Basketball - princeton basketball dot com :: georgetown basketball news

Georgetown 80 Marquette 57.

March 12, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Filed under 09-10, Audio, Basketball, Georgetown

Box Score

Postgame audio - Coach John Thompson III, Austin Freeman, Chris Wright & Greg Monroe:

Locker room audio - Coach John Thompson III:

Marquette 62 Georgetown 59.

Syracuse 73 Georgetown 56.

South Florida 72 Georgetown 64

Syracuse 75 Georgetown 71.

If you thought the trio of Austin Freeman, Chris Wright and Greg Monroe had put these four regular season conference losses behind them, you should have seen their faces light up when asked if playing these schools again in the Big East Tournament was providing Georgetown with extra motivation to get back at those teams.

Ten different versions of "yes!" overlapping one another followed from the Hoyas' big three, leaning into their microphones on the podium for emphasis.

Now Georgetown gets a chance to complete its 2010 Revenge Tour on Saturday night in the BET finals against either Notre Dame or West Virginia, two more teams who toppled the Hoyas when they played earlier this season.

"A good friend of mine, after yesterday's game, said 'there's nothing better than Friday night in New York City other than Saturday night in New York City,'" Hoya head man John Thompson III said.

"We're going to show up in New York City on Saturday night."

To secure that date on date night, Georgetown third appearance in the Big East Tournament finals since 2007, the Hoyas turned a 48-47 lead with 13:34 left in regulation into a 78-55 edge by the final two minutes.

Georgetown's last two buckets of this incredible stretch came on feeds by big man Greg Monroe. First Monroe found Jason Clark on a lob cut, then bounced a backdoor pass to Chris Wright to cap off a 23 point, 13 rebound seven assist line.

Read the rest of this entry »

Comments

Postseason chances, Friday edition.

March 12, 2010 at 11:38 am
Filed under Basketball, Princeton

The web site NIT-ology has, as their name might suspect, been projecting the National Invitational Tournament field since the 2004-05 season.

They had 97% of the teams correct last year, 93.8% correct in 2007-08.

Below their projected seeds table, which takes into account the NIT's automatic bids for regular season conference champions that lost in their conference tournament, are a list in red of 33 teams they see as on the NIT bubble - likely candidates for the either the College Basketball Invitational or College Insider Tournament.

While Princeton is not on this list (which includes both Harvard and Northwestern), the picture I see developing favors the Tigers for a postseason bid.

Read the rest of this entry »

Comments (4)

Yale/Princeton highlights.

March 12, 2010 at 10:04 am
Filed under Basketball, Princeton, Video

If you don't like open three point shots and easy layups, this is not the footage for you. Princeton hit 13 times behind the arc at Jadwin Gym and dissected Yale on ESPNU, 82-58.

Comments

Friday News:

March 12, 2010 at 9:47 am
Filed under Basketball, Georgetown, Northwestern, Oregon State, Princeton, Recruiting, Richmond, Today's News

Friday, March 12th
(7) Northwestern vs. (2) Purdue - 6:30 pm ET - ESPN2
Big 10 Tournament

(8) Georgetown vs. (5) Marquette - 7:00 pm ET - ESPN
Big East Tournament

(11) UMass vs. (3) Richmond - 9:00 pm ET - CBS College Sports
Atlantic 10 Tournament

Georgetown (22-9) advanced to the Big East Tournament semifinals by surprising Syracuse, 91-84.

Northwestern (20-12) surged past Indiana 73-58 to hit 20 wins for the first time in program history. The Wildcats forced 13 turnovers in the second half and Michael Thompson made three straight three point shots to rally his team.

A 12 point lead with 16 minutes to play wasn't a large enough lead for Oregon State (14-7), as Washington went on a 23-4 run to secure the 59-52 win in the Pac-10 Tournament.

Richmond opens their A-10 Tournament run against UMass. The Spiders are in an unfamiliar position as they head to Boardwalk Hall.

Princeton recruit Ben Hazel was named First Team All-WCAC.

Future Tiger Chris Clement is Co-District 16-5A MVP.

The Princeton Packet writes about the Tigers' push for the postseason.

Will Venable is swinging the bat well in spring training. Here's video of Venable discussing the art of the stolen base.

Comments

Indiana/Northwestern highlights.

March 12, 2010 at 9:30 am
Filed under Basketball, Northwestern, Video

The Wildcats win their 20th over the Hoosiers.

Comments

Regular season Plus/Minus, with Ivy splits!

March 11, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Filed under +/-, Basketball, Princeton

Princeton's athletic department was good enough to send me plus/minus sheets for the entire regular season, and I've generated my own Ivy-only plus/minus numbers in Excel out of that .pdf.

These dandy columns show the number of minutes played by each Tiger this season and the difference in points scored by the team while each player was on the floor versus points allowed by the Tigers during the same span.

Ivy and non-conference splits are also provided.

 
Player            Minutes    Ivy only    +/-   Ivy   NC
Schroeder         891:03     412:32     +184  +125  +59
Mavraides         855:32     441:03     +176   +98  +78
Hummer            509:44     252:38      +81   +19  +62
Maddox            445:40     353:34     +123   +86  +37
Davis             852:42     427:06     +145  +109  +36
Saunders          489:14     242:40     +140  +113  +27
Buczak            608:26     244:30      +84   +71  +13
Barrett           206:09      53:52      +24    +6  +18
Finley            424:50     270:22      +42   +48   -6
Connolly           73:56      31:39      +20    +2  +18
Foley              21:10       9:17      +13    +2  +11
Comfort            18:51       9:52      +11    +3   +8
Darrow             15:21      10:23       +6    +0   +6
Lake              100:17      13:58      +15   +12   +3
Sherburne          37:08      10:15      -18    -1  -17

Individual single game highs and lows went unchanged in this latest pass. Douglas Davis was +39 against Goucher and Pawel Buczak was -23 at Cal.

Ivy highs and lows were as follows: Patrick Saunders +25 at Columbia and versus Dartmouth. Kareem Maddox scored -11 versus Cornell.

The most successful lineup combination was the one that has played the most minutes together this season. Marcus Schroeder, Dan Mavraides, Pawel Buczak, Douglas Davis and Patrick Saunders were +44 in 197:17 of court time.

The least successful five? The starting lineup for the season opener and the season finale. Lake, Schroeder, Zach Finley, Mavraides and Buczak, combining to go -22 in 24:25 of play.

Compare these numbers to past +/- tables here.

Comments (3)

Georgetown 91 Syracuse 84.

March 11, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Filed under 09-10, Audio, Basketball, Georgetown

Box Score

Postgame audio - Coach John Thompson III, Jason Clark, Chris Wright & Jason Clark:

Locker room audio - Coach John Thompson III:

The risk paid off.

Using a smaller lineup for the last 15 minutes of the second half, Georgetown shot 69.2% from the floor after intermission and knocked top seed Syracuse out of the Big East Tournament in a 91-84 Hoya victory.

"It's a risk, because [Syracuse] is big and they're long, but I thought that was our best offensive group. I thought that if we hustled and scrapped that we could get stops," said Georgetown coach John Thompson III after the game. "That zone is so good you have to have a very good offensive group out there where all five guys can hit shots and make decisions and make plays. We went small for a very, very long period of time but we were able to continually score."

Andy Rautins' catch and shoot three point shot sent Syracuse up 57-48 with 13:43 left in the game, but freshman forward Hollis Thompson answered with a much-needed three from the left corner, found off the dribble by Jason Clark. This began a 25-6 Hoya push with starting big man Julian Vaughn on the bench in lieu of Thompson and at times fellow freshman Vee Sanford.

Despite the Orangemen shooting over 60% from the field, Georgetown was able to stay within striking distance to this point. "We kept scoring, stating the obvious," Thompson remarked with a chuckle.

Read the rest of this entry »

Comments

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.

Comments (9)

Georgetown 69 USF 49.

March 10, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Filed under 09-10, Audio, Basketball, Georgetown

Box Score

Postgame audio - Coach John Thompson III, Jason Clark, Chris Wright & Greg Monroe:

Dominique Jones is going to get his.

The high-scoring South Florida guard, who is averaging 21.3 points per game this season, went for 29 when the Bulls upset Georgetown at the Verizon Center in early February.

In the mind of Hoyas head coach John Thompson III, it wasn't Jones that hurt his team five weeks ago as much as the ancillary USF players did.

Jones scored 29. His teammates combined for 43. The Hoyas lost by eight.

Facing the Bulls a second time to start the second day of the Big East Tournament, Georgetown clamped down on the rest of the South Florida roster and defended Jones as best they could.

Jones got his - 21 points on 6-18 shooting, but he also had six turnovers.

This time the rest of the lineup only added up to 28, 10-37 from the floor (27.0%).

"We wanted him to make tough, difficult shots, which he did. Which he's been doing all year," Thompson said.

Read the rest of this entry »

Comments

2009-10 All-Ivy Men's Basketball.

March 10, 2010 at 11:16 am
Filed under All-Ivy, Basketball, Princeton

The Ivy League announced its 2009-10 All-Ivy team moments ago. Princeton's Dan Mavraides (above) and Douglas Davis were named to the second team.

Ryan Wittman of Cornell is the unanimous Player of the Year. Harvard's Kyle Casey is Rookie of the Year and Big Red center Jeff Foote repeats as Ivy Defensive Player of the Year. You can read the full press release from the league office here.

2009-10 All-Ivy Men's Basketball

First Team
Louis Dale, Cornell (Sr., G, Birmingham, Ala.)
*Jeff Foote, Cornell (Sr., C, Lockwood, N.Y.)
*Ryan Wittman, Cornell (Sr., G/F, Eden Prairie, Minn.)
*Jeremy Lin, Harvard (Sr., G, Palo Alto, Calif.)
*Zack Rosen, Penn (So., G, Colonia, N.J.)

* unanimous selection

Second Team
Matt Mullery, Brown (Sr., F, Millstone, N.J.)
Noruwa Agho, Columbia (So., G, New City, N.Y.)
Jack Eggleston, Penn (Jr., F, Noblesville, Ind.)
Douglas Davis, Princeton (So., G, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Dan Mavraides, Princeton (Jr., G, San Mateo, Calif.)
Alex Zampier, Yale (Sr., G, East Greenbush, N.Y.)

Honorable Mention
Chris Wroblewski, Cornell (So., G, Highland Park, Ill.)
Kyle Casey, Harvard (Fr., F, Medway, Mass.)
Michael Sands, Yale (Jr., F, Franklin Square, N.Y.)

Player of the Year
*Ryan Wittman, Cornell

Rookie of the Year
Kyle Casey, Harvard

Defensive Player of the Year
Jeff Foote, Cornell

Comments (5)