My schedule and the schedule of the NCAA-accredited Delaware County Pro-Am summer league finally synchronized on Sunday, so Stephen Goldsmith and I set forth on a 45 minute drive to King of Prussia, PA in hopes of seeing a few current and former Princeton players in action.
Will Venable led off with his his third home run off the season (video) as San Diego built a 13-0 lead after two innings of an easy victory at Florida. Venable would score three of the Padres' runs.
The Hoops Report sees Princeton as the 59th-best team in their Top 68.
Northwestern will host Baylor during the 2011-12 season.
Rush The Court previews the Ivy League.
Now back to repeatedly punching my laptop to try and make Lion work properly.
Princeton's T.J. Bray (above) and Jimmy Sherburne are teammates back home at the Milwaukee Summer Pro-Am. Their squad currently holds a 1-3 record. Box scores for each contest:
93-86 L : 71-70 L : 103-92 L : 102-93 W
Ian Hummer is briefly mentioned a pair of times in this excellent Kenner League recap.
I hear another former Tiger great may be joining Will Barrett, Kit Mueller and Douglas Davis on Stomp Off at the DelCo Pro-Am.
MSG's Jon Rothstein spoke with Sydney Johnson about his new challenge at Fairfield.
I neglected to mention that Yale has released their 2011-12 schedule.
If I remember correctly (and I usually do), only the second half of this game was shown to the majority of the nation, so many of these plays are being seen for the first time unless you were in Austin that evening two decades ago. A great find.
What teams from the past five seasons were most similar to the 2010-11 Princeton Tigers?
It shouldn't be a huge surprise that the 14-Game Tournament is already the first with an extensive draft preview of next season.
The Tigers opening with Rutgers at home and Drexel on the road? Not going to happen, but that's what the ScheduleMatic algorithm generated.
The Princeton Packet has more on Kareem Maddox's overseas signing.
A member of the 1952 EIBL champion Princeton team, Donald Marshall passed away Saturday at the age of 79.
Idriss Omboumbou, who played for Howie Levy at Mercer County Community College, died unexpectedly in his sleep a few days ago. A memorial service will be held this weekend. They're trying to raise money so Omboumbou can be buried in his native Gabon.
You can watch more of Douglas Davis and Kit Mueller in DelCo Pro-Am summer league action here and here.
Kevin "Moon" Mullin now has a blog.
A high school senior committed to Duquesne was "also recruited by Dartmouth and Princeton."
Sydney Johnson made a Yahoo! Sports list of Best Mid-Major Coaches. Richmond's Chris Mooney is also in this field of 16.
Elsewhere on Yahoo!, a contributor's Best NBA Players from Ivy League Colleges features four former Tigers in their top seven.
While I was on vacation the last week I updated the site's list of Princeton Tigers on Twitter, which now includes over 30 different current and former players to follow.
Finally, a Town Topics piece on Craig Robinson's son Avery, who is playing in the Princeton Summer League.
Last week Kareem Maddox officially signed with Dutch First Division team Landstede Basketbal for the upcoming season.
I had a chance to talk to Maddox via phone as he exited Universal Studios this evening and the 2010-11 Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year told me about his impending opportunity in Zwolle. A transcript of our conversation appears after the jump.
The latest collection of videos from various corners of the Princeton basketball family. Can Mason Rocca still dunk? Watch and see.
Four additional clips after the jump, including more from the “Study to Win” Basketball Camp.
Happy 81st birthday to Pete Carril!
Carril shares today with decent company - Princeton senior Douglas Davis.
Dime Magazine calls the Ivy League the best training ground for college coaches.
Georgetown's John Thompson III was one of the coaches present for the Mississippi High School Boys All-Star Game.
The NCAA video vault contains both the 1996 Princeton vs. UCLA NCAA Tournament game as well as 1989's Princeton vs. Georgetown matchup.
Today marks a year since Marvin Bressler's passing. On this anniversary I keep coming back to a quote from Rabbi Jim Diamond about Professor Bressler:
"He was a skeptic in the best sense of the term. He was not an irreverent skeptic. He was not a cynical skeptic. He was a profound and responsible skeptic."
What would Marvin would have had to say about last season, had he been here to experience it?
I think he would have gotten a big kick out of it all.
Recent Princeton grad Kareem Maddox '11 has signed with Dutch First Division team Landstede Basketbal for the 2011-12 season.
Based out of Zwolle, Landstede went 10-26 last year, 9th in the DBL.
Maddox joins Mason Rocca '00 (Italy), Judson Wallace '05 (Spain) and Konrad Wysocki '04 (Poland) as former Tigers playing professionally overseas.
Sydney Johnson is a man of his word.
Back in April, when the Fairfield basketball coach left Princeton after four seasons, he privately promised me that a time would eventually come where he would be willing to field my queries about his departure.
Yesterday at a coffee shop in Mercer County, Johnson and I met up to talk.
Thinking of the many email exhanges, site comments and off-Internet conversations I had with subscribers since Johnson joined the Stags, I tried to get answers to the questions you have asked me.
The audio from our 20:00+ conversation can be found after the jump.
Dan Mavraides is one of three recipients of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association's National Athletic Award. He will be honored at the AHEPA convention on July 21st in Miami.
Is Ian Hummer the 16th best returning mid-major small forward? Well, one web site thinks so.
A senior forward from the Chicago suburbs has selected Dartmouth over "interest from" Brown, Princeton and Yale.
