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Here are a few samples from the exam:
1. Princeton has won 13 NCAA tournament games, most recently in 1998. In what year did the Tigers pick up their first postseason victory?
6. and 7. Douglas Davis '12 hit seven 3-pointers against Lafayette in December. Name the only two Princeton players who have made more threes in one game.
9. This Princeton forward remains the only Ivy League basketball player to start NCAA tournament games in four consecutive seasons.
Tons of Princeton recruiting news! Ben Hazel had 11 for Good Counsel in a 54-52 loss to DeMatha. T.J. Bray contributed eight points, six assists and five rebounds for Catholic Memorial in their 17 point win over Waukesha South. Tom Noonan scored 18 for Penn Charter in a 49-45 loss to Peddie. Finally, a picture of Highland Park center Daniel Edwards wearing a sombrero.
Around the Ivy League: Cornell (12-3) led by one in the final minute at #1 Kansas, but the Jayhawks held on for the 71-66 victory. Army became unofficial champions of the Ancient Eight with a 59-51 win over Brown (6-10). Columbia (6-7) lost by 17 to Lafayette. Penn (1-10) was an 82-71 winner at UMBC, ending the Quakers' 11 game losing streak.
Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson, Patrick Saunders & Dan Mavraides:
Patrick Saunders has a strange-looking jump shot - a flat-footed push with a leaning backspin. But when it goes through the basket like it did on Wednesday night, it is a thing of beauty.
Saunders was a perfect 8-8 from the field and 5-5 behind the arc, setting a new career high by halftime and finishing with a game-best 21 in 22 minutes as Princeton defeated Marist 77-58.
Saunders' eight field goals without a miss matched Kit Mueller for the second-best single game shooting performance in program history. Mueller finished 8-8 from the floor on three separate occasions in his career. Barnes Hauptfuhrer still holds the school mark with an incredible 11-11 showing against Notre Dame in 1974.
Saunders' five three pointers in a game without a miss ties marksmen Dave Orlandini, Bob Scrabis and Sean Jackson for second-best in the Princeton record books. Those four gentlemen all sit one make behind current Princeton head coach Sydney Johnson, 6-6 from deep against Columbia in 1997.
"I felt pretty comfortable out there," the newly goateed Saunders said quietly after the game. "I felt like the shots I got were open coming out of the offense. They just ended up falling in."
Sophomore guard Douglas Davis connected four times from deep in five tries for 16 and Dan Mavraides added 14 for the Tigers, who shot 57.4% for the game and were 10-17 on the night from three.
Princeton had 16 assists and a season low seven turnovers.
Candon Rusin’s 16 on 6-7 shooting paced the Red Foxes.
Today's Game:Princeton (7-5 / 0-0) vs. Marist (1-12 / 1-3) Location: McCann Center - Poughkeepsie, NY Time: 7:30 pm ET Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB TV: N/A Internet: goprincetontigers.com Series History: This is the first meeting between the two teams. Last meeting: This is the first meeting between the two teams.
Princeton
Marist
4-1
Home Record
1-3
3-4
Away Record
0-9
0-0
Neutral Record
0-0
138
RPI
345
173
Sagarin
334
184
Pomeroy
320
56.3
Points / Game
58.5
56.5
Points Allowed / Game
69.8
.399
FG%
.387
.737
FT%
.633
.319
3PT FG%
.333
29.7
Rebounds / Game
31.8
8.5
Off. Rebounds / Game
9.8
-2.9
Rebounding Margin
-5.2
10.8
Assists / Game
9.6
15.3
Turnovers / Game
14.7
3.1
Blocks / Game
1.3
Davis: 13.2
Points
Kaba: 9.2
Mavraides: 4.8
Rebounds
Bauer: 6.6
Schroeder: 3.0
Assists
Kaba: 1.9
Schroeder: 2.3
Steals
Rusin: 0.8
Buczak: 1.0
Blocks
Kaba: 0.4
Saunders: .543
FG% (Min: 10 FGM)
Carter: .524
Schroeder: .917
FT% (Min: 10 FTM)
Goodwin: .778
Saunders: .435
3PT FG% (Min: 5 3PTM)
Hall: .500
Richmond vs. Dusquesne - 7:00 pm ET
Georgetown vs. Marquette - 8:00 pm ET - MASN
Seattle vs. Oregon State - 8:30 pm ET - FSN NW
Brown vs. Army - 7:00 pm ET
Columbia vs. Lafayette - 7:00 pm ET
Penn vs. UMBC - 7:30 pm ET
Cornell vs. Kansas - 8:00 pm ET - ESPN360
Mercer (6-8) shut down Manor, 56-35. Uros Kovacevic had 15 for the Vikings.
The Princeton Packet ran a story on the Princeton/St. Joe's game.
There's a Daily Princetonian article about the Tigers' last three games that has a pair of inexplicably incorrect descriptions of how the Maine and Wagner matchups concluded.
On this date in 1995, Gabe Lewullis scored 37 points for Central Catholic.
WABI has a video package from the Princeton/Maine game.
Dan Mavraides made the Honor Roll of the latest Ivy Weekly Men's Basketball Report.
Northwestern's John Shurna is the Big Ten Player of the Week.
Congratulations to Oregon State head coach Craig Robinson and his family. Robinson's wife delivered a baby boy named Austin Lucas on Monday morning.
Princeton recruit T.J. Bray scored 27 in Catholic Memorial's five point win over Menomonee Falls.
Future Tiger Daniel Edwards had 17 as Highland Park improved to 8-9 with a victory over R.L. Turner.
Around the Ivy League: Matt Mullery scored in the waning seconds of overtime to help Brown (6-9) get past Wagner, 72-71. Dartmouth (3-10) led wire to wire in a six point win over Bucknell. Columbia (6-6) lost two starters to injury in the first half but still had enough to top American, 56-51. Harvard (11-3) won at Santa Clara, 74-66. Freshman Kyle Casey scored 27 for the Crimson.
Nick Lake's desperation turnaround jumper at the buzzer was just off the mark and Princeton's five game winning streak ended with a frigid 52-50 loss at Maine.
The Tigers trailed the entire second half, but mounted a frantic comeback in the final minute that nearly forced overtime. Lake tracked down an intentional miss at the free throw line by Kareem Maddox but was unable to connect on the right baseline.
Princeton led 6-3 on three point shots from Dan Mavraides and Douglas Davis before Maine went on an 11-0 run midway through the first half that put the Tigers in chase mode for the rest of the night.
Trailing by nine at intermission, an extended Princeton push spurred on by an 1-3-1 zone on defense that concluded with a layup from Marcus Schroeder off a Davis steal made it 26-25 with 16:19 remaining but the Tigers could not inch in front of the Black Bears.
"Defensively and offensively we never got in a flow," said Tiger head coach Sydney Johnson. "A tough game to lose."
Davis had 13 points on 4-12 shooting but he missed a number of wide open three point shots that could have effected the outcome. The entire Princeton team shot an icy 34% on the night. Mavraides added 12 and six rebounds for Princeton.
Gerald McLemore's 14 for Maine were a game high. McLemore also had three assists and four steals.
Maine won despite going 12-38 (31.6%) from the floor.
Around the Ivy League: Penn (0-10) continues to look for their first victory, unable to dig out of an 18 point hole at Lafayette. Yale fell on the road versus Albany, 89-68.
Northwestern (10-3) could not hang with #11 Michigan State.
On Palindrome Day, Troy reversed Denver (10-5), 64-46.
Oregon State (6-7) lost a five point game at Washington State. The Beavers' chance to tie in the final 20 seconds was waved off by an offensive foul call.
Around the Ivy League: Cornell (12-2) won its 10th straight, 75-49 over Bryant. Harvard (10-3) set a school record for nonconference victories with a 92-71 win at Seattle. American tripped up Brown (5-9) by eight in Providence.
Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson, Dan Mavraides, Douglas Davis & Pawel Buczak:
The Princeton team that started 2010 on Hawk Hill against St. Joseph’s looked little like the squad that struggled to crack 40 in the last two games of 2009 versus Monmouth and Wagner.
On the road for the first of three consecutive tilts away from Jadwin Gym, Princeton made its first four three point shots and opened up an early 12-4 advantage.
Senior center Pawel Buczak, who labored to get position in the post and had difficulty scoring when he caught the ball down low to close last year was a perfect 5-5 from the field, scoring a season best 14.
Douglas Davis connected four times from outside the arc on his way to a game-high 17 points and Dan Mavraides added 16 points and seven rebounds as Princeton led for the final 37:53 of an eight point win.
Mavraides set up Davis for jumpers on consecutive drives and dishes with just over four minutes remaining to boost a tenuous Tiger lead to a 58-48 edge.
“Those were some excellent kicks from Dan,” Davis said with the smile after Princeton’s fifth straight victory. “He drove to the basket and I was able to find an open spot where he could see me.
Princeton outrebounded the Hawks by nine, the team’s largest advantage on the boards since last February’s home game versus Columbia. All eight Tigers who played 10 minutes or more each grabbed at least four rebounds.
An 11 point lead in the final minute was swiftly cut down to two by St. Joe’s, but Princeton made six straight at the free throw line to avoid the complete collapse.
Carl Jones had 17 for Saint Joseph’s, eight coming in transition early after intermission.
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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
