Oregon State vs. UTEP - 10:00 pm ET - CBI - HDNet
The College Basketball Invitational's championship series comes down to tonight's third game between Oregon State and UTEP.
Craig Robinson has a painting on display at the Children's Trust Fund of Oregon's Blue Ribbon Celebration.
Robinson used his experience with other Princeton basketball alums as inspiration to bring former Beavers back into the fold.
Chris Young allowed nine runs on nine hits as Seattle beat San Diego 18-3.
Hoop Scoop's College Coach Rankings are in the latest issue of Basketball Times.
Names of note...
Top 40 College Coaches:
25. John Thompson III - Georgetown
48. Fran Dunphy - Temple
Top Coaches in Mid-Career:
10. Bill Carmody - Northwestern
23. Steve Donahue - Cornell
Top Up-and-Coming Coaches:
11. Craig Robinson - Oregon State
Top 100 Assistants:
64. Robert Burke - Georgetown
94. Kenya Hunter - Georgetown
Top 50 Low to Mid-Major Assistants:
27. Shay Berry - Dartmouth
32. John Gallagher - Penn
35. Will Wade - Harvard
Princeton recruit Jimmy Sherburne (left) was named to the was named the 2009 CNI/NOW All-Suburban Boys Basketball Team.
The College Basketball Invitational's best of three championship will have a winner-take-all game on Friday night, as Oregon State (17-18) was overcome by UTEP in El Paso. The Beavers were within three points in the final minute but the Miners secured the victory at the free throw line.
The Vermont Frost Heaves saw their season end with a 96-90 loss to the Wilmington Sea Dawgs in the wild card round of the Premier Basketball League playoffs.
Oregon State vs. UTEP - 10:00 pm ET - CBI - HDNet
Josh Tarver and Oregon State are in El Paso tonight for game two of the College Basketball Invitational's best of three finals. The Beavers lead the series 1-0.
Former Princeton assistant and current Georgetown assistant Robert Burke has interviewed for the open head coaching position at Boston University.
I wrote a piece for the latest Princeton Alumni Weekly covering Princeton's final three Ivy games of the season. Enjoy! - JS
Success at the Palestra - No Ivy title, but the Tigers beat Penn
By Jon Solomon
Heading into the final weekend of Ivy play, the Princeton men's basketball team controlled its own destiny. With victories in the final three games - a difficult road stretch at Columbia, conference-leader Cornell, and Penn - the Tigers could, at the least, share the Ivy League title.
Those hopes were erased March 6 in Morningside Heights as Columbia extinguished Princeton's dream with a 58-44 victory. Sharp-shooting Columbia senior K.J. Matsui scored 17 points, including five shots from outside the three-point arc. His back-to-back three-pointers turned a tenuous five-point Columbia lead into an 11-point cushion with 6:15 remaining.
"We weren't focused [on Matsui]," coach Sydney Johnson '97 said. "I felt like he is a player that we can limit, and he has been held in check in the past, but we just weren't focused enough to do it."
Sydney Johnson has been named Ivy League Coach of the Year by collegeinsider.com.
In front of their second-largest home crowd of the season, Oregon State (17-17) built a 21 point second half lead and held off a frantic UTEP charge for the 75-69 win in game one of the CBI finals. The series shifts to El Paso for game two on Wednesday night.
Georgetown's leading scorer, junior forward DaJuan Summers, will sign with an agent and make himself eligible for the NBA draft.
Pete Carril is rubbing off on the Sacramento Kings.
In Italy, 13 points and six rebounds for Judson Wallace as Benetton Treviso blew out Scavolini Spar Pesaro. Mason Rocca had 18 points and nine boards in Armani Jeans Milano's 88-85 squeaker over Snaidero Udine.
UTEP vs. Oregon State - 10:00 pm ET - CBI - HDNet
Oregon State hosts Texas-El Paso in game one of the College Basketball Invitational championship series tonight.
It looks more like a Nam June Paik piece than a basketball highlight, but someone filmed their TV showing Princeton's Kareem Maddox blocking a Duke jumper into the Blue Devils' bench at the 2007 Maui Invitational.
Will Venable is taking his demotion to AAA Portland in stride.
Chris Young did not make it out of the first inning of yesterday's start, giving up six runs on seven hits.
Only one Pac-10 team is still playing basketball this late in the year - Oregon State.
Chris Young pitches for the Padres against San Francisco this afternoon in what should be his final Cactus League start before the team heads back to San Diego. Young is 0-2 with a 6.57 era through five spring training games.
Former Princeton recruit Jeff Peterson, who reneged on his Early Decision commitment to the Tigers and then signed with Iowa in April 2007 after reopening his recruitment three months earlier, has announced he will transfer.
Peterson was Iowa's third leading scorer as a sophomore, averaging 10.6 ppg.
It will be interesting to see where Peterson lands, as two of his original finalists had coaching changes during his recruitment (St. Louis, Xavier) and Princeton does not accept transfers.
The first Senior on a Stick paid tribute to the lone member of Princeton's class of 1990 - forward Matt Lapin.
Lapin led the nation in three point shooting his senior year, hitting 53.4% of his attempts. His 71 triples are sixth-most in a season by a Tiger, which included eight in a game at Harvard on a team record 15 attempts.
The initial Senior on a Stick was poster-sized, hand-colored and hand-numbered (this one is #181 out of 200).
The text written under the image reads:
"Slapper on a Stick" 181/200 A "14 Club" Production PJB/SGC
How did Matt Lapin get the nickname Slapper anyway?
Footage from the Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament's 2009 dunk contest.
If you're pressed for time, Hummer's dunks come 4:15 into this clip.
