Princeton heads to Cambridge on Friday evening, where they will face Harvard guard Jeremy Lin (seen above battling Kyle Koncz for a loose ball) for the seventh time.
Lin has put up big numbers - in the Top 200 in Percentage of Possessions Used, Effective FG%, True Shooting %, Assist Rate, Steal Percentage, Fouls Drawn/40 and FT Rate/40 - and received a lot of attention from opposing defenses and national media his senior season, one of the primary reasons the Crimson have gone 14-4 this year.
But how has Lin faired against the Tigers the first six times he's played Princeton?
When Barack Obama stopped by the CBS broadcast booth to join Clark Kellogg and Verne Lundquist during Saturday's Duke/Georgetown game, Kellogg and the President joked about a 1981 meeting between Ohio State and a Princeton team led by Craig Robinson.
This contest, played at Madison Square Garden, ended with Kellogg's Buckeyes on top by four.
TigerBlog has more on the match-up and the Princeton Athletic Department was nice enough to scan a box score, which is pictured above.
When the two teams met the prior season (a 72-46 OSU romp in Columbus), Robinson had 15 points and eight boards while Kellogg scored 13 and grabbed six.
Sophomore guard Douglas Davis was named Ivy League Player of the Week on the heels of the Tigers' wins at Brown and Yale. Davis scored 29 points over the weekend on 11-19 shooting. It is the first time Davis has picked up this honor.
Davis wasn't the only Princeton player hoisting hardware today. 10 points versus the Bears and eight at Yale earned freshman forward Ian Hummer the nod as Ivy League Rookie of the Week. It is Hummer's second time being recognized by the conference.
Curious to see how Penn beat Brown at/after the buzzer? Video can be found here (.wmv). While you're at it, go 12:50 into this pre-season interview with Ivy coordinator of officials Reggie Greenwood (.mp3) for more on reviewable plays.
Since the calendar moved forward, Princeton senior co-captain Marcus Schroeder has put together a stellar six game stretch.
It isn't Schroeder's job to score - his season high is eight points at George Washington, but few players steady their team and put their teammates in position to succeed like he does.
Georgetown (16-4) shot 71.7% from the floor for the game and was 15-18 from inside the arc in the second half, beating Duke, 89-77. Hoya Hoops has the postgame audio.
John Shurna's career high 31 were not enough as Northwestern (14-7) fell by nine at Michigan State.
Princeton recruit Tom Noonan went for 20 in Penn Charter's loss to Episcopal Academy.
Future Tiger Chris Clement had 22 as Stony Point fell to Cedar Park. There's a video package of highlights available at this link.
Around the Ivy League: Cornell (18-3 / 4-0) sent a message by thoroughly dominating their showdown with Harvard (14-4 / 3-1) by 36. Columbia (7-11 / 1-3) topped Dartmouth (3-14 / 0-4) for their first conference win of the season. Penn (2-14 / 1-1) won at the buzzer in controversial fashion as Dan Monckton's layup appears to have come well after time expired, giving the Quakers a 55-54 win over Brown (7-14 / 1-3).
Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson, Marcus Schroeder & Kareem Maddox:
Yale cut a 10 point Princeton lead in half midway through the second half and was looking to crawl closer when Tiger coach Sydney Johnson made a personnel move he had not tried all night.
Johnson sent the senior center tandem of Pawel Buczak and Zach Finley on the floor together and Princeton was able to ride their shoulders on a 19-4 run that closed out the game after the Bulldogs had pulled even.
"Tough road game. Conference play. Just to have some experience out there helped us," said Johnson after Princeton's second straight Ivy win. "At the least we just kind of settled in. Things weren't so new to us and so surprising because those guys have played a lot of time. It was effective this time around."
Buczak's high arcing jumper from just inside the three point line sailed through the net as the shot clock expired to give the Tigers a 43-40 advantage and Marcus Schroeder - who finished the night with six assists and no turnovers - found Douglas Davis for three on the right wing after Buczak cleared out two Bulldog defenders on a wide downscreen. Buczak's hesitation hook over Greg Mangano took the lead up to eight with 6:41 remaining.
Davis finished with a team best 13, but it was Princeton's ability to post Buczak, Finley, Kareem Maddox and Ian Hummer that provided the Tigers with 22 points in the paint. Maddox had a solid game, scoring nine points off the bench on 4-5 shooting and all but icing the result when he sized up a baseline jumper off a Schroeder drive to make it a 52-43 game.
Princeton was 6-6 at the free throw line in the game's final 1:13.
Alex Zampier, the Ivy League's leading scorer entering Saturday was 4-11 off the the bench and did not make a three point shot. Zampier did not start the game because he "broke a team rule" according to Yale coach James Jones. He finished with 13 points and six turnovers.
Today's Game:Princeton (10-5 / 1-0) vs. Yale (8-12 / 2-1) Location: John J. Lee Amphitheater - New Haven, CT Time: 6:00 pm ET Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB TV: N/A Internet: goprincetontigers.com Series History: Princeton leads 139-81. Last meeting:Princeton 62 Yale 54 - 2/28/09.
Princeton
Yale
5-1
Home Record
4-3
5-4
Away Record
2-6
0-0
Neutral Record
2-3
140
RPI
295
148
Sagarin
283
140
Pomeroy
263
60.3
Points / Game
66.0
54.5
Points Allowed / Game
62.0
.424
FG%
.427
.728
FT%
.722
.355
3PT FG%
.300
29.7
Rebounds / Game
35.4
8.8
Off. Rebounds / Game
12.3
-1.6
Rebounding Margin
+0.5
12.1
Assists / Game
13.5
13.9
Turnovers / Game
14.8
3.3
Blocks / Game
4.7
Davis: 14.1
Points
Zampier: 18.1
Mavraides: 4.9
Rebounds
Sands: 6.0
Schroeder: 3.3
Assists
Braswell: 2.6
Schroeder: 2.2
Steals
Zampier: 2.7
Buczak: 0.9
Blocks
Mangano: 2.1
Finley: .581
FG% (Min: 10 FGM)
Davis: .514
Schroeder: .857
FT% (Min: 10 FTM)
Zampier: .861
Saunders: .486
3PT FG% (Min: 10 3PTM)
Morgan: .385
Duke vs. Georgetown - 1:00 pm ET - CBS
St. Louis vs. Richmond - 2:00 pm ET - The Comcast Network
Salem vs. Mercer - 3:00 pm ET
Northwestern vs. Michigan State - 6:00 pm ET - Big Ten Network
UCLA vs. Oregon State - 7:30 pm ET
Denver vs. Arkansas State - 9:00 pm ET
Penn vs. Brown - 7:00 pm ET
Dartmouth vs. Columbia - 7:00 pm ET
Harvard vs. Cornell - 7:00 pm ET
Denver looks to stop a recent slide at Arkansas State.
Princeton recruit Ben Hazel scored 21 as Good Counsel upended O'Connell, 63-59.
Future Tiger Tom Noonan had eight for Penn Charter, who defeated Haverford School by 10.
Around the Ivy League: Cornell (17-3 / 3-0) shut down Dartmouth (4-13 / 0-3) to a 71-37 count. Harvard (14-3 / 3-0) kept pace, pushing aside Columbia (6-11 / 0-3) by 29. Yale (8-12 / 2-1) scored the first 11 points of a 61-48 win over Penn (1-14 / 0-1).
When your starting center and his backup both pick up two personal fouls in the first 3:27 of the game, a one-sided blowout isn’t a surprise.
What was a surprise is that the team hampered by foul trouble were the ones that dominated play.
With bigs Pawel Buczak and Zach Finley on the bench, Princeton used an unselfish offensive attack and a pressure defense that bothered Brown’s guards before they could get into their sets - opening the game on an 18-7 run and building a 40-18 halftime advantage - cruising to the 63-46 final.
The score of the Ivy opener wasn’t even that close. The Bears did not get within 17 points in the second half until the game’s final basket.
"That's what we do when we're at out best," said Princeton head coach Sydney Johnson after opening his third consecutive Ivy campaign with a victory. "We're trying to learn from some of our mistakes and I think that showed a little bit tonight."
Douglas Davis scored all of his game-best 16 in the first 20 minutes, set up four times behind the arc by his teammates. Ian Hummer bullied for 10 down low, eight after intermission.
Matt Mullery, the interior presence for Brown who came into Friday’s game with a lofty stat line went 2-8 from the floor and finished with 10.
"2-8 - I didn't know that," a surprised Johnson remarked afterwards. "He causes a lot of problems for people. I didn't know that we were able to do that. He's really good, so I guess we caught him on an off night, because he's really, really good."
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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
