Xavier pulled away from Richmond (16-6) in the second half of a 85-62 decision. The Musketeer zone surprised the Spiders.
Mercer (9-14) led Salem by eight with 12 minutes to go. The Vikings' Gary Carthan popped out a shoulder and the Oaks eventually came away with a 65-62 win.
An inspired Northwestern (13-8) showing came up a point short of number one Ohio State. Playing without their leading scorer, the Wildcats shortened the game to 49 possessions.
Denver (11-10) knocked off the defending Sun Belt champions from North Texas, 80-67. The Pioneer Pulse has more on Denver's first win in the last six tries versus the Mean Green.
Stanford defeated Oregon State (8-12) in Palo Alto, 70-56.
Princeton recruit Denton Koon had 20 in Liberty's 58-43 triumph at Lee's Summit.
Seton CC and future Tiger Bobby Garbade cruised to their 13th straight.
A Florida forward says Dartmouth and Princeton are showing interest in him.
Around the Ivy League: Penn (8-8 / 2-0) never led in the second half yet survived a stern test from a Peter Sullivan-less Brown (7-11 / 0-4) squad, 80-78 in overtime. Harvard (14-3 / 4-0) stayed perfect at home, 78-57 over Cornell (4-14 / 0-4). Columbia (12-6 / 3-1) broke open a game tied at 25 and outscored Dartmouth (5-13 / 1-3) by 21 in the last 20 minutes of a 66-45 final.
Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson, Douglas Davis & Ian Hummer:
Princeton did not record a field goal in the final 6:39 of Saturday night's game against Yale, but made two defensive stops in the final 30 seconds to hold off the Bulldogs 67-63.
Austin Morgan, guarded closely by Dan Mavraides with Yale behind one, lost the ball off his foot - kicked forward 10 feet and over the baseline.
Following two ice-in-vein free throws by Mack Darrow, Kareem Maddox swatted a runner in the lane by Porter Braswell into the hands of Mavraides.
Mavraides was fouled with :08.6 showing and his team up three. The senior guard, who struggled through an eight turnover evening, missed his first try and then converted his second after Yale used their final time out.
Princeton sent four defenders back with Mavraides waiting patiently at the line.
Morgan's jumper from behind the arc right before time expired was rebounded by Ian Hummer and Princeton had done just enough to get to 2-0 after their first league weekend.
"We need a little more awareness as to how you get from the 10 minute mark with an 11 point lead to the one minute mark with an 11 point lead," said Princeton head coach Sydney Johnson.
Hummer finished with 12 points - all in the first half. His final rebound was his 11th, giving him three double-doubles on the season.
Douglas Davis led the way with 18 on 7-11 shooting. Maddox tallied 17, all but four coming after intermission.
Reggie Willhite's 13 topped four Elis in double figures.
Today's Game:Yale (9-8 / 2-1) vs. Princeton (13-4 / 1-0) 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 141-81. Last meeting:Princeton 82 Yale 58 - 2/19/10.
Yale
Princeton
5-2
Home Record
6-0
4-5
Away Record
5-3
0-1
Neutral Record
2-1
165
RPI
60
175
Sagarin
84
171
Pomeroy
109
68.1
Points / Game
71.4
66.6
Points Allowed / Game
65.5
.439
FG%
.472
.730
FT%
.709
.343
3PT FG%
.365
34.5
Rebounds / Game
34.6
8.8
Off. Rebounds / Game
9.5
-0.1
Rebounding Margin
+2.8
12.8
Assists / Game
13.9
13.8
Turnovers / Game
13.1
4.2
Blocks / Game
3.9
Mangano: 15.1
Points
Hummer: 13.8
Mangano: 10.2
Rebounds
Maddox: 6.9
Morgan: 2.9
Assists
Mavraides: 2.7
Willhite: 1.1
Steals
Mavraides: 1.2
Mangano: 2.7
Blocks
Maddox: 1.6
Grace: .500
FG% (Min: 10 FGM)
Maddox: .591
Braswell: .836
FT% (Min: 10 FTM)
Mavraides: .789
Morgan: .434
3PT FG% (Min: 10 3FGM)
Davis .415
Georgetown vs. Villanova - 12:00 pm ET - ESPN
Xavier vs. Richmond - 12:00 pm ET - ESPN2
MCCC vs. Salem - 2:00 pm ET
Ohio State vs. Northwestern - 6:00 pm ET - ESPN2
North Texas vs. Denver - 6:00 pm ET
Oregon State vs. Stanford - 10:00 pm ET
Cornell vs. Harvard - 6:00 pm ET
Brown vs. Penn - 7:00 pm ET
Columbia vs. Dartmouth - 7:00 pm ET
More on the 34 point game for Princeton recruit Denton Koon.
Around the Ivy League: Penn (7-8 / 1-0) raced to a 24-6 lead and held off Yale (9-8 / 2-1) at the Palestra. Dartmouth (5-12 / 1-2) led by as many as 28 in the second half of a 64-57 win over Cornell (4-13 / 0-3). Harvard (13-3 / 3-0) stayed perfect in conference with a 77-66 decision versus Columbia (11-6 / 2-1).
Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson, Kareem Maddox & Dan Mavraides:
Trailing 21-13 after 10 unfocused minutes in the first game of their final Ivy League campaign, Princeton's seniors did what you hope your veterans will do.
A driven, determined Kareem Maddox took over Jadwin Gym on Friday night - scoring 11 points, grabbing seven rebounds, dishing three assists and grabbing three steals in 15 minutes of first half action as the Tigers exploded on a 24-2 run fueled by their defense.
Fellow senior Dan Mavraides was one of four Princeton players in double figures, hitting three times from deep for 13. Ian Hummer equaled Mavraides and Douglas Davis did one better. Maddox finished with 15 points and a career high 14 boards.
No one on the Tigers played more than 26 minutes as the orange and black opened the second half on an 8-0 run and never lead by less than 14 before expanded recycling time to close the effort.
"They looked like they'd been there. It is hard to fake that," said Princeton head coach Sydney Johnson about Maddox and Mavraides. "They've been in those moments."
Ian Hummer is number 23 on Bleacher Report's 30 Mid-Major Underclassmen You Need To Know About.
Northwestern's John Shurna may have suffered a concussion versus Minnesota.
Here is Will Venable modeling the Padres' new road uniform.
The 14-Game Tournament has a fascinating piece about (among other things) Ken Pomeroy's projections and how Joe Scott's three Ivy seasons at Princeton each deviated from the confidence intervals.
Georgetown freshman Aaron Bowen will miss the rest of the season after surgery on his right shoulder.
The coach of a junior guard from northern New Jersey says he is "being recruited by Princeton and Columbia as he is also one of the top students in his class."
The Reading Eagle writes it is time for Reading High School to honor their basketball history, including Pete Carril and Gary Walters.
Tigers head coach Sydney Johnson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon returned to Jadwin Gym on Thursday for their first weekly interview since prior to Princeton's winter exam break. The two reviewed Princeton's successful efforts against Marist and TCNJ before previewing this weekend's Ivy openers at home versus Brown and Yale.
This Q&A is 13:00+ in length.
Interviews with Coach Johnson will appear on this site every week during the 2010-11 season.
This week's Schuylkill 16 is out and Princeton holds on to fifth place therein.
I will be a guest on premiere Internet-only college basketball radio station Hoops Talk Live tonight at 6:20 pm ET talking about the Ivy League and Princeton with Raphielle Johnson of CollegeHoops.net. Follow the link to listen!
For the opening Ivy installment of the popular Know! Your! Foe! series this season, I again exchanged emails with David "Bruno" Wise (pictured above), the biggest only Brown basketball fan I know. May his answers provide you insight about the Tigers' first conference foe. This year's Bears have a 7-9 record, recently dropping both sides of their home-and-home series with Yale.
Last year's loss to Brown was a major setback for the Tigers' title aspirations. How different are the 2010-11 Bears from the team that captured a 57-54 win at Jadwin?
It’s a pretty different team. On offense, last year’s team ran inside-out, with our All-Ivy center Matt Mullery getting the first touch in the post most of the time. This year is much more outside-in. The Bears very rarely get the ball into the post, and the Freshman point guard Sean McGonagill has the ball most of the time. Â And these Bears actually rebound pretty well by committee, which no Brown team has done for a while.
The latest collection of videos from various corners of the Princeton basketball family. Above, excerpts of speeches by Sydney Johnson and Kareem Maddox at the Princeton Varsity Club's Winter Coaches Luncheon.
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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
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
