03 - Jimmy Sherburne - G - 6-3/197 - Jr - Whitefish Bay, WI (Whitefish Bay)
04 - Denton Koon - F - 6-8/205 - Fr - Liberty, MO (Liberty)
05 - T.J. Bray - G - 6-5/205 - So - New Berlin, WI (Catholic Memorial)
11 - Brian Fabrizius - F - 6-11/210 - Fr - Arlington Heights, IL (Kimball Union)
12 - Ben Hazel - G/F - 6-5/192 - So - Bowie, MD (Good Counsel)
14 - Chris Clement - G - 6-2/190 - So - Round Rock, TX (Stony Point)
15 - John Comfort - F - 6-7/197 - Sr - La Grange, IL (Fenwick)
20 - Douglas Davis (C) - G - 5-11/157 - Sr - Philadelphia, PA (Hun School)
22 - Patrick Saunders (C) - F - 6-8/205 - Sr - Gilford, NH (New Hampton)
23 - Clay Wilson - G - 6-3/176 - Fr - Tulsa, OK (New Hampton)
24 - Will Barrett - F - 6-10/208 - Jr - Hartsville, PA (Central Bucks South)
25 - Tom Noonan - F - 6-8/235 - So - Havertown, PA (Penn Charter)
32 - Mack Darrow - F - 6-9/230 - Jr - Lake Barrington, IL (Barrington)
34 - Ian Hummer - F - 6-7/230 - Jr - Vienna, VA (Gonzaga College HS)
40 - Bobby Garbade - C - 6-11/245 - Fr - Binghamton, NY (Seton Catholic)
41 - Daniel Edwards - F - 6-8/225 - So - Dallax, TX (Highland Park)
44 - Brendan Connolly - C - 6-11/255 - Jr - Brentwood, TN (Father Ryan)
Princeton has updated the heights and weights for its 2011-12 roster.
All returning players came back to the team for the second straight year.
Princeton held its annual preseason Media Day after practice at Jadwin Gym this afternoon. Coach Mitch Henderson and a cross section of Tigers spoke to princetonbasketball.com and other press outlets about the upcoming season.
Coach Mitch Henderson interview:
Douglas Davis & Patrick Saunders interview:
Ian Hummer interview:
Brendan Connolly interview:
Denton Koon interview:
These interviews are exclusive to our site. If you're interested in inside access like this all season long, please consider becoming a member.
25 photos shot by Robert Solomon from today's event, including your first glimpses at the freshman class, can be found after the jump. I've added a couple of observations there as well.
Kareem Maddox had 15 points and seven rebounds in a recent DBL contest.
Coming off the bench, Pawel Buczak contributed seven points as Slask Wroclaw defeated LKS Lodz.
The second edition of the New York City Power Poll is out. I am voting in this during the season. Unfortunately, there will be no Schuylkill 16 this year.
Don't get too attached to the above design. Princeton will have new uniforms this season. Do you want to let Paul Lukas know or should I?
The Connecticut Post is offering a Sit Down with Sydney interview series talking to the new Fairfield head coach on a weekly basis.
Princeton's annual media day event is later this week. If you have questions for Mitch Henderson or select players, please let me know and I'll do my best to ask them on your behalf.
Impressed by NYC Buckets' "Five Nights" series, finished with this year's epic data entry of schedules for the eight "Carril Cradle" teams and suffering from an mild early bout of snow madness, I opted to write a piece highlighting one non-conference game in the first three weeks of the season for each of the teams we cover.
My only rule was not picking match-ups that share the same date. Read on for sequential suggestions of contests to pay close(r) attention to as 2011-12 gets underway.
Former Princeton center Steve Goodrich is interviewed by the magazine connected to the camp he attended as a boy.
Oregon State expects a breakthrough season in 2011-12. Here's video of Craig Robinson at Pac-12 media day. The Beavers were picked eighth in the conference's preseason media poll.
CBS' Matt Norlander says Fairfield is loaded and ready for a huge year.
Georgetown has relaunched their DC Is Our Playground web site for the upcoming season. Hoyas head coach John Thompson III spoke yesterday as part of a panel series called "Think About It: An Afternoon of Ideas."
John Thompson III was one of five Big East coaches to tell the New York Times about what it takes to make the Final Four.
Here's today's Ivy League preview, courtesy the Arena Pulse.
Princeton at Harvard makes a list of this season's 68 must-see games.
Northwestern again hopes this is the year they make the NCAA Tournament for the first time. Wildcats Drew Crawford and Luka Mirkovic both need to take a step forward for that to transpire.
A NCAA panel has approved some major rules changes you should familiarize yourself with.
Since his playing career at Princeton concluded, I've caught up with former Tiger guard Marcus Schroeder on a pair of occasions - once after a tryout for the D-League's Reno Bighorns and a second time following a trip with the U.S. Basketball Academy for nine games in China.
Knowing that Schroeder had been actively looking to get into coaching since a conversation early this year, I'm glad to be able to share that Marcus Schroeder is now a graduate member of the staff at St. Mary's College.
Finally able to talk publicly about his role with the Gaels, Schroeder spoke to me on the phone tonight while driving from school back to Concord and a transcript of our discussion follows the jump.
The annual ordeal of tedious data entry finally behind me, I've completed color coded 2011-12 electronic calendars for each of the "Carril Cradle" teams. You can download any or all of the following to sync with your computer/PDA.
Each basketball schedule will be updated whenever a tip time changes or new TV information is revealed. These links will work best with iCal but are importable into Google Calendar.
If you notice any errors with games/dates/times/locations, please let me know.
There's a full page piece on Harvard basketball's recruiting efforts in the new ESPN The Magazine. While the complete article is only available for those with ESPN Insider, I did find the following excerpt about the Crimson's recruiting strategy compared to other schools worth sharing:
"Historically, Ivy coaches have waited to make contact with a prospect until the summer before his senior year, when they have a clear read on his ability to qualify in the academically rigorous conference. But by that point in the cycle, most four- and five-star players have already decided or have chopped down their list of finalists. Amaker, on the other hand, has started identifying smart kids with big-time talent as early as the summer after their sophomore years and has gotten their attention."
princetonbasketball.com was founded on April 28th, 1998 in an attempt to provide fans of the Princeton Tigers and Ivy League basketball with the best on-line source for up-to-date news and information. We have since expanded to launch a companion site, Georgetown Basketball News.
As these sites have continued to grow we have increased our coverage to include additional teams with Princeton connections - the Richmond Spiders, Denver Pioneers, Oregon State Beavers, Fairfield Stags and Mercer County Community College Vikings - plus former Tigers playing professional baseball and basketball all over the world. This site is not directly affiliated with the Friends of Princeton Basketball, Princeton University or the Princeton athletic department.
Sun. 11/10 vs. Florida A&M
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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1,550 - D. Davis, 2008-12
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