The latest collection of videos from various corners of the Princeton basketball family. Above John Thompson II, Chris Wright and Julian Vaughn meet the media after the Hoyas' win at Syracuse. Game highlights and additional videos after the jump.
Morris vs. MCCC - 7:00 pm ET
Florida Atlantic vs. Denver - 9:00 pm ET - FSN Rocky Mountain
Oregon State vs. USC - 11:00 pm ET - FSN
John Thompson III won for the first time in the Carrier Dome. Georgetown (19-5) outscored Syracuse 15-3 in the final 6:40 of a 64-56 Hoya victory.
Slow-starting Northwestern (14-9) had a 14-0 run to creep within one at Michigan before the Wolverines closed out the 75-66 final.
Richmond (19-6) was victorious for the eighth straight time on the road, 69-65 at George Washington.
Princeton's win over Penn on Tuesday has brought memories of a lot of Quaker/Tiger finishes to the front of my mind over the prior 24 hours. One that stands out, perhaps because of the three technical fouls in the last nine seconds or perhaps because Jack Eggleston was also involved in the conclusion, is a 70-65 Penn win at the Palestra in 2008.
The Town Topics looks back on last weekend's victories over Harvard and Dartmouth.
The Columbia Spectator is already prepared to preview the Lions' games this Friday and Saturday.
Princeton recruit Bobby Garbade set career highs for both scoring and rebounding in Seton's win over Chenango Valley.
The Tigers picked up a commitment from another big man for the 2011 recruiting class this week. I'll be talking with his coach later today for a profile on the site.
Mercer needs to win one of their final three to make the Region XIX playoffs. The Vikings' final regular season home game is tonight versus Morris.
Sun Belt West first place team Denver hosts Sun Belt East first place team FAU.
Oregon State visits USC.
This week's Schuylkill 16 has been revealed. Princeton commands fifth place.
A first time guest for this week's installment of the site's Know! Your! Foe! series - please welcome Ithaca Journal Sports Editor and top shelf Ivy scribe Brian Delaney from the Ithaca Journal to our corner of the Internet. We exchanged emails about Princeton's opponent this Saturday night - the Cornell Big Red.
Cornell has lost a crazy number of close games this season (nine of their 15 defeats are by five points or less). Is there any common thread here? What has been the difference?
There’s been a series of issues at the heart of Cornell’s 5-15 record, though not all have been impactful in the last five minutes of the close games they’ve lost: too much fouling, giving opponents too many free throw attempts; poor defensive rebounding, prolonged scoring droughts and inconsistent bench production.
There was a real snowball effect, I think, that began with the second half collapse at Binghamton. Cornell played fantastic in the first half, built a double-digit lead, then had two key players (Adam Wire, Errick Peck) get in foul trouble immediately in the second half. The bottom fell out, and Binghamton held on to win by a point after Cornell missed four quality looks inside 15 feet on the game’s final possession. That day should have ended a five-game losing streak against mostly tough teams (St. Bonaventure, Lehigh, BU, Syracuse, Minnesota), but instead five became eight with subsequent losses to Bucknell and New Hampshire.
There was confusion in the stands at Jadwin Gym last night about why Penn retained possession after Jack Eggleston's technical foul late in overtime.
I've cleared this issue up in the comments, but for those who missed it I can also add information provided at my request by Ivy League Coordinator of Men's Basketball Officials Reggie Greenwood.
"It feels good to get to 1,000 but this day would have been terrible if we had lost the game. I am glad we got the win and 1,000 was the icing on the cake." - D. Davis
On Tuesday night, Douglas Davis (pictured above with his parents and a bouquet of flowers) became the 27th Princeton player - and the first as a junior since Kit Mueller in 1990 - to reach the 1,000 point mark.
Here's the full list of 1K Tigers. Davis needs five points to pass Will Venable for 26th all-time and could become the 15th Tiger in the 1,100 point club by the end of the season if his 13.2 ppg scoring average holds.
Northwestern vs. Michigan - 6:30 pm ET - Big Ten Network
Georgetown vs. Syracuse - 7:00 pm ET - ESPN
Richmond vs. George Washington - 7:00 pm ET
In addition to our recap, read more about the Tigers' latest chapter in their rivalry with Penn on goprincetontigers.com, in the Trentonian, in the Daily Princetonian, in the Daily Pennsylvanian, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, in the Daily News, on CSN Philly and on pennathletics.com.
Penn's student paper also writes about the little things that made a difference on Tuesday.
The Tigers weren't the only OT victors last night. Mercer (12-14) knocked off Burlington, 84-81. Anthony Obery had 22 for the Vikings.
Dan Mavraides is profiled in the San Jose Mercury News.
The Princeton Packet summarized last weekend's games with a focus on Mack Darrow.
Yahoo! Sports has updated their Princeton team report.
Crystal City, MO remains a part of Bill Bradley.
Tonight is another heavyweight bout for Georgetown and Syracuse.
Hoya head man John Thompson III visited the Sports Junkies. Listen to an archive here.
Michigan hosts Northwestern.
Richmond looks for their eighth straight road win at GW.
Expect Will Venable to get a "long look" as the Padres' leadoff man this spring.
Postgame audio - Coach Sydney Johnson, Douglas Davis, Mack Darrow & Dan Mavraides:
Insufferable. Improbable. Inexplicable. Incredible.
Princeton scored the last four points of overtime at the free throw line and somehow found a way to pull out a 62-59 win over Penn.
The Quakers had the ball up one with :38.6 to go. At the end of their possession a slipping Jack Eggleston called time out going down on a cut to try and keep the ball with his team. However, Penn was out of time outs and a technical foul was awarded.
Douglas Davis, who cracked the 1,000 point club earlier in the night, missed his first attempt but tied the game with the second.
Possession stayed with Penn and Ian Hummer stole the Quakers' inbounds pass with six on the shot clock. In the near corner inbounds man Miles Cartwright fouled Hummer and Hummer confidently made both free throws to give the Tigers a two point lead.
Zack Rosen drove into the lane and dished off to an open Fran Dougherty, who painfully threw his attempt to tie from point blank range nearly over the rim and into Dan Mavraides' hands.
Mavraides made one of two at the line and Rosen's runner from deep was wide to the left as time expired.
A spent Mavraides fell forward prone on the Jadwin Gym hardwood. It seemed borderline impossible, but Princeton had improved to 5-0 in the Ivy League.
Mavraides was one of four Tigers to score 11 points - joined by Patrick Saunders, Davis and Mack Darrow.
Tyler Bernardini hit five times from outside and tallied 19 for Penn. Bernardini's fifth triple with :03.6 left in regulation on a marvelous designed inbounds play sent the game to overtime.
Today's Game: Penn (9-9 / 3-1) vs. Princeton (16-4 / 4-0)
Location: Jadwin Gym - Princeton, NJ
Time: 7:00 pm ET
Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB
TV: Comcast
Internet: goprincetontigers.com
Series History: Penn leads 122-100.
Last meeting: Princeton 68 Penn 56 - 3/9/10.
| Penn | Princeton | |
| 6-3 | Home Record | 9-0 |
| 3-6 | Away Record | 5-3 |
| 0-0 | Neutral Record | 2-1 |
| 181 | RPI | 56 |
| 171 | Sagarin | 84 |
| 156 | Pomeroy | 110 |
| 67.7 | Points / Game | 70.7 |
| 68.4 | Points Allowed / Game | 64.6 |
| .456 | FG% | .470 |
| .723 | FT% | .711 |
| .366 | 3PT FG% | .374 |
| 29.3 | Rebounds / Game | 34.7 |
| 7.8 | Off. Rebounds / Game | 9.7 |
| -2.4 | Rebounding Margin | +2.8 |
| 13.9 | Assists / Game | 13.5 |
| 13.9 | Turnovers / Game | 12.8 |
| 2.2 | Blocks / Game | 4.1 |
| Rosen: 15.0 | Points | Hummer: 14.1 |
| Eggleston: 8.4 | Rebounds | Maddox: 7.2 |
| Rosen: 5.3 | Assists | Mavraides: 2.9 |
| Cartwright: 1.4 | Steals | Davis: 1.5 |
| Eggleston: 0.7 | Blocks | Maddox: 1.9 |
| Schreiber: .667 | FG% (Min: 10 FGM) | Maddox: .579 |
| Cartwright: .836 | FT% (Min: 10 FTM) | Mavraides: .783 |
| Eggleston: .521 | 3PT FG% (Min: 10 3FGM) | Davis .413 |
MCCC vs. Burlington - 7:00 pm ET
The Daily Pennsylvanian captures the Penn/Princeton rivalry through the intertwined lives of the schools' head coaches.
Penn's student paper has a second piece about the history between these two programs.
...and those are the only previews of tonight's game?
Wait, here's one more from CSN Philly.
Ian Hummer represents Princeton on the Ivy League's Men's Basketball Weekly Release for Week 14.
Princeton moves up to third place in the New York Post rankings of local college basketball teams.
The 14-Game Tournament has adjusted their projections through last weekend's games.
Princeton recruit Bobby Garbade scored 14 in Seton CC's 14th victory of the season.
Good evening. Here's a special Penn edition of our Know! Your! Foe! series, wherein I exchange emails with Mr. Jonathan Tannenwald (pictured above with a special friend).
This is my second go-round talking about the Quakers with the Philly.com night editor, founder of the Soft Pretzel Logic blog and Big 5 basketball expert.
You wrote that Saturday's Harvard/Penn double overtime game was the best Ivy League basketball contest you've ever witnessed. What made it so special?
Two things. First, it’s not all that often that Ivy League games go to one overtime, much less two overtimes. Second of all, it was a really even contest over the last 25 minutes or so. Penn came back, then Harvard went ahead, then Penn rallied in regulation and again in the first overtime. Penn went ahead for the first time all night in the second overtime, but Harvard really reached down and made one more big push to get the win.
When I made the assertion about it being the best Ivy League game I’ve seen, a few Penn fans countered with the Quakers’ 2005 comeback against Princeton at the Palestra. I replied that the Harvard game was a much more even contest, whereas that Princeton game was one-way traffic for each team. For most of the game, it was in Princeton’s direction, then it was all in Penn’s direction at the end.
There is a third factor that made the night memorable – the atmosphere was outstanding. It’s been a long time since the Palestra was that loud for a Penn game. It was even louder than the game against St. Joe’s a few weeks ago, which drew a bigger crowd.
Obviously it is a familiar thing for people who have been watching the Quakers for a while, and I’m sure Princeton fans have witnessed that kind of electricity too. But for the current generation of Penn students it was a new feeling. I’ve spoken with a number of them since Saturday and they all said it was the best game they’ve seen, and a night they will remember for a long time.
For the third straight season, Mercer County Community College scrimmaged the Princeton JV at Jadwin Gym. This game remains an enjoyable opportunity to watch two teams that run similar offenses face off and is also a chance to observe several Tigers in action that have seen limited playing time this season.
The game tipped in front of single digits on Friday afternoon four hours before the varsity and Harvard would do battle.
