Today's Game:Princeton (9-8 / 0-1) vs. Columbia (11-6 / 0-1) Location: Levien Gymnasium - New York City, NY Time: 7:00 pm ET Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB TV: N/A Internet: goprincetontigers.com Series History: Princeton leads 141-84. Last meeting:Princeton 66 Columbia 61 - 2/26/11
Princeton
Columbia
3-2
Home Record
5-3
5-5
Away Record
4-3
1-1
Neutral Record
2-0
140
RPI
141
152
Sagarin
180
137
Pomeroy
184
64.0
Points / Game
65.6
62.0
Points Allowed / Game
59.0
.429
FG%
.420
.632
FT%
.721
.341
3PT FG%
.364
35.2
Rebounds / Game
35.8
9.9
Off. Rebounds / Game
10.2
+0.8
Rebounding Margin
+1.6
14.2
Assists / Game
12.4
13.6
Turnovers / Game
12.6
3.8
Blocks / Game
2.4
Hummer: 17.7
Points
Barbour: 14.9
Hummer: 7.9
Rebounds
Cisco, Daniels: 6.2
Bray: 4.1
Assists
Barbour: 3.5
Hummer: 1.6
Steals
Lyles: 1.2
Hummer: 1.0
Blocks
Osetkowski: 0.8
Koon: .594
FG% (Min: 10 FGM)
Cisco: .600
Saunders: .875
FT% (Min: 10 FTM)
Barbour .901
Bray: .415
3PT FG% (Min: 10 3PTM)
Lyles: .449
Michigan State vs. Northwestern - 3:00 pm ET - Big Ten Network
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Temple vs. Richmond - 7:00 pm ET - CBS Sports Network
Brown vs. Yale - 2:00 pm ET
George Washington vs. Harvard - 2:00 pm ET
Longwood vs. Dartmouth - 2:00 pm ET
Penn vs. Cornell - 7:00 pm ET
A pair of Cornell freshmen were an enormous part of the quick 8-0 run which separated the Big Red from Princeton with the two teams even at 40 nearing the midway point of the second half.
On a night where leading scorer Drew Ferry went scoreless, Galal Cancer (17) and Shonn Miller (12) led the way in their first game versus the orange and black as Cornell opened Ivy League play with a 67-59 win over the Tigers.
Once Princeton fell behind by eight they were unable to ever make it a one possession game again, though they squandered myriad chances with the ball in their hands due to offensive fouls, turnovers and the missed front ends of a couple of one-and-one chances.
The Tigers were also unable to establish their advantage in the post and missed more than their fair share of jump shots in a once-tight contest that had 18 lead changes across the first 20 minutes.
“We seemed timid and you’re not going to win games on the road in the league being timid,” said first year head coach Mitch Henderson.
Douglas Davis scored 16 points but needed 22 shots to do so and Ian Hummer added 14 with nine rebounds. T.J. Bray filled up the stat sheet with 12 points, eight boards and seven assists.
6'4" junior guard/forward Steven Cook from New Trier High School in Winnetka, IL has verbally committed to Princeton according to his coach Scott Fricke.
I expect to talk with Coach Fricke shortly for a full profile of this new Tiger recruit.
Cook is a product of Full Package Athletics, a player development program based in Northbrook that produced a pair of current Princeton players - Mack Darrow and Brian Fabrizius.
With a bus to Ithaca waiting to depart outside Jadwin Gym as soon as they were finished, Tigers head coach Mitch Henderson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon met to record a new conversation.
Henderson and Solomon reviewed Princeton's brief stop home to play TCNJ and then previewed the first two Ivy League games of the season at Cornell and Columbia in detail.
This exclusive, rapid-fire Q&A is 7:00+ in length.
If you have questions for future interviews, please feel free to send them here.
On Saturday night Princeton wraps up their first weekend of Ivy play at Columbia. As part of our Know! Your! Foe! series please welcome John Templon from Big Apple Buckets to the princetonbasketball.com.
I was confused to discover I haven't actually had John stop by for a K!Y!F! previously, but I was a big fan of his Chicago College Basketball site and I'm greatly enjoying his well-considered coverage of teams in New York City and the surrounding environs. He's the right man to go to for insight on the Lions.
Our email exchange can be found after the jump.
If you haven't read the Cornell preview that was published here yesterday, please do so.
Additionally, if you cover a team the Tigers will face down the line, let us know. It would be great to talk with you.
Princeton starts their Ivy slate Friday night in Ithaca and princetonbasketball.com is here to prep you for the Tigers' swing through New York State. As part of our Know! Your! Foe! series please welcome Brian Delaney back to the site.
Brian was with the Ithaca Journal last season but has since moved on to 1160 ESPN. Check out what one of the best Ivy reporters out there and the top source on Cornell basketball had to say about the Big Red.
Our email exchange can be found after the jump.
A Columbia Lions preview will follow tomorrow.
If you cover a team the Tigers will face down the line, let us know. It would be great to talk with you.
The Ivy League held its third-annual Men's Basketball Midseason Media Teleconference this morning, with all eight coaches answering questions from media.
The portion of today's Q&A with Princeton coach Mitch Henderson is available above. An mp3 of the full program can be found here.
An article on how early action has changed recruiting at Princeton talks to Hans Brase. If you want to go see Brase in action The Hill School plays at The Lawrenceville School today and Hun on Saturday.
Mercer (4-13) defeated Union, 59-53. Ryan Hanley scored 16 in the Viking victory.
As promised yesterday, here's the second stanza of Princeton's 70-62 win at St. Joe's in the first contest of 2010. Current Tigers Douglas Davis and Ian Hummer had 17 and 10 points respectively, two of the four Princeton players in double figures.
There were a lot of stoppages in the final 20 minutes, so they're divided into 11 separate files. The first half can be found here.
princetonbasketball.com was founded on April 28th, 1998 in an attempt to provide fans of the Princeton Tigers and Ivy League basketball with the best on-line source for up-to-date news and information. We have since expanded to launch a companion site, Georgetown Basketball News.
As these sites have continued to grow we have increased our coverage to include additional teams with Princeton connections - the Richmond Spiders, Denver Pioneers, Oregon State Beavers, Fairfield Stags and Mercer County Community College Vikings - plus former Tigers playing professional baseball and basketball all over the world. This site is not directly affiliated with the Friends of Princeton Basketball, Princeton University or the Princeton athletic department.
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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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
