I wrote a piece for the latest Princeton Alumni Weekly reviewing Princeton's non-conference results. You can access all my archived stories from this magazine using the site's new PAW article category - JS
Davis '12, Mavraides '11 Lead Men's Basketball By Jon Solomon
Winner of six of its last seven games before the exam break, the Princeton men's basketball team headed into Ivy League competition with the most nonconference victories since the Tigers' 2006-07 season.
"Relative to where we've been the last couple of years, we've gotten some road wins that I think are important," head coach Sydney Johnson '97 said. "We've had some uneven performances at home, and we've got to fix that. We've slightly improved defensively from start to finish."
Richmond vs. St. Joe's - 7:00 pm ET
USF vs. Georgetown - 7:00 pm ET - ESPN+
Northwestern (15-7) went about their business, shutting down Michigan in the second half of a 67-52 win. The Wildcats had 21 assists on their 25 baskets.
Five players in double figures as Mercer (13-11) beat Salem, 93-78.
Michigan vs. Northwestern - 7:00 pm ET - Big Ten Network
MCCC vs. Raritan - 7:00 pm ET
February is far less brutal schedule-wise for Northwestern than last month was. The Wildcats host Michigan tonight and play four of their next five at home.
News 8 Austin has a video feature on Princeton recruit Chris Clement.
Future Tiger T.J. Bray has been nominated for Wisconsin Sports Network's Boys Basketball Player of the Month. Click on the link to vote for him.
Bray, Daniel Edwards and Ben Hazel are three of the 1,260 high school basketball players nominated for 2010 McDonald's All-American high School Basketball Boys Team.
Chris Young has "graduated" from his rehab program.
Cornell is ranked 25th in the latest ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll. If the Big Red win this weekend's games against Yale and Brown, they will become the first Top 25 team to visit Jadwin Gym since #4 Kansas played Princeton in 2001.
Princeton heads to Cambridge on Friday evening, where they will face Harvard guard Jeremy Lin (seen above battling Kyle Koncz for a loose ball) for the seventh time.
Lin has put up big numbers - in the Top 200 in Percentage of Possessions Used, Effective FG%, True Shooting %, Assist Rate, Steal Percentage, Fouls Drawn/40 and FT Rate/40 - and received a lot of attention from opposing defenses and national media his senior season, one of the primary reasons the Crimson have gone 14-4 this year.
But how has Lin faired against the Tigers the first six times he's played Princeton?
When Barack Obama stopped by the CBS broadcast booth to join Clark Kellogg and Verne Lundquist during Saturday's Duke/Georgetown game, Kellogg and the President joked about a 1981 meeting between Ohio State and a Princeton team led by Craig Robinson.
This contest, played at Madison Square Garden, ended with Kellogg's Buckeyes on top by four.
TigerBlog has more on the match-up and the Princeton Athletic Department was nice enough to scan a box score, which is pictured above.
When the two teams met the prior season (a 72-46 OSU romp in Columbus), Robinson had 15 points and eight boards while Kellogg scored 13 and grabbed six.
Sophomore guard Douglas Davis was named Ivy League Player of the Week on the heels of the Tigers' wins at Brown and Yale. Davis scored 29 points over the weekend on 11-19 shooting. It is the first time Davis has picked up this honor.
Davis wasn't the only Princeton player hoisting hardware today. 10 points versus the Bears and eight at Yale earned freshman forward Ian Hummer the nod as Ivy League Rookie of the Week. It is Hummer's second time being recognized by the conference.
Curious to see how Penn beat Brown at/after the buzzer? Video can be found here (.wmv). While you're at it, go 12:50 into this pre-season interview with Ivy coordinator of officials Reggie Greenwood (.mp3) for more on reviewable plays.
Since the calendar moved forward, Princeton senior co-captain Marcus Schroeder has put together a stellar six game stretch.
It isn't Schroeder's job to score - his season high is eight points at George Washington, but few players steady their team and put their teammates in position to succeed like he does.
Georgetown (16-4) shot 71.7% from the floor for the game and was 15-18 from inside the arc in the second half, beating Duke, 89-77. Hoya Hoops has the postgame audio.
John Shurna's career high 31 were not enough as Northwestern (14-7) fell by nine at Michigan State.
Princeton recruit Tom Noonan went for 20 in Penn Charter's loss to Episcopal Academy.
Future Tiger Chris Clement had 22 as Stony Point fell to Cedar Park. There's a video package of highlights available at this link.
Around the Ivy League: Cornell (18-3 / 4-0) sent a message by thoroughly dominating their showdown with Harvard (14-4 / 3-1) by 36. Columbia (7-11 / 1-3) topped Dartmouth (3-14 / 0-4) for their first conference win of the season. Penn (2-14 / 1-1) won at the buzzer in controversial fashion as Dan Monckton's layup appears to have come well after time expired, giving the Quakers a 55-54 win over Brown (7-14 / 1-3).
John Thompson III's 200th career victory took place in front of the President of the United States, who joined Verne Lundquist and Clark Kellogg on the Duke/Georgetown broadcast during the second half.
They referenced a game Kellogg played against Craig Robinson at Madison Square Garden, a 59-55 triumph for the Buckeyes in the 1981-82 season.
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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
