April 21, 2012 at 10:08 am
Filed under Basketball, Georgetown, Princeton, Today's News, Will Venable
I am sorry to report the passing of Al Dufty '72.
Dufty was a three time letter winner at Princeton, captain of the 1971-72 team and recipient of the B. F. Bunn award following his final campaign.
He averaged 10.8 points as a senior on a 20-7 Tiger squad.
A memorial service will be held on Friday in Idaho, where he was associate dean of the Graduate College at Boise State.
My condolences to his family, friends and former teammates.
Here is a report on the year-ending Georgetown basketball banquet.
You can vote for Will Venable to make the 2012 All-Star Game if you so choose.
April 20, 2012 at 8:58 am
Filed under Basketball, Bill Bradley, Butch van Breda Kolff, Chris Young, Pete Carril, Princeton, Today's News
Hard to believe but today marks one year on the job at Princeton for Mitch Henderson.
The Daily Princetonian talks with Columbia coach Kyle Smith about a possible Ivy League tournament.
There's a long, wide-ranging piece about Princeton basketball on the Slam site.
Pete Carril is out west visiting the Sacramento Kings this week.
A number of 1960s Princeton basketball wire photos from the Baltimore Sun archives are up on eBay. This shot of Bill Bradley and Butch van Breda Kolff is worth bidding on, as are several others.
Chris Young threw a pair of live batting practice sessions as part of his recovery.
Finally, there's a report Jerome Allen could leave Penn to become "coach in waiting" under Larry Brown at SMU. We shall see.
April 17, 2012 at 9:08 am
Filed under Basketball, Fairfield, Mason Rocca, Princeton, Recruiting, Today's News
Following up on the Harvard Crimson report from before the weekend, the Daily Princetonian polled several current and former Princeton players (as well as select luminaries from other Ivy programs) about a possible conference tournament.
Perhaps more importantly, Soft Pretzel Logic uncovered a serious error in the initial article. The current proposal would eliminate one non-conference game, not one of the 14 meetings between Ivy foes as was originally stated.
Jonathan Tannenwald also has added a quote from Penn AD Steve Bilsky since this piece was originally published.
Mason Rocca spoke on behalf of Olimpia Milano during the National Day to Combat Thrombosis.
Seems like a long shot given the sheer volume of other schools interested but a forward from Newark has the Tigers on his extensive list of suitors.
A sixth freshman-to-be has committed to play for Sydney Johnson at Fairfield.
April 16, 2012 at 2:58 pm
Filed under Armond Hill, Bob Scrabis, Craig Robinson, Kit Mueller, Pete Carril, Photos, Princeton, Video
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a large box of media guides that a site member generously donated.
While adding the 1994-95 prospectus to my collection, I noticed that three of its pages were dedicated to favorite (clean) quips from coach Pete Carril, who was still two seasons away from his retirement.
I've transcribed this list of wise, funny, profound and eminently quotable lines after the jump. Feel free to add your best Carril declarations (of any rating) in the comments.
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April 14, 2012 at 9:48 am
Filed under Baseball, Basketball, Fairfield, Georgetown, Princeton, Recruiting, Today's News, Will Venable
Martin Bahar was promoted from Director of Basketball Operations to assistant coach at Fairfield.
A while ago there was some discussion about a big man from South Dakota who apparently was getting a look from Princeton. You can see where he eventually signed here.
Following nine consecutive San Diego strikeouts, Will Venable hit his first home run of the season.
Georgetown's Jason Clark and Henry Sims plus Ivy Leaguers Keith Wright and Greg Mangano were all in the starting lineup of a Portsmouth Invitational semifinal game.
April 13, 2012 at 10:28 am
Filed under Basketball, Brian Taylor, Fairfield, Northwestern, Princeton, Richmond, Sean Gregory, Today's News, Will Venable
Uh, the 13 Game Tournament? An apparent proposal for a four team Ivy League conference tourney would potentially eliminate one traditional tilt.
Princeton basketball made it to the Final Four of the school's campus-wide dodgeball tournament.
Here's a site that shows how the Tigers would have defeated most other Division I schools last season (including national champion Kentucky) using the transitive property.
The family of the late Bill Haarlow '63 was honored by the Les Turner ALS Foundation.
A Louisville forward will transfer to Northwestern for his final year of eligibility.
The son of Brian Taylor signed to play basketball in the Pac-12.
Navy's leading scorer is transferring to Richmond.
Oregon State junior Jared Cunningham declared for the NBA Draft.
Fairfield picked up a commitment from a New York City guard.
Did you know the article about Ozzie Guillen that got the Marlins manager suspended was written by Sean Gregory?
Will Venable is focused on effective base running. Here's the picture of Venable with a dolphin you never knew you always wanted.
Could the big programs really push small schools out of the NCAA Tournament?
April 12, 2012 at 9:18 pm
Filed under Basketball, Luke Owings, Photos, Princeton, Video, Will Venable
Former Tiger forward Luke Owings is closing in on five years since he graduated from Princeton. I recently stumbled on the news that in an attempt to both reprove himself as an athlete and develop washboard abs prior to Reunions, Owings would be stepping into the boxing ring for the first time next month.
This upcoming fight is for a good cause too, one that I'm more than happy to help spread the word about. Owings is raising money for cancer research as part of a pugalistic fundraiser titled Haymakers For Hope.
I caught up with Owings on the phone today and he told me more about his imminent bout and detailed training that has taken him from the basketball court to business school into the squared circle.
You can support Owings’ quest by making a donation here. I hope visitors to this site will help Luke exceed the financial goal he's set.
A transcript of our conversation can be found after the jump.
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April 12, 2012 at 10:38 am
Filed under Basketball, Princeton, Recruiting
While members of this site have already been well-briefed on the three members of Princeton's 2012 recruiting class thanks to our in-depth profiles of Hans Brase, Edo Lawrence and Mike Washington Jr. those articles were all penned last October before the beginning of their respective senior seasons.
With that in mind I reached out to the coaches of Brase, Lawrence and Washington Jr. for updates on how each's final year in high school went. Their responses can be found after the jump.
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April 10, 2012 at 9:17 pm
Filed under Banquet, Basketball, Marvin Bressler, Pete Carril, Photos, Princeton
Princeton held its annual awards banquet in the lobby of Jadwin Gym tonight.
The worthy recipients of honors at the 2011-2012 banquet included:
Class of 1959 Bob Rock Sixth Man Award - Mack Darrow.
B.F. Bunn Trophy - Doug Davis.
Friedman Memorial Award Trophy - John Comfort.
Davis and Ian Hummer were also recognized for their All-Ivy status.
It was easily the shortest banquet on record. Not having Marvin Bressler as the MC anymore and all three seniors being fairly quiet in public will speed a night crisply along.
The fact this event was held on what would have been Bressler's birthday was a nice, purely accidental touch.
Pete Carril was asked to introduce the Friedman award and recalled the story behind the man this plaque is named after.
John Comfort (who said his thesis was due tomorrow), Patrick Saunders (who was recently admitted to the University of Vermont pre-Med program) and Doug Davis each gave brief remarks after the full team was called up to receive their varsity letters.
It was personally heartwarming to hear head coach Mitch Henderson single out my father's photo of Ian Hummer's dunk versus Cornell from the dais.
All the food looked great. Wish it hadn't been Passover!
A few photos follow after the jump.
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April 5, 2012 at 10:08 pm
Filed under Basketball, George Boccanfuso, Pete Carril, Princeton
A reader of this site sent me a heavy box yesterday full of Princeton media guides and related ephemera from the previous 20 years. For that I am quite appreciative.
There were a few editions inside that I didn't already own, namely 1993-94 and 1994-95.
Flipping through those years I noticed a portion of each guide I wanted to reproduce and for starters I'll share something from the first's "Unsung Heroes" page, where Pete Carril pays tribute to former Princeton Supervisor of Grounds and Buildings George "Georgie Buck" Boccanfuso.
Boccanfuso, as you may well know, worked at the university from 1947 until his retirement in 1989 but continues to show up every morning at Jadwin Gym to make sure the building is running as it should.
Carril offers a poem that he wrote, which I've reproduced after the jump.
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April 5, 2012 at 9:18 am
Filed under Fairfield, Georgetown, Northwestern, Princeton, Today's News, Will Venable
While it has been seriously slow in the news department, this piece by my friend Tom Scharpling for The Classical re-imagining every 2012 NCAA Tournament coach (including John Thompson III) as a movie villain was too excellent to not share.
I was saddened and surprised to read in the latest Princeton Alumni Weekly about the passing of Gib Kirwin '58. A supporter of this site and a contributor to the listerv that preceded it, I was always glad to hear from him. My condolences to his family and friends.
If you play MLB 2K12 and want to add a Will Venable cyberface, this creepy link should do the trick. The real life Venable finished spring training batting .349 with nine stolen bases.
Jimmy Tillette, who was "the first outsider to infiltrate Princeton's inner circle [of coaches]" per this 2003 Sports Illustrated feature and then served as the head coach at Samford for 15 seasons, was fired.
Both Northwestern's John Shurna and Georgetown's Henry Sims had good accountings of themselves at the Reese's College All-Star Game in New Orleans.
Freshman Adam Jones is leaving Fairfield.
Oh, and Pitt won the CBI by beating Washington State in the decisive game three of their finals series.
April 3, 2012 at 9:58 am
Filed under +/-, Basketball, Princeton
To wrap up the season statistically, the Tiger athletic department was nice enough to send along this year's complete plus/minus numbers. I've generated my own Ivy-only and DI-only plus/minus data in Excel out of that document.
The first of five charts shows the number of minutes played across the 32 games this season and the difference in points scored by Princeton while each player was on the floor versus points allowed by the Tigers during the same span.
The second chart shows the same information for non-conference games only, followed by non-conference versus DI opponents, Ivy-only data and postseason-only data.
I've also broken down +/- per 40 minutes for all pertinent players and added Net/40 numbers ("Roland Rate") with inspiration from Hoya Prospectus. This data has been split into non-conference, Ivy-only and postseason-only as well.
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