November 27, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Filed under Administrative, Basketball, Princeton
The new features keep coming! For those of you who miss the daily emails in your inbox like you used to receive when princetonbasketball.com was known as Princeton Basketball News on YahooGroups, there is now a way you can recreate that experience.
Enter your email address in the field on the far right and when new content is posted on the site you'll get a message in your inbox. You can also click here to subscribe.
This should satisfy the requests from members who could not comprehend RSS feeds.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Jon Solomon
princetonbasketball.com
November 24, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Filed under Administrative, Basketball, Princeton
In my endless quest to skew this site younger (see last week's implementation of a Twitter feed for part one of this plan), I've set up a page for princetonbasketball.com on Facebook.
You can become a fan of what we do, watch videos, add your own photos and click around on many things that will probably just take you right back to the original site. Head here to check it out.
Don't worry, there won't ever be content on the Facebook page that isn't on this site first.
Also, if anyone knows of a decent schedule importer for Facebook that doesn't involve creating a new event for each game, I am interested.
Jon Solomon
princetonbasketball.com
November 15, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Filed under Administrative, Basketball, Princeton
I'm the first to admit that I don't quite get Twitter, the web site built to provide real-time one line updates on your life. Many of my friends use it, and I am still convinced I don't need to know their every move.
That being said, I think Twitter might have a two-fold practical application for princetonbasketball.com.
1. It can tell you when there is new content added to our site.
2. It would provide the chance to send breaking updates from games - for example, last night I might have posted "Strittmatter and Ma both out with injuries" to Twitter when I got to Jadwin.
So, despite my personal reservations, I've set up a Twitter account, which can be accessed here. It is a private account, so you will need to send me an approval request to see what I'm posting.
Like the idea? Hate the idea? Have no idea what Twitter is? I'm curious to hear thoughts on how this new innovation can be best-used and if it would actually be of use.
November 15, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Filed under Administrative, Basketball, Princeton
Last night at Jadwin Gym, the most popular question people asked me that I had no direct control over was "why isn't there a scorecard in the program?"
As someone who always uses the program scorecard to assist with my note-taking during Princeton games, I was unprepared for this change.
Never again!
I've drawn up a complimentary, rudimentary scorecard (.pdf) you can use for the rest of this season.
Print it before each game, tuck it in your pocket and you won't get caught scrambling once you settle into your seat.
Jon Solomon
princetonbasketball.com
October 16, 2008 at 11:21 am
Filed under Administrative, Basketball, Princeton, Roster
01 - Max Huc - G - 6-2/195 - Fr - Rosemont, Pa. (Brewster Academy N.H.)
02 - Jason Briggs - G - 6-2/200 - Sr - Olympia, Wash. (Olympia)
11 - Bobby Foley - G - 6-4/195 - So - Richmond, VA. (Godwin)
14 - Nick Lake - G - 6-5/195 - Jr - Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. (The Bishop's School)
15 - John Comfort - G - 6-6/175 - Fr - La Grange, Ill. (Fenwick)
20 - Doug Davis - G - 5-11/155 - Fr - Philadelphia, Pa. (Hun School))
21 - Marcus Schroeder - G - 6-3/180 - Jr - Concord, Calif. (De La Salle)
22 - Patrick Saunders - G/F - 6-7/185 - Fr - Gilford, N.H. (New Hampton)
23 - Kareem Maddox - F - 6-8/225 - So - Oak Park, Calif. (Oak Park)
24 - Zane Ma - F - 6-7/225 - Fr - Los Angeles, Calif. (Harvard-Westlake)
30 - Zach Finley - C - 6-9/235 - Jr - Rapid City, S.D. (St. Thomas More)
33 - Dan Marvraides - G - 6-3/200 - So - San Mateo, CA (Phillips Exeter)
34 - Michael Strittmatter - F/C - 6-8/210 - Sr - Phoenix, Ariz. (Brophy Prep)
55 - Pawel Buczak - C - 6-9/230 - Jr - Moorestown, N.J. (Moorestown)
September 24, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Filed under Administrative, Basketball, Princeton
I am bumping this back to the top of the page with a reminder that all current subscriptions will expire on October 1st. Renew now for uninterrupted coverage! - JS
Welcome to this year's princetonbasketball.com fundraising message. We're gearing up for covering another season of Princeton Tigers basketball!
Over the past eleven years princetonbasketball.com has continued to evolve. As the princetonbasketball.com network has grown, we've brought our donors more content each season to keep them informed about the extended Princeton basketball family and the Ivy League.
First, the straight-up boasting. princetonbasketball.com has covered the last ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN IVY LEAGUE GAMES in person. There is only one individual who can say they have seen each of these 113 conference games: princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon. What other reporter or web site can say that? Not one. We've also been on-hand for every Princeton postseason game since 1983. With princetonbasketball.com you're reading a name you can count on for consistent, knowledgeable coverage that puts current events in a historical context.
princetonbasketball.com continues to be your best source for keeping track of the Tigers that many of you know as your sons, brothers and grandsons, your friends and your classmates.
If you have given to the site in the past, I hope you will renew for another season! Old memberships will expire on October 1st. Don't get locked out of your old account.
What does your donation go towards? Well, in 2007-2008 princetonbasketball.com brought you...
Daily News: Each morning a post appeared on the site with links to that day's articles from local and national papers. If it has been published on-line, we've found the article and passed it along to you. Since last year and now we wrote 422 posts - an average of more than one a day!
Premium Postgame Content: This past season princetonbasketball.com provided you exclusive on-site postgame audio from Coach Johnson and select players after twenty-seven of last season's games, including all fourteen Ivy contests. This is information that was not available anywhere else. You could also read detailed same-night recaps of all of the season's games, along with full box scores and cumulative team and player statistics. We're planning to cover every one of this season's games in person, with statistical previews for each opponent on game day.
Weekly Interviews with Coach Johnson: princetonbasketball.com produced a weekly interview program that featured a new in-depth discussion with Coach Johnson sixteen times over the course of the season, looking back at the previous week's games, previewing upcoming contests and talking about the state of Princeton basketball. This show also offered you a forum to ask Coach Johnson your questions. We look forward to taping similar interviews again this season.
Articles: In addition to the daily news, you could read exclusive features about Will Venable, Judson Wallace and our trip to Hawaii to cover Princeton in the Maui Invitational. We reported on our considerably shorter field trip to see the Vermont Frost Heaves play and were the first to speak to Noah Savage after he signed his contract to play basketball this season in Switzerland. We were the first to interview Howie Levy after he took over at Mercer County Community College and the first to announce that Lincoln Gunn would not be returning to play basketball at Princeton for his junior year. We let you know dates and opponents for 90%+ of Princeton's games this season before the official press release came out.
Exclusive Audio: In addition to postgame interviews and our weekly interviews with Coach Johnson, princetonbasketball.com also had bonus streams of the Maui Invitational press conference and sideline-to-sideline coverage of Princeton's annual Media Day available only for our donors. Expect similar bonus audio to be available in 2008-09.
Recruiting News: Here at princetonbasketball.com we tracked the incoming Tigers on a daily basis. We provided pictures and video of players you had only heard about, provided quotes from their high school coaches and were able to confirm rumors of commitments long before this news reached print media.
Seniors On A Stick: We brought back this Jadwin Gym tradition for the final home game of the season, honoring last year's seniors. Did you wave a poster saluting one of the five graduating Tigers? Another princetonbasketball.com production.
Alumni Updates: You'll always be kept up-to-date on the professional basketball (and baseball) careers of former Tigers through princetonbasketball.com, even those players playing in foreign ports of call. This summer princetonbasketball.com tracked Judson Wallace and Mason Rocca in Italy, Chris Young's performances with the Padres, Will Venable's time in Portland before being called up by San Diego, David Blatt's coaching successes on the international level and Konrad Wysocki's experiences with the German Olympic team.
All in the Family: Not only has princetonbasketball.com covered Princeton and the Ivy League this past season, but we were able to provide extensive information on Coach Thompson's Georgetown Hoyas (including reports from each day of the Big East Tournament), Coach Mooney's Richmond Spiders, Coach Scott's Denver Pioneers and Coach Carmody's Northwestern Wildcats. This will continue in 2008-2009, with the addition of Oregon State and Mercer County Community College to our radar. princetonbasketball.com will feature games from these teams in our daily news and offer bonus postgame coverage when scheduling allows.
Gameday Photographs: Thanks to your donations, we were able to bring photographer Stephen Goldsmith into the fold two years ago, providing readers with exclusive photographs of the Tigers in action that helped further enhance the Princeton basketball experience for those who were unable to see the games in person.
Schedule Sync: We're the only web site to offer an iCal schedule you can sync with your computer's calendar that has details on every Princeton, Georgetown, Northwestern, Richmond, Oregon State and Denver games. Select which teams you want to follow or subscribe to them all!
Eleven years in, princetonbasketball.com's basic level of access continues to remain free, but it costs money for us to operate and manage this web site on a daily basis. To make all of this possible, princetonbasketball.com relies on your donations to cover our expenses of web hosting and reporting on the games we all care about so much. How much you choose to give is up to you. No donation is too big or too small. Every dollar helps and is greatly appreciated.
This season princetonbasketball.com continues to expand donor-only content on our web site. All postgame audio, all archived video and all weekly interviews will be available only to princetonbasketball.com donors. You also need to be a donor to comment on articles, read full recaps, read full posts, contribute to Q&As and access daily news links.
Anyone making a contribution of $30.00 or more this season is entitled to a season-long password for access to donor-only content. Those of you who have donated since August 1st, 2008 have already had your accounts extended through next September 30, 2009. Current students can gain access to princetonbasketball.com's donor-only content at the reduced rate of $15.00 for the season. Contact us directly for this student discount. Renewing now will assure a smooth transition for last year's donors. You don't want to miss out on any of the coming season's premium offerings.
To sign up on-line and become a new donor using our secure payment portal, click here.
If you are already logged in and want to renew a subscription using your old login/password combination, click here.
Please email us if you are more comfortable paying by check.
Another easy way you can support princetonbasketball.com is by ordering things through Amazon using our referral ID. Start your Amazon search with a click of one of the links on the right side of our site and a percentage of everything you order will go to the site. You don't even have to choose one of the items we're advertising!
I welcome your comments, suggestions and ideas about what you would like to see on princetonbasketball.com in the future.
Being part of this community and the extended Princeton basketball family remains my genuine pleasure.
Is it November yet?
Warmly,
Jon Solomon
princetonbasketball.com
August 28, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Filed under 08-09, Administrative, Basketball, Princeton
November 2008
Fri. 11/14 Central Michigan (184/185) - 7:00 pm ET - 55-53 L (0-1 / 0-0 Ivy)
Wed. 11/19 Maine (327/322) - 7:00 pm ET - 58-55 OT L (0-2 / 0-0 Ivy)
Sun. 11/23 at Army (212/268) - 2:30 pm ET - 55-43 W (1-2 / 0-0 Ivy)
Wed. 11/26 at Fordham (167/140) - 7:00 pm ET - 73-61 W (2-2 / 0-0 Ivy)
December 2008
Tue. 12/02 South Carolina (138/88) - 7:00 pm ET - 84-58 L (2-3 / 0-0 Ivy)
Sat. 12/06 at St. Bonaventure (264/191) - 7:00 pm ET - 60-53 L (2-4 / 0-0 Ivy)
Wed. 12/10 Rutgers (211/164) - 7:00 pm ET - 49-44 L (2-5 / 0-0 Ivy)
Sun. 12/14 at Manhattan (274/226) - 4:00 pm ET - 70-60 L (2-6 / 0-0 Ivy)
Sat. 12/20 at Central Connecticut St (208/205) - 1:00 pm ET - 67-56 L (2-7 / 0-0 Ivy)
Tue. 12/30 at Lafayette (175/197) - 7:00 pm ET - 54-53 L (2-8 / 0-0 Ivy)
January 2009
Sat. 1/03 UNC Greensboro (125/115) - 12:00 pm ET - 65-55 W (3-8 / 0-0 Ivy)
Wed. 1/07 Lehigh (245/242) - 7:00 pm ET - 73-64 W (4-8 / 0-0 Ivy)
Sun. 01/25 Concordia (NY) - 5:00 pm ET - 64-44 W (5-8 / 0-0 Ivy)
Fri. 01/30 at Dartmouth (300/312) - 7:00 pm ET - 59-54 W (6-8 / 1-0 Ivy)
Sat. 01/31 at Harvard (307/284) - 7:00 pm ET - 77-71 W (7-8 / 2-0 Ivy)
February 2009
Fri. 02/06 Cornell (65/135) - 7:00 pm ET - 61-41 W (8-8 / 3-0 Ivy)
Sat. 02/07 Columbia (220/267) - 6:00 pm ET - 63-35 W (9-8 / 4-0 Ivy)
Fri. 02/13 at Yale (183/236) - 7:00 pm ET - 60-48 L (9-9 / 4-1 Ivy)
Sat. 02/14 at Brown (106/151) - 7:00 pm ET - 61-43 L (9-10 / 4-2 Ivy)
Tue. 02/17 Penn (261/278) - 7:00 pm ET - 62-55 OT L (9-11 / 4-3 Ivy)
Fri. 02/20 Harvard (307/284) - 7:00 pm ET - 58-55 W (10-11 / 5-3 Ivy)
Sat. 02/21 Dartmouth (300/312) - 6:00 pm ET - 66-63 L (10-12 / 5-4 Ivy)
Fri. 02/27 Brown (106/151) - 7:00 pm ET - 56-48 W (11-12 / 6-4 Ivy)
Sat. 02/28 Yale (183/236) - 6:00 pm ET - 62-54 W (12-12 / 7-4 Ivy)
March 2009
Fri. 03/06 at Columbia (220/267) - 7:00 pm ET- 58-44 L (12-13 / 7-5 Ivy)
Sat. 03/07 at Cornell (65/135) - 7:00 pm ET - 60-51 L (12-14 / 7-6 Ivy)
Tue. 03/10 at Penn (261/278) - 8:00 pm ET - 59-56 W (13-14 / 8-6 Ivy)
January 30, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Filed under Administrative, Basketball, Princeton
Ever wondered why there's a bright orange number that occassionally changes underneath "The Streak" on the right sidebar of this site? Well...
Friday night's game between Dartmouth and Princeton will mark the 100th consecutive Ivy League contest I'll have covered in person for princetonbasketball.com. There's no other individual - on the sidelines, at press row or in the stands - that can make this claim. Being a consistent, reliable beat reporter through both good times and bad times for the Tigers over the past eight seasons is something I'm very proud of and I could not have accomplished this feat without your support.
For those of you keeping score at home, Princeton has gone 63-36 in conference play during this stretch, with three postseason appearances.
See you at Jadwin!
Jon Solomon
princetonbasketball.com
November 16, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Filed under Administrative, Basketball, Princeton
There aren't many college basketball road trips longer than the one from Mercer County to the Maui Invitational, but these opportunities don't come around often. We're off before sunrise to Hawaii, where princetonbasketball.com will be live courtside and beachside as the Tigers face three formidable basketball challenges in as many days. Because of transit, there will be no news updates until late Saturday night. Look for daily "postcards" on this site before and after each game. If you're making your way out as well, please get in touch.
October 15, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Filed under Administrative, Basketball, Princeton
I hope you'll take a second out of your day to read this post from start to finish. We are just under a month away from the start of the 2007-2008 college basketball season, and the time has come for this year's first princetonbasketball.com fundraising post. The schedule is out, the roster has been released, practice is underway and we're gearing up for another exciting season of Princeton Tigers basketball.
Over the past ten years princetonbasketball.com has continued to grow in leaps and bounds from a small group of five friends trading carbon-copied emails to a web site and listserv with over 600+ members from all over the globe. We have readers who check this site anywhere from inside Jadwin Gym to Europe to Iraq and just about every time zone in between. As the princetonbasketball.com network has grown, we've tried to bring you even more exclusive content and information than ever before to keep our readers informed about the extended Princeton basketball family and the Ivy League.
First, some boasting. princetonbasketball.com has covered the last NINETY-NINE CONSECUTIVE IVY LEAGUE GAMES in person. What other news outlet or web site can say that? Not one. There is only one person who can say they have seen each of these ninety-nine conference games: princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon. We've also been on-hand for every Princeton postseason match-up since 1983. princetonbasketball.com continues to be your best source for keeping track of the Tigers.
If you haven't given to us in the past, I hope you'll take the opportunity to help keep this service going in this, our tenth year. If you have given in the past, I hope you will renew for another season! There are some big changes in store this season for donors, which I have detailed below.
What does your donation go towards? Well, in 2006-2007 princetonbasketball.com brought you...
Daily News: Each morning a post appeared on this site with links to that day's articles from local and national papers. If it has been published on-line, we've found the article and passed it along to you.
Premium Postgame Content: This past season princetonbasketball.com provided you exclusive on-site postgame audio from Coach Scott and select players after every one of last season's games, including all fourteen Ivy contests. This is information that was not available anywhere else. You could also read detailed same-night recaps of all of the season's games, along with full box scores and cumulative team and player statistics. We'll be live from Hawaii for the Maui Invitational this season and plan to cover a minimum of twenty-seven of this season's games in person.
-Twenty Minutes with Joe Scott: princetonbasketball.com produced a weekly donor-only interview program that featured a new in-depth discussion with Coach Scott sixteen times over the course of the season, looking back at the previous week's games, previewing upcoming contests and talking about the state of Princeton basketball. This show also offered you a forum to ask Coach Scott your questions. We hope to tape similar interviews with new Princeton head coach Sydney Johnson each week this season.
Recruiting News: Here at princetonbasketball.com we tracked the incoming Tigers on a daily basis. We provided pictures of players you had only heard about, provided quotes from their high school coaches and were able to confirm rumors of commitments long before this news reached print media.
Alumni Updates: You'll always be kept up-to-date on the professional basketball (and baseball) careers of former Tigers through princetonbasketball.com, even those players playing in foreign ports of call. This Summer princetonbasketball.com tracked Judson Wallace's second season in Germany, Scott Greenman's Israeli adventures, Chris Young's ongoing successes in San Diego, Will Venable's championship season at San Antonio and Mason Rocca's career in Italy. princetonbasketball.com was also on hand to watch current Tigers play in the 2007 Princeton Summer League.
All in the Family: Not only has princetonbasketball.com covered Princeton and the Ivy League this past season, but we were able to provide extensive information on Coach Thompson's Georgetown Hoyas, Coach Mooney's Richmond Spiders and Coach Carmody's Northwestern Wildcats. We were courtside at the Big East Tournament and in the locker rooms at the Final Four. This will continue in 2007-2008. princetonbasketball.com will feature games from these teams in our daily news and offer bonus postgame coverage when scheduling allows.
Gameday Photographs: We brought photographer Stephen Goldsmith into the fold last season, providing readers with exclusive photographs of the Tigers in action that helped further round out the Princeton basketball experience for those who couldn't see the games in person.
The Blog: in February 2004 we unveiled the princetonbasketball.com blog, the "wry, dry and pleasing to the eye" kid brother of the original princetonbasketball.com web site. Here we were able to display exclusive game photographs, detailed pictures of visiting gyms and far too many bad puns. We also offered player diaries, exclusive footage of some never-before-seen moments in Princeton basketball history and other treats. We interviewed Bill Bradley, asking questions submitted by donors. This summer we started a weekly series of scans featuring trading cards of former Princeton players who made it to the NBA. Just a little something to further enhance the Princeton basketball experience.
Schedule sync: We're the only web site to offer an iCal schedule you can sync with your computer's calendar that has details on every Princeton, Georgetown, Northwestern, Richmond and Denver game.
Ten years in, princetonbasketball.com's basic level of access continues to remain free, but it costs money for us to operate and manage this web site on a daily basis. To make all of this possible, princetonbasketball.com relies on your donations to cover our costs of web hosting and reporting on the games we all care about so much. How much you choose to give is up to you. No donation is too big or too small. Every dollar helps and is greatly appreciated.
As Princeton prepares for a new era under Coach Sydney Johnson, we're also preparing for a new era at princetonbasketball.com. This season princetonbasketball.com will be expanding donor-only content on our web site. All postgame audio, all archived video and all weekly interviews will continue to be available only to princetonbasketball.com donors. Starting this season, you will also need to be a donor to comment on articles, read full recaps, read full posts, post news to our listserv, contribute to Q&As and access daily news links. We also hope to offer more archival video and audio on the princetonbasketball.com web site this season that will also be available exclusively to donors.
Anyone making a contribution of $30.00 or more this season is entitled to a season-long password for access to donor-only content. Current students can gain access to princetonbasketball.com's donor-only content at the reduced rate of $15.00 for the season. Renewing now will assure a smooth transition for last year's donors. You don't want to miss out on any of the coming season's premium offerings.
To sign up on-line and become a donor using our secure payment portal, click here.
Please email us if you would prefer to pay by check.
I welcome your comments, suggestions and ideas about what you would like to see on princetonbasketball.com in the future.
Being part of this community and the extended Princeton basketball family remains my genuine pleasure.
Warmly,
Jon Solomon
princetonbasketball.com
October 15, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Filed under Administrative, Basketball, Princeton, Roster
04 - Kyle Koncz - F - 6-7/200 - Sr - Strongsville, Ohio, (Strongsville)
10 - Matt Sargeant - G - 6-3/190 - Sr - Huntington Beach, Calif. (Ocean View)
11 - Nick Lake - G - 6-6/200 - So - Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. (The Bishop's School)
12 - Jason Briggs - G - 6-2/190 - Jr - Olympia, Wash. (Olympia)
15 - Alex Okafor - F - 6-6/205 - Jr - San Jose, Calif (Archbishop Mitty)
20 - Kareem Maddox - F - 6-8/200 - Fr - Oak Park, Calif. (Oak Park)
21 - Marcus Schroeder - G - 6-3/185 - So - Concord, Calif. (De La Salle)
22 - Lincoln Gunn - G - 6-3/180 - So - Orinda, Calif. (De La Salle)
24 - Kevin Steuerer - G - 6-5/200 - Sr - Ossining, N.Y. (Iona Prep)
25 - Bobby Foley - G - 6-4/195 - Fr - Richmond, VA. (Godwin)
30 - Zach Finley - C - 6-9/230 - So - Rapid City, S.D. (St. Thomas More)
32 - Zach Woolridge - G - 6-6/215 - Sr - Sherman Oaks, Calif. (Harvard-Westlake)
33 - Dan Marvraides - G - 6-3/200 - Fr - San Mateo, CA (Phillips Exeter)
34 - Michael Strittmatter - F/C - 6-8/210 - Jr - Phoenix, Ariz. (Brophy Prep)
35 - Noah Savage - F - 6-5/220 - Sr - Princeton, N.J. (The Hun School)
45 - Chris Petrie - F - 6-5/200 - So - Gettysburg, Pa. (The Hun School)
55 - Pawel Buczak - C - 6-10/225 - So - Moorestown, N.J. (Moorestown)
October 15, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Filed under Administrative
We're in the process of installing a new security system on princetonbasketball.com.
List members can look for an email on Monday about setting up your 2007-08 subscriptions to the site.
You're welcome to sign up in advance of this announcement, if you so choose.
« Previous entries ·
Next entries »
