Yale pictures.
Photos from today's game courtesy of Stephen Goldsmith.
Princeton 82 Yale 58.
Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson, Pawel Buczak & Patrick Saunders:
When the worst thing you can say about Princeton's performance is that they were 1-5 on dunk tries, it is a pretty good night.
The Tigers made 11 of their first 15 three point attempts and blew out Yale by 24 on Friday at Jadwin Gym. It was the highest point total for a Tiger team against the Bulldogs since 1973.
"We haven't had a game like that, but we were fortunate," said Princeton head coach Sydney Johnson. "I thought Yale brought a lot of energy and I know Coach Jones had them ready to play. It just seemed that we didn't miss a lot of shots."
Grabbing 16 offensive rebounds (the most versus a Division I foe since Rutgers in December 2001), dishing out 25 assists (the most versus a D-I foe since 28 against Brown in March 2000) and holding Bulldog leading scorer Alex Zampier to 3-12 shooting, Princeton led by 16 at the break and hit their first three treys of the second half to build an advantage that they sustained to the buzzer.
Dan Mavraides had 20 to lead all scorers, 4-7 outside the arc.
Friday News:
Today's Game: Yale (10-15 / 4-4) vs. Princeton (15-6 / 6-1)
Location: Jadwin Gym - Princeton, NJ
Time: 7:00 pm ET
Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB
TV: ESPNU
Internet: goprincetontigers.com
Series History: Princeton leads 140-81.
Last meeting: Princeton 58 Yale 45 - 1/30/10.
| Yale | Princeton | |
| 5-5 | Home Record | 6-2 |
| 3-7 | Away Record | 9-4 |
| 2-3 | Neutral Record | 0-0 |
| 275 | RPI | 131 |
| 272 | Sagarin | 136 |
| 241 | Pomeroy | 125 |
| 68.1 | Points / Game | 58.6 |
| 69.8 | Points Allowed / Game | 52.2 |
| .427 | FG% | .432 |
| .734 | FT% | .735 |
| .292 | 3PT FG% | .366 |
| 35.5 | Rebounds / Game | 29.8 |
| 12.0 | Off. Rebounds / Game | 8.2 |
| +1.2 | Rebounding Margin | +0.1 |
| 13.0 | Assists / Game | 11.6 |
| 14.1 | Turnovers / Game | 13.6 |
| 4.6 | Blocks / Game | 3.2 |
| Zampier: 17.8 | Points | Davis: 13.2 |
| Sands: 5.9 | Rebounds | Mavraides: 4.6 |
| Braswell: 2.4 | Assists | Schroeder: 3.1 |
| Zampier: 2.3 | Steals | Schroeder: 1.9 |
| Mangano: 2.0 | Blocks | Maddox: 0.9 |
| Davis: .512 | FG% (Min: 10 FGM) | Finley: .597 |
| Zampier: .889 | FT% (Min: 10 FTM) | Schroeder: .889 |
| Morgan: .327 | 3PT FG% (Min: 10 3PTM) | Saunders: .500 |
Cornell vs. Harvard - 7:00 pm ET
Columbia vs. Dartmouth - 7:00 pm ET
Brown vs. Penn - 7:00 pm ET - The Comcast Network
Georgetown (18-7) nearly rallied from a 23 point second half deficit but ultimately fell to #5 Syracuse, 75-71.
Denver (15-11) remained undefeated at home in conference play with a 62-57 win over UALR.
Freshman forward Joe Burton was all over the court as Oregon State (12-13) knocked off Pac-10 leader Cal, 80-64.
The Trenton Times has more on Mercer's loss to Harcum.
The Daily Princetonian previews this weekend's games.
Harcum 93 Mercer 67.
Postgame audio - Coach Howie Levy:
Winners of seven straight, Mercer County Community College was unable to slow down 24-0 Harcum on Tuesday night. The Bears from Bryn Mawr, ranked #1 in the NJCAA Divsion I men's basketball poll, raced to a 14-2 lead and the Vikings were unable to play the game at the pace they needed to stay close.
"You can't replicate what they do in practice, that's for sure," said Mercer head coach Howie Levy. "We've had a terrific year, we've played real well, but we've never faced anything like that."
By the time the Vikings settled down on both ends of the floor, the deficit was significant. Two baskets and two free throws following a technical foul on Harcum's Jeremiah Bowman drew Mercer within 33-25, but the Vikings could not get a stop - slapping out a defensive rebound did not create a transition opportunity that might have pulled Mercer closer. Instead a Harcum forward happily accepted the ball at the top of the arc and sized up a three that took the lead back to double figures.
As the Bears sent wave after wave of players into the rotation, Mercer was unable to contain all of Harcum's weapons and slow the Bears' repeated breakouts. In addition to a cadre of quick guards flying all over the court, Harcum also boasted the interior presences of 6'11" Diyaaldin Kelley and 6'10" Dutch center Berend Weijs.
A basket by Mercer's Paco Boussougou, fouled by Wilbur O'Neal on the play, made it a 64-52 score midway through the second half, but a swift 13-2 run cued by Harcum's swarming defense erased any thought of a comeback.
"It's pressure that [we] haven't seen all year and hopefully won't see again," Levy said of the Bears' active full court attack.
Mercer (17-12) will open Region XIX Tournament play on Wednesday night. The location of this game and the Vikings' opponent will be known on Monday.
Photos from today’s game courtesy of Stephen Goldsmith after the jump.
Coach Sydney Johnson - 2/18/10.
Tigers head coach Sydney Johnson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon sat down on Thursday afternoon at Jadwin Gym for their weekly one-on-one interview. This Q&A is 17:00+ in length.
Johnson and Solomon break down Princeton's comeback victory over Columbia, discuss the Tigers' close loss in front of an energetic crowd the next night against Cornell in detail and review the team's successful trip to Penn on Tuesday. The pair also preview this weekend's Ivy games versus Yale and Brown.
Thursday News:
Harcum vs. MCCC - 7:00 pm ET
Syracuse vs. Georgetown - 7:00 pm ET - ESPN2
UALR vs. Denver - 9:00 pm ET
Cal vs. Oregon State - 10:30 pm ET - FSN
Richmond (21-6) nabbed its seventh straight to continue their NCAA Tournament push, 84-58 over Fordham.
Penn State won its first Big Ten game of the season, 81-70 at Northwestern (17-9). The Wildcats' only hope to make the NCAA tournament is to claim their conference's automatic bid. Doesn't look good.
Two Town Topics articles went live yesterday, one on the Cornell/Princeton game and the other profiling Tiger assistant Brian Earl.
The Daily Princetonian has an article on Ian Hummer .
Princeton recruit T.J. Bray scored his 1,000th point in Catholic Memorial's 84-57 win over Brookfield Academy.
Chris Wright and Georgetown host #5 Syracuse.
Denver welcomes Arkansas-Little Rock to Magness Arena.
Cal visits Oregon State.
Mercer has clinched first place in the Garden State Athletic Conference. Tonight they have a make-up game against top-ranked and undefeated NJCAA Division I Juco powerhouse Harcum.
Former Tiger Mike Bechtold will participate in an all star game featuring Lancaster-Lebanon League greats on July 16th.
Princeton moves up to the fifth slot in this week's Schuylkill 16. Serves me right for voting Penn State last. Ugh.
The Harvard Crimson reports that Andrew Van Nest and Keith Wright will not play this weekend.
Wednesday News:
Fordham vs. Richmond - 7:00 pm ET
Penn State vs. Northwestern - 8:30 pm ET - Big Ten Network
In addition to our recap, read about Princeton's second straight win over Penn on goprincetontigers.com, in the Trentonian, in the Daily Princetonian, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, in the Daily News and on pennathletics.com.
Philly College Sports has more on last night's game.
Two articles worth reading in the Daily Pennsylvanian , a game story and a column praising Princeton's defense.
The Princeton Packet story on the Cornell game is live.
Bill Bradley will be honored by the NABC with the Court of Honor Award.
Richmond hosts Fordham tonight. The Times-Dispatch writes about Spiders senior David Gonzalvez, who once sought to leave the team but had a change of heart.
Penn State visits John Shurna and Northwestern.
Princeton recruit Ben Hazel scored 10 as Good Counsel defeated St. John's, 49-44.
Andy Glockner of Sports Illustrated has a piece on Cornell big man Jeff Foote that was completed after the Big Red's trip to Princeton.
Mercer footage.
A random section from early in the first half of Mercer's win over Del Tech Stanton.
Princeton 58 Penn 51.
Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson, Ian Hummer & Dan Mavraides:
Two of the greatest guards in the history of the Ivy League manned the sidelines against one another for the first time on Tuesday night in the 221st hardwood meeting between Penn and Princeton.
It was an evening where both men, each coaching at their alma mater, made it clear where their allegiances stood. Their fashion displayed their passion.
For the first time this season, Sydney Johnson wore a tie from the Princeton Club of Philadelphia embroidered with orange and black crests.
Not to be outdone, Jerome Allen donned a maroon sweater with a dark blue "P" flush in the center.
This first face off for the two went better for Johnson's Tigers than he remembered the pair's on-court encounters in the mid-1990s.
"It was a nightmare," Johnson said of facing Penn's Allen, Shawn Trice and Matt Maloney.
"We competed," Johnson was quick to add about his teams. "We were proud in what we put out on the court. We had our own time. "That's what I'm trying to tell these guys. Just keep grinding and maybe we'll get our own time."
Princeton kept grinding against Penn, never trailing, but never able to push their lead into double digits.
Their leading scorer, Douglas Davis - for the first time in his collegiate career - went scoreless.
Yet at the end of the night, the Tigers had won their second straight at the Palestra behind a career high 24 points from junior Dan Mavraides and 23 points off the bench from the interior combination of Zach Finley and Ian Hummer.
