Alexander Wolff's sweeping piece on changes in college basketball the past 30 years uses the 1997-98 Princeton Tigers as one of his touchstones.
Richmond (3-0) stayed unbeaten with a 68-58 victory over Hampton.
While they were able to erase a 15 point second half deficit late in regulation, Oregon State (2-1) fell to Alabama on a three point shot by Rodney Cooper with 13 seconds remaining. The jumper kept a shaky possession by the Crimson Tide from completely unraveling. Craig Robinson blamed himself for his team's slow start.
The Beavers play Purdue at MSG in this evening's 2K Sports Classic consolation pairing.
With the game tied at 58, Northwestern (2-0) went on a 17-3 run to dispose of Mississippi Valley State.
Mercer (2-1) bested Montgomery (Pa.) behind 22 points and seven rebounds from Mustafa El Amin.
Hampton vs. Richmond - 7:00 pm ET - Nation Of Coaches Classic
Oregon State vs. Alabama - 7:00 pm ET - 2K Sports Classic - ESPN2
Montgomery (Pa) vs. MCCC - 7:00 pm ET
Mississippi Valley St. vs. Northwestern - 8:00 pm ET - BTN.com
Brown vs. Central Connecticut - 7:30 pm ET
Brendan Connolly talked to the Town Topics about Princeton's trip to Spain.
The Full-Court Press looks at the good, bad and ugly from the Northeastern game.
Fairfield has added preseason NIT consolation round games versus Lehigh and Fordham. Both contests will be played at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem. You can see the full bracket here.
Richard Stockton coach Gerry Matthews will soon pass Pete Carril to become the the winningest coach in the history of New Jersey college basketball.
With four players in double figures, Georgetown (2-0) beat Liberty by nine.
Denver (1-1) made 11 threes in the Pioneers' 68-51 victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
This evening Richmond hosts Hampton, Northwestern welcomes the Delta Devils of Mississippi Valley State and Oregon State plays Alabama at Madison Square Garden.
Sportswriter and good dude Brendan Prunty is the only guy I'd want to handle questions about Rutgers for the next installment of Know! Your! Foe! and thankfully Hoboken's finest showed no hesitation in joining the site for a second straight year.
A piece on the sounds of Princeton includes rare audio from the school's first postseason appearance.
Fairfield (2-1) defeated Penn (1-2) by nine despite 31 points from the Quakers' Fran Dougherty.
The Northwestern (1-0) season began with a 79-49 victory over Texas Southern. Drew Crawford had 20 for the Wildcats.
Richmond (2-0) cracked the century mark versus UNCW.
Frederick (Md.) topped MCCC, 57-51.
Tonight you can see Georgetown host Liberty and Denver open at home against Texas A&M-CC.
Around the Ivy League: Harvard (1-1) fell in the final seconds at UMass. New Hampshire dropped Dartmouth (1-1), 72-58 and Columbia (2-0) throttled Haverford, 74-40.
From a designed play for an Ian Hummer dunk off the opening tip onwards, Princeton was in comprehensive control of Tuesday night's home opener against Northeastern, building a lead that would extend to as large as 18 points with 13 minutes remaining in the second half.
What followed was a baffling unraveling. Unable to consistently solve the Huskies' zone defense and standing still when they would have found better opportunities via cutting, the Tigers saw their opponent slowly and surely cut tiny pieces out of their advantage as time ticked down.
Still, the margin stood a bearable three possessions with three minutes left on a free throw by Princeton's Chris Clement.
It would be the Tigers' final point of the night.
A missed bunny layup, a turnover with the shot clock about to expire, a bad foul by Will Barrett leaving his feet and the advantage was but one.
Mack Darrow missed the front end of a one-and-one with 11 seconds to go and on a drive to his left by Zach Stahl that seemed to draw the entire Princeton backline of defense, Reggie Spencer was all alone on the other side of the basket for the game-winner.
A half court fling from T.J. Bray landed well short of its destination and Northeastern had improbably won the game after trailing for the previous 39:58.
"[Northeastern] did everything that they needed to do to come back and win that game and we didn't,” said Princeton head coach Mitch Henderson succinctly.
Hummer was un-defendable in the first half, scoring 21 points on 8-10 shooting. Hummer equaled his career high of 25 on the night but his touches were absent late against the Huskies' 3-2 zone.
Clay Wilson tossed in four three pointers, then went scoreless after intermission.
Quincy Ford had a career best 27 to lead the comeback including 5-6 from three point range and Spencer's 16 included the deciding bucket.
As a team Northeastern shot 57.5% on the night, 23-40 from the field.
Today's Game:Northeastern (1-0 / 0-0) vs. Princeton (1-0 / 0-0) Location: Jadwin Gym - Princeton, NJ Time: 7:00 pm ET Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB TV: N/A Internet: goprincetontigers.com Series History: Tied 2-2. Last meeting:Princeton 71 Northeastern 62 - 12/18/11.
Northeastern
Princeton
1-0
Home Record
0-0
0-0
Away Record
1-0
0-0
Neutral Record
0-0
110
RPI
110
160
Sagarin
86
155
Pomeroy
76
65.0
Points / Game
57.0
64.0
Points Allowed / Game
53.0
.393
FG%
.345
.786
FT%
.813
.227
3PT FG%
.261
29.0
Rebounds / Game
33.0
10.0
Off. Rebounds / Game
13.0
+4.0
Rebounding Margin
-4.0
8.0
Assists / Game
17.0
13.0
Turnovers / Game
10.0
2.0
Blocks / Game
6.0
Smith: 20.0
Points
Barrett: 20.0
Ford: 8.0
Rebounds
Barrett: 9.0
Smith: 5.0
Assists
Hummer: 7.0
Flores, Avenant: 2.0
Steals
Bray: 3.0
Spencer, Stahl: 2.0
Blocks
Barrett: 3.0
Spencer: .778
FG% (Min: 5 FGA)
Connolly: .667
Spencer: .800
FT% (Min: 5 FTA)
Barrett: .900
Smith, Ford: .250
3PT FG% (Min: 4 3PTA)
Wilson, Barrett: .429
Fairfield vs. Penn - 4:30 pm ET - Preseason NIT
UNCW vs. Richmond - 7:00 pm ET
Frederick (Md.) vs. MCCC - 7:00 pm ET
Texas Southern vs. Northwestern - 7:00 pm ET
Harvard vs. UMass - 10:00 am ET - ESPN
New Hampshire vs. Dartmouth - 7:00 pm ET
Haverford vs. Columbia - 7:00 pm ET
There's an open thread for the Northeastern game in the forum if you want to discuss the home opener before/during/after.
Junior forward Will Barrett talked to the Daily Princetonian about his return against Buffalo.
Fairfield (1-1) was outscored 10-2 over the final seven minutes of a nine point loss at Virginia. This sets up a preseason NIT consolation bracket meeting between the Stags and Penn later today.
The season opener for Northwestern tips evening against Texas Southern.
Around the Ivy League: Yale (0-2) fell victim to an 18-0 second half run at St. Joe's. The decision went 61-35 to the Hawks. Penn (1-1) was behind by at least nine the entire second stanza in their 84-69 loss to Delaware.
Princeton opens their home slate tomorrow night versus Northeastern and Zolan Kanno-Youngs from WRBB radio was kind enough to tackle our questions about the Huskies for the latest edition of Know! Your! Foe!.
We already have someone lined up to talk Rutgers basketball on Thursday but if you cover any of the other teams the Tigers will be facing in 2012-13, get in touch!
There were a lot of nice stat lines in the first weekend of play but setting new career highs in both scoring and rebounding was good enough to earn Will Barrett Ivy League Co-Player of the Week status.
Barrett shares the honor with Dartmouth's Gabas Maldunas.
Min Pts FG FT 3FG Rebs A S B TO PF
33 20 4-9 9-10 3-7 2-7-9 1 2 3 0 2 57-53 W at Buffalo
Fairfield vs. Virginia - 7:00 pm ET - Preseason NIT - ESPN3
Yale vs. St. Joe's - 7:00 pm ET
Penn vs. Delaware - 9:30 pm ET - Preseason NIT
The HD box score for Saturday's game against Buffalo has been added to our recap.
Buffalo's student paper also has belated coverage of the season opener.
Despite losing Otto Porter early due to a glancing blow, Georgetown (1-0) still defeated Duquesne, 61-55.
A career high 33 from Ahmad Starks led the way in a 71-62 Oregon State (1-0) victory over New Mexico State.
Fairfield plays host school UVA in the preseason NIT. Should Sydney Johnson's team and Penn both win or both lose in their subregional tonight it will be the Stags and the Quakers facing off tomorrow.
Around the Ivy League: Brown (1-0) made it a 7-1 opening weekend for the league, besting Binghamton 58-49.
Dan Mavraides and I have been talking about doing an interview for a few weeks, but the former Princeton guard wanted to wait until his situation in Italy was settled before answering any of my questions.
Now under contract for the remainder of the 2012-13 season with Lega A side Sidigas Avellino, Mavraides was free to do his first interview with princetonbasketball.com since last August's Q&A.
Mavraides' new team holds a 2-4 record in the top Italian league and Mavraides has hit double figures in his last three contests, averaging 8.0 ppg and 2.8 assists/game on the young season.
The result of our email exchange follows after the jump.
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
2,503 - B. Bradley, 1962-65
1,625 - I. Hummer, 2009-13
1,550 - D. Davis, 2008-12
1,546 - K. Mueller, 1987-91
1,451 - P. Campbell, 1959-62
1,441 - C. Robinson, 1979-83
1,428 - B. Earl, 1995-99
1,365 - B. Scrabis, 1985-89
1,321 - G. Petrie, 1967-70
1,292 - H. Haabestad, 1952-55
1,277 - G. Lewullis, 1995-99
1,239 - B. Taylor, 1970-72
1,207 - S. Goodrich 1994-98
1,133 - F. Sowinski, 1975-78
1,130 - R. Hielscher, 1991-95
1,122 - C. Thomforde, 1966-69
1,099 - T. Manakas, 1970-73
1,090 - J. Wallace, 2001-05
1,088 - C. Belz, 1956-59
1,079 - B. Hauptfuhrer, 1973-76
1,076 - B. Roma, 1976-79
1,071 - C. Mooney, 1990-94
1,064 - A. Hyland, Jr., 1960-63
1,062 - L. Brangan, 1957-60
1,057 - A. Hill, 1973-76
1,054 - D. Mavraides, 2007-11
1,044 - S. Johnson, 1993-1997
1,031 - J. Hummer, 1967-70
1,010 - W. Venable, 2001-05
