For this weekend's Ivy installment of the sensational Know! Your! Foe! series, I exchanged emails for a second time with the knowledgable Michael James from the 14-Game Tournament.
Hello again, sir. It is almost a year to the date since we last exchanged questions. Beyond graduating Jeremy Lin, how has Harvard's team changed since then?
Lin was a huge loss for the Crimson, as were forwards Doug Miller and Pat Magnarelli, who were good Ivy four-men that just struggled to stay healthy.
Speaking of which, let’s start with “healthy.” When Princeton traveled to Boston last year, Magnarelli was on the shelf as were Keith Wright and Andrew Van Nest. Harvard had to try to scratch out 40 minutes with Miller, Kyle Casey and Jeff Georgatos. This year, the Crimson has the latter two and Wright and Van Nest, as well as Ugo Okam if necessary, making the frontcourt an asset, not a liability.
Balance has been the other key difference. During the “Jeremy Lin Show” era, all too often it seemed that everyone was looking to Lin to do something and when he struggled, the team struggled. This year, there are six guys that can carry the offensive load for stretches, which has made this team more consistent from game to game.
Denver vs. UALR - 8:00 pm ET
Washington vs. Oregon State - 9:00 pm ET - FSN Northwest
Chris Mooney won his 100th game at Richmond (17-6), a 62-52 Spider decision against St. Joe's.
Mercer (11-14) came away victorious playing its second Region XIX contest in as many days, 87-77 over Ocean. Mercer's high man was Jonathan Jernigan with 27.
This year's version of "The Gauntlet" starts Friday with the Tigers' home game versus Harvard. A fitting time to repost the following from last season. - JS
After the Brown game, I received the following question from reader Jim W.:
I'd be interested to know the Tigers' record in the second weekend of the five game weeks they play relative to their records in other weeks. I believe that years ago they used to play one or both of the Penn games on a Saturday instead of wedging the games into a Tuesday and wonder if that would make sense again, particularly with all the conference tournaments extending the season.
Excellent inquiry.
How have the Tigers faired in Ivy play running "The Gauntlet" of Friday-Saturday-Tuesday-Friday-Saturday?
Here are 31 years of answers, thanks in part to the good folks at the Princeton Athletic Department...
Tigers head coach Sydney Johnson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon met at Jadwin Gym on an icy Wednesday morning to go over Princeton's Ivy-opening sweep of Brown and Yale before previewing the team's next three games at home versus Harvard, Dartmouth and Penn.
This Q&A is 18:00+ in length.
Interviews with Coach Johnson will appear on this site every week during the 2010-11 season.
Scoreless versus Villanova, Chris Wright dropped a game-high, season-high 24 as Georgetown (17-5) fended off #13 Louisville. Hoya Hoops has the postgame audio.
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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
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