Sunday News:

November 30, 2008 at 10:11 am
Filed under Basketball, Denver, Georgetown, Recruiting, Richmond, Today's News

Oregon State vs. Fresno State - 5:00 pm ET
Georgetown vs. Maryland - 5:30 pm ET - Old Spice Classic - ESPN2
Coppin State vs. Richmond - 7:00 pm ET

Yale vs. Sacred Heart - 4:00 pm ET
Cornell vs. Indiana - 4:00 pm ET - Big Ten Network

Denver (0-4) remained winless, falling 62-54 at Wyoming.

Georgetown and Maryland meet today, 800+ miles from where they should be playing.

Richmond hosts Coppin State tonight.

Oregon State looks for that elusive first win at Fresno State.

A more detailed report on the 27 point game from 2009 recruit Jimmy Sherburne.

Mack Darrow scored 13 points in Barrington's OT loss to Auburn.

A third future Tiger, Gus Gabel put up 26 points in a 60-59 win for Chaparral over Seton Catholic.

Around the Ivy League: Brown (3-3) tripped Eastern Michigan, 53-51. Columbia (2-4) fell in the final minute to Stony Brook, 62-60. Dartmouth (1-4) dropped a 73-60 decision at home to Lehigh. Harvard (3-1) bested Army 66-54. Penn (1-4) lost to Albany, 73-63.

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Saturday News:

November 29, 2008 at 9:22 am
Filed under Basketball, Denver, Georgetown, Princeton, Recruiting, Today's News

Denver vs. Wyoming - 6:00 pm ET - The Mountain

Eastern Michigan vs. Brown - 1:00 pm ET
Army vs. Harvard - 2:00 pm ET
Stony Brook vs. Columbia - 2:00 pm ET
Lehigh vs. Dartmouth - 2:00 pm ET
Penn vs. Albany - 7:00 pm ET

Georgetown (3-1) faded down the stretch against #12 Tennessee, falling 90-78 in an extremely entertaining semi-final of the Old Spice Classic. The Washington Post reports on the game.

Denver looks for its first victory, on the road at Wyoming.

Princeton recruit Jimmy Sherburne scored 27 points in a Whitefish Bay victory.

Future Tiger Mack Darrow had 16 points in Barrington's loss to Boylan.

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Black Friday News:

November 28, 2008 at 9:44 am
Filed under Basketball, Georgetown, Today's News

Tennessee vs. Georgetown - 1:00 pm ET - Old Spice Classic - ESPN

Georgetown (3-0) survived Wichita State, 58-50.

The Washington Post has more on the Hoyas' difficult victory.

Time to dive into some leftovers...

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Email updates are back!

November 27, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Filed under Administrative, Basketball, Princeton

The new features keep coming! For those of you who miss the daily emails in your inbox like you used to receive when princetonbasketball.com was known as Princeton Basketball News on YahooGroups, there is now a way you can recreate that experience.

Enter your email address in the field on the far right and when new content is posted on the site you'll get a message in your inbox. You can also click here to subscribe.

This should satisfy the requests from members who could not comprehend RSS feeds.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Jon Solomon
princetonbasketball.com

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Thanksgiving News:

November 27, 2008 at 10:15 am
Filed under Basketball, Denver, Georgetown, Northwestern, Oregon State, Princeton, Richmond, Today's News

Wichita State vs. Georgetown - 2:30 pm ET - Old Spice Classic - ESPN2

In addition to our recap, just two official game stories from last night: goprincetontigers.com and fordhamsports.com

Richmond (3-2) lost to Bradley 80-66 in the final day of the O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic.

Northwestern (3-1) was trumped by four at Butler,

Denver (0-3) dropped their home opener in overtime to Northern Colorado, 71-66.

Oregon State (0-4) saw a 15 point second half lead disappear in a 82-79 loss to Montana State in overtime.

Georgetown kicks off Old Spice Classic action this afternoon against Wichita State.

Around the Ivy League: Brown (2-3) powered past Army, 80-73.

Have a happy Thanksgiving! It was so nice to see/meet many of you at Fordham last night.

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Fordham Pictures.

November 27, 2008 at 12:45 am
Filed under Basketball, Photos, Princeton

Pictures courtesy of Stephen Goldsmith.

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Princeton 73 Fordham 61.

November 26, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Filed under 08-09, Audio, Basketball, Princeton

Box Score

Postgame audio - Zach Finley & Kareem Maddox:

Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson:

Nick Lake's 14 points led a balanced, surgical Princeton attack as the Tigers defeated Fordham 73-61 on Thanksgiving Eve.

Lake was one of three Tigers in double figures, joined by center Pawel Buczak's career-high 13 and a 11 for freshman Doug Davis. Kareem Maddox added eight points and seven rebounds.

While Davis reached double figures for the fourth straight time, Wednesday's game was more than just The Doug Davis Show.

"We had great contributions," said Tiger head coach Sydney Johnson. "Doug is a nice player, but it is definitely going to be more than him and it has to be if we expect to do anything this year."

Princeton anatomized Fordham's man-to-man defense, shooting a season-best 54.3% from the field.

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Wednesday News:

November 26, 2008 at 9:34 am
Filed under Basketball, Denver, Northwestern, Oregon State, Princeton, Richmond, Today's News

Today's Game: Princeton (1-2 / 0-0) vs. Fordham (0-3 / 0-0)
Location: Rose Hill Gym - Bronx, NY
Time: 7:00 pm ET
Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB
TV: N/A
Internet: goprincetontigers.com
Series History: Princeton leads 16-11.
Last meeting: Princeton 57 Fordham 53 (OT) - 1/7/89.

Richmond vs. Bradley - 5:00 pm ET - O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic
Northwestern vs. Butler - 7:00 pm ET - horizonleaguenetwork.tv
Northern Colorado vs. Denver - 9:00 pm ET - FSN Rocky Mountain
Montana State vs. Oregon State - 11:00 pm ET

Army vs. Brown - 7:00 pm ET

The Daily Princetonian and the Trentonian preview tonight's game.

I neglected to mention that Doug Davis made the Honor Roll of the latest Ivy Weekly Basketball Awards.

Princeton recruit Jimmy Sherburne was named to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's "Terrific 25."

In their second of three consecutive games, Richmond (3-1) defeated UMKC, 85-74.

Undefeated Northwestern plays at undefeated Butler tonight.

Denver opens at home versus Northern Colorado.

Oregon State looks for their first win of the season against Montana State.

Around the Ivy League: Cornell (4-2) defeated Eastern Michigan, 67-54. It was Coach Steve Donahue's 100th career victory. Columbia (2-3) fell at home to Albany, 66-49. Behind 30 points from Jeremy Lin, Harvard (2-1) triumphed over Holy Cross, 69-59. Dartmouth (1-3) picked up their first win of the season, 68-63 over Furman. Penn (1-3) could not overcome a game-opening 22-4 run and lost 85-73 to Penn State.

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Tuesday News:

November 25, 2008 at 9:58 am
Filed under Basketball, Northwestern, Oregon State, Princeton, Richmond, Today's News

Richmond vs. UMKC - 5:00 pm ET - O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic
MCCC vs. Lackawanna - 7:00 pm ET

Cornell vs. Eastern Michigan - 5:45 pm ET - NIT Preseason Tip-Off
Albany vs. Columbia - 7:00 pm ET
Furman vs. Dartmouth - 7:00 pm ET
Holy Cross vs. Harvard - 7:00 pm ET
Penn State vs. Penn - 7:00 pm ET

The Daily Princetonian talks to Nick Lake about the Army game.

TigerBlog puts Doug Davis' 58 points after his first three collegiate game in historical context.

Rivals has a piece on Northwestern's 70 year struggle to advance to the NCAA tournament.

Richmond (2-1) pulled away late from Florida Gulf Coast.

Oregon State (0-3) shot 9-19 from the free throw line and missed two free throws with four seconds left in a 53-52 loss to Yale (1-3).

Princeton remains in 14th place in the latest Schuylkill Sixteen.

Around the Ivy League: Cornell (3-2) got a career-high 26 from Geoff Reeves in a 78-53 victory over Loyola (Il).

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New Recruit - Will Barrett.

November 24, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Filed under Basketball, Princeton, Recruiting

It has been known for a few weeks now that Central Bucks South forward Will Barrett had decided on Princeton as his collegiate destination, but it wasn't until tonight that I was able to finally get his extremely busy high school coach, Jason Campbell, on the phone.

Campbell shared his first-hand knowledge of Barrett's game with me and his quotes from our conversation, plus many links about this well-regarded prospect can be found after the jump.

This piece is one of six on princetonbasketball.com about the members of the 2009 Princeton recruiting class.

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We're on Facebook.

November 24, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Filed under Administrative, Basketball, Princeton

In my endless quest to skew this site younger (see last week's implementation of a Twitter feed for part one of this plan), I've set up a page for princetonbasketball.com on Facebook.

You can become a fan of what we do, watch videos, add your own photos and click around on many things that will probably just take you right back to the original site. Head here to check it out.

Don't worry, there won't ever be content on the Facebook page that isn't on this site first.

Also, if anyone knows of a decent schedule importer for Facebook that doesn't involve creating a new event for each game, I am interested.

Jon Solomon
princetonbasketball.com

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New Recruit - Brendan Connolly.

November 24, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Filed under Basketball, Princeton, Recruiting

Brendan Connolly, a 6'9" 240 lb center (#52, right) from Father Ryan High School in Nashville has decided to play basketball at Princeton.

Connolly is the sixth publicly-announced member of Princeton's 2009 recruiting class, a group full of talented, versatile big men.

I had a chance to speak with Connolly's high school coach, Doug Bontrager, this afternoon. His quotes about Connolly, plus links to evaluations and accolades can all be found after the jump.

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