Chris Young will make a third rehab start on Saturday night. This time out Young will take the ball for the Lake Elsinore Storm in the first game of the Class A California League Southern Division finals.
Andy Glockner from Sports Illustrated includes the 1998 Princeton team on his list of the most compelling college basketball teams since the early-90s UNLV squad.
Dave Blatt talks to the Associated Press about Thursday's game between Russia and the United States at the 2010 FIBA World Championship.
Richmond has released their 2010-11 basketball schedule.
A memorial on the Princeton campus for Marvin Bressler will be held on October 10th.
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In addition to the above video, there's a great piece on Russian national coach and Princeton alum Dave Blatt in today's New York Times. Russia meets New Zealand later today in the Eighth Finals of the 2010 FIBA World Championship, with the winner likely to face the United States on Thursday.
3 1/3 scoreless innings in his second rehab start for the Portland Beavers yesterday pleased Chris Young.
Georgetown has added a difficult home game versus Utah State to their 2010-11 schedule. The two teams will meet on December 4th.
Drew Crawford scored 21 points as Northwestern won their final game in Italy 77-55 against Pallacanestro Pavia. The Wildcats went 4-0 overseas.
Denver concluded its tour of Spain 4-2 with a four point win over Caja de Avila.
Craig Robinson will be the guest speaker at the United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley's fundraising lunch on September 16th.
My latest $0.99 eBay steal is another late-1970s Princeton program, this from the Tigers' first meeting of the 1978-79 season with eventual Final Four participant Penn. On the cover you'll find 6'11" senior center Tom "Too Tall" Young (#45).
Highlights are scanned after the jump. Click on any image to enlarge.
John Shurna made all seven of his three point attempts as Northwestern won their second straight game against Italian competition.
Tuesday's rehab start for Chris Young went well. Young allowed two hits (one a solo home run) over three innings for AAA Portland and threw 24 of his 31 pitches for strikes.
Richmond will play Georgia Tech on December 18th in the Bahamas.
Paul Buker of The Oregonian got a first-hand look at Oregon State's 2010-11 squad during informal five-on-five action.
Denver dropped its second straight to a top-flight Spanish opponent.
Princeton has announced three additional details about this season's schedule: The game at Duke will start at 5:00 pm ET. ESPNU has picked up the Tigers' home game with Harvard and when Princeton hosts Penn, tipoff is at 7:00 pm ET.
Having successfully completed a second simulated game late last week, Chris Young is returning to the mound. He'll be making a rehab start for the Portland Beavers in Reno on Tuesday.
Speaking of Beavers, the 2010-11 Oregon State basketball schedule has been released. This year's DC-area game is against Howard the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Denver improved to 2-0 in Spain with an 81-79 victory over Lobe Huesca.
CB Gran Canaria officially introduced Judson Wallace as the newest member of their team.
A near-7 footer from central PA has committed to La Salle over apparent interest from Princeton and other Ivy programs.
Harvard is the latest member of the Ancient Eight to unveil their full basketball schedule.
Marcus Schroeder will go wherever he has the best chance to continue his basketball career.
"I'm trying to play next year. Overseas, anywhere - it doesn't really matter," Schroeder said from a hotel in the Emerald City. "I do not have an agent. I've been trying to represent myself, using different contacts that I've developed throughout my college career."
While Schroeder, who averaged 5.2 ppg running the point his four years at Princeton and finished his collegiate career fourth all-time in the Tiger record book for assists and fifth all-time in steals, had been focusing his attention on potential opportunities in Europe and Asia, his high school coach Frank Allocco from De La Salle brought an open tryout with the Reno Bighorns of the NBA Developmental League to Schroeder's attention.
For four hours yesterday afternoon at the Golden State Warriors' practice facility in Oakland, Schroeder and several dozen free agents competed for a small number of training camp invites.
Former Princeton point guard Marcus Schroeder '10, seen here driving at Columbia last season, is expected to attend the Reno Bighorns' open tryouts in Oakland on Saturday.
The camp for the third-year Developmental League franchise will be led by former NBA head coach Eric Musselman.
I model myself an amateur archivist and take pride in being a thorough researcher, so a discovery like the above photo was all I needed to start digging up details on what happened prior to the final buzzer of Princeton's 56-53 victory over 19th-ranked Oklahoma State in the 1983 NCAA Tournament.
Princeton had already shut down North Carolina A&T 53-41 for their 10th straight win behind 18 from Gordon Enderle and 15 for Ivy League Player of the Year Craig Robinson in a preliminary round of the tournament to set up their meeting with OSU.
There's much to love if you click to enlarge this image shot off the endline of Gill Colliseum in Corvalis, Oregon - from the agape hug on the far right to the joy of the unknown player rushing alone to half court still wearing his warm-up pants to Pete Carril's blase' gesture with his right hand as he shuffles towards the Cowboys' bench.
While backing up my laptop, I found this eight minute one-on-one interview from January 2004 with Will Venable hiding on my external hard drive. This recording has not been previously posted on the site.
If I remember correctly, Princeton coach John Thompson III suggested that instead of our regularly-scheduled weekly interview for WPRB's "The John Thompson Show," I instead talk with the junior guard from Marin, CA.
Several of Venable's answers are prescient, as six of the Tigers' 13 Ivy League victories that season were decided either in overtime or by fewer than five points.
An offensive rebound and reverse layup to begin a three point play by Venable with three seconds left during Princeton's second conference game 10 days after we talked gave the Tigers a 49-47 win at Yale and a 2-0 start in league play. Amazingly, the bucket was Venable's only field goal attempt of the game despite playing 37 minutes.
Venable, the team's second-leading scorer (10.3 ppg) and rebounder (4.9) in 2003-04, recording a team-best 81 steals as he consistently locked down the opposition's top scoring threat.
Princeton finished the season 20-8, 13-1 in the Ivy League. The Tigers fell to Texas in the NCAA Tournament as Venable scored 16 points and grabbed eight rebounds in the loss.
While I'm waiting for another $0.99 eBay gem to arrive in the mail, enjoy covers of 10 programs from games at Jadwin Gym during the late 1980s and early 1990s, including images of several Princeton players I didn't have on file.
Norbert Valis, Chris Pavlic and Troy Hottenstein, anyone?
Above, then-sophomore forward Matt Eastwick. Nine additional images after the jump. Click any program to enlarge.
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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
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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
