All pictures courtesy of Bill Allen '79 - NJ Sport/Action.
Marcus Schroeder at the free throw line with a chance to win the game.
Princeton celebrates the victory.
Edwin Buffmire.
Michael Strittmatter.
Noah Savage drives for the three point play.
All pictures courtesy of Bill Allen '79 - NJ Sport/Action.
Justin Conway drives.
Kyle Koncz under duress.
All pictures courtesy of Bill Allen '79 - NJ Sport/Action.
Thumbs up from Marcus Schroeder.
Noah Savage about to throw one down.
Justin Conway tries a hook.
Edwin Buffmire looks to pass.
Justin Conway.
Luke Owings.
Marcus Schroeder.
Proof that Arturo Dubois' first half buzzer-beater for Manhattan was anything but.
Photo by Bill Allen '79 - NJ Sport/Action.
Princeton held this year's Orange & Black Scrimmage and Clinic at Jadwin Gym less than an hour after the Tigers defeated Dartmouth 27-17 to win a share of the Ivy League football title for the first time in eleven years.
The football game pleased the above dudes greatly.
The scrimmage gave most area Princeton fans their first chance to see this year's crop of Tigers in action. Princeton ran drills for twenty minutes before splitting the roster up for a twenty-five minute game. Score was kept informally and fouls were called by the coaches.
Schroeder, Gunn, Koncz, Owings and Conway (black team) took on Strittmatter, Savage, Finley, Buffmire and Steuerer (orange team). Woolridge, Wilson, Buczak, Petrie, Lake & Briggs all saw time as subs.
Matt Sargeant was the only Princeton player on this year's roster to not suit up for the event, sidelined with a broken finger. Another tough twist for the oft-injured junior guard.
All the best moments came during the clinic, watching Luke Owings give all of the young kids he was instructing nicknames, seeing Noah Savage try to instruct awestruck children on how to perfect the spin dribble, Pawel Buczak lifting a tiny guy up to the rim for a much closer look at the basket and watching Coach Scott ask these bright eyed boys and girls if they had a good time playing with his squad.
Update 11/29/06: Thanks to Stephen Goldsmith for the above four photos.
Now, I've never been to Italy (I've been to Luxembourg though, which is another story entirely) but Mike McDonnell and Gabe Lewullis took a vacation to Naples earlier this year to visit their friend and former Tiger battler Mason Rocca. They were kind enough to send the following photos along.
The above, explained:
"Once we arrived at the gym, we entered through the West gate, not knowing this was the Avellino section. Everyone was wearing black or blue trash bags and there was a huge curtain in front of us shielding our view of the court. Neither Gabe nor I had any idea what was going, but I thought, "Welcome to Italy." After realizing you can't get from the West section to the North section of the arena while inside the arena (this is apparently to keep home and visiting team fans, & season ticket holders/families and the guys drinking beer heavily away from each other as emotions run high before & during the games), Gabe and I made our way outside to enter through the North gate, found our seats, and began to chant "Rocca" as loud as we could as the teams warmed up. A few minutes before the opening tip, the large curtain in front of the West section came down, revealing a 30 ft by 25 ft Noah's-Ark-looking structure with pictures of the Avellino players riding on the boat. I wish I were making this up. The blue trash bags were to simulate the ocean as the fans jumped/danced and the black to simulate the night sky."
The international language of cheerleaders.
Mason Rocca talks to the princetonbasketball.com Italian bureau.
Gabe Lewullis, Mason Rocca and Jerome Allen taking a brief respit from a heated post-game arguement over who beat Dartmouth more times.
Autographia!
Mason Rocca, sharp Napoli jersey, excited Gabe Lewullis.
"2 meters?"
Noah Savage defends David Gardner.
The firm of Derosier, Fitzgerald, Newsom, Levy, Brennan and Scott.
Waiting for the 1965 Final Four team to take the court.
Here they come!
There they are.
Bill Bradley and WHWH's Dan Loney talk at halftime.
The Tiger was on to me.
The game was more exciting than this picture might indicate.
