YouTube potpourri LXVII.
Here’s the latest collection of videos from various corners of the Princeton basketball family. Above, a belated news piece on Princeton's regular season finale.
18 (!!!) more clips after the jump.
Friday News:
It was a lot of fun to watch Northwestern's John Shurna win both the Hampton Hotels Men's 3-Point Contest and the Pure Protein Battle of the Champions at the Final Four in New Orleans last night.
Shurna, who said beforehand he had never shot off a rack before, knocked down his final seven shots to claim his gender's title by one point and then facing off versus USC's Ashley Corral put up an unbeatable score of 24.
Highlights can be found here.
A Notre Dame wing whom Mitch Henderson originally tried to recruit to Evanston is transferring and NU may have interest.
Chris Young says his recovery has been a smooth one so far.
Thursday News:
What gym provides the biggest home court advantage in the Ivy League? The answer, as they say, may surprise you.
Cracking the upper portion of Big Apple Buckets' look at the Top 25 players in the New York metro area, Ian Hummer.
Chris Young hopes to be the same pitcher he once was.
A guard from Florida claims an offer from the Princeton staff.
You might be curious to know the CBI finals between Pitt and Washington State will come down to a winner take all game three on Friday night in Allegheny County.
Coach Mitch Henderson - 3/28/12.
In the extended "season finale" of their weekly interview series, Tigers head coach Mitch Henderson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon sat down courtside at Jadwin Gym this afternoon for a seventeenth and final time on the year.
Solomon and Coach Henderson looked back on Princeton's CBI games at Evansville and Pittsburgh in great detail before touching on the season as a whole, including if there was a specific point where Henderson realized his team could actually be pretty good and if there was a defining moment for the year.
Henderson also discusses if it is possible to carry over the season’s strong finish through the summer, heading to the Final Four this weekend, what he hopes to get out of that trip, who he wants to bump into in New Orleans, if he and his staff are done recruiting for the class of 2012 and for the first time provides details on the team's planned foreign trip this summer.
This exclusive Q&A is 23:00+ in length and can be streamed after the jump.
Feel free to also explore a full archive of Solomon and Henderson's weekly discussions from 2011-12.
Wednesday News:
The Daily Princetonian, who in retrospect I should have awarded MOST IMPROVED COVERAGE OF THE YEAR status to in the first-annual site awards, has a lengthy piece on the legacy of (expert counter) Douglas Davis.
They also published a full transcript of their interview with Davis and count down the senior guard's top five games.
As was fully expected, Georgetown's Hollis Thompson will sign with an agent and enter the NBA Draft.
Sydney Johnson's first season at Fairfield was "not bad overall."
The Stags will be without Jamel Fields next year, as the sophomore guard has decided to transfer elsewhere.
Tuesday News:
The New York Mets have signed Chris Young to a minor league deal.
Atlanta apparently inquired with San Diego about the availability of outfielder Will Venable and were told he was unavailable.
A Princeton representative appears on Big Apple Buckets' second installment of the Top 25 players in the New York metro area.
Northwestern's John Shurna was named an Associated Press Honorable Mention All-American.
John Thompson III joined GameTime to talk about the improvements of Greg Monroe and Roy Hibbert.
Hoya senior Henry Sims will play in the 2012 Reese's Division I College All-Star Game this weekend. Also on his team: The aforementioned Shurna and Keith Wright from Harvard.
The First-Annual Year End Site Awards!
Last year we looked back on the season by examining a series of small moments. For 2011-12, how about something new?
THE FIRST-ANNUAL SITE AWARDS!
[fanfare of trumpets]
Nominees and recipients in a variety of categories both expected and unexpected after the jump. I hope you'll create your own awards and hand out (virtual) trophies to winners in the comments.
Monday News:
The Daily Princetonian is the latest to file a year end piece on the 2011-12 season.
The spring training of Will Venable continues to be a strong one.
Hoop Scoop's College Coach Rankings.
Hoop Scoop's annual College Coach Rankings are in the latest issue of Basketball Times. Familiar names of note from various Top 50 and Top 30 categories after the jump.
Sunday News:
The season ended for Fairfield (22-15) in a 66-59 loss to Mercer. The depleted Stags trailed the majority of the way in this CIT semifinal.
What's next for Georgetown?
If I can get it finished by then, look for the First-Annual Site Awards tomorrow!
Saturday News:
Saturday, March 24th:
Mercer vs. Fairfield - 7:00 pm ET - CIT
A real quiet Saturday, save for Fairfield hosting Mercer in the CIT semifinals.
Oregon State has room for optimism.
This story about the increase of ball screens in college basketball talks with Bill Carmody and is a nice companion article to conversations I've had with Princeton coach Mitch Henderson about the same subject during the season.
Friday News:
Saturday, March 24th:
Mercer vs. Fairfield - 7:00 pm ET - CIT
The Princeton Packet wraps up the Tigers' trip to the CBI.
Will Venable is on a roll in spring training.
Meet Georgetown recruit D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera.
FC Barcelona and Judson Wallace are one game away from Euroleague's Final Four.
Dan Mavraides scored 10 points as Aris won their fourth straight Greek Championship game.
