Friday News:

February 12, 2010 at 9:51 am
Filed under Basketball, Denver, MCCC, Oregon State, Princeton, Richmond, Today's News

Today's Game: Columbia (8-12 / 2-4) vs. Princeton (13-5 / 4-0)
Location: Jadwin Gym - Princeton, NJ
Time: 7:00 pm ET
Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB
TV: N/A
Internet: goprincetontigers.com
Series History: Princeton leads 137-84.
Last meeting: Columbia 58 Princeton 44 - 3/6/09.

Harvard vs. Yale - 7:00 pm ET
Cornell vs. Penn - 7:00 pm ET - The Comcast Network
Dartmouth vs. Brown - 7:00 pm ET

The Star Ledger visited Princeton practice.

The Trentonian talks with Zach Finley and Pawel Buczak.

The Trenton Times spoke with Sydney Johnson about his team's improvements on defense.

The Daily Princetonian, the Columbia Spectator and the Cornell Daily Sun preview this weekend's games.

A second Spectator piece focuses on Dan Mavraides.

The Town Topics reports on Princeton's sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth.

Andy Katz has a feature on Chris Mooney and Richmond.

Denver (14-10) fell on the road to Middle Tennessee, 57-50. The Pioneers are 1-9 away from home this season.

A late first half 12-0 run helped Arizona State get past Oregon State (10-13) by a 56-46 score.

Last night's Mercer game at Morris was postponed until Monday.

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Coach Sydney Johnson - 2/11/10.

February 11, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Filed under Basketball, Coach Johnson Interview, Princeton

Tigers head coach Sydney Johnson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon both shoveled out in time to meet on Thursday afternoon at Jadwin Gym for their weekly one-on-one interview. This Q&A is 19:00+ in length.

Johnson and Solomon break down Princeton's sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth in detail and preview this weekend's Ivy homestand versus Columbia and Cornell.

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Thursday News:

February 11, 2010 at 9:10 am
Filed under Basketball, Chris Young, Denver, MCCC, Northwestern, Oregon State, Princeton, Richmond, Today's News, Will Venable

MCCC vs. Morris - 7:00 pm ET
Denver vs. Middle Tennessee - 8:00 pm ET
Oregon State vs. Arizona State - 9:30 pm ET

Richmond (19-6) moved into a tie for first in the Atlantic 10 with a 69-67 win at Rhode Island.

Pop. You might have heard the sound of the Northwestern (16-8) bubble bursting late Wednesday night, when the Wildcats lost 78-65 at Iowa.

Denver visits Middle Tennessee.

Arizona State hosts Oregon State.

Will Venable and Chris Young talk to the North County Times from offseason workouts at San Diego State.

Catholic News Agency has a piece on former JV Princeton player turned bishop John Barres.

Princeton sits in fifth place after this week's Schuylkill 16 votes were tabulated.

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Marcus Schroeder - career steals leader?

February 10, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Filed under Basketball, Princeton

Perusing the Princeton athletic department's game notes in advance of this weekend's games versus Columbia and Cornell, I noticed that guard Marcus Schroeder is climbing the charts for both most career assists and most career steals.

Assists:

413 William F. Ryan, 1981-84
381 Christopher J. “Kit” Mueller, 1987-91
358 John R. Thompson III, 1984-88
304 Mitchell G. Henderson, 1994-98
280 Sydney A. Johnson, 1993-1997
270 Nathan W. Walton, 1996-2001
265 Marcus Schroeder
263 Brian W. Earl, 1995-99
260 Armond G. Hill, 1975-76
253 William D. Venable, 2001-2005

With a minimum of 10 games left in his senior year, Schroeder (3.3 assists per game this season) has an outside chance of becoming just the fifth Tiger to record 300+ assists.

Steals:

169 Sydney A. Johnson, 1993-97
167 William F. Ryan, 1981-84
167 George H. Leftwich, 1988-92
156 William D. Venable, 2001-05
144 Gabriel E. Lewullis, 1995-99
144 Joseph W. Scott, 1984-87
142 Mitchell G. Henderson, 1994-98
142 Marcus Schroeder
140 Brian W. Earl, 1995-99
136 Armond G. Hill, 1975-76

Schroeder (2.1 steals per game) also could make a run at Coach Johnson's career steal mark if the right number of strips, deflections and official scoring decisions go his way between now and his final game.

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Wednesday News:

February 10, 2010 at 9:42 am
Filed under Basketball, Denver, Georgetown, MCCC, Northwestern, Princeton, Recruiting, Richmond, Today's News

Richmond vs. Rhode Island - 7:00 pm ET
Northwestern vs. Iowa - 8:30 pm ET - Big Ten Network

Julian Vaughn scored a career high 19 as Georgetown (18-5) pulled away from Providence, 79-70.

Five straight for Mercer (15-11), winners over Burlington, 57-48. Derek Williams led the way with 14 points, five rebounds and four assists.

Northwestern travels to Iowa.

A challenging finish to Atlantic 10 play continues as Richmond visits Rhode Island.

Winning on the road has not come easy for Denver.

Princeton recruit Ben Hazel was named one of the 10 best players in the WCAC by dcsportsfan.com.

Future Tiger Tom Noonan shot 3-12 from the floor in Penn Charter's loss to Chestnut Hill Academy.

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Tuesday News:

February 9, 2010 at 8:57 am
Filed under Basketball, Georgetown, MCCC, Princeton, Today's News

Georgetown vs. Providence - 7:00 pm ET - ESPN2
Burlington vs. MCCC - 7:00 pm ET

Georgetown looks to play well in a game with less hype, traveling to Providence.

Kareem Maddox was named to the Honor Roll of the latest Ivy Weekly Men's Basketball Report.

It is official - Cornell is ranked #22 in this week's USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll, making the Big Red the first nationally ranked team to visit Jadwin since Kansas came to town in 2001.

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Indiana/Northwestern highlights.

February 8, 2010 at 8:29 am
Filed under Basketball, Northwestern, Video

All five starters in double figures as the Wildcats win their fifth Big Ten game.

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Monday News:

February 8, 2010 at 8:27 am
Filed under Basketball, Luke Owings, Northwestern, Princeton, Today's News

Northwestern (16-7) beat Indiana for the third straight time, 78-61.

Former Princeton player Luke Owings was at the Harvard game and has posted his observations.

Bruce Wood wrote the Basketball-U Gamecenter for Princeton/Dartmouth.

In addition to the Daily Princetonian review of the weekend's games, Ashley Wolf guests with a piece on how the only way she could get into Lavietes Pavilion was by sitting on press row.

The Dartmouth provides the Big Green's side of Saturday's game.

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Updated Plus/Minus numbers.

February 8, 2010 at 12:24 am
Filed under +/-, Basketball, Princeton

For the third time this year, 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.

 
Player            Minutes           +/-
Schroeder         604:22           +114
Mavraides         538:58           +113
Hummer            331:36            +76
Maddox            190:38            +76
Davis             555:22            +67
Saunders          318:08            +63
Buczak            448:53            +33
Barrett           170:38            +23
Finley            214:59            +19
Connolly           50:56            +11
Foley              15:07             +7
Comfort            12:13             +4
Darrow              6:23             +4
Lake              100:17             +3
Sherburne          26:53            -17

Individual single game highs and lows have not changed. Douglas Davis was +39 against Goucher and Pawel Buczak was -23 at Cal.

The most successful lineup combination is still the one that has played the most minutes together. Marcus Schroeder, Dan Mavraides, Pawel Buczak, Douglas Davis and Patrick Saunders are +41 in 145:00 of court time.

The least successful five? Lake, Schroeder, Zach Finley, Mavraides and Buczak, combining to go -19 in 20:04 of play.

Finley has jumped from -6 to +19 after four Ivy games.

Schroeder improved from +59 to a team-best +114 during this stretch.

Compare these numbers to past +/- tables here.

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Temple/Richmond highlights.

February 7, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Filed under Basketball, Richmond, Video

The Spiders beat their third ranked team this season.

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Super Bowl Sunday News:

February 7, 2010 at 7:29 am
Filed under Basketball, Denver, Georgetown, MCCC, Northwestern, Oregon State, Princeton, Recruiting, Richmond, Today's News

Indiana vs. Northwestern - 2:30 pm ET - Big Ten Network

In addition to our recap, read about Princeton's fourth straight Ivy win on goprincetontigers.com and on dartmouthsports.com.

Former high school teammates Patrick Saunders and Dartmouth reserve Kirk Crecco are the subject of a piece in the Concord Monitor.

Jason Clark was 6-7 from three point range on his way to a career high 24 and Georgetown (17-5) beat #2 Villanova, 103-90.

Richmond (18-6) made a statement with a 71-54 win over #17 Temple.

The game between Harcum and Mercer was snowed out and will be played on February 18th.

Denver (14-9) got back on track, besting Florida Atlantic by 10. The Pioneers have won 13 straight at home.

Oregon State (10-12) made it a perfect Saturday for the "Carril Cradle," sweeping the Civil War from Oregon by 20.

Luka Mirkovic and Northwestern host Indiana.

Around the Ivy League: Cornell (20-3 / 6-0) needed to close on a 16-4 run to stop Brown (7-16 / 1-5), 74-60. Yale (9-14 / 3-3) took a 19 point halftime lead and coasted past Columbia (8-12 / 2-4). Harvard (15-5 / 4-2) mixed up their starting lineup and raced by Penn (3-15 / 2-2), 80-66.

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Dartmouth pictures.

February 6, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Filed under Basketball, Photos, Princeton, Robert Solomon

A few shots from last night's game courtesy of Robert Solomon.

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