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Thursday News:

March 11, 2010 at 8:31 am
Filed under Basketball, Georgetown, Northwestern, Oregon State, Princeton, Richmond, Today's News, Will Venable

Thursday, March 11th
(8) Georgetown vs. (1) Syracuse - 12:00 pm ET - ESPN
Big East Tournament

(10) Indiana vs. (7) Northwestern - 5:00 pm ET - ESPN2
Big 10 Tournament

(6) Oregon State vs. (3) Washington - 11:40 pm ET - FSN
Pac-10 Tournament

Friday, March 12th
(11) UMass vs. (3) Richmond - 9:00 pm ET
Atlantic 10 Tournament

Georgetown (21-9) won a ragged game over South Florida to advance into the Big East Tournament quarterfinals.

A good piece by Brendan Prunty in the Star Ledger about how overwhelmed by support Austin Freeman has been since it was discovered he has diabetes.

Northwestern meets Indiana yet again on the first day of the Big 10 Tournament.

Wildcat sophomore John Shurna was named the nation's Most Improved Player by the Sporting News.

Bill Carmody conducted an interesting on-line Q&A with ESPNChicago.com.

Oregon State plays late tonight against Washington as the Pac-10 Tournament gets underway.

Sydney Johnson and John Thompson III are both finalists for the Ben Jobe National Coach of the Year Award.

Dick Jerardi had a piece about Tuesday's Penn/Princeton game in the Philadelphia Daily News.

Bob Slaughter is profiled as part of the Rockford Register Star's series on college stars from the Rock River Valley.

Here's the Princeton Athletic Department's press release about the Tigers' All-Ivy award winners.

Richmond has developed considerable depth as the season has gone on.

Will Venable hit a three run home run in yesterday's spring training action.

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Peter Clapman said,

March 11, 2010 @ 10:12 am

Interesting that a team that was 12 points away from going 14-0, places no player on the first team. Also looking at the first team, every one except Foote was successfully defensed by Princeton. One glaring issue, Dale, who when guarded and guarding Davis was totally overmatched by Davis. Congrats to the second team selectees but something wrong with the voting.
Peter

Jon Solomon said,

March 11, 2010 @ 10:36 am

Peter,

I'd disagree that Dale was overmatched by Davis. Up in Ithaca, Davis shot 2-11 from the floor.

That being said, I think most associated with the Princeton program would trade 11-3 in the league for a first team All-Ivy nod.

Jon

Rodney Johnson said,

March 11, 2010 @ 11:19 am

The Cornell Basketball Blog says that Sydney Johnson has been mentioned as a potential replacement coach for some program somewhere (no details provided). This is of course my worst nightmare. I could not find anything on the web about this.

Jon: have you heard anything?

Rod

Jon Solomon said,

March 11, 2010 @ 12:07 pm

Rodney,

Consider the source, especially since the site doesn't cite one.

Jon

R.W. Enoch, Jr. said,

March 11, 2010 @ 1:01 pm

Jon,

Creighton and George Mason have already been invited and accepted to host opening round CIT games, with Missouri State publicizing its bids to play in either CBI or CIT.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/10/AR2010031003723.html
http://www.omaha.com/article/20100310/BLUEJAYS/703109841/0
http://www.news-leader.com/article/20100310/SPORTS040101/3100468/Missouri-State-makes-bids-to-host-CBI-CIT-games-but-hope-to-make-the-NIT

Notably, George Mason' RPI is significantly lower than Princeton's.

Any indication from Princeton Athletics about what's going on with the Tigers?

R.W.

Jon Solomon said,

March 11, 2010 @ 6:07 pm

Thanks for those links. I hope to find the time to make a NCAA/NIT/CBI/CIT table in the coming days.

I've received no word about the postseason, but I'd be ok with Princeton traveling to George Mason for a CIT game. Good matchup.

Stuart Schulman said,

March 11, 2010 @ 10:07 pm

Does the CBI have enough of a sense of humor to send U. Denver (19-13) to Jadwin Gym? Lousy RPI but with 19 wins perhaps they will play somewhere...

Jon Solomon said,

March 11, 2010 @ 10:25 pm

Winner plays at Northwestern?

Georgetown's win today probably got them out of the potential Hoyas/Cornell matchup.

Temple/Big Red anyone?

Jon

Stuart Schulman said,

March 11, 2010 @ 10:58 pm

Temple/Big Red and Donahue vs Dunphy has been on my radar for weeks. Would be fascinating and a good matchup.

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