Tigers head coach Sydney Johnson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon caught up after practice at Jadwin Gym on Wednesday afternoon for their final interview before the start of Ivy League play. This recording is 12:00+ in length.
Johnson and Solomon discuss Princeton's return from their exam break against Goucher and preview this weekend's games at Brown and at Yale.
Benetton lost to undefeated Bizkaia Bilbao in the opener of Group K Eurocup play yesterday. Judson Wallace scored four points, handed out four assists and was held without a rebound.
Northwestern (14-6) rallied to go up one at Minnesota with under five minutes to play, before Blake Hoffarber's back-to-back three pointers helped the Gophers to the 65-61 final.
Mercer (10-11) lost 68-52 at Manor. Paco Boussougou had 16 points and 11 rebounds for the Vikings.
Princeton recruit Daniel Edwards scored 16 points as Highland Park beat Rockwall, 50-20.
In advance of this weekend's Harvard/Cornell game, the Wall Street Journal asks "how did the Ivy League get so good?"
Coach Newsom talks about his responsibilities as a Tiger assistant, what he likes about working with Sydney Johnson and the path that brought him to Princeton.
MCCC vs. Manor - 7:00 pm ET
Northwestern vs. Minnesota - 9:00 pm ET - Big Ten Network
Georgetown (15-4) scored the first 14 points of their meeting with Syracuse, but the Orangemen caught the Hoyas before halftime and pulled away in the second stanza of a 73-56 decision.
The Goucher Athletics story on Sunday's Princeton game is finally up.
The Princeton Packet has published their Goucher report as well.
At some point during the 1988-89 season I noticed an extra copy of Princeton's most recent media guide lying in the stands at Jadwin Gym after a game. As a 15 year old kid eager to absorb everything I could find relating to Ivy League basketball (and punk rock, but that's a separate discussion) I took it home and studied it cover-to-cover, trying to learn details of the program's history.
Towards the back of the guide, after 94 pages of photographs, statistics and historical records, taking up one column - just to the right of Chief of Athletic Training and Physical Therapy Dick Malacrea's biography - is a poem by Rudyard Kipling chosen by head coach Pete Carril.
The use of this piece has always stayed with me. It is so incongruous for a media guide and I've often wondered why Carril opted to include it for this particular season, especially in hindsight as the Tigers would go on to win their first Ivy League title in five years.
Here's what he wrote and the poem that he selected:
Through 14 games, I think it is fair to say that what you're going to get on offense out of Tiger starters Dan Mavraides, Douglas Davis, Patrick Saunders and Marcus Schroeder is relatively constant.
Mavraides has been in double figures 11 times this season and has hit double digits in eight straight games.
Davis has gone to double figures nine times and has cracked 20 points four times in the last 10 games. On only one occasion in 2009-10 has he scored fewer than eight.
Saunders will shoot when open, tops on the team in FG%, 3FG% and FT%.
Schroeder drives the offense, leading the team in assists and steals.
For Princeton to succeed in Ivy League play this year however, the key is senior center Pawel Buczak.
With the non-conference schedule complete, Princeton's athletic department was nice enough to update this season's plus/minus numbers.
This handy chart shows the number of minutes played by each Tiger this season and the difference in points scored by the team while each player was on the floor versus points allowed by the Tigers during the same span.
Princeton scored 841 points against non-conference foes in 2009-10, allowing 771 points.
As for individual single game highs and lows, Douglas Davis was +39 against Goucher and Pawel Buczak was -23 at Cal.
The most successful lineup combination is also the one that has played the most minutes together. Marcus Schroeder, Dan Mavraides, Pawel Buczak, Douglas Davis and Patrick Saunders are +33 in 117:08 of court time.
The least successful five? Lake, Schroeder, Zach Finley, Mavraides and Buczak, combining to go -19 in 20:04 of play.
Compare these numbers to those after 10 games here.
Davis has gone from -24 to +36 since these stats were last run, a 60 point swing.
Schroeder did even better post-Wagner, +71.
I will try and provide +/- updates midway through Ivy play and at the end of the season.
Another in an endless series of tests for Georgetown, who travels to Big East rival Syracuse this evening.
Hats off to the Princeton JV, who knocked off #5-ranked prep powerhouse Northfield Mount Herman - a team stacked with Division I recruits - yesterday morning by a 61-44 count.
Who is to thank for our new HD box scores? The good people at Hoya Prospectus. Check out their site. They crush numbers.
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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
