Some photos from overseas, as we check in on the newly bearded Judson Wallace and Germany's Eisbaren Bremerhaven. The Ice Bears are stuck in the middle of the Bundesliga tabelle with a 6-4 record. Wallace leads the league in rebounding and has recorded five double-doubles in ten games.
Wallace leads his team with 16.6 ppg and 9.9 rpg, shooting 55.6% from the field.
Princeton held this year's Orange & Black Scrimmage and Clinic at Jadwin Gym less than an hour after the Tigers defeated Dartmouth 27-17 to win a share of the Ivy League football title for the first time in eleven years.
The football game pleased the above dudes greatly.
The scrimmage gave most area Princeton fans their first chance to see this year's crop of Tigers in action. Princeton ran drills for twenty minutes before splitting the roster up for a twenty-five minute game. Score was kept informally and fouls were called by the coaches.
Schroeder, Gunn, Koncz, Owings and Conway (black team) took on Strittmatter, Savage, Finley, Buffmire and Steuerer (orange team). Woolridge, Wilson, Buczak, Petrie, Lake & Briggs all saw time as subs.
Matt Sargeant was the only Princeton player on this year's roster to not suit up for the event, sidelined with a broken finger. Another tough twist for the oft-injured junior guard.
All the best moments came during the clinic, watching Luke Owings give all of the young kids he was instructing nicknames, seeing Noah Savage try to instruct awestruck children on how to perfect the spin dribble, Pawel Buczak lifting a tiny guy up to the rim for a much closer look at the basket and watching Coach Scott ask these bright eyed boys and girls if they had a good time playing with his squad.
Update 11/29/06: Thanks to Stephen Goldsmith for the above four photos.
princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon and men's basketball coach Joe Scott sat down to review Princeton's weekend in Ohio at the BCA Classic and discuss the next game versus Manhattan.
Some of the topics discussed include:
-The Tigers’ rebounding struggles versus Loyola in the season opener.
-The positives that could be taken away from Princeton’s game against Loyola.
-How hard it is to coach in a contest as chaotic as Saturday’s meeting with VMI.
-Princeton’s weekend-long improvement, finishing with a victory versus Alabama A&M.
-The consistent play of Kyle Koncz and what he has done to improve each year.
-The play of Princeton’s two freshmen guards.
-If Coach Scott now has the ability to “ride the hot hand” in a way he hasn’t been able to do previously at Princeton.
-How Noah Savage is adjusting to coming off the bench for the first time.
-What the team has been focusing on since they returned from Ohio and what they will look to focus on before Wednesday’s game at Manhattan.
-Manhattan’s gameplan and what Coach Scott expects to see defensively in Princeton’s next game.
Good afternoon. We have arrived in Columbus for the season-opener.
The rest of the crowd appears to be taking their time.
In the first of today's four games the Fighting Palindromes of IUPUI (pictured) defeated Alabama A&M 86-47 in a game that featured a remarkable twenty-seven turnovers for the losing team. That's roughly one turnover for each person in the stands.
The second quarterfinal was even less competitive and watched by even fewer people, but it was just as turnover-friendly. Kent State overmatched South Dakota State 105-50, with the visitors from the Mount Rushmore state giving the ball away twenty-four times. Kent State shot 63% from the field on the way to victory.
Ladies and gentlemen, your 2006-2007 Princeton media guide(s).
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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
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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