The Ivy League held its second-annual Men's Basketball Midseason Media Teleconference this morning, with all eight coaches answering questions from media.
The portion of today's Q&A with Princeton coach Sydney Johnson is available above. An mp3 of the still-underway event should be available on the Ivy League web site later this afternoon.
Ocean vs. MCCC - 7:00 pm ET Postponed until Feb. 2
It had been all but done since November, but yesterday it was made public that Northwestern head coach Bill Carmody had signed a two year extension with the Wildcats.
Ian Hummer represents Princeton in the 10th Ivy League Men's Basketball Weekly Release of the season.
Both Princeton and Harvard are "hot" according to ESPN's Mark Adams.
Fresh on the heels of my +/- number crunching, Ken Pomeroy has a treatise about why this stat is not a great tool for analysis.
The latest collection of videos from various corners of the Princeton basketball family. Above, footage from Northwestern's victory over Indiana.
Northwestern (10-4) picked up their first Big 10 win of the season, 93-81 over Indiana. Chicago College Basketball has more on what this game means.
Mercer (6-11) was outscored 25-5 in the final five minutes of a 68-50 loss at Borough of Manhattan.
Former Red Sox pitcher Dave Sisler who lettered in basketball at Princeton during the 1950-51 and 1951-52 seasons, passed away yesterday at the age of 79.
Georgetown coaches John Thompson III and Mike Brennan were among those in the stands at the Scholarship for Inner City Children Festival.
Your News Now has a video package from Bobby Garbade and Seton CC's ninth straight victory.
MCCC vs. Borough of Manhattan - 1:00 pm ET
Indiana vs. Northwestern - 7:00 pm ET - Big Ten Network
Princeton recruit Bobby Garbade had a big game in Seton CC's win over Owego.
Are you curious why the Tigers' Daniel Edwards wasn't suited up on Wednesday night at Jadwin?
Trailing by two points on the road in the final minute, Denver (8-9) closed out a 66-57 decision over Louisiana-Monroe with a three point shot, a steal and a breakaway layup, a steal and two free throws then a third steal and two more free throws. Thus concluded the Pioneers' first road sweep in conference play since January 2003.
Georgetown (12-4) had four straight turnovers in the last two minutes of a 64-59 loss to West Virginia.
CCRI beat Mercer (6-10) by 12 in the Vikings' return from the holiday break.
A 26-2 second half run helped Richmond (13-4) to a 87-68 victory at LaSalle.
Northwestern hosts Indiana tonight.
Around the Ivy League: Harvard (11-3 / 1-0) kicked off conference play with a 68-53 win at Dartmouth (4-10 / 0-1). Chris Wroblewski's career high 29 points carried Cornell (4-10) beyond Stony Brook. Yale (7-7) was one of three Ancient Eight schools to defeat a non-DI foe on Saturday. The Bulldogs bested Baruch, 85-57. Columbia (9-5) stopped a persistent Union squad, 64-59. An afternoon that began with a bus accident didn't get any better once Lyndon State arrived at Brown (6-7). The Bears led by 36 at the half and cruised to the 88-55 final.
Simple math: Exam break x snow = a morning spent scanning old Princeton programs.
Above, Chris Mooney, Laura Leacy and Mike Brennan. This game was played four days after the 25th anniversary of Jadwin Gym's opening.
Seven additional covers follow the jump, plus details about a few of these games.
Click on any and all images to enlarge.
The Daily Princetonian and the Princeton Packet now have stories on the Tigers' win over Marist.
Denver (7-9) came dangerously close to blowing their 18 point second half lead at Western Kentucky, but held on for a 62-59 decision. It was Joe Scott's fourth conference road win as coach of the Pioneers.
Illinois obliterated Northwestern (9-4) in a game that was barely as close as the 88-63 final. The Illini shot 18-22 from the field in the first half.
Oregon State (7-7) fell 84-70 at Washington State.
Princeton recruit Denton Koon and Liberty lost to Grandview in the finals of the Bank Midwest Holiday Basketball Classic.
More on future Tiger Bobby Garbade and Seton CC from the Press & Sun Bulletin.
Clay Wilson had 27 as Lincoln Christian took care of Dewey at the Oologah Basketball Tournament.
UNC head coach Roy Williams was in New Egypt yesterday to watch Desmond Hubert play.
Yesterday's piece by Andy Katz on Harvard and the state of the Ivy League is worth a read.
With the DI portion of Princeton's non-conference schedule complete, the Tiger athletic department was nice enough to update this season's plus/minus numbers.
The first chart shows the number of minutes played across the first 15 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.
I've also broken down +/- per 40 minutes for all players who have seen at least 100 minutes of action and added Net/40 numbers ("Roland Rate") with inspiration from Hoya Prospectus.
Denver vs. Western Kentucky - 8:00 pm ET - Fox College Sports
Northwestern vs. Illinois - 9:00 pm ET - ESPN2
Oregon State vs. Washington State - 10:00 pm ET
In addition to our recap, read about Princeton's win over Marist on goprincetontigers.com, in the Trentonian and on goredfoxes.com.
The Trenton Times web site's atrocious content management system means their article is not currently available on-line. Maybe in a few hours. Maybe in a few weeks. Maybe never.
Richmond (12-4) opened A-10 play with a 71-59 win over Charlotte.
Princeton recruit Denton Koon and Liberty defeated Park Hill South by 15.
Future Tiger Bobby Garbade had 14 in Seton Catholic Central's seventh straight victory.
The third member of the 2011 recruiting class, Clay Wilson, is averaging 27.7 points and 5.4 rebounds a game for Lincoln Christian.
Would you put John Berger on your all-time Ridge basketball team? In The Paint would.
Denver heads to Western Kentucky.
Illinois hosts the shaky ankle of John Shurna and the rest of Northwestern.
Oregon State looks for their fourth straight win at Washington State.
Fewer voters, same result. Fourth place for Princeton in this week's Schuylkill 16.
Around the Ivy League: Harvard (10-3) won at Boston College for the third straight season, 78-69. Austin Morgan's three point play with 6.2 seconds left salvaged a 77-76 Yale (6-7) victory in overtime at Holy Cross. Columbia (8-5) got past Lafayette 76-73 in Easton.
Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson, Douglas Davis & Dan Mavraides:
Princeton heads into their annual 17 day exam break with a program record-tying 11th DI non-conference win after a methodical 68-57 victory over Marist.
Five Tigers hit double figures as Princeton built a 20 point first half lead.
Their advantage cut to five midway through the second half, the Tigers responded with eight straight and the buffer never returned to single digits.
Princeton converted seven of eight free throws in the last 2:21 before an unencumbered Brendan Connolly's two-handed slam with under a minute to play pushed this edge back to where it sat at halftime, 17 .
Back-to-back three point shots for the Red Foxes - after missing their first 14 attempts - made the final count a touch deceptive.
"I don't think it was pretty, but I've been around a little bit and I think I see these guys were working hard," said Tiger head coach Sydney Johnson. "I think we hit a stretch there in the second half where we weren't making shots. One or two of them I wasn't happy with, four or five of them I was. It just didn't go down."
Tigers head coach Sydney Johnson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon sat down at Jadwin Gym on Tuesday afternoon for their first interview of 2011. The two reviewed Princeton's split versus Northeastern and Central Florida at the UCF Holiday Classic before previewing the Tigers' last game prior to the exam break versus Marist.
This Q&A is 16:00+ in length.
Interviews with Coach Johnson will appear on this site every week during the 2010-11 season.
