April 20, 2012 at 8:58 am
Filed under Basketball, Bill Bradley, Butch van Breda Kolff, Chris Young, Pete Carril, Princeton, Today's News
Hard to believe but today marks one year on the job at Princeton for Mitch Henderson.
The Daily Princetonian talks with Columbia coach Kyle Smith about a possible Ivy League tournament.
There's a long, wide-ranging piece about Princeton basketball on the Slam site.
Pete Carril is out west visiting the Sacramento Kings this week.
A number of 1960s Princeton basketball wire photos from the Baltimore Sun archives are up on eBay. This shot of Bill Bradley and Butch van Breda Kolff is worth bidding on, as are several others.
Chris Young threw a pair of live batting practice sessions as part of his recovery.
Finally, there's a report Jerome Allen could leave Penn to become "coach in waiting" under Larry Brown at SMU. We shall see.
April 17, 2012 at 9:08 am
Filed under Basketball, Fairfield, Mason Rocca, Princeton, Recruiting, Today's News
Following up on the Harvard Crimson report from before the weekend, the Daily Princetonian polled several current and former Princeton players (as well as select luminaries from other Ivy programs) about a possible conference tournament.
Perhaps more importantly, Soft Pretzel Logic uncovered a serious error in the initial article. The current proposal would eliminate one non-conference game, not one of the 14 meetings between Ivy foes as was originally stated.
Jonathan Tannenwald also has added a quote from Penn AD Steve Bilsky since this piece was originally published.
Mason Rocca spoke on behalf of Olimpia Milano during the National Day to Combat Thrombosis.
Seems like a long shot given the sheer volume of other schools interested but a forward from Newark has the Tigers on his extensive list of suitors.
A sixth freshman-to-be has committed to play for Sydney Johnson at Fairfield.
April 14, 2012 at 9:48 am
Filed under Baseball, Basketball, Fairfield, Georgetown, Princeton, Recruiting, Today's News, Will Venable
Martin Bahar was promoted from Director of Basketball Operations to assistant coach at Fairfield.
A while ago there was some discussion about a big man from South Dakota who apparently was getting a look from Princeton. You can see where he eventually signed here.
Following nine consecutive San Diego strikeouts, Will Venable hit his first home run of the season.
Georgetown's Jason Clark and Henry Sims plus Ivy Leaguers Keith Wright and Greg Mangano were all in the starting lineup of a Portsmouth Invitational semifinal game.
April 13, 2012 at 10:28 am
Filed under Basketball, Brian Taylor, Fairfield, Northwestern, Princeton, Richmond, Sean Gregory, Today's News, Will Venable
Uh, the 13 Game Tournament? An apparent proposal for a four team Ivy League conference tourney would potentially eliminate one traditional tilt.
Princeton basketball made it to the Final Four of the school's campus-wide dodgeball tournament.
Here's a site that shows how the Tigers would have defeated most other Division I schools last season (including national champion Kentucky) using the transitive property.
The family of the late Bill Haarlow '63 was honored by the Les Turner ALS Foundation.
A Louisville forward will transfer to Northwestern for his final year of eligibility.
The son of Brian Taylor signed to play basketball in the Pac-12.
Navy's leading scorer is transferring to Richmond.
Oregon State junior Jared Cunningham declared for the NBA Draft.
Fairfield picked up a commitment from a New York City guard.
Did you know the article about Ozzie Guillen that got the Marlins manager suspended was written by Sean Gregory?
Will Venable is focused on effective base running. Here's the picture of Venable with a dolphin you never knew you always wanted.
Could the big programs really push small schools out of the NCAA Tournament?
April 12, 2012 at 9:18 pm
Filed under Basketball, Luke Owings, Photos, Princeton, Video, Will Venable
Former Tiger forward Luke Owings is closing in on five years since he graduated from Princeton. I recently stumbled on the news that in an attempt to both reprove himself as an athlete and develop washboard abs prior to Reunions, Owings would be stepping into the boxing ring for the first time next month.
This upcoming fight is for a good cause too, one that I'm more than happy to help spread the word about. Owings is raising money for cancer research as part of a pugalistic fundraiser titled Haymakers For Hope.
I caught up with Owings on the phone today and he told me more about his imminent bout and detailed training that has taken him from the basketball court to business school into the squared circle.
You can support Owings’ quest by making a donation here. I hope visitors to this site will help Luke exceed the financial goal he's set.
A transcript of our conversation can be found after the jump.
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April 12, 2012 at 10:38 am
Filed under Basketball, Princeton, Recruiting
While members of this site have already been well-briefed on the three members of Princeton's 2012 recruiting class thanks to our in-depth profiles of Hans Brase, Edo Lawrence and Mike Washington Jr. those articles were all penned last October before the beginning of their respective senior seasons.
With that in mind I reached out to the coaches of Brase, Lawrence and Washington Jr. for updates on how each's final year in high school went. Their responses can be found after the jump.
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April 10, 2012 at 9:17 pm
Filed under Banquet, Basketball, Marvin Bressler, Pete Carril, Photos, Princeton
Princeton held its annual awards banquet in the lobby of Jadwin Gym tonight.
The worthy recipients of honors at the 2011-2012 banquet included:
Class of 1959 Bob Rock Sixth Man Award - Mack Darrow.
B.F. Bunn Trophy - Doug Davis.
Friedman Memorial Award Trophy - John Comfort.
Davis and Ian Hummer were also recognized for their All-Ivy status.
It was easily the shortest banquet on record. Not having Marvin Bressler as the MC anymore and all three seniors being fairly quiet in public will speed a night crisply along.
The fact this event was held on what would have been Bressler's birthday was a nice, purely accidental touch.
Pete Carril was asked to introduce the Friedman award and recalled the story behind the man this plaque is named after.
John Comfort (who said his thesis was due tomorrow), Patrick Saunders (who was recently admitted to the University of Vermont pre-Med program) and Doug Davis each gave brief remarks after the full team was called up to receive their varsity letters.
It was personally heartwarming to hear head coach Mitch Henderson single out my father's photo of Ian Hummer's dunk versus Cornell from the dais.
All the food looked great. Wish it hadn't been Passover!
A few photos follow after the jump.
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April 5, 2012 at 10:08 pm
Filed under Basketball, George Boccanfuso, Pete Carril, Princeton
A reader of this site sent me a heavy box yesterday full of Princeton media guides and related ephemera from the previous 20 years. For that I am quite appreciative.
There were a few editions inside that I didn't already own, namely 1993-94 and 1994-95.
Flipping through those years I noticed a portion of each guide I wanted to reproduce and for starters I'll share something from the first's "Unsung Heroes" page, where Pete Carril pays tribute to former Princeton Supervisor of Grounds and Buildings George "Georgie Buck" Boccanfuso.
Boccanfuso, as you may well know, worked at the university from 1947 until his retirement in 1989 but continues to show up every morning at Jadwin Gym to make sure the building is running as it should.
Carril offers a poem that he wrote, which I've reproduced after the jump.
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April 3, 2012 at 9:58 am
Filed under +/-, Basketball, Princeton
To wrap up the season statistically, the Tiger athletic department was nice enough to send along this year's complete plus/minus numbers. I've generated my own Ivy-only and DI-only plus/minus data in Excel out of that document.
The first of five charts shows the number of minutes played across the 32 games this season and the difference in points scored by Princeton while each player was on the floor versus points allowed by the Tigers during the same span.
The second chart shows the same information for non-conference games only, followed by non-conference versus DI opponents, Ivy-only data and postseason-only data.
I've also broken down +/- per 40 minutes for all pertinent players and added Net/40 numbers ("Roland Rate") with inspiration from Hoya Prospectus. This data has been split into non-conference, Ivy-only and postseason-only as well.
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March 30, 2012 at 9:38 am
Filed under Basketball, Chris Young, Northwestern, Today's News
It was a lot of fun to watch Northwestern's John Shurna win both the Hampton Hotels Men's 3-Point Contest and the Pure Protein Battle of the Champions at the Final Four in New Orleans last night.
Shurna, who said beforehand he had never shot off a rack before, knocked down his final seven shots to claim his gender's title by one point and then facing off versus USC's Ashley Corral put up an unbeatable score of 24.
Highlights can be found here.
A Notre Dame wing whom Mitch Henderson originally tried to recruit to Evanston is transferring and NU may have interest.
Chris Young says his recovery has been a smooth one so far.
March 29, 2012 at 8:58 am
Filed under Baseball, Basketball, Chris Young, Princeton, Recruiting, Today's News
What gym provides the biggest home court advantage in the Ivy League? The answer, as they say, may surprise you.
Cracking the upper portion of Big Apple Buckets' look at the Top 25 players in the New York metro area, Ian Hummer.
Chris Young hopes to be the same pitcher he once was.
A guard from Florida claims an offer from the Princeton staff.
You might be curious to know the CBI finals between Pitt and Washington State will come down to a winner take all game three on Friday night in Allegheny County.
March 28, 2012 at 3:58 pm
Filed under Basketball, Coach Henderson Interview, Princeton
In the extended "season finale" of their weekly interview series, Tigers head coach Mitch Henderson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon sat down courtside at Jadwin Gym this afternoon for a seventeenth and final time on the year.
Solomon and Coach Henderson looked back on Princeton's CBI games at Evansville and Pittsburgh in great detail before touching on the season as a whole, including if there was a specific point where Henderson realized his team could actually be pretty good and if there was a defining moment for the year.
Henderson also discusses if it is possible to carry over the season’s strong finish through the summer, heading to the Final Four this weekend, what he hopes to get out of that trip, who he wants to bump into in New Orleans, if he and his staff are done recruiting for the class of 2012 and for the first time provides details on the team's planned foreign trip this summer.
This exclusive Q&A is 23:00+ in length and can be streamed after the jump.
Feel free to also explore a full archive of Solomon and Henderson's weekly discussions from 2011-12.
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