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Sunday News:

December 9, 2012 at 9:08 am
Filed under Basketball, Fairfield, Georgetown, Northwestern, Oregon State, Princeton, Richmond, Today's News

Fairfield vs. Rider - 2:00 pm ET

Columbia vs. American - 2:00 pm ET

In addition to our recap, read about Princeton's home loss to Drexel on goprincetontigers.com, in the Trentonian, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, on City Of Basketball Love, on Comcast SportsNet, on Drexel Dragons Basketball and on drexeldragons.com.

Rush The Court checks in on the Ivy League.

It was a second straight less than attractive game for Georgetown (7-1) at home, but the Hoyas held Towson scoreless the final 4:37 to record a 46-40 victory.

Oregon State (5-2) made 15 of 21 threes on their way to an 85-54 win over Grambling State.

It is the second-best start to a season for Richmond (8-2) over the past 78 years. The Spiders escaped James Madison 83-82 in overtime.

In a physical contest Northwestern (7-3) fell 74-65 at home against Butler.

Sydney Johnson returns to Mercer County as Fairfield visits Rider this afternoon.

Around the Ivy League: It was a winless day for the conference as Yale (3-7) lost at New Hampshire by eight, Dartmouth (2-5) fell 67-56 at Holy Cross, Brown (3-5) dropped an 84-57 decision in South Bend to Notre Dame and Penn (2-7) never completely recovered from an opening 14-2 deficit against Villanova.

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George Clark said,

December 9, 2012 @ 10:44 am

If the Tigers can match last year's 10-4 League record we should be right in the thick of things in what looks more and more like a down year. Worrisome stat from the Fordham-St. Johns game: Rams grabbed 24 offensive rebounds. After yesterday's second half meltdown on the boards an identity for this team remains elusive. We should expect to face some zone defense at the Barclay's Center. The most surprising aspect of the Tigers' season has to be the inability to close out games in which we appeared to be in complete control. Early in the second half one had the sickening sensation that the game was inexorably slipping away, that we were getting ourselves into the kind of situation upon which Doug Davis built his reputation. This club needs to repair its damaged psyche at this point. Mitch getting T'd up is a good indicator of frustration on the bench. After one step forward two steps back.

Jon Solomon said,

December 9, 2012 @ 1:38 pm

George,

As it should happen, Pomeroy projects Princeton as 10-4 in conference after the Drexel game. I think it will take 11 wins to win the Ivy League, perhaps 12 if one team can win all their 50/50 contests.

Your point about this year's team's lack of an identity through eight results is an excellent one. If you were to ask me from game to game, my answer to that question would likely change.

Jon

Steven Postrel said,

December 11, 2012 @ 9:09 pm

I suspect that while MH really wants to have a tough defensive mentality it isn't natural for him to coach that stuff. (I don't know whether that's temperamental, pedagogical, or technical.) The Northwestern teams he was on the bench with alongside Carmody certainly never had that personality.

Compare to SJ and JTIII, who routinely roll out teams that can win "ugly" with great defense on every possession. The Hoya win over Towson is a case in point--with that crappy an offensive performance, they had to put the lid on Towson on every single late possession, and they did. This Princeton team hasn't attained that level of consistency.

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