The Tigers drew a 13 seed in the East and will play fourth-seeded Kentucky on Thursday in Tampa, Florida. Princeton last played the Wildcats in the 1977 NCAA Tournament.
Tipoff time will be at roughly 2:45 pm ET and the game will air on CBS.
Interviews from Princeton's Selection Sunday event with Douglas Davis, Coach Sydney Johnson, Dan Mavraides and Kareem Maddox can all be found after the jump - along with video of the team's reaction when their name came up on the giant television at the Frist Campus Center.
I decided that win or lose, I'd film the final play of Saturday's playoff from my viewpoint behind the Princeton bench.
While I do remember involuntarily screaming "oh my god!" at the final buzzer, I don't recall yelping it 5X more times as the camera blacked out, strangers hugged strangers and people on Princeton's side of the gym ran up and down the aisles celebrating.
I'm not ashamed.
Stick through the darkness - a minute or so later I was able to hurdle a higher-than-I-realized barrier and get down on the floor to capture the scene. I'll most likely get this beautiful chaos up on YouTube in higher resolution later in the week but I wanted you to see the raw footage first - a lot of great moments can be found therein.
While you can't draw #tigerblood, who will Princeton draw in the 2011 NCAA Tournament? I've been purposely avoiding bracket projections this season, but now that the Tigers are in I've got no choice! An assortment of projections - some including venue and opponent - can be found after the jump.
Take all of these prognostications with a grain of salt but it should give you a decent idea of the 6-8 teams Princeton stands a solid chance of playing.
Alternate angles of Douglas Davis' shot keep showing up on the Internet. I can't stop watching them. The first is very nicely edited and produced. More after the jump.
Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson, Douglas Davis, Kareem Maddox & Dan Mavraides:
As I stood on the floor in disbelief, unable to properly take in what had transpired, I found myself drifting next to Roger Gordon '73 - the unofficial Princeton assistant coach who has sat on the bench - or perhaps more properly stood next to it - at different times over the years alongside Pete Carril, Bill Carmody, John Thompson III, Joe Scott and now Sydney Johnson.
Gordon has been a constant through decades of change, always on the periphery of the frame.
"This is for all of Pete's shots that didn't go in," he said quietly watching the 2010-11 Ivy League champions start to cut down the nets at Payne Whitney Gym.
His team trailing by one with :02.8 on the clock and senior tri-captain Dan Mavraides inbounding under the Tiger basket, Douglas Davis was able to take the ball in the left corner, dribble twice to his right, use a pump fake to create a sliver of space underneath Harvard's Oliver McNally and lean in for a true jumper as time expired to send Princeton to their first NCAA Tournament since 2004.
This one did go in.
"I got a good screen from Will Barrett," a still-stunned Davis said. "Originally I thought they were going to deny me the ball but I was able to get open. I took a couple dribbles and was able to fade. It felt good, went in and I fell on the ground."
"That was the worst decision I ever made because everybody just jumped on me."
While watching these on loop is making writing a game story exceedingly difficult, I can't imagine most site visitors are tiring of these alternate views.
I don't traditionally post pictures ripped from other sites, but above is a great Associated Press image of Douglas Davis as his winning shot sailed through the net that I had to share.
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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
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