Postgame audio - Coach Mitch Henderson, Patrick Saunders & Douglas Davis:
Win or lose, up or down, for 112 games as a Princeton Tiger, senior guard Douglas Davis’ demeanor has remained the same. In his first outing after a 2-12 struggle to connect at Yale, Davis got rolling in the second half, leading his team to a win over Dartmouth.
Davis scored 14 of his game high 20 after intermission, including four three pointers in five tries as the Tigers flipped a two point halftime deficit into a 33-25 lead.
All the while, his expression didn’t change.
“Don’t play poker with Doug,” joked head coach Mitch Henderson.
Princeton had to fight through dreadful 0-12 shooting to open the game and an unexpected 0-11 mark by leading scorer Ian Hummer, but after falling behind by 10 points early the Tigers rallied behind their senior co-captains Davis and Patrick Saunders for the 59-47 victory.
“Doug’s pretty quiet. If he goes 0-11 or 11-11, it looks pretty much the same,” Saunders said of his stoic classmate.
As I mentioned last month, a subscriber handed me a stack of late 1970s and early 1980s Princeton basketball programs, which I'll be scanning portions of as time allows. The plan was to do one program every seven days, but I missed last week's scheduled scan in lieu of this incredible archive of David Zeft's photographs.
Seeing how we're on the brink of this year's Dartmouth/Harvard weekend, the latest review is of a program from the same visit by these northern travel partners in 1980. That's Randy Melville on the reverse halftone cover. A curious design decision to say the least...
Click on select pictures to enlarge. Check out the site's extensive Programs category for past scans.
Harvard may return everyone of import from the team Princeton beat at the buzzer in 2011's Ivy League playoff, but they're actually quite different in several respects. To discuss the Crimson in detail for the site's Know! Your! Foe! series, I hit up Michael James of the @ivybball Twitter account. James is also a Rush The Court contributor and once the brains behind The 14-Game Tournament.
My questions and his answers follow after the jump.
If you cover a team the Tigers will face down the line, let us know. We'd love to talk with you.
With a steady stream of Princeton players trickling in to Jadwin Gym in advance of a late afternoon practice, Tigers head coach Mitch Henderson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon met courtside to tape this week's interview.
Henderson and Solomon reviewed Princeton's weekend split at Brown and Yale in great detail and previewed this weekend's return home against Dartmouth and Harvard. Along the way the pair conversed about why opponents are frequently trying to ball screen Princeton in league play and if being 2-3 in conference changes this season's goals.
This exclusive Q&A is 14:00+ in length.
If you have questions for future interviews, please feel free to send them here.
After more than two consecutive months between home games versus Division I opponents, Princeton finally returns to Jadwin Gym to play contests of consequence. The first of these match-ups is with a young Dartmouth team full of players few reading have seen play in person previously.
To get answers about the quite green Big Green for today's Know! Your! Foe!, the only person to ask was writer Bruce Wood, founder of Big Green Alert, who has been covering Dartmouth athletics for as long as I can remember (and then a bit before that).
Our conversation follows after the jump. Look for a Harvard edition of K!Y!F! come Friday morning.
If you cover a team the Tigers will face down the line, let us know. We'd love to talk with you.
Here's the latest collection of videos from various corners of the Princeton basketball family. Above, an interview and highlights from Dan Mavraides' breakout game for Aris Thessaloniki.
Ian Hummer, shown driving to 1,000 points in a photograph by Donald Clark above, made the honor roll of the latest Ivy League Men's Basketball Weekly Release.
The new polls came out yesterday. Georgetown is 12th in the AP rankings and 11th in the ESPN/USA Today table.
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As these sites have continued to grow we have increased our coverage to include additional teams with Princeton connections - the Richmond Spiders, Denver Pioneers, Oregon State Beavers, Fairfield Stags and Mercer County Community College Vikings - plus former Tigers playing professional baseball and basketball all over the world. This site is not directly affiliated with the Friends of Princeton Basketball, Princeton University or the Princeton athletic department.
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
