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Tuesday News:

January 4, 2011 at 10:07 am
Filed under Basketball, Georgetown, Northwestern, Princeton, Today's News

Dan Mavraides represents Princeton on the latest Ivy League Men's Basketball Weekly Release.

Please note: I've received word that the Tigers' tip time for their January 23rd game versus TCNJ has been moved up one hour to 2:00 pm ET.

Marist is Princeton's final opponent before the exam break. The Red Foxes suffered an 83-67 loss at Loyola (MD) last night.

Georgetown (12-3) struggled offensively and lost to St. John's in the final seconds.

A late 12-0 run could not get Northwestern (9-3) past Michigan State. The Wildcats were vanquished by three.

Around the Ivy League: Cornell (3-10) went down for the 9th time in 10 games, 78-66 versus Buffalo. Penn (5-6) fell 86-62 at Kentucky. Army and Dartmouth (4-9) met for the second time this season, with the Black Knights coming out on top 67-47 this time. American defeated Brown (5-7) by 10.

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Coco said,

January 4, 2011 @ 10:50 am

The final score in the Penn-Kentucky game (KY 86- PA 62) doesn't tell the full story. Penn, led by Tyler Bernardini's 16 points in the first half, came out smoking and held a lead of 31-19 at one point, only to end up trailing 33-32 at the half.
After the break, KY hit 12 of their first 13 shots and then steadily pulled away.
Bernardini, who sat out most of last year with an injury, finished with 22.

Penn finished the game with 40.8% shooting (20-49) but that included 66.7% from behind the arc (8-12). They also were 87.5% from the line (14-16).

The game recaps state that Penn often used up a lot of clock, forcing KY to play defense for 30 seconds, before nailing a shot. Reminds me of another team that used to play in the Ivy League.

Jon Solomon said,

January 4, 2011 @ 11:01 am

I did not see the game, but I see Penn was at one point in the first half 7-9 from three, 3-17 from two point range.

The Quakers only took three threes in the second half.

Bernardini always plays well against top-flight competition for whatever reason.

Jon

David Lewis said,

January 4, 2011 @ 5:12 pm

I watched that Penn-Kentucky game on ESPNU last night. Penn played like Princeton of old. A lot of dribble hand offs, screens, back cuts and three point shots. They also used at least 30 seconds of the shot clock every time down the floor. I am convinced that this is the only way that an Ivy League team can ever compete against a team like Kentucky.

Stuart Schulman said,

January 4, 2011 @ 5:36 pm

Has anyone seen an explanation of why Dartmouth and Army scheduled each other twice this year?

Steven Postrel said,

January 4, 2011 @ 10:09 pm

My concern with the new up-tempo Princeton style is that it works great against teams where the Tigers have matchup superiority--which admittedly is quite a number of games on their schedule this year--but it gets them out of practice for slowing it down against better opponents. Going all the way back to 1989, one reason why Princeton could out-execute big-time rivals was because they were playing their regular offense--taking their time and waiting for a great shot was just what they did (while rivals weren't used to it). If slowing down becomes a special tactic pulled out once or twice a year, the team's not going to be that good at it.

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