On Saturday night Princeton wraps their first full weekend of Ivy play by hosting Columbia. As part of our Know! Your! Foe! series please welcome John Templon from Big Apple Buckets back to princetonbasketball.com.
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.
After a three week break spanning the Tigers' exam hiatus, Princeton head coach Mitch Henderson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon returned to Jadwin Gym this afternoon before practice to record the latest installment of their season-long weekly interview series.
Henderson and Solomon reviewed Princeton's successes against Penn and TCNJ in detail and previewed the Tigers' upcoming weekend hosting Cornell and Columbia in detail while touching upon a few miscellaneous topics in the process (including Henderson's Super Bowl XLVII prediction).
This exclusive Q&A available after the jump is 10:00+ in length. You can catch up on all of the season's discussions here.
MCCC vs. Lackawanna - 7:00 pm ET
Denver vs. UT-San Antonio - 8:00 pm ET
Oregon State vs. Cal - 10:00 pm ET - ESPNU
T.J. Bray is profiled by a Wisconsin newspaper.
There's also a piece today on Noah Savage, standup comic.
The Town Topics recaps Princeton's win over TCNJ.
Future Tiger Henry Caruso had 22 points and nine rebounds last night.
Georgetown (15-4) won for the fifth time in six games, 74-52 over Seton Hall.
Number one Michigan was too much for Northwestern (12-10), 68-46.
Richmond (13-9) fell 71-64 at Temple.
Tonight Denver plays at UT-SA and Oregon State visits Cal.
Princeton starts the back 13 games of their Ivy slate Friday night at Jadwin Gym and princetonbasketball.com is here to prep you for the Tigers' first full weekend of conference play. As part of our Know! Your! Foe! series please welcome Ithaca's own Brian Delaney back to the site.
Our lengthy email exchange about Cornell 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.
Northwestern vs. Michigan - 6:30 pm ET - Big Ten Network
Seton Hall vs. Georgetown - 7:00 pm ET - ESPN+
Richmond vs. Temple - 7:00 pm ET
Princeton recruit Amir Bell and East Brunswick lost their first contest of the season versus top-ranked St. Anthony. Thus, a 15 game winning streak ends for the Bears while an 83 game winning streak continues for the Friars.
Elsewhere in the state future Tiger Spencer Weisz and Seton Hall Prep won at Bloomfield.
Brian Earl has a brief addition to his National Coach's Diary series.
I already wrote about Mercer's win over Manor last night, but I wanted to add some statistical information once it was available. Mustafa El-Amin had a team-high 14 points and six rebounds while Barry Brockington added 13 plus five boards for the Vikings.
Today Northwestern plays at top-ranked Michigan, Georgetown hosts Seton Hall and Richmond looks for their third straight win over Temple.
Postgame audio - Coach Howie Levy:
Mercer County Community College pushed the start of Tuesday night's game against Manor back an hour so head coach Howie Levy could go see his son Lior suit up for Princeton High School versus Notre Dame. Levy then rushed across the county to suffer a different class of agony than the pain created by helplessly watching your child play a sport. Switching from the stands to the sidelines, Levy saw his MCCC squad fall behind early in the first half after taking an immediate 5-0 lead and struggle to catch the visiting Blue Jays.
Knowing that Mercer had raced past Manor on the road 99-80 a month previous, it was difficult to witness the Vikings struggle against a rangy, lateral zone. Center Filip Sekulic was unable to get many touches moving from block to block behind the defense and 5'4" guard Larry Webster's constant raining of three point shots off the bench from in front of the zone routinely landed short.
Manor vs. Mercer - 7:00 pm ET
Hans Brase represents Princeton on the honor roll of the latest Men's Basketball Weekly Release.
There's a profile of Northwestern freshman and Orthodox Jew Aaron Liberman I recommend reading, if only for the superb final line.
Princeton recruit Henry Caruso "signed his letter of intent" recently (even though the Ivy League doesn't have LOIs).
Here's the latest collection of videos from various corners of the Princeton basketball family. Above, Mitch Henderson is among a group of coaches who helped ring NASDAQ's closing bell today.
10 additional clips of varying lengths and sources can be found after the jump.
In addition to our recap, read about Princeton's victory over The College of New Jersey on goprincetontigers.com, in the Trentonian, in the Trenton Times and on tcnjathletics.com.
Congratulations to Sydney Johnson, who earned his 100th career win as a head coach when Fairfield (12-10) defeated St. Peter's 61-54 in MAACtion.
Richmond (13-8) went down at UMass, 70-65.
Juve Caserta picked up a win over Vanoli Cremona in Lega A with Dan Mavraides scoring nine off the bench.
A player I must admit I was unfamiliar with who tried to walk on at Princeton departed the school after a year on the J.V. and now plays for Clarion University.
Sunday was an island between two distinct epochs, a two week exam period without a game behind it and a run of 13 contests in 40 days that will decide this year’s Ivy League title immediately in front of it.
Princeton did not shoot the ball particularly well in their return to action but had enough size at both ends and got to the line frequently enough to dispatch The College of New Jersey without incident or, perhaps more importantly, injury.
Tiger starters scored the game's first nine points and following TCNJ’s brief halving of a double digit deficit to five versus an early lineup heavy on reserves, returned to the floor to promptly convert back-to-back three point shots and build an 11 point advantage that would only increase for the remaining 28:32 of the afternoon.
Outrebounding an undersized foe 29-17 in the first half, with freshman Hans Brase grabbing 11 of those boards, Princeton extended a 39-17 halftime lead as most of their work was done at the foul line, where the Tigers shot 14-18.
The final buzzer could not come quickly enough after intermission as Denton Koon (12 points in 22 minutes) and Brase (11 points and 15 rebounds in 26 minutes) remained on the floor to anchor the rotation. The lead went from 20 to 30 to 40 as the visiting Lions suffered through a near-10 minute stretch wherein they recorded just a single field goal.
Clay Wilson played a team-high 28 minutes, 2-10 from three point range as his 0-10 marksmanship behind the arc the prior four games finally found the target.
All 13 Princeton players in uniform saw at least six minutes of action. The Tigers were 21-58 (36.2%) as a unit but 22-29 at the line (75.9%) with a ridiculous 60-30 edge on the glass boosted by 21 offensive rebounds.
Emmanuel Matlock and Ryan Keegan each had 10 for TCNJ, which went 0-14 from three on the day.
A full recap plus postgame audio from Coach Mitch Henderson, Denton Koon & Hans Brase can be found after the jump.
Today's Game: TCNJ (5-14 / 3-10) vs. Princeton (7-7 / 1-0)
Location: Jadwin Gym - Princeton, NJ
Time: 2:00 pm ET
Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB
TV: N/A
Internet: goprincetontigers.com
Series History: Princeton leads 4-0.
Last meeting: Princeton 79 TCNJ 68 - 1/8/12.
| TCNJ | Princeton | |
| 2-7 | Home Record | 3-3 |
| 3-7 | Away Record | 4-3 |
| 0-0 | Neutral Record | 0-1 |
| N/A | RPI | 127 |
| N/A | Sagarin | 94 |
| N/A | Pomeroy | 90 |
| 62.6 | Points / Game | 61.4 |
| 69.4 | Points Allowed / Game | 58.6 |
| .401 | FG% | .452 |
| .663 | FT% | .686 |
| .332 | 3PT FG% | .364 |
| 30.8 | Rebounds / Game | 30.5 |
| 10.6 | Off. Rebounds / Game | 8.4 |
| -6.1 | Rebounding Margin | +0.5 |
| 11.7 | Assists / Game | 14.6 |
| 13.9 | Turnovers / Game | 12.9 |
| 1.6 | Blocks / Game | 2.4 |
| Johnson: 12.1 | Points | Hummer: 16.0 |
| Fox: 4.0 | Rebounds | Hummer: 6.6 |
| Johnson: 3.1 | Assists | Hummer: 4.6 |
| Johnson: 1.6 | Steals | Bray: 1.8 |
| Kane: 0.4 | Blocks | Hummer: 1.0 |
| Fox: .433 | FG% (Min: 10 FGA) | Connolly: .521 |
| Keegan: .818 | FT% (Min: 10 FTA) | Bray, Koon: .806 |
| Rista: .346 | 3PT FG% (Min: 10 3PTA) | Barrett: .511 |
Richmond vs. UMass - 2:00 pm ET
Fairfield vs. St. Peter's - 2:00 pm ET
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Yesterday TCNJ lost a 73-72 game versus #11 Ramapo.
They'll be honoring Mason Rocca in Milan on Sunday.
Kareem Maddox wants Newcastle to take a "business-like" approach leading up to the team's BBL Trophy game.
Richmond coach Chris Mooney was a guest on College Sports Today after Spiders' victory over VCU.
There's more on East Brunswick's win at The Hun School here.
It was Georgetown (14-4) over #5 Louisville, 53-51. The Hoyas did just enough down the stretch. Some think John Thompson III's team is now pointed in the right direction.
Mercer (15-6) ended a two game losing streak with a 63-57 win at Essex. Mustafa El-Amin scored 19 and grabbed 12 rebounds for the Vikings.
Shooting 32.1% as a team, Northwestern (12-9) lost 64-49 at Nebraska.
Washington State tripped up Oregon State (11-9) in Corvallis, 71-68.
Fairfield faces St. Peter's in Jersey City while Richmond looks for a third straight at UMass.
Around the Ivy League: Oh, Dartmouth (4-12 / 0-2). The Big Green actually held a 10 point lead with the ball in the final two minutes at Harvard (10-6 / 2-0) before the Crimson made three shots behind the arc (and were fouled on another) as they rallied to force overtime. Once they took their first lead since 2-0 on a Laurent Rivard trey, Tommy Amaker's team never trailed again. Yale (7-12 / 1-1) also required overtime, getting past Brown (7-9 / 1-1) by a 76-64 final. A three from Brian Barbour at the horn did not drop and Columbia (9-7 / 1-1) went down 66-63 at home against Cornell (9-10 / 1-1).
