For the first time in forever, Northwestern will play in the New York area. The Wildcats are scheduled to participate in the Holiday Festival at Madison Square Garden in December along with St. John's, Davidson and one team TBA.
Here's additional confirmation of Princeton's return trip to Monmouth this season. If you've been keeping close track, that brings the number of games on the Tiger schedule that have been revealed on-line to 25. Expect three more road games and two more home games to fill out the schedule. It looks like one of the games at Jadwin is the last to be confirmed.
Kam Williams interviewed Craig Robinson for The Skanner News.
Chris Young suffered another setback and will not be throwing again anytime soon.
Some tiny adjustments to his batting stance have benefitted Will Venable. The San Diego outfielder has missed his team's last two games due to back stiffness.
Georgetown has announced which teams their players will be on in the Kenner League. I do not have word if any Princeton players will be participating in Kenner, like they did last season.
Princeton's Director of Basketball Operations, Martin Bahar, has replaced Scott Greenman on the Tiger coaching staff as the team's third assistant coach.
This promotion had been rumored for a while, but there is no official word where Greenman is headed or who will fill Bahar's previous position.
Will Venable can feel his swing path improving. The Padres outfielder hit a towering 424 foot home run (video) to right last night as San Diego took its second straight at Tampa Bay.
On the eve of the NBA draft, Georgetown center Greg Monroe is trying to ignore the rumor mill.
The Hoyas officially announced the hiring of new assistant coach Robert Kirby and new Director of Basketball Operations Darryl Prue.
If he can't latch on with a professional team stateside, Cornell center Jeff Foote will head to Israel and play for Dave Blatt and Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Konrad Wysocki made the 16 man training camp list for Team Germany in advance of the 2010 FIBA World Championship.
Denver's Nate Rohnert talks about working out with the Nuggets.
Princeton recruit T.J. Bray was on the winning side of the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association All-Star Game. Bray scored six points, grabbed six rebounds, dished out four assists, added a steal and a block while committing zero turnovers.
Georgetown is expected to name Mississippi State assistant coach Robert Kirby to the Hoya staff, replacing the departed David Cox.
Despite 12 points and six rebounds from captain Mason Rocca, Armani Jeans Milano lost 93-69 to Montepaschi Siena, competing a four game sweep in the Lega A championship series.
On Friday, Chris Young played catch for the first time since May. The previous night Young was in Los Angeles for game seven of Celtics/Lakers.
The Northfield Mount Hermon Facebook page mentions the Princeton staff was one of several programs to call about 2012 players on Tuesday.
One of my absolute favorite annual (free!) area events is Art All Night, happening from now until 3:00 pm ET tomorrow in Trenton. If you haven't been before, I can't recommend stopping by highly enough.
Among the hundreds of paintings, sculptures, installations and displays at the Roebling Wire Works is "From The Key" by Carl Frankel, the first canvas I can think of depicting a moment in a hypothetical Penn/Princeton basketball game.
The Star Ledger ran a feature on Will Venable over the weekend.
Venable discusses his approach to pinch-hitting on the Padres' web site.
Once known as "The Destroyer," former Princeton JV player Ben Domb is now the medical director of the Hip Center of Excellence at Adventist Hinsdale Hospital outside of Chicago.
Mason Rocca was limited to four points as Armani Jeans Milano dropped the opening game of the Lega A finals against three time defending champions Montepaschi Siena.
The NCAA has released their 2008-09 Academic Progress Rate Public Report. You can see the numbers for Princeton here.
As "Distinguished All-Met," John Thompson III will be honored at the 26th annual Washington Post All-Met banquet.
Despite injuring his neck sliding into third base on Friday, Will Venable would not hesitate to do so again.
TigerBlog asks if John Wooden was a better coach than Pete Carril.
Wooden had a couple nice things to say about how Princeton plays in this 1998 interview.
Mason Rocca had six points and seven rebounds as Armani Jeans Milano forced a deciding game five in their Lega A semifinals against Caserta. The winner of today's contest advances to play powerhouse Siena in the finals.
Northwestern guard Alex Marcotullio has been invited to the Great Britain U20 training camp.
It sounds like the workout Greg Monroe had with the Sacramento Kings went well.
Princeton recruit Tom Noonan won Penn Charter's American Association of Physics Teachers' Award.
Shortly after the news broke last night that legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden had passed away at the age of 99, I received a note from a reader asking if Princeton had ever played against a Wooden-coached team.
The Tigers faced UCLA twice during Wooden's incredible run, the initial meeting in 1968 when Princeton's first undefeated Ivy League champs fell 83-67 to the 29-1 eventual national champions in the first round of Saint John's annual Holiday Festival tournament at Madison Square Garden.
Lew Alcindor scored 40 points matched up against Chris Thomforde in UCLA's 23rd straight win. The next day Princeton was crushed by previously unbeaten North Carolina, 103-76 in the tournament's consolation game.
One year later, on December 28. 1969, the Tigers traveled to Pauley Pavilion for the Bruin Basketball Classic and a game that was nearly the program's biggest victory.
Craig Robinson is profiled by the Los Angeles Daily News.
Team captain Mason Rocca was one of four Armani Jeans Milano players in double figures as the "Little Red Shoes" took a 1-0 series lead over Pepsi Caserta in the Lega A semifinals.
Richmond will play in fifth annual Chicago Invitational.
Not much new on the Will Venable front, so enjoy video of a sliding catch he made in a game versus the Cardinals last week.
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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
2,503 - B. Bradley, 1962-65
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
1,064 - A. Hyland, Jr., 1960-63
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
