Rutgers pictures.
Pictures courtesy of Stephen Goldsmith.
FIT 49 Mercer 42.
I had some free time this afternoon to catch a Mercer County Community College game. The Vikings were playing FIT in the second day of the Mercer Classic. On Saturday, Mercer dropped a 73-72 decision to nationally ranked CCRI.
Former Tiger assistant Howie Levy has his team running many offensive sets that should be familiar to Princeton observers. During the course of Sunday's action, plays called "Chin," "Princeton," "Circle," "Forwards Out" and "Georgetown" were each set in motion.
Four games into the season, the Vikings are slowly learning what Coach Levy wants them to do, but reverted back to bad habits when the game was not going their way. "You just have to make [execution] their habit," Levy told me after the game. "When it works, it works - they just haven't done it enough and don't have faith in it yet."
Without a true big man who is, in Levy's words, "different," the Vikings are forced to play five near-identical, interchangeable players, each around 6'2". Mercer has a wide back-up center who was the first player off their bench, but he is not 100%, recovering from a shoulder injury.
Stephen Goldsmith came with me to take some photographs - which you can see, along with some additional observations, after the jump.
Maggie in the Trentonian.
Caption: Maggie Solomon-Scheller, 5 mos., takes in her first basketball game Friday at Princeton University's home opener at Jadwin Gyn against Central Michigan. Solomon-Scheller's dad writes for princetonbasketball.com
My daughter is in the Trentonian! It is all downhill from here.
Media Day 2008.
Coach Sydney Johnson interview:
Kareem Maddox interview:
Zach Finley interview:
Nick Lake & Jason Briggs interview:
Princeton held its 2008 Media Day on Thursday afternoon. Coach Sydney Johnson and select Tigers spoke to princetonbasketball.com about the upcoming season. These interviews are exclusive to our site. If you're interested in inside access like this all season long, please consider becoming a donor.
Photos from today by Stephen Goldsmith can be seen after the jump.
Photos from last night's retirement ceremony.
Couldn't make it to last night's dinner honoring Bill Bradley and Dick Kazmaier? I know, neither could we. Thankfully, our photographer, Stephen Goldsmith was able to attend and submit the following photo essay. Lots of familiar Princeton basketball faces - past, present and future were at Jadwin as #42 was retired across all Tiger sports. If you went, please share your memories of the event in our comments. Thanks so much to Stephen for his excellent work!
