Brown pictures.
Photos from today's game courtesy Stephen Goldsmith.
Princeton 78 Brown 60.
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."
Matt Sullivan led Brown with a career best 22.
Friday News:
Today's Game: Brown (7-9 / 0-2) vs. Princeton (12-4 / 0-0)
Location: Jadwin Gym - Princeton, NJ
Time: 7:00 pm ET
Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB
TV: Verizon FiOS 1
Internet: goprincetontigers.com
Series History: Princeton leads 93-25.
Last meeting: Brown 57 Princeton 54 - 2/20/10.
| Brown | Princeton | |
| 5-2 | Home Record | 5-0 |
| 2-7 | Away Record | 5-3 |
| 0-0 | Neutral Record | 2-1 |
| 215 | RPI | 61 |
| 239 | Sagarin | 84 |
| 258 | Pomeroy | 113 |
| 68.8 | Points / Game | 70.9 |
| 70.2 | Points Allowed / Game | 65.9 |
| .426 | FG% | .472 |
| .751 | FT% | .714 |
| .324 | 3PT FG% | .366 |
| 35.4 | Rebounds / Game | 34.2 |
| 8.6 | Off. Rebounds / Game | 9.3 |
| -0.4 | Rebounding Margin | +2.1 |
| 13.8 | Assists / Game | 14.0 |
| 13.3 | Turnovers / Game | 13.3 |
| 2.9 | Blocks / Game | 4.0 |
| P. Sullivan: 13.6 | Points | Hummer: 13.8 |
| P. Sullivan: 5.9 | Rebounds | Maddox: 6.4 |
| McGonagill: 4.9 | Assists | Mavraides: 2.6 |
| Halpern: 0.9 | Steals | Mavraides: 1.3 |
| McCarthy: 1.0 | Blocks | Maddox: 1.6 |
| Ponticelli: .619 | FG% (Min: 10 FGM) | Maddox: .586 |
| M. Sullivan: .875 | FT% (Min: 10 FTM) | Mavraides: .806 |
| M. Sullivan: .389 | 3PT FG% (Min: 10 3FGM) | Davis .416 |
Yale vs. Penn - 7:00 pm ET - Comcast
Cornell vs. Dartmouth - 7:00 pm ET
Columbia vs. Harvard - 7:00 pm ET
The Trentonian previews tonight's game.
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.
Oregon State (8-11) fell 85-57 at Cal.
Coach Sydney Johnson - 1/27/11.
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.
Thursday News:
Oregon State vs. Cal - 11:00 pm ET - FSN
The Mercer game at Lackawanna scheduled for tonight has been moved to Thursday, February 17th due to the snow.
Jason Clark scored 16 points on 5-5 shooting as Georgetown (15-5) pulled even in Big East play with a 75-51 win over St. John's.
Northwestern (13-7) led at the half but dropped a 81-70 decision at Minnesota.
The Town Topics reviews Princeton's game versus TCNJ.
The Trenton Times previews Friday's Ivy opener against Brown.
Oregon State visits Cal.
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!
Know! Your! Foe! - Brown.
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.
YouTube potpourri XX.
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.
Wednesday News:
St. John's vs. Georgetown - 7:00 pm ET - ESPN+
Northwestern vs. Minnesota - 8:30 pm ET - Big Ten Network
Moravian College president Chris Thomforde is profiled on the NCAA web site.
The Princeton Packet writes about the Tigers' victory over TCNJ.
Yahoo! Sports has updated their Princeton team report.
Kevin Anderson scored 26 in a 70-61 Richmond (16-5) win at Dayton.
As previously discussed on this site, Mercer (9-13) handily defeated Manor.
Princeton recruit Denton Koon scored 15 as Liberty High School won at the buzzer. There's video of Koon in a KMBC piece that aired last week.
A running back from the Lehigh Valley has verbally committed to Princeton. Worth considering: He's averaging 21 ppg as a basketball player at Nazareth Area High School.
Austin Freeman looks to continue his resurgence as Georgetown hosts St. John's.
Still seeking a signature win, Northwestern visits #16 Minnesota.
No peeking.
Who am I? Min FG% Reb A TO Stl PTs PF Player A 489 56.8 30-70-100 37 29 15 221 37 Player B 485 58.6 26-77-103 38 33 12 213 38
Without looking at the season stats, can you tell which 2010-11 cumulative line belongs to Ian Hummer and which is that of teammate Kareem Maddox?
(I'm leaving blocks and three pointers out to up the degree of difficulty.)
Mercer 74 Manor 47.
Postgame audio - Coach Howie Levy:
On January 15th Mercer County Community College (9-13) lost 70-67 at Manor, the Blue Jays' first and only win this season.
10 days later the Vikings weren't going to let what transpired in Jenkintown happen again on their home floor.
Holding a four point lead five minutes into the first half, Mercer set out on a methodical, well-executed zone offense clinic as Manor (1-14) switched away from man.
It was the opposite of what transpired in the teams' first meeting, where MCCC's execution versus man-to-man forced Manor into a zone and the Vikings moved the ball well but did not make any of their open shots.
Seeing 2-3 defense, Mercer teased the Blue Jays with swift, precise perimeter passes but did not solely settle for outside jumpers, working the ball to a player overloading the defense at the free throw line or slipping inside on the baseline to mix the palette up with a layup.
A four point lead quickly became 21-12 and then rapidly 30-17 on an open three by Rodney Walters, one of six triples for Mercer in the first half.
"It is nice that we came back and played well," said head coach Howie Levy. "The ball really moved and our defense was good. It is what we're trying to get to. This is one of the few games where we have a little margin for error."
Tuesday News:
Richmond vs. Dayton - 7:00 pm ET - ESPNU
Manor vs. MCCC - 7:00 pm ET
Richmond visits Dayton this evening.
Princeton's Kareem Maddox is on the Honor Roll of edition 12 of the Ivy League Men's Basketball Weekly Release.
Austin Freeman of Georgetown is your Big East Player of the Week.
Items I've been meaning to scan.
A friend donated a stack of contributions for my Princeton basketball collection. While they've been sitting at the front of my home since before I drove down to James Madison, I didn't get a chance to scan them until today.
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