Tigers head coach Mitch Henderson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon sat down in the Princeton halftime room this afternoon just after practice had concluded for the day and prior to the team's departure to Providence.
Henderson and Solomon reviewed Monday's loss to Penn in detail, previewed both Brown and Yale extensively and closed with Coach Henderson's Super Bowl prediction.
This exclusive Q&A is 12:00+ in length.
If you have questions for future interviews, please feel free to send them here.
A trip to Providence means exchanging Know! Your! Foe! messages with David “Bruno” Wise (pictured above), the number one lone Brown basketball fan I know. There isn't anyone else I'd want to be discussing Friday's game with and David provides great, detailed insight into the Bears, who are 7-14 this season, 1-3 in the Ivy League.
A Yale edition of K!Y!F! will run tomorrow on the site.
If you cover a team the Tigers will face down the line, let us know. We'd love to talk with you.
There are Brown and Yale editions of Know! Your! Foe! on deck. The Bulldogs preview will run tonight unless the responses about the Bears come in first.
While yesterday's tussle at The Palestra did not go as hoped, there was one great thing that came out of a Monday night trip to Philadelphia. Through sheer happenstance, my mom found herself seated next to David Zeft, who used to shoot photographs at Princeton games.
Zeft was kind enough to send me some selections from his collection today and I'm delighted to present this first batch of images to you.
Above Craig Robinson is going in for a layup above with a young Jay Wright (#14) watching under the basket. This was likely in the 1982-83 season opener.
It might be a touch cutesy, but it as good a lede as any.
Sitting courtside at a now near-empty Palestra, trying to fight through a troubled wireless connection, an acquaintance came up to me while I was writing.
“This should be an easy recap for you,” he said. “Just type ‘Zach Rosen’ again and again and again.”
Rosen put on a phenomenal performance in his final chance to defeat Princeton at home, scoring 28 points on an array of difficult jumpers and snaking drives as his Penn Quakers led wire to wire for an 82-67 win over the Tigers.
“We really had no response or answer for Rosen. I thought he was terrific tonight,” said Princeton head coach Mitch Henderson after his team had allowed the most points versus the Quakers in 40 years. “His understanding of tempo is special.”
“He was just under control the whole game,” Henderson added. “We didn’t give him anything to think about.”
While I'm killing time before driving to The Palestra, here's the latest collection of videos from various corners of the Princeton basketball family. Above, future Tiger Mike Washington, Jr. becomes Oak Harbor's all-time leading scorer.
Today's Game:Princeton (10-8 / 1-1) vs. Penn (10-9 / 2-0) Location: The Palestra - Philadelphia, PA Time: 7:00 pm ET Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB TV: N/A Internet: goprincetontigers.com Series History: Penn leads 122-102. Last meeting:Princeton 70 Penn 58 - 3/8/11
Princeton returns from their annual multi-week exam break tomorrow night at Penn and in turn so does this site's Know! Your! Foe! series. Eager to discuss the Quakers with someone who sees them play on a regular basis, I exchanged emails with Jonathan Tannenwald from philly.com (pictured above with a special friend).
Our third-annual conversation can be found after the jump.
If you cover a team the Tigers will face down the line, let us know. We'd love to talk with you.
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Sat. 11/16 at Butler
Wed. 11/20 vs. Lafayette
Sat. 11/23 at Rice
Tue. 11/26 vs. George Mason
Sat. 11/30 at Bucknell
Sat. 12/7 vs. FDU
Wed. 12/11 at Rutgers
Sat. 12/14 at Penn State
Fri. 12/20 vs. Portland*
Sat. 12/21 vs. Pacific*
Tue. 12/31 vs. Kent State
Sat. 1/4 at Liberty
Sat. 1/11 at Penn
Sun. 1/26 vs. Kean
Fri. 1/31 at Harvard
Sat. 2/1 at Dartmouth
Fri. 2/7 vs. Columbia
Sat. 2/8 vs. Cornell
Fri. 2/14 at Brown
Sat. 2/15 at Yale
Fri. 2/21 vs. Dartmouth
Sat. 2/22 vs. Harvard
Fri. 2/28 vs. Yale
Sat. 3/1 vs. Brown
Fri. 3/7 at Cornell
Sat. 3/8 at Columbia
Tue. 3/11 vs. Penn
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