a coach. "To win in the Palestra, for a young man who wears orange and black, I can't put it into words. To be able to coach a team that's won here, with the way these guys gutted it out...If I try, I'll lose it."
Trailing by a point, sophomore guard Dan Mavraides made four free throws in the final 30 seconds as the Tigers squeaked past Penn by three. Mavraides finished with a game-high 17 and was a perfect 5-5 from the line.
Center Pawel Buczak matched his career high with 15 for Princeton, going 7-7 at the stripe.
Douglas Davis added 10, finishing third all-time behind Chris Young and Spencer Gloger in points scored by a Tiger freshman (333).
Princeton did not miss a free throw, 13-13 on the night.
Zack Rosen scored 13 for Penn, all in the second half.
Princeton ends the season 8-6 in Ivy play (13-14 overall), tied for second place with Yale.
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Sun. 11/10 vs. Florida A&M
Sat. 11/16 at Butler
Wed. 11/20 vs. Lafayette
Sat. 11/23 at Rice
Tue. 11/26 vs. George Mason
Sat. 11/30 at Bucknell
Sat. 12/7 vs. FDU
Wed. 12/11 at Rutgers
Sat. 12/14 at Penn State
Fri. 12/20 vs. Portland*
Sat. 12/21 vs. Pacific*
Tue. 12/31 vs. Kent State
Sat. 1/4 at Liberty
Sat. 1/11 at Penn
Sun. 1/26 vs. Kean
Fri. 1/31 at Harvard
Sat. 2/1 at Dartmouth
Fri. 2/7 vs. Columbia
Sat. 2/8 vs. Cornell
Fri. 2/14 at Brown
Sat. 2/15 at Yale
Fri. 2/21 vs. Dartmouth
Sat. 2/22 vs. Harvard
Fri. 2/28 vs. Yale
Sat. 3/1 vs. Brown
Fri. 3/7 at Cornell
Sat. 3/8 at Columbia
Tue. 3/11 vs. Penn
2,503 - B. Bradley, 1962-65
1,625 - I. Hummer, 2009-13
1,550 - D. Davis, 2008-12
1,546 - K. Mueller, 1987-91
1,451 - P. Campbell, 1959-62
1,441 - C. Robinson, 1979-83
1,428 - B. Earl, 1995-99
1,365 - B. Scrabis, 1985-89
1,321 - G. Petrie, 1967-70
1,292 - H. Haabestad, 1952-55
1,277 - G. Lewullis, 1995-99
1,239 - B. Taylor, 1970-72
1,207 - S. Goodrich 1994-98
1,133 - F. Sowinski, 1975-78
1,130 - R. Hielscher, 1991-95
1,122 - C. Thomforde, 1966-69
1,099 - T. Manakas, 1970-73
1,090 - J. Wallace, 2001-05
1,088 - C. Belz, 1956-59
1,079 - B. Hauptfuhrer, 1973-76
1,076 - B. Roma, 1976-79
1,071 - C. Mooney, 1990-94
1,064 - A. Hyland, Jr., 1960-63
1,062 - L. Brangan, 1957-60
1,057 - A. Hill, 1973-76
1,054 - D. Mavraides, 2007-11
1,044 - S. Johnson, 1993-1997
1,031 - J. Hummer, 1967-70
1,010 - W. Venable, 2001-05
