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Repost: My first Ivy road trip.

March 3, 2011 at 10:25 pm
Filed under Basketball, Bob Scrabis, Kit Mueller, Princeton

With Princeton heading out on their final Ivy road trip of the season, the time seemed appropriate to re-share a piece I wrote in April of last year about the Tigers' 1989 visit to Dartmouth and Harvard. Princeton clinched the Ivy crown on the Crimson's floor, the orange and black's first championship in five years - a scenario many reading would very much like to see duplicated this weekend. If you enjoy the following, I'd also recommend a subsequent story entitled Crewcuts. - JS

I don't remember how I talked them into it, but on the first Saturday of March in 1989, I somehow convinced my parents (and extremely skeptical younger sister) that we should load up the car and go to the Princeton/Harvard game outside Boston as a family.

We didn't head all the way up to Dartmouth the previous night, where the Big Green had been victorious 53-43 over the Tigers. Now the losers of two straight, Princeton needed to win their final conference game to claim the program's first Ivy League championship in five years.

A loss to the Crimson (who beat the Tigers by six at Jadwin Gym a month previous) combined with a Dartmouth win over Penn and the two teams would end the season tied at 10-4 for the 1988-89 Ivy crown.

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Minnesota/Northwestern highlights.

March 3, 2011 at 9:56 pm
Filed under Basketball, Northwestern, Video

The Wildcats win on Senior Night in Evanston.

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Coach Sydney Johnson - 3/3/11.

March 3, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Filed under Basketball, Coach Johnson Interview, Princeton

With Princeton preparing to depart for Hanover this morning, Tigers head coach Sydney Johnson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon sat down at Jadwin Gym to tape their weekly interview. The pair reviewed Princeton's sweep of Cornell and Columbia to finish the home slate a perfect 12-0, then looked ahead to the final three regular season road games at Dartmouth, Harvard and Penn.

This Q&A is 17:00+ in length.

Interviews with Coach Johnson will appear on this site every week during the 2010-11 season.

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Thursday News:

March 3, 2011 at 9:08 am
Filed under Baseball, Basketball, Northwestern, Oregon State, Princeton, Richmond, Today's News, Will Venable

Oregon State vs. Arizona - 9:00 pm ET - FSN

Northwestern (17-12) ran nothing but "JV" for the final eight minutes as they rallied past Minnesota, 68-57. In a Senior Night script familiar to site readers this week, Michael "Juice Thompson" scored 12 of his 18 points in the last 3:39 - including a pair of three point shots.

Kevin Anderson totalled 22 as Richmond (22-7) pulled away from St. Joe's in the second half, 69-54.

The Acorn profiles Princeton senior forward Kareem Maddox.

The Town Topics has published their article on the Tigers' Senior Night victory over Columbia.

A preview of Saturday night's Princeton/Harvard matchup can be found in the Crimson.

Future Tiger Denton Koon tallied 21 in Liberty's Missouri Class 5 sectional victory over Park Hill South - a game with a 13-9 halftime score.

Will Venable hit a three run home run in Cactus League action.

Arizona hosts Oregon State.

The latest Schuylkill 16 includes Princeton in fifth place.

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Wednesday News:

March 2, 2011 at 9:18 am
Filed under Basketball, Denver, Mason Rocca, Northwestern, Princeton, Recruiting, Richmond, Today's News

Richmond vs. St. Joe's - 7:00 pm ET
Minnesota vs. Northwestern - 8:30 pm ET - Big Ten Network

Princeton recruit Bobby Garbade recorded a double/double as Seton CC advanced to Friday's Section 4 Class B final.

The Princeton Packet has an article on the Tigers' win over Columbia.

Princeton Alumni Weekly digs into the archives and comes out with cover images and full articles on memorable Tiger tournament teams of the past 50 years.

The Yahoo! Sports team report for Princeton has been updated.

13 points for Mason Rocca as Armani Jeans Milano topped Dinamo Sassari.

It is the final regular season home game for Michael "Juice" Thompson and three other seniors as Northwestern hosts Minnesota.

Richmond needs a victory at St. Joseph's to clinch a bye in the Atlantic 10 Tournament.

Here's an excerpt from the weekly press conference of Joe Scott.

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Lavietes Pavilion: Where anything could happen, will happen and probably already has happened.

March 1, 2011 at 10:28 am
Filed under Basketball, Ed Persia, Judson Wallace, Luke Owings, Princeton, Scott Greenman, Video, Will Venable

Over the past decade, Princeton's annual trips to Harvard have resulted in some of the wackiest basketball games you could design. Buzzer beaters. Titanic shifts in momentum. Improbable comebacks where each and every lead is painfully insecure until time runs out.

The stands on both sides of Lavietes Pavilion - thanks very much in part to the work of Bob Ruxin '76 and PANE - are almost always a crowded, spirited combination of Crimson and Tiger supporters. It doesn't matter how successful or how struggling either program is - This little gym is heavy on atmosphere and high on drama.

Saturday's game between Harvard and Princeton, regardless of how the former does versus Penn at home or how the latter performs against Dartmouth in Hanover on Friday night, will occur with the Ivy League's NCAA tournament participant yet to be decided.

I've been planning a chronological game-by-game review of the Tigers' last 10 trips to Allston since the fall and after the jump you'll find detailed write-ups on each (seven of which have not been published previously on the site) plus exclusive video of a pair of Princeton game-winners.

If you enjoy this 11,000+ word behemoth, you're bound to appreciate similar retrospectives on Princeton's last 11 season openers, a decade of dismay against Rutgers and the team's past four meetings with Duke.

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