I am extremely chuffed to let you all know that the picture of Pete Carril in this week's Sports Illustrated (Page 16, Tiger Woods on the cover) was taken by princetonbasketball.com photographer Stephen Goldsmith!
If you see Stephen at Jadwin tonight, slap him on the back and congratulate him.
Today's Game: Yale (12-13 / 7-4) vs. Princeton (11-12 / 6-4)
Location: Jadwin Gym - Princeton, NJ
Time: 6:00 pm ET
Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB
TV: N/A
Internet: goprincetontigers.com
Series History: Princeton leads 138-81.
Last meeting: Yale 60 Princeton 48 - 2/13/09.
| Yale | Princeton | |
| 7-2 | Home Record | 7-6 |
| 5-11 | Away Record | 4-6 |
| 0-0 | Neutral Record | 0-0 |
| 218 | RPI | 300 |
| 242 | Sagarin | 278 |
| 229 | Pomeroy | 253 |
| 63.4 | Points / Game | 58.5 |
| 63.6 | Points Allowed / Game | 57.3 |
| .441 | FG% | .429 |
| .655 | FT% | .739 |
| .286 | 3PT FG% | .379 |
| 34.2 | Rebounds / Game | 31.1 |
| 10.7 | Off. Rebounds / Game | 7.8 |
| 13.6 | Assists / Game | 11.2 |
| 15.4 | Turnovers / Game | 13.2 |
| 3.0 | Blocks / Game | 3.2 |
| Zampier: 13.3 | Points | Davis: 12.4 |
| Morin: 6.0 | Rebounds | Finley: 4.5 |
| Pinick: 3.0 | Assists | Schroeder: 2.9 |
| Zampier: 1.6 | Steals | Mavraides: 1.1 |
| Mangano: 0.7 | Blocks | Saunders: 0.9 |
| Pinick: .533 | FG% (Min: 10 FGM) | Buczak: .567 |
| Pinick: .835 | FT% (Min: 10 FTM) | Maddox: .824 |
| Andrews: .343 | 3PT FG% (Min: 10 3PTM) | Schroeder: .556 |
Villanova vs. Georgetown - 12:00 pm ET - ESPN
Iowa vs. Northwestern - 2:00 pm ET - Big Ten Network
George Washington vs. Richmond - 7:00 pm ET
Brown vs. Penn - 7:00 pm ET
Cornell vs. Harvard - 7:00 pm ET
Columbia vs. Dartmouth - 7:00 pm ET
In addition to our recap, read about last night's Princeton victory on goprincetontigers.com, in the Trentonian, in the Trenton Times and on brownbears.com.
It is Senior Day in Evanston, as Northwestern welcomes Iowa.
DaJuan Summers and Georgetown are at Villanova. Health permitting, princetonbasketball.com will be there covering the game.
Richmond hosts George Washington.
Princeton recruit Brendan Connolly scored 19 points and grabbed 18 rebounds as Father Ryan advanced to the Division II-AA title game.
Will Venable was one of 29 San Diego Padres to ink one year deals yesterday.
Former Princeton player Ed Persia has signed on as an Italian scout.
Around the Ivy League: Yale (12-13 / 7-4) bested Penn (4-6 / 8-16), 87-79. Harvard (12-13 / 4-7) won by nine over Columbia (11-14 / 6-5). Cornell (19-8 / 9-2) has passed a big hurdle in their attempt to repeat as Ivy champs. The Big Red defeated Dartmouth (8-17 / 6-5) in Hanover, 75-57.
Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson, Marcus Schroeder & Douglas Davis:
Princeton made their first seven shots.
Princeton made their last two shots.
In between, the Tigers were a miserable 11-43 from the field (25.6%).
Yet Princeton was able to pull off a 56-48 win over Brown on Friday night at Jadwin Gym because of a solid team effort defensively and some tactical decisions that took away several of the Bears' strengths.
Douglas Davis scored 14 of his 16 in the second half and picked up 14 of the Tigers' last 20 points.
Davis, who came off the bench for the first time all season after starting the previous 22 games, was one of three Tigers in double figures. Dan Mavraides added 14, including four three pointers. Pawel Buczak tallied 11 despite not attempting a field goal after intermission.
Peter Sullivan's game-best 21 paced Brown. Chris Skrelja added seven and 16 rebounds.
"We're fighting and scrapping for everything that we can get," said Princeton head man Sydney Johnson. "[Brown] is a team that handled us at their place, and so for us to come away with a win and do it in a way where it wasn't pretty but we win, that's all that matters right now."
Today's Game: Brown (7-17 / 1-9) vs. Princeton (10-12 / 5-4)
Location: Jadwin Gym - Princeton, NJ
Time: 7:00 pm ET
Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB
TV: N/A
Internet: goprincetontigers.com
Series History: Princeton leads 91-24.
Last meeting: Brown 61 Princeton 43 - 2/14/09.
| Brown | Princeton | |
| 6-5 | Home Record | 6-6 |
| 1-12 | Away Record | 4-6 |
| 0-0 | Neutral Record | 0-0 |
| 311 | RPI | 299 |
| 310 | Sagarin | 278 |
| 305 | Pomeroy | 256 |
| 61.7 | Points / Game | 58.6 |
| 69.0 | Points Allowed / Game | 57.7 |
| .426 | FG% | .430 |
| .672 | FT% | .738 |
| .346 | 3PT FG% | .375 |
| 31.6 | Rebounds / Game | 31.0 |
| 8.0 | Off. Rebounds / Game | 7.9 |
| 13.2 | Assists / Game | 11.2 |
| 14.8 | Turnovers / Game | 13.4 |
| 2.7 | Blocks / Game | 3.1 |
| Mullery: 16.0 | Points | Davis: 12.2 |
| Skrelja: 6.5 | Rebounds | Finley: 4.5 |
| Skrelja: 3.7 | Assists | Schroeder: 2.7 |
| Williams: 1.1 | Steals | Mavraides: 1.0 |
| Mullery: 1.8 | Blocks | Saunders: 0.9 |
| Mullery: .582 | FG% (Min: 10 FGM) | Buczak: .554 |
| Williams: .870 | FT% (Min: 10 FTM) | Maddox: .816 |
| Kane: .500 | 3PT FG% (Min: 10 3PTM) | Schroeder: .560 |
Columbia vs. Harvard - 7:00 pm ET
Cornell vs. Dartmouth - 7:00 pm ET
Yale vs. Penn - 7:00 pm ET
The Trentonian, the Daily Princetonian and the Yale Daily News preview this weekend's games.
Denver (14-14) won its second on the road and fourth straight overall, 66-57 over Louisiana Monroe. The Pioneers clinched a home game in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament, but there was no word on if the team got their uniforms and shoes that the airline lost in time for last night's game.
A perfect inning for Chris Young in his first spring training outing.
Norm Van Lier passed away yesterday. Bill Carmody offers his memories of this Chicago icon.
A story in the Baltimore Sun about Joe Connelly, coach of Baltimore Freedom Academy and part of a group of four basketball brothers that includes Princeton Director of Basketball Operations Dan Connelly.
Tigers head coach Sydney Johnson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon sat down on Thursday morning at Jadwin Gym to discuss Princeton's tight win over Harvard and the team's disappointing defensive performance against Dartmouth. The pair also previewed the final homestand of the season versus Brown and Yale. The interview is 11:00+ in length.
Interviews with Coach Johnson appear on this site every week during the season.
Denver vs. Louisiana-Monroe - 8:00 pm ET
The Town Topics piece on last Saturday's game is live.
Princeton recruit Gus Gabel scored 19 as Chaparral advanced to the Class 4A Division I semifinals.
Northwestern (15-11) pulled away from Indiana in the second half, defeating the Hoosiers 75-53. The Wildcats won in Bloomington for the first time since 1968. They were 0-33 at Assembly Hall before last night.
Richmond (15-13) defeated Fordham by 10. It was the Spiders' third straight win.
Denver visits Louisiana-Monroe tonight.
The Colorado Springs Gazette writes that Joe Scott has the Pioneers on the winning path.
Northwestern vs. Indiana - 6:30 pm ET - Big Ten Network
Richmond vs. Fordham - 7:00 pm ET
ESPN's Dana O'Neil wrote a great piece on Pete Carril. It includes the best descriptions of Saturday night's events that I've read.
Princeton recruit Will Barrett scored 29 as Central Bucks South lost to defending state champion Chester in the consolation game of the PIAA District One Class AAAA tournament.
Richmond visits Fordham this evening.
Looking to end a four decade losing streak in Bloomington, Northwestern faces off against Indiana.
The Denver Daily News notes the strides Joe Scott's Pioneers are making.
The new Schuylkill 16 has been posted.
Louisville made their first nine shots and hit 70% from the field in the first half, defeating Georgetown (14-12) in a must-win game for the Hoyas.
Here's the Princeton Packet piece on Saturday night's Dartmouth/Princeton game.
Douglas Davis is on the Honor Roll for the latest Ivy Weekly Basketball Awards.
The finish of the Princeton/UCLA game came in 15th place on ESPN’s Top 30 Plays Of The Last 30 Seasons. The highlight aired during last night's Big Monday broadcast, mixed with the original WHWH audio.
For those of you who couldn't make it, here's some of the neat stuff handed out at different points on Saturday - before, during and after the "Carril Court" events.
I finally have something to drink my bottle of 2004 Ivy League Champions orange soda out of!
Commemorative laniard, front - the man of the hour.
Commemorative laniard, back - the new design of Jadwin's hardwood.
Louisville vs. Georgetown - 7:00 pm ET - ESPN
Articles about last weekend's games can be found in the Daily Princetonian, the Harvard Crimson and the Dartmouth.
Ice cold Northwestern (14-11) lost at Minnesota by 27.
Time is running out for Georgetown, who hosts #7 Louisville tonight.
Chris Young has put last May's injury behind him.
There has been such a ridiculous amount of new content on the site in the last 10 days that I wanted to do a summary post at the end of this stretch so that all of the interesting audio, video and text we've offered doesn't go unlooked.
Eight games in nine days - recaps, postgame audio and box scores:
Friday, February 13 - Princeton at Yale
Saturday, February 14 - Princeton at Brown
Monday, February 16 - Mercer C.C. at Princeton JV
Tuesday, February 17 - Penn at Princeton
Wednesday, February 18 - Richmond at La Salle
Friday, February 20 - Harvard at Princeton
Saturday, February 21 - Manor at Mercer C.C.
Saturday, February 21 - Dartmouth at Princeton
Action photos from all three Princeton home games:
Penn/Princeton (Stephen Goldsmith)
Harvard/Princeton (Tim Pitts)
Dartmouth/Princeton (Stephen Goldsmith)
Comprehensive coverage of the "Carril Court" events:
Pete Carril press conference audio
Plus...
Weekly Sydney Johnson interview audio
...and those are just the highlights!
No games from now until Friday, but the regular schedule of daily links and other finds will be offered here each and every day.
Jon Solomon
princetonbasketball.com
