Sean Gregory vs. Biathlon.
The latest in Gregory's series of Olympic videos. Not exactly a "shooter's touch" with the rifle...
1981 Ohio State/Princeton box score.
When Barack Obama stopped by the CBS broadcast booth to join Clark Kellogg and Verne Lundquist during Saturday's Duke/Georgetown game, Kellogg and the President joked about a 1981 meeting between Ohio State and a Princeton team led by Craig Robinson.
This contest, played at Madison Square Garden, ended with Kellogg's Buckeyes on top by four.
TigerBlog has more on the match-up and the Princeton Athletic Department was nice enough to scan a box score, which is pictured above.
When the two teams met the prior season (a 72-46 OSU romp in Columbus), Robinson had 15 points and eight boards while Kellogg scored 13 and grabbed six.
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Sweep leads to sweep.
Sophomore guard Douglas Davis was named Ivy League Player of the Week on the heels of the Tigers' wins at Brown and Yale. Davis scored 29 points over the weekend on 11-19 shooting. It is the first time Davis has picked up this honor.
Davis wasn't the only Princeton player hoisting hardware today. 10 points versus the Bears and eight at Yale earned freshman forward Ian Hummer the nod as Ivy League Rookie of the Week. It is Hummer's second time being recognized by the conference.
Monday News:
The Daily Princetonian talks to Nick Lake - who had a courtside seat for both games this weekend - about the Tigers' wins over Brown and Yale.
The Brown Daily Herald and the Yale Daily News provide alternate viewpoints.
Curious to see how Penn beat Brown at/after the buzzer? Video can be found here (.wmv). While you're at it, go 12:50 into this pre-season interview with Ivy coordinator of officials Reggie Greenwood (.mp3) for more on reviewable plays.
The Helper.
Since the calendar moved forward, Princeton senior co-captain Marcus Schroeder has put together a stellar six game stretch.
It isn't Schroeder's job to score - his season high is eight points at George Washington, but few players steady their team and put their teammates in position to succeed like he does.
Sunday News:
In addition to our recap, read about Princeton's win at Yale on goprincetontigers.com, in the New Haven Register and on yalebulldogs.com.
Georgetown (16-4) shot 71.7% from the floor for the game and was 15-18 from inside the arc in the second half, beating Duke, 89-77. Hoya Hoops has the postgame audio.
John Shurna's career high 31 were not enough as Northwestern (14-7) fell by nine at Michigan State.
Richmond (16-6) shut down Saint Louis, 62-36.
Mercer (12-11) beat Salem yesterday. Uros Kovacevic scored 16 as the Vikings won their second straight.
Denver (13-9) dropped its eighth in a row on the road, 73-62 at Arkansas State.
Oregon State (9-12) fell 62-52 to UCLA.
Princeton recruit Tom Noonan went for 20 in Penn Charter's loss to Episcopal Academy.
Future Tiger Chris Clement had 22 as Stony Point fell to Cedar Park. There's a video package of highlights available at this link.
Around the Ivy League: Cornell (18-3 / 4-0) sent a message by thoroughly dominating their showdown with Harvard (14-4 / 3-1) by 36. Columbia (7-11 / 1-3) topped Dartmouth (3-14 / 0-4) for their first conference win of the season. Penn (2-14 / 1-1) won at the buzzer in controversial fashion as Dan Monckton's layup appears to have come well after time expired, giving the Quakers a 55-54 win over Brown (7-14 / 1-3).
Three man booth.
John Thompson III's 200th career victory took place in front of the President of the United States, who joined Verne Lundquist and Clark Kellogg on the Duke/Georgetown broadcast during the second half.
They referenced a game Kellogg played against Craig Robinson at Madison Square Garden, a 59-55 triumph for the Buckeyes in the 1981-82 season.
Princeton 58 Yale 45.
Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson, Marcus Schroeder & Kareem Maddox:
Yale cut a 10 point Princeton lead in half midway through the second half and was looking to crawl closer when Tiger coach Sydney Johnson made a personnel move he had not tried all night.
Johnson sent the senior center tandem of Pawel Buczak and Zach Finley on the floor together and Princeton was able to ride their shoulders on a 19-4 run that closed out the game after the Bulldogs had pulled even.
"Tough road game. Conference play. Just to have some experience out there helped us," said Johnson after Princeton's second straight Ivy win. "At the least we just kind of settled in. Things weren't so new to us and so surprising because those guys have played a lot of time. It was effective this time around."
Buczak's high arcing jumper from just inside the three point line sailed through the net as the shot clock expired to give the Tigers a 43-40 advantage and Marcus Schroeder - who finished the night with six assists and no turnovers - found Douglas Davis for three on the right wing after Buczak cleared out two Bulldog defenders on a wide downscreen. Buczak's hesitation hook over Greg Mangano took the lead up to eight with 6:41 remaining.
Davis finished with a team best 13, but it was Princeton's ability to post Buczak, Finley, Kareem Maddox and Ian Hummer that provided the Tigers with 22 points in the paint. Maddox had a solid game, scoring nine points off the bench on 4-5 shooting and all but icing the result when he sized up a baseline jumper off a Schroeder drive to make it a 52-43 game.
Princeton was 6-6 at the free throw line in the game's final 1:13.
Alex Zampier, the Ivy League's leading scorer entering Saturday was 4-11 off the the bench and did not make a three point shot. Zampier did not start the game because he "broke a team rule" according to Yale coach James Jones. He finished with 13 points and six turnovers.
Brown pictures.
Photos from last night's game courtesy of Robert Solomon. He's no Stephen Goldsmith, but what are you gonna do?
