Today's Game:Princeton (20-4 / 8-0) vs. Brown (9-14 / 2-7) Location: Pizzitola Sports Center - Providence, RI Time: 6:00 pm ET Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB TV: N/A Internet: goprincetontigers.com Series History: Princeton leads 94-25. Last meeting:Princeton 78 Brown 60 - 1/28/11.
Princeton
Brown
10-0
Home Record
6-4
8-3
Away Record
3-10
2-1
Neutral Record
0-0
47
RPI
232
71
Sagarin
246
89
Pomeroy
249
69.4
Points / Game
70.4
62.6
Points Allowed / Game
72.7
.465
FG%
.438
.719
FT%
.735
.366
3PT FG%
.336
35.2
Rebounds / Game
34.3
9.8
Off. Rebounds / Game
8.0
+3.9
Rebounding Margin
-1.7
13.4
Assists / Game
13.8
12.8
Turnovers / Game
12.9
4.5
Blocks / Game
2.8
Hummer: 13.8
Points
P. Sullivan: 13.3
Maddox: 7.3
Rebounds
P. Sullivan: 5.4
Mavraides: 2.9
Assists
McGonagill: 5.0
Davis: 1.4
Steals
Halpern: 1.0
Maddox: 2.0
Blocks
McCarthy: 0.8
Maddox: .578
FG% (Min: 10 FGM)
Walker: .581
Mavraides: .783
FT% (Min: 10 FTM)
Leffelman: .854
Mavraides: .405
3PT FG% (Min: 10 3FGM)
Williams .389
Oregon State vs. Oregon - 4:00 pm ET - FSN
Northwestern vs. Indiana - 7:00 pm ET - Big Ten Network
Georgetown vs. USF - 7:00 pm ET - ESPN+
Dartmouth vs. Cornell - 7:00 pm ET
Penn vs. Yale - 7:00 pm ET
Harvard vs. Columbia - 7:00 pm ET
Bill Cloutier of the New Haven Register has a "live blog" and some additional words here.
I missed two late previews yesterday. Here's what the Trenton Times and the Trentonian had to say.
Pete Carril stopped by the final practice of McClatchy High School women's basketball coach Harvey Tahara. After 40 seasons of coaching, Tahara's final game is today at Sacramento High.
Princeton recruit Denton Koon had 27, including a sweet left-handed dunk in the face of a Grandview defender, as the BlueJays won their final game of the regular season.
48 hours after hosting Iowa, Northwestern travels to Indiana. Bill Carmody is less than thrilled about this Big 10 scheduling quirk.
Round two of the Civil War sees Oregon State visit Oregon.
Mercer will host Morris in the first round of the Region XIX tournament on Monday night. The Vikings' Gary Carthan was named 2010-11 All Region Second Team.
Around the Ivy League: Harvard (19-4 / 8-1) defeated Cornell (6-17 / 2-7) by 13 in Ithaca. Penn (10-12 / 4-4) got 26 points from Tyler Bernardini in a 70-62 Quaker win at Brown (9-14 / 2-7). Columbia (14-9 / 5-4) knocked off Dartmouth (5-18 / 1-8) at home, 67-60.
Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson, Dan Mavraides & Kareem Maddox:
Princeton did just about everything well but shoot and it was enough.
The Tigers led the entire way, fending off a pair of Yale second half rallies, holding the Bulldogs to 37.8% from the floor.
With their advantage cut to 52-49 in the final two minutes on Reggie Willhite's explosive left baseline dunk, Kareem Maddox posted up inside, spun into the lane and hung in the air as Greg Mangano fouled him on the elbow while the ball floated through the netting. Maddox's three point play doubled the Tiger lead - which stayed at two possessions through the final buzzer.
"This game was an absolute dogfight," said head coach Sydney Johnson. "I'm not saying we were going to win [after Yale drew within three], but we had been in those moments before."
"We weren't afraid of the moment."
Maddox finished with 16 points and nine rebounds on 5-12 shooting. Fellow senior Dan Mavraides put up 15 and a career best 10 boards despite going 4-14 on the evening.
Mangano ended Friday with his traditional double-double (15 and 12) but was bothered by an assortment of Princeton defenders (Maddox, Patrick Saunders, Brendan Connolly and Mack Darrow) so that when the ball went inside to the likely All Ivy center it could not come back to the perimeter. Mangano had six turnovers and no assists. The Tiger guards sagged but were still able to cover the arc - both of Yale's three pointers (2-9) belonged to Mangano - one a wild bank with the shot clock expiring.
The Tigers hit a season low 31.6% of their attempts (18-57) but stellar defensive possessions and a 19-25 clip at the line (76.0%) aided the cause.
Today's Game:Princeton (19-4 / 7-0) vs. Yale (12-10 / 5-3) Location: John J. Lee Amphitheater - New Haven, CT Time: 7:00 pm ET Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB TV: YES Internet: goprincetontigers.com Series History: Princeton leads 142-81. Last meeting:Princeton 67 Yale 63 - 1/29/11.
Princeton
Yale
10-0
Home Record
7-2
7-3
Away Record
5-7
2-1
Neutral Record
0-1
52
RPI
142
73
Sagarin
162
91
Pomeroy
168
69.9
Points / Game
68.5
69.3
Points Allowed / Game
67.0
.472
FG%
.445
.717
FT%
.737
.376
3PT FG%
.355
35.0
Rebounds / Game
34.0
9.6
Off. Rebounds / Game
9.1
+3.8
Rebounding Margin
+0.2
13.6
Assists / Game
12.8
13.0
Turnovers / Game
14.0
4.5
Blocks / Game
4.5
Hummer: 14.0
Points
Mangano: 16.0
Maddox: 7.2
Rebounds
Mangano: 9.7
Mavraides: 2.9
Assists
Morgan: 3.3
Davis: 1.4
Steals
Willhite: 1.3
Maddox: 2.0
Blocks
Mangano: 2.9
Maddox: .588
FG% (Min: 10 FGM)
Grace: .541
Mavraides: .786
FT% (Min: 10 FTM)
Braswell: .821
Mavraides: .415
3PT FG% (Min: 10 3FGM)
Morgan .459
Penn vs. Brown - 7:00 pm ET
Harvard vs. Cornell - 7:00 pm ET
Dartmouth vs. Columbia - 7:00 pm ET
ESPN's Jay Bilas named Kareem Maddox one of the "most respected players" in college basketball.
The Harvard Crimson compares each Ivy League team to a 2011 Academy Awards nominee for Best Picture.
Bob Nuse of the Princeton Packet could get his long-called for "Pete Carril Classic" - in the NCAA Tournament.
Will Venable traveled to watch his younger brother play in the Las Vegas Bowl and filmed highlights of his trip.
Georgetown big man Henry Sims is running for vice president of the school's student body.
Temple shot 55.6% from the field and bested Richmond (20-7) by 20.
Northwestern (15-10) held on to defeat Iowa, 73-70.
With a 65-37 win over UL-M, Denver (13-13) returns to first place in the Sun Belt West. The Pioneer Post has more on the game.
Mercer (14-15) was outscored by 29 in the second half of a 85-55 loss to Lackawanna. The Vikings will play a Region XIX playoff game versus an as-yet-unknown opponent on Monday.
For the 11th time this season, Tigers head coach Sydney Johnson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon met at Jadwin Gym to record a one-on-one interview. The pair went over Princeton's sweep at Columbia and Cornell, previewed this weekend's trip to Yale and Brown and concluded by talking about how despite two victories this has been a sad and painful week for the players and the staff.
This Q&A is 20:00+ in length.
Interviews with Coach Johnson will appear on this site every week during the 2010-11 season.
Richmond vs. Temple - 7:00 pm ET - CBS College Sports
MCCC vs. Lackawanna - 7:00 pm ET
Iowa vs. Northwestern - 9:00 pm ET - Big Ten Network
Louisiana-Monroe vs. Denver - 9:00 pm ET
John Templon of Chicago College Hoops makes the argument that Bill Carmody should stay at Northwestern.
Crack of dawn "boot camp" practices are back at Oregon State.
Princeton/Harvard is officially sold out. Bob Ruxin informs me that he has roughly 30 tickets left for the game and the PANE reception. If you want to make sure you're in the gym on March 5th, contact him ASAP.
The latest collection of videos from various corners of the Princeton basketball family. Above Hoya Hoops' debut episode of "Georgetown Breakdown." Game highlights and additional videos after the jump.
With Princeton at the mid-point of Ivy play, the Tiger athletic department was nice enough to update this season's plus/minus numbers. I've generated my own Ivy-only and DI-only plus/minus numbers in Excel out of that document.
The first chart shows the number of minutes played across the first 23 games this season and the difference in points scored by Princeton while each player was on the floor versus points allowed by the Tigers during the same span.
The second chart shows the same information for non-conference games only, followed by non-conference versus DI opponents and Ivy-only data.
I've also broken down +/- per 40 minutes for all players who have seen at least 100 minutes of action and added Net/40 numbers ("Roland Rate") with inspiration from Hoya Prospectus. This data has been split into non-conference and Ivy-only as well.
princetonbasketball.com was founded on April 28th, 1998 in an attempt to provide fans of the Princeton Tigers and Ivy League basketball with the best on-line source for up-to-date news and information. We have since expanded to launch a companion site, Georgetown Basketball News.
As these sites have continued to grow we have increased our coverage to include additional teams with Princeton connections - the Richmond Spiders, Denver Pioneers, Oregon State Beavers, Fairfield Stags and Mercer County Community College Vikings - plus former Tigers playing professional baseball and basketball all over the world. This site is not directly affiliated with the Friends of Princeton Basketball, Princeton University or the Princeton athletic department.
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
