Prior to practice this afternoon, Tigers head coach Mitch Henderson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon sat down courtside at Jadwin Gym to tape their weekly interview.
Henderson and Solomon reviewed Princeton's recent sweep of Columbia and Cornell extensively and previewed the regular season's final road trip at Harvard and Dartmouth as well.
During the conversation the pair also talked about the improvements of sophomore point guard T.J. Bray, the rise in the depth chart of Jimmy Sherburne and what numbers in a box score interest Henderson after a game.
This exclusive Q&A is 14:00+ in length.
If you have questions for future interviews, please feel free to send them here.
Postgame audio - Coach John Thompson III, Henry Sims & Jason Clark:
I've never fully understood the "o-ver-ra-ted!" chant. Don't you want the team you're beating to be as good as you expected if not better? Doesn't that say more about the school you support?
Still, such a cheer broke out half-heartedly with 2:04 left in the second half tonight in Newark with Seton Hall (19-9) up 64-49 on #8 Georgetown (20-6).
Perhaps it was deserved. The Hoyas didn't play much like a Top 10 team and Seton Hall performed like a school on the NCAA Tournament bubble desperate for a marquee victory.
Jordan Theodore was magnificent for the Pirates, scoring 29 points on 8-11 shooting including 5-5 from three point range and 8-8 at the free throw line.
John Thompson III's team was holding opponents to 38.0% shooting from the floor and 27.8% from behind the arc in Big East play but Seton Hall lit them up from all over, connecting on 8-13 threes and 61% of all their attempts.
Closer to home, Hollis Thompson and Georgetown play at Seton Hall. Given that the Pirates are adjacent to NU in Bracketology's "Last Four In," it would be kind of the Hoyas to win this game.
Former Tiger Pete Hegseth is close to challenging Amy Klobuchar for her Senate seat in Minnesota.
I'm delighted to share with you 11 additional photographs from the collection of David Zeft, the majority of which are from mid-1990s games at The Palestra. Some in this set do also date from the early 1980s.
Click any and all to enlarge. Above, a driving Jamie Mastaglio with Pete Carril, Bill Carmody, Armond Hill and Joe Scott watching from behind the referee on the bench.
With no advance warning that I was aware of, Princeton held one of the all-time best giveaways at Jadwin Gym on Saturday night*.
Select fans with a "golden ticket" in their programs received a bobblehead of the Princeton Tiger wearing a Konrad Wysocki jersey courtesy Princeton Dining Services.
Speaking of the Tiger mascot, where has he/she/it been all season? Several people have asked me this question. Not at basketball games to the best of my knowledge. Perhaps they were accidentally abandoned in Tampa during the NCAA Tournament? This is the last sighting I can think of.
I've created a spot on the mantle for this lil' guy in-between my Willie The Wildcat football bobblehead and a special soda bottle brewed up to celebrate the improbable Ivy title for the 2000-01 Princeton men’s basketball team.
Pete Carril is quoted extensively in an article on Jeremy Lin.
The late 1960s and early 1970s were a golden age for Ivy League basketball.
Princeton recruit Steven Cook scored 10 points in New Trier's victory over #14 St. Rita at the City-Suburban Showdown.
Listen to Sydney Johnson talk about the retirement of Fork Union Military Academy coach Fletcher Arritt.
Fairfield (16-11) turned an 18 point second half deficit into a one point lead with just over two minutes to go but Wisconsin-Milwaukee scored the game's final five points.
In front of a sell out crowd, Richmond (14-14) held off Charlotte, 53-52.
Denver (20-8) made 16 three pointers in a 76-57 rout of Louisiana-Monroe.
Around the Ivy League: A well-designed lob play by Miles Cartwright to Fran Dougherty with less than a second left in overtime gave Penn (15-11 / 7-2) a 61-59 victory over Columbia (14-12 / 3-7) at The Palestra. Dartmouth (5-21 / 1-9) closed on a 15-3 run for their first conference victory over Brown (7-20 / 1-9) by five. Harvard (23-3 / 9-1) won their 27th straight at home with a 66-51 decision against Yale (17-7 / 7-3).
Postgame audio - Coach Mitch Henderson, Patrick Saunders, T.J. Bray & Ian Hummer:
Of the 10 sour choices, January 13th was the night this season Princeton wished most they could have back. Missing more than their fair share of clean jump shots and unable to take advantage of late opportunities to rally on the road past the Big Red, the Tigers fell 67-59 to open their Ivy League schedule.
“The guys understood that this was a game up in Ithaca – and all credit goes to Cornell – where we really did not feel good about how we played,” Head coach Mitch Henderson admitted.
This evening at Jadwin Gym was poles apart.
“We looked like a completely different bunch,” Henderson said. “I’ve watched that Cornell game probably five or 10 times now. I just don’t recognize us up there. This was a little bit more of who we really are tonight.”
After scoring on their final 12 possessions to finish Columbia off on Friday night, Princeton picked up right where they concluded. The Tigers had five baskets from five different players their first five times down the court.
“I thought we brought a lot of energy right from the tip,” said junior forward Ian Hummer. “We just kept it going all night and tried not to hit a wall.”
While Cornell was able to keep pace offensively for the initial seven minutes, Princeton never let up as they shot 69.2% in the opening frame and maintained a double digit lead over the night’s final 27:47.
“We knew if we came out in the second half and really put our foot to the pedal we would be fine,” Hummer added.
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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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