Wednesday News:

May 4, 2011 at 9:45 am
Filed under Basketball, Craig Robinson, David Blatt, Fairfield, Geoff Petrie, Pete Carril, Princeton, Today's News

It is a big offseason for Sacramento GM Geoff Petrie. The Kings staying in California's capital for at least one more year also means Pete Carril is likely to return to the team.

David Blatt and Maccabi Tel Aviv are in the Euroleague semifinals. They'll face Real Madrid on Friday.

Fairfield coach Sydney Johnson will be a guest speaker on May 17th in Stratford. Four days prior you can catch Oregon State's Craig Robinson in a roundtable discussion at the Aspen Institute's Sports & Society Program in Washington, DC.

Princeton Alumni Weekly has a brief piece on the hiring of Mitch Henderson.

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Awards Banquet.

May 3, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Filed under Banquet, Basketball, Princeton, Scott Greenman

Princeton held its awards banquet in the lobby of Jadwin Gym tonight.

The worthy recipients of honors at the 2010-2011 banquet included:

Class of 1959 Bob Rock Sixth Man Award - Kareem Maddox.
B.F. Bunn Trophy - Dan Mavraides & Kareem Maddox.
Friedman Memorial Award Trophy - Dan Mavraides.

It was the second straight year that Maddox took home the Bob Rock Award and the second straight year where Mavraides heard his name called for the Friedman Award.

All three seniors gave excellent speeches full of genuine laughs and honest emotion as they recalled the journey from a 6-23 freshman season to the 2011 Ivy title.

I was personally extremely honored to be thanked by each of these guys. That's worth saying publicly.

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Monday News:

May 2, 2011 at 10:28 am
Filed under Baseball, Basketball, Brian Earl, Chris Young, Princeton, Recruiting, Today's News

C. Young (1-0) 7.0 IP 2 H 0 ER 3 BB 7 K 1.88 ERA. 97 pitches, 57 strikes.

Chris Young pitched seven shutout innings (video) in Philadelphia last night and left with a 1-0 lead. The Mets would eventually prevail in 14 innings. Young was in the training room when word broke that Osama bin Laden had been killed.

Prior to Young's most recent start the Wall Street Journal ran a piece on the former Princeton center's Book of Hitters.

TigerBlog has more on Mitch Henderson and Brian Earl.

ESPN hands out additional coaching carousel grades.

Princeton recruit Bobby Garbade is one of 50 players to earn Best of the BCANY status.

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Brian Earl to stay at Princeton.

April 28, 2011 at 11:35 am
Filed under Basketball, Brian Earl, Princeton

Just received word assistant coach Brian Earl will be staying at Princeton as part of Mitch Henderson's staff! This must have been a very difficult decision for Coach Earl, but it should please the returning players greatly to hear this news.

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Thursday News:

April 28, 2011 at 9:21 am
Filed under Armond Hill, Basketball, David Blatt, Princeton, Recruiting

Mitch Henderson's hiring is written about in the Town Topics.

As of yesterday morning Henderson is the proud owner of a new Wikipedia page (not my doing). Here's a senior year profile from the Daily Princetonian that was passed my way.

Bob Kleinert, where are you now?

Princeton recruit Bobby Garbade was named Class B Fourth Team All State by the New York State SportsWriters Association.

Armond Hill and David Blatt make ESPN's list of NBA head coaching candidates.

2011 NCAA attendance statistics have been released. Princeton was the top non-BCS draw in New Jersey for whatever that is worth.

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Wednesday News:

April 27, 2011 at 8:58 am
Filed under Baseball, Basketball, Chris Young, Princeton, Today's News

C. Young (1-0) 4.2 IP 4 H 3 ER 2 BB 3 K 2.65 ERA. 88 pitches, 53 strikes.

A rocky return in a short outing for Chris Young still wound up as the Mets' fifth straight victory.

Mitch Henderson has come back to his roots.

Like the coach who preceded him, Henderson is also a big soccer fan.

Seth Davis and Jeff Goodman add their two cents about this spring's coaching carousel.

Former Princeton player Lincoln Gunn now has a blog.

Did Yale center Greg Mangano really declare for the NBA Draft?

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Off the Court with Coach Mooney.

April 26, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Filed under Basketball, Princeton, Richmond, Video

A longer-form interview of Chris Mooney conducted by the UR Collegian.

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Monday News:

April 25, 2011 at 9:58 am
Filed under Baseball, Basketball, Chris Young, Fairfield, Georgetown, Princeton, Today's News, Trading Cards, Will Venable

The normally optimistic Will Venable is struggling with a slow start in San Diego. Venable is hitting .177 through 18 games.

Sydney Johnson talked to the Connecticut Post about a variety of topics.

A guard who had interest in Princeton before committing to Gonzaga has transferred to Fairfield.

Georgetown's Hollis Thompson declared for the NBA Draft but did not hire an agent.

Chris Young will return from the disabled list tomorrow and start versus the Washington Nationals.

A senior from western Pennsylvania says his top two choices are William & Mary and Princeton.

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YouTube potpourri XXXIV.

April 25, 2011 at 9:25 am
Filed under Basketball, Chris Thomforde, Fairfield, Northwestern, Oregon State, Princeton, Video

The latest collection of videos from various corners of the Princeton basketball family. Above, the first of two interviews with Chris Thomforde. This originally aired on PBS 39 in 2007.

Four additional clips after the jump.

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Friday News:

April 22, 2011 at 9:48 am
Filed under Basketball, Chris Young, Princeton

The Princeton Packet, the Daily Princetonian, the Associated Press, the Trenton Times and the Trentonian have articles about Mitch Henderson's introduction yesterday.

TigerBlog writes about meeting Henderson all over again.

A "faculty brat" at Culver Military Academy had two heroes growing up - Michael Jordan and Mitch Henderson.

Want to be an assistant on the new Princeton staff? The job posting is here.

Chris Young is readying for a Tuesday return to the mound.

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Mitch Henderson introduced at Princeton.

April 21, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Filed under Audio, Basketball, Photos, Princeton, Robert Solomon

Full Mitch Henderson press conference:

Mitch Henderson interview:

Mitch Henderson '98 was officially introduced by Princeton Athletic Director Gary Walters as the new head coach of the Tigers at a press conference in the Class of 1956 Lounge this afternoon.

Full audio of both the formal press conference as well as an exclusive one-on-one conversation with princetonbasketball.com are available above.

Additional photos from Robert Solomon after the jump.

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Thursday News:

April 21, 2011 at 9:46 am
Filed under Basketball, Judson Wallace, Northwestern, Pete Carril, Princeton, Today's News

Here are the official Princeton and Northwestern press releases about the hiring of Mitch Henderson.

If you want to learn more about Henderson, revisit a 1999 interview we did where he responded to your questions and check out his answers in this more recent glossy pamphlet put together by his representation.

The Daily Princetonian talked to Douglas Davis about his new head coach and has a piece about the Friends of Princeton Basketball.

It sounds like there was legitimate concern in State College yesterday that Dan Earl would leave the Nittany Lions if his brother Brian was named the head coach at Princeton.

Arne Duncan began his address at Princeton yesterday with an anecdote about Pete Carril.

Gran Canaria's Judson Wallace was named Third Team All-EuroCup by Eurobasket.com.

Northwestern junior forward John Shurna has declared for the NBA Draft but will not retain an agent.

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