Buffalo pictures.
Photos from today's game courtesy Stephen Goldsmith.
Princeton 61 Buffalo 53.
Postgame audio - Coach Mitch Henderson, Ian Hummer & T.J. Bray:
20 minutes of basketball at home on a Saturday afternoon in front of a sparse crowd versus visiting Buffalo may not have completely revealed who Princeton is quite yet, but it certainly was an eye-opening look at what the Tigers are capable of.
The orange and black built a daunting 18-4 lead after 11 minutes of play on a pair of Brendan Connolly free throws. Playing their best half of the young season, Princeton was able to open up as wide as a 25 point advantage.
In front 37-16 at the break, the Tigers fought their way through long stretches of aggressive, extended pressure 1-3-1 and 2-3 trapping defense from the Bulls and found enough offensive support for Ian Hummer and Douglas Davis to record Mitch Henderson’s first win as a collegiate head coach.
“What we wanted to do right away was go at them and I think we did that nicely,” Henderson said of his team’s assertive performance.
Saturday News:
Today's Game: Buffalo (2-0 / 0-0) vs. Princeton (0-2 / 0-0)
Location: Jadwin Gym - Princeton, NJ
Time: 12:30 pm ET
Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB
TV: FiOS1 (tape delay)
Internet: goprincetontigers.com
Series History: Buffalo leads 1-0.
Last meeting: Buffalo 25 Princeton 23 - 1/4/26.
| Buffalo | Princeton | |
| 2-0 | Home Record | 0-1 |
| 0-0 | Away Record | 0-1 |
| 0-0 | Neutral Record | 0-0 |
| 139 | RPI | 216 |
| 140 | Sagarin | 196 |
| 108 | Pomeroy | 129 |
| 70.0 | Points / Game | 57.5 |
| 62.0 | Points Allowed / Game | 66.5 |
| .442 | FG% | .427 |
| .709 | FT% | .548 |
| .265 | 3PT FG% | .500 |
| 39.5 | Rebounds / Game | 30.5 |
| 12.5 | Off. Rebounds / Game | 7.0 |
| +4.0 | Rebounding Margin | -7.0 |
| 16.0 | Assists / Game | 13.0 |
| 13.0 | Turnovers / Game | 19.5 |
| 6.5 | Blocks / Game | 5.0 |
| McCrea: 18.5 | Points | Hummer: 17.0 |
| McCrea: 8.0 | Rebounds | Hummer: 6.0 |
| Oldham: 7.5 | Assists | Bray: 3.0 |
| Barnett: 2.5 | Steals | Hummer, Bray: 1.5 |
| Watt: 3.5 | Blocks | Saunders: 1.5 |
| McCrea: .609 | FG% (Min: 5 FGM) | Hummer, Davis: .500 |
| McCrea: .900 | FT% (Min: 5 FTA) | Darrow: .625 |
| Filzen: .333 | 3PT FG% (Min: 10 3PTA) | Davis: .636 |
Harcum vs. MCCC - 2:00 pm ET
Sacred Heart vs. Richmond - 5:00 pm ET - Cancun Challenge
Oregon State vs. Texas - 9:00 pm ET - Legends Classic - ESPN3
Hartford vs. Brown - 5:00 pm ET
Robert Morris vs. Penn - 7:00 pm ET
American vs. Columbia - 7:00 pm ET
Bryant vs. Dartmouth - 7:00 pm ET
Harvard vs. Loyola Marymount - 9:30 pm ET
UB Bull Run has a preview of today's game. In exchange for the latest Know! Your! Foe! I also answered six questions about Princeton for their site.
Seeing his first significant professional minutes, Dan Mavraides scored 14 points in Aris' Eurocup loss to CEZ Nymburk.
Drew Crawford scored 28 points as Northwestern (3-0) got past Tulsa to advance into the Charleston Classic's championship game versus Seton Hall.
Oregon State is in New Jersey this weekend for the final two rounds of the Legends Classic.
In a football/basketball doubleheader, Richmond hosts Sacred Heart.
YouTube potpourri XLIX.
Here's the latest collection of videos from various corners of the Princeton basketball family. Above, highlights from Northwestern's win over Tulsa at the Charleston Classic.
Five additional clips after the jump.
Know! Your! Foe! - Buffalo.
Undefeated Buffalo heads to Jadwin Gym tomorrow afternoon. Right before the deadline after which this exchange wouldn't serve any purpose, I traded emails with Timothy Riordan (not pictured above) of UB Bull Run for the third Know! Your! Foe! preview in as many games this season.
If you cover a team the Tigers will face down the line, let us know.
Any Elon writers out there? Hello?
Coach Mitch Henderson - 11/18/11.
Princeton head coach Mitch Henderson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon sat down at Jadwin Gym before practice this afternoon to record a conversation, their second of the season.
Henderson and Solomon reviewed the Tigers' season-opening loss versus Wagner in detail and discussed multiple aspects of Princeton's close defeat at NC State before previewing this week's opponents the Buffalo Bulls and the Elon Phoenix - the start of five games in nine days for the orange and black.
This exclusive Q&A is 12:00+ in length.
If you have questions for future interviews, please feel free to send them here.
Friday News:
Tulsa vs. Northwestern - 3:30 pm ET - Charleston Classic - ESPNU
John Shurna scored a career high 37 points and Northwestern (2-0) needed every one to beat LSU 88-82 in the first round of the Charleston Classic. The Wildcats move to the winner's side of the bracket along with today's opponent Tulsa, Seton Hall and St. Joe's.
Richmond (2-1) opened the stateside portion of the Cancun Challenge with a 21 point win over Hampton. Spiders head coach Chris Mooney felt this was the best of the three games his team has played so far this season.
Minnesota pulled away from Fairfield (1-2) in the second half, defeating the Stags 67-57.
Denver (3-0) were rude hosts to Conference USA's Southern Mississippi. Chris Udofia tied his career high with 21 and the Pioneers prevailed 59-52.
At a luncheon in New York City on Thursday, Pete Carril was one of three coaches to receive the Joe Lapchick Character Award.
The Daily Princetonian and the Spectrum offer previews of Saturday's game.
Meanwhile, the Princeton Packet previews the Tigers' season.
Around the Ivy League: Penn (2-1) kept Rider winless by busting the Broncs in overtime, 78-72. Miles Cartwright scored 27 for the Quakers. In their home opener Yale (2-1) demolished Lyndon State 101-37.
For The 800 Games Project: The Chase
When I returned home from Raleigh this evening I wrote an essay entitled "The Chase" for the Mid Majority and their ambitious 800 Games Project.
Unfortunately, I didn't read their fine print which specifies that all games must be reserved in advance for publication. My attempts to plead a "Bill Murray exception" were unsuccessful so please enjoy the following which was intended for a different site but I felt still had to run somewhere. - JS
I travel chasing a moment.
Up and down I-95 since I was old enough to drive across state lines - headed to Durham, headed to Columbia, headed to Raleigh, headed to Washington, headed to Winston Salem, headed to Syracuse, headed to Louisville. I’ve witnessed that moment before and I chase after the notion it will happen again.
"The Field."
There was a lot of discussion in yesterday's recap of the NC State game as well as in the subsequent member comments about Princeton's need for a third consistent scoring option.
This got me thinking during the portions of the long drive back from Raleigh where I was conscious - How do the Tigers' offensive statistics look when divided into two distinct categories:
A) Ian Hummer & Douglas Davis
B) "The Field" consisting of the other 15 players on the roster.
Thursday News:
LSU vs. Northwestern - 3:00 pm ET - Charleston Classic - ESPNU
Hampton vs. Richmond - 7:00 pm ET - Cancun Challenge
Fairfield vs. Minnesota - 7:00 pm ET - Big Ten Network
Southern Mississippi vs. Denver - 9:00 pm ET
Lyndon State vs. Yale - 7:00 pm ET
Penn vs. Rider - 7:00 pm ET
In addition to our recap, read about Princeton's last second loss to NC State on goprincetontigers.com, in the Charlotte Observer, in the Daily Princetonian, on Fox Sports South, courtesy the Associated Press and on gopack.com.
You can watch a rebroadcast of the game here.
Konrad Wysocki is blogging for the Eurocup site.
Behind a career high 35 from Jared Cunningham, Oregon State (3-0) trumped Hofstra 82-72.
The Town Topics files their story on the Wagner game.
A Princeton recruiting target will wait until the spring to chose his college.
This afternoon Northwestern plays LSU in the first round of the Charleston Classic.
Fairfield visits Minnesota.
Chris Mooney and Richmond host Hampton. If I had planned my trip better I'd stop off for this game on the drive back from Raleigh!
Southern Miss heads to undefeated Denver.
Ivy Hoops Online reports that Brown freshman Rafael Maia has been ruled ineligible for the 2011-12 season.
Around the Ivy League: Princeton's next opponent, Buffalo, won at Cornell (1-2) by nine. In their home opener Dartmouth (0-2) could not hold a seven point halftime lead and fell 65-53 to Vermont.
NC State 60 Princeton 58.
Postgame audio - Coach Mitch Henderson:
Postgame audio - Douglas Davis & Ian Hummer:
The difference in effort and execution between Saturday’s dismal start to the 2011-12 season versus Wagner and yesterday evening’s game at North Carolina State was significant.
Princeton played the game they wanted to play at a more manageable speed, cutting down on many of their defensive lapses and turnovers.
Unfortunately, the end result was the same when time expired.
DeShawn Painter’s long jumper from just inside the three point line broke a 58-58 tie with four seconds left and ruined this much-improved performance by the Tigers in Raleigh.
Less than half a minute earlier Douglas Davis knotted the score with a three point shot drifting to his right, Davis’ fifth three and the seventh deadlock of the evening.
Princeton was unable to get off a better look than a half court try by Ian Hummer as time ran out.
Davis (21 points) and Hummer (15 points) found offensive support from the rest of their lineup in stretches but Mitch Henderson is still looking for both a third offensive option as well as his first win as a collegiate head coach.
