Ian Hummer, Mack Darrow and Princeton host Yale on Saturday night at Jadwin Gym in the fifth of five straight home Ivy League games to open conference play.
To commemorate the occasion I invited Ian Halpern from Ivy Hoops Online back to the site to help preview the Bulldogs as part of our ongoing Know! Your! Foe! series.
On the off chance you haven't paid them a visit already, Ivy Hoops Online is in its second year covering all eight schools in the league. They continue to be a much-needed addition to the Ivy basketball e-landscape.
I exchanged emails with Ian about Yale and our conversation comes after the jump.
If you missed our corresponding Brown preview, please read it here.
Cover a team the Tigers will face down the line? Certainly let us know. We'd love to talk with you.
Princeton head coach Mitch Henderson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon met at Jadwin Gym this afternoon to record the 11th installment of their season-long weekly interview series.
Henderson and Solomon reviewed Princeton's wins against Cornell and Columbia in considerable detail before extensively breaking down this weekend's home contests versus Brown and Yale.
A number of questions from site members are included as a part of this lively conversation.
This exclusive Q&A streaming after the jump is 13:00+ in length. You can catch up on all of the season's discussions here.
Brown on the schedule means the pleasure of exchanging Know! Your! Foe! emails with David "Bruno" Wise (pictured above), still the number one lone Brown basketball fan in my address book. There isn't anyone else I'd want to be discussing Friday's game with and David provides necessary insight into the Bears under first year head coach Mike Martin.
A Yale edition of K!Y!F! will run tomorrow on the site.
If you cover a team the Tigers will face down the line, let us know. We'd love to talk with you.
Princeton's 2013 recruiting has likely been complete for a while now, but somehow the news that guard Khyan Rayner ("Key-on Rain-er") was a part of the plan slipped under my radar until a tip from a reader last week.
The fact that Rayner's commitment to Princeton went unnoticed around these parts is no slight on his considerable ability. The high-scoring 5'10" guard from Portland, Oregon's Jesuit High School is a two time state champion and the Metro League's reigning Player of the Year.
Today I spoke with Jesuit coach Gene Potter about the sixth member of Mitch Henderson's 2013 class. Exclusive quotes and analysis plus links to player evaluations and videos of Rayner can all be found after the jump.
You can read complete profiles of all six future Tigers here.
Ian Hummer shares the latest Ivy League Player of the Week honors. For those of you keeping score at home that's three solo awards and a pair of split awards this season for the Princeton senior. Both times Hummer has been Co-POW the other recipient has been Harvard's Wesley Saunders.
The Daily Princetonian summarizes the Tigers' victories over Cornell and Columbia.
Fairfield (14-10) won their fourth straight, 64-54 at Siena.
The Stags will host Albany in a BracketBuster game on February 23rd while Denver will travel to Northern Iowa the same day.
One reporter wishes more professional athletes were like Will Venable.
There are five different former Princeton players currently suiting up professionally overseas. For the second straight year I asked each of them (minus Konrad Wysocki, who I still don't have contact info for) to update how things are going both on and off the court in Europe. Responses have been slowly trickling back since the start of the Tigers' exam break.
Read chronological first person dispatches from Mason Rocca, Judson Wallace, Dan Mavraides and Kareem Maddox after the jump, plus a brief word from Pawel Buczak.
The Full-Court Press breaks down the good and bad from Princeton's weekend sweep while the Columbia Basketball Blog kept a running diary of Saturday's NBCSN broadcast and the Cornell Daily Sun talked with some Big Red players about their visit to the Delaware Valley.
Somehow I missed that former Tiger Jon Berger was named to one of Forbes' "30 Under 30" lists.
Looking for something to watch? Stream a full archive of Princeton recruit Steven Cook and New Trier versus Waukegan.
In a game that featured 10 lead changes over the final 11:50, Stanford topped Oregon State (11-11) by eight.
Future Tiger Steven Cook had 15 for New Trier yesterday versus St. Viator.
Elsewhere, a double-double for Henry Caruso propelled Serra.
Northwestern (13-10) scored the initial 12 points and led Purdue wire to wire in a 75-60 decision. Reggie Hearn made his first nine field goals for the Wildcats.
The back half of a Lone Star State sweep for Denver (13-8) was a 79-64 win at Texas State.
Nate Lubick had 16 points and 10 rebounds in a 68-56 Georgetown victory over St. John's. The triumph was #200 for John Thompson III as the Hoyas' head man.
Before you settle in to watch the Big Game there's always Oregon State at Stanford.
Around the Ivy League: Is Harvard (12-6 / 4-0) a "team of destiny" or reaching Johnny Storm levels of fire-play? Brown (8-10 / 2-2) came from 22 down with 11:27 minutes to go, got to overtime courtesy a Sean McGonagill shot at the horn but could not take the lead in either of the two overtimes that followed as the Crimson survived 89-82. Errick Peck was 8-8 from the floor and Galal Cancer scored with 10 seconds to go as Cornell (10-11 / 2-2) won 71-69 over Penn (4-16 / 1-2) at The Palestra. Dartmouth (5-13 / 1-3) reached the win column in conference, 71-62 versus Yale (7-14 / 1-3). The Big Green connected on 22-24 free throws.
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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
