YouTube potpourri XLVII.
Here's the latest collection of videos from various corners of the Princeton basketball family. Above, video game enthusiast Bill Carmody.
Five additional clips after the jump.
Friday News:
Fairfield vs. Quinnipiac - 5:30 pm ET - Connecticut Six
American vs. Richmond - 7:30 pm ET
Portland State vs. Denver - 9:30 pm ET - Root Sports
Johnson & Wales vs. Brown - 5:00 pm ET
Cornell vs. St. Bonaventure - 7:00 pm ET
MIT vs. Harvard - 7:00 pm ET
Columbia vs. UConn - 7:00 pm ET - ESPNU
Dartmouth vs. Rutgers - 7:30 pm ET
Penn vs. UMBC - 7:30 pm ET
Yale vs. Central Connecticut State - 8:00 pm ET - Connecticut Six
The excellent Big Apple Buckets has named tomorrow's Wagner/Princeton season opener their Saturday Game of the Week. I answered some questions about the Tigers for the site.
Princeton Alumni Weekly profiles Mitch Henderson, then rattles off some quick facts on the 2011-12 Tigers.
Next up with a season preview, the Trentonian.
Georgetown head coach John Thompson III was warned about potentially being arrested while in China.
The Sydney Johnson era begins at Fairfield as the middle game of a Nutmeg State triple-header at Mohegan Sun. The Stags play Quinnipiac right before Yale concludes the evening against CCSU.
Chris Mooney coaches his 200th game at Richmond tonight when the new look Spiders host American.
Denver hosts Portland State.
San Diego Padre Will Venable was a guest at the Salute to Service Festival.
Thursday News:
An ancient rallying cry now appears above the doors to the court at Jadwin Gym.
The Town Topics reports from Princeton's Media Day.
Because yesterday began the November Signing Period, one recruiting site posted a piece about future Tiger Hans Brase.
A trio of prospects were expected to sign with Northwestern yesterday and a pair pledged to Richmond.
14 Fairfield games will be televised in 2011-12. I've added this information to our electronic team calendars.
The Stags have plenty of offensive options.
ESPN ranks the Ivy League as the 15th-best conference this season. They also look briefly at what to expect in the Ancient Eight.
Princeton shows up in the SB Nation Preseason Mid-Major Top 25.
Georgetown's Markel Starks is aware he's a question mark heading into the start of play for the Hoyas.
A long, well-constructed preview of the Denver Pioneers.
Tuesday News:
Princeton Association of New England is putting on a post-game reception when the Tigers visit Northeastern in December. If you don't have your tickets for this event or the tilt at Harvard yet, they are still available through Bob Ruxin and PANE.
Despite missing three likely starters, Northwestern had no trouble with Robert Morris. Six Wildcats hit double figures on their way to the 99-48 victory.
Princeton basketball recruit Mike Washington, Jr. grabbed six receptions and a touchdown in Oak Harbor's season-ending state tournament loss to Eastlake Catholic.
Bull Run is already previewing Buffalo's trip to Jadwin Gym.
There's a documentary about Georgetown's trip to China airing tonight on MASN.
The Hoya has published their in-depth basketball preview edition.
Denver coach Joe Scott likes what he sees out of his freshman class.
I've added Basketball Times' Ivy League predictions to the site's 2011-12 conference projections.
In the latest ESPN The Magazine, the Tigers are ranked 104th out of all 344 Division I programs. There are also some great photographs in the issue of two gyms Princeton will visit this season - The Palestra and Payne Whitney Gym.
Thanks to Ballin' Is A Habit for including this site in their Social Media Must-Follow Database.
Finally, look for the first Know! Your! Foe! of the season up later today!
Sunday News:
Borough of Manhattan CC vs. MCCC - 2:00 pm ET - Mercer/Burlington Classic
This is the photo. You know the one. Brendan Prunty has a great feature on new Princeton head coach Mitch Henderson.
At Georgetown, it is Jason Clark's turn in the spotlight.
Oregon State's Jared Cunningham is interviewed by Yahoo! Sports.
It wasn't the start to the season Howie Levy was looking for as Mercer (0-1) scored six first half points and lost 61-25 to CCRI.
Eight teams, eight games to watch before Thanksgiving.
Remember this place?
Impressed by NYC Buckets' "Five Nights" series, finished with this year's epic data entry of schedules for the eight "Carril Cradle" teams and suffering from an mild early bout of snow madness, I opted to write a piece highlighting one non-conference game in the first three weeks of the season for each of the teams we cover.
My only rule was not picking match-ups that share the same date. Read on for sequential suggestions of contests to pay close(r) attention to as 2011-12 gets underway.
Saturday News:
Former Princeton center Steve Goodrich is interviewed by the magazine connected to the camp he attended as a boy.
Oregon State expects a breakthrough season in 2011-12. Here's video of Craig Robinson at Pac-12 media day. The Beavers were picked eighth in the conference's preseason media poll.
CBS' Matt Norlander says Fairfield is loaded and ready for a huge year.
Georgetown has relaunched their DC Is Our Playground web site for the upcoming season. Hoyas head coach John Thompson III spoke yesterday as part of a panel series called "Think About It: An Afternoon of Ideas."
Will Venable now qualifies for Super Two status.
Tiger basketball recruit Mike Washington, Jr. had a touchdown catch in Oak Harbor's loss to Meadowdale.
Friday News:
John Thompson III was one of five Big East coaches to tell the New York Times about what it takes to make the Final Four.
Here's today's Ivy League preview, courtesy the Arena Pulse.
Princeton at Harvard makes a list of this season's 68 must-see games.
Northwestern again hopes this is the year they make the NCAA Tournament for the first time. Wildcats Drew Crawford and Luka Mirkovic both need to take a step forward for that to transpire.
A NCAA panel has approved some major rules changes you should familiarize yourself with.
The NCAA has also published their annual review of graduation rates. You can see Princeton's Graduation Success Rate (GSR) report and the school's Federal Graduation Rate (FGR) report. Run your own reports by school, conference and sport here.
Marcus Schroeder added to the St. Mary's staff.
Since his playing career at Princeton concluded, I've caught up with former Tiger guard Marcus Schroeder on a pair of occasions - once after a tryout for the D-League's Reno Bighorns and a second time following a trip with the U.S. Basketball Academy for nine games in China.
Knowing that Schroeder had been actively looking to get into coaching since a conversation early this year, I'm glad to be able to share that Marcus Schroeder is now a graduate member of the staff at St. Mary's College.
Finally able to talk publicly about his role with the Gaels, Schroeder spoke to me on the phone tonight while driving from school back to Concord and a transcript of our discussion follows the jump.
2011-12 schedules.
The annual ordeal of tedious data entry finally behind me, I've completed color coded 2011-12 electronic calendars for each of the "Carril Cradle" teams. You can download any or all of the following to sync with your computer/PDA.
Each basketball schedule will be updated whenever a tip time changes or new TV information is revealed. These links will work best with iCal but are importable into Google Calendar.
If you notice any errors with games/dates/times/locations, please let me know.
Sunday News:
Pawel Buczak had a team high 16 points and five rebounds in Slask Wroclaw's most recent game.
Rush The Court's Ivy League preview is the first I've seen picking Princeton to finish in fourth place.
The Big East Preseason Coaches' Poll is out with Georgetown seen as the conference's 10th place team this season.
Pete Carril, who was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday night, makes Bleacher Report's list of the 100 Greatest Coaches in College Basketball History.
As practice gets underway at Northwestern so does "life after Juice."
Here's the 2011-12 Mercer Vikings schedule, including games against both the Columbia and Princeton JV teams.
Sunday News:
The past met the present at Georgetown for Midnight Madness.
A guard from Indianapolis who ranks in the top 50 in the eyes of all three primary recruiting services will join the Hoyas next season.
Seton Hall recently watched a point guard one site expects to choose between Princeton and Harvard.
Sticking with recruiting, here are some quotes from Edo Lawrence on his decision to attend Princeton.
I'd like to read more about word association with Chris Mooney.
Denver returned to the basketball floor on Friday night and the 2011-12 Fairfield Stags debuted at Red Sea Madness.
Happy birthday to Stephen Goldsmith!
