Georgetown (28-6) clinically disposed of UMBC, 66-47.
Highlights above. Press conference below.
American (21-12) stayed right with Tennessee for 35 minutes before the Volunteers pulled away, using a 22-8 run that concluded the 72-57 first round loss for the Eagles.
Sports Illustrated has opened a vault of classic articles to coincide with March Madness. Here's a 1965 Frank Deford piece on Bill Bradley.
American vs. Tennessee - 12:15 pm ET - CBS
UMBC vs. Georgetown - 3:00 pm ET - CBS
Georgetown faces UMBC in the first round of the NCAA Tournament this afternoon. The Hoya seniors are comfortable with their position as one of the top seeds.
American has its work cut out against Tennessee. The Princeton Packet caught up with Mike Brennan about the Eagles' success this season.
Princeton recruit John Comfort was named 2008 All-Area.
Cornell (22-6) was no match for Stanford, falling behind by 36 in a 77-53 loss.
Cornell vs. Stanford - 5:00 pm ET - CBS / CSTV
The Town Topics reviews last week's Princeton loss to Penn.
Craig Robinson will be named Men’s Division I Coach of the Year at Monday's Cox Sports R.I. Basketball Media Awards Luncheon.
Alexander Wolff's feature on John Thompson III is in the latest Sports Illustrated. Wolff has quotes from Bob Scrabis, Gary Walters, Professor Marvin Bressler, Nate Walton, Ed Persia and Kyle Wente in this incredibly well-researched piece.
Despite 39 points from Damon Huffman in his final collegiate game, Brown (19-10) fell at Ohio in the first round of the CBI.
Richmond (16-15) was up 12 with 8:41 remaining, but Virginia rallied for a 66-64 victory in CBI action.
One more Georgetown article to bookend today's news, from the Wall Street Journal.
Former Wildcat Tim Doyle explains a principle of "The Princeton Offense" in this segment of his series Below The Rim.
Brown vs. Ohio - 7:00 pm ET
Richmond vs. Virginia - 7:00 pm ET - FCS
Brown kicks off CBI play tonight in Athens against the Bobcats.
Richmond stays in-state for their CBI game, visiting Virginia.
Roy Hibbert of Georgetown talks to the AP about the decision to return for his senior year.
The Washington Post writes about Cornell snapping the Penn / Princeton stranglehold.
Pittsburgh vs. Georgetown - 9:00 pm ET - ESPN
Congratulations to Mike Brennan, who is headed back to the NCAA Tournament as an assistant coach at American. The Eagles defeated Colgate to sew up their first-ever appearance in the big dance.
Roy Hibbert and Georgetown (27-4) beat West Virginia 72-55 in the Big East Tournament semifinals. Bob Ryan describes the game in five words - The Big Fella showed up. Luke Winn of Sports Illustrated also has some good quotes.
The 70th straight year without a NCAA appearance for Northwestern.
West Virginia vs. Georgetown - 7:00 pm ET - ESPN
The Princeton Packet has two articles of note: One on the Penn game and one on fan favorite Noah Savage.
Georgetown (26-4) advanced to the Big East semifinals for the third straight year. The Washington Post has more on the the Hoyas' hot shooting and Sally Jenkins offers up a funny piece about "luck."
Richmond (16-14) lost to St. Joe's, 61-47 on the boardwalk in the Atlantic 10 Tournament.
Northwestern (8-22) led by 13 at halftime and had the ball with a chance to win in the game's final seconds but it was Minnesota who advanced out of the first round of the Big Ten Tournament with a 55-52 victory.
How's this for a tease? Great Wall 1, Will Venable 0.
Villanova vs. Georgetown - 12:00 pm ET - ESPN
St. Joe's vs. Richmond - 2:30 pm ET - Comcast Sports Net
Northwestern vs. Minnesota - 5:00 pm ET - ESPN2
The Daily Princeton assesses the job Sydney Johnson did this season.
Roy Hibbert and his fellow senior Hoyas lead Georgetown into a high noon meeting with Villanova at Madison Square Garden to start day two of the Big East tournament. We'll be on the scene with a full postgame report later today.
Richmond and St. Joe's face off in the Atlantic 10 tournament.
Northwestern plays Minnesota in the Big Ten tournament.
Chris Young allowed three runs in four innings as the Padres won a spring training contest against the San Francisco Giants.
Judson Wallace with 17 points and 18 rebounds as Capo d'Orlando won 97-91 over Teramo.
If you attended Princeton's final home game of the season in the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, you would have seen them.
Large posters of each of the Tigers who were playing their final contest at Jadwin Gym, stapled to pieces of wood, held in the air by fans like they were delegates at a political convention.
These signs (dubbed "Seniors on a Stick") were made by a group of fans called The 14 Club, who were a big influence on me as a young basketball fan growing up in Princeton. I remember fondly spending many hours before the Loyola Marymount game behind the bleachers helping them assemble that year's Seniors on a Stick.
While in New England for the Brown / Yale weekend, the idea to bring back Seniors on a Stick hit me.
If princetonbasketball.com wasn't going to do this, who would?
The five seniors on the 2007-08 Princeton basketball team had been through a rough four years, which didn't go at all like they expected when they arrived on campus. They each deserved some recognition from the fans for the work they put in wearing orange and black before college basketball was no longer a part of their lives.
A plan was formed.
First, I wanted to get the go-ahead from The 14 Club and Coach Johnson. Both swiftly responded that this sounded like a great idea.
Then, it was time to lay out the designs.
With a Chris Marquart SoaS my parents found tucked away in their home as the prototype, I laid out five designs in Photoshop, using some of the great photos Stephen Goldsmith had taken for princetonbasketball.com this season.
Found the right wood at Home Depot and orange 11"x17" paper at Pick Quick. Kinko's ran off proofs and did the printing from files on my key drive.
With all the parts in place, it was on to assembling!
We brought all the sticks into my parents' basement on Sunday afternoon.
...where my dad and I split time sawing them in half, three at a time.
The end result was ~200 pieces of wood, each about two feet long.
In the basement there were several sources of inspiration from past posters, like Matt Lapin - who may have been the first senior featured as a Senior on a Stick.
Kit Mueller.
The 1991 graduating class.
We moved the wood onto the porch, where they were stapled to the posters by various Solomons, Schellers and Solomon-Schellers.
Piled our work in the kitchen, putting tape over the ends to avoid splinters.
The finished products went in six shopping bags for easy transport to Jadwin.
Then on gameday, we rushed them into the building about an hour before tipoff, giving a Senior on a Stick to every kid we could find. Having young fans run up to me and breathlessly say "do you have any more Noahs?!," watching the Princeton mascot wave his Kyle Koncz poster on the sidelines, being told by older Tiger fans that they were glad to see these placards again or observing people trading with one another in the stands to try and get a complete set of all five seniors brought me back two decades to when I had just discovered Princeton basketball. I hear players were even asked to autograph their respective signs by young fans after the game.
While the night did not end as I had imagined, with Seniors on a Stick held high as the victorious Tigers headed off the floor one final time, the experience did made me feel better about the season, regardless of the wins and losses. Hopefully this is a tradition that can now happen again every year at Jadwin, sending Princeton's seniors out of Jadwin with something extra to feel good about at the end of the year.
