At Dartmouth

Feb. 19, 1999

Game Notes

        The site        Leede Arena * Hanover, N.H.
        The date        Friday, Feb. 19, 1999 * 7:30 p.m.
        The records     Princeton: 17-5 (8-1 Ivy League)
                Dartmouth: 12-10 (8-2 Ivy League)
        The coaches     Princeton: Bill Carmody (third season, 68-11)
                Dartmouth: Dave Faucher (ninth season, 97-107)
        The series      Princeton leads 121-55
        Last meeting    Princeton defeated Dartmouth 76-48 * Feb. 6, 1999
        The storyline   Princeton heads to New England as the three-team
			Ivy race reaches a critical point

Probable Starters

DARTMOUTH 35 Shaun Gee 18.3 ppg, 6.5 rpg Jr., 6-7, 220, Palmer, Neb. 33 Charles Harris 7.1 ppg, 2.8 rpg Fr., 6-4, 180, Memphis, Tenn. 32 Ian McGinnis 8.0 ppg, 12.3 rpg So., 6-8, 220, New York, N.Y. 12 Flinder Boyd 7.3 ppg, 3.3 rpg Fr., 5-11, 175, Los Angles, Calif. 21 Greg Buth 16.7 ppg, 2.8 rpg So., 6-3, 185, Edina, Minn.

PRINCETON 32 Gabe Lewullis 14.6 ppg, 5.2 rpg Sr., 6-6, 210, Allentown, Pa. 44 Chris Krug 2.4 ppg, 2.5 rpg Fr., 6-9, 215, Cheltenham, Pa. 55 Chris Young 11.0 ppg, 5.0 rpg Fr., 6-10, 235, Dallas, Texas 10 Brian Earl 15.1 ppg, 3.2 rpg Sr., 6-2, 180, Medford Lakes, N.J.

Tonight's Note of the Night

Down the stretch they come - Princeton, Penn and Dartmouth are all within a half-game of each other in the Ivy League race. The other five teams are all mathematically eliminated.

Five more notes no media person should be without

Scenario-ing - Some turns the Ivy League race can take:
- should Princeton and Penn sweep this weekend and next (at home against Columbia and Cornell), they would play March 2 at Princeton for the league championship
- should Dartmouth sweep this weekend and next (at Yale and Brown), then the Big Green would be assured of at least playing either Penn or Princeton in a playoff game
- should Dartmouth sweep this weekend and next and Princeton and Penn both beat Harvard, Columbia and Cornell, then Dartmouth would play the winner of the Princeton-Penn game in a playoff
- should Dartmouth split this weekend, then the Big Green would need to sweep next weekend and then have the team that it loses to this weekend win the March 2 game and have Princeton and Penn each lose another game to force a three-way tie ... should all that happen, Dartmouth would be the No. 1 seed and get the playoff bye
- should either Princeton or Penn go 4-0 the next two weekends, then Dartmouth would be eliminated
- should Penn and Princeton go 2-0 this weekend, then Dartmouth would be eliminated
Destiny's darlings - Princeton, Penn and Dartmouth all "control their own destiny," since any of the three would win the league by winning their remaining games.
Just in case - Should there be a three-way tie for the league title, then the teams would be seeded 1-2-3, with two playing three on Thursday, March 4 and then the winner playing one on Saturday, March 6. The first tiebreaker is head-to-head among the three, followed by how each team did against the next team in the standings, until one team comes out on top.
All or nothing - All five Princeton-Dartmouth games since Bill Carmody became Princeton head coach have been decided by seven points or fewer or 22 points or more.
Dunk fest - Princeton has 27 dunks this year. The Tigers had 27 dunks the last three years combined.

Others receiving votes

Young gun- Chris Young is averaging 11.0 points per game. The only two Princeton freshmen to average double figures for a full season were Kit Mueller and Sydney Johnson.
Hot and cold - C.J. Chapman has scored 21 points in Princeton's last 10 games, of which 11 came in the first Dartmouth game.
Closing in - Brian Earl has 268 career three-pointers. The Ivy League record is 273, set by Penn's Matt Maloney.
We're honored- Brian Earl was the Ivy League Player of the Week this past week.
More honors - Chris Young was the Ivy League Rookie of the Week this past week. It was the fifth time this year he has won the honor.
Point guard - Brian Earl is averaging 15.1 points per game, the most by a Princeton player since Kit Mueller averaged 16.0 per game his sophomore year (1988-89).

Centers of attention - The freshman stats of recent Tiger centers:

		         ppg    rpg     assists blocks  steals
Kit Mueller (87-88)     12.7    5.9     48      12      29
Rick Hielscher (91-92)  10.3    5.1     68      47      9
Steve Goodrich (94-95)  7.1     3.1     35      22      20
Chris Young (98-99)     11.0    5.0     61      38      22

Swish - Princeton's five starters are shooting exactly 80% from the foul line.
Swish II - Brian Earl, who shot 73.5% from the foul line for his first three years, is shooting 89.1% this year. The Princeton record for a season is 90%, set in 1967-68 by Joe Heiser.
Scoring equality - Princeton defeated Brown 67-45 in both meetings between the schools this year.
Just win, baby - Brian Earl has played in more winning basketball games (90) than any other player in Princeton history.
Young vs. Goodrich, volume 10 - Steve Goodrich scored 15.3% of his career points as a freshman. Should Chris Young increase his scoring at the same rate Goodrich did throughout his career, then Young would finish with 1,941 career points
More Young - Chris Young is on pace to score 297 points this season. Only one Princeton freshman has ever scored more than 300 points in a season (Kit Mueller, 329 in 1987-88).
Block party - Chris Young is in fourth place on Princeton's single-season blocked shots list with 38. He trails Rick Hielscher's freshman year (47), junior year (43) and senior year (39).
New kid on the block - Chris Young needs one blocked shot to move into 12th place on Princeton's career list.
League matters - Brian Earl is averaging 16.1 points per game and shooting 52% from the field in Ivy League games.
Minute men - Brian Earl and Gabe Lewullis have played every minute of all three overtime games.
More minutes - Brian Earl, Gabe Lewullis and Chris Young all played all 50 minutes against Yale.
Even more minutes - Brian Earl has played fewer than 35 minutes three times in 22 games (20 vs. Union, 29 in the first game against Yale, 34 in the second game against Brown).
Still more minutes - Brian Earl has played every minute of a game 29 times in his career.
Cooling off period - Princeton is shooting 28% from three-point range in its last seven games.
Bombs away - Princeton has averaged 5.2 three-pointers made per game in its last seven games, excluding the first Dartmouth game. Princeton made 11 three-pointers in the first Dartmouth game.
Mason-ry - Mason Rocca scored a career-high 25 points in the first game against Dartmouth.
Windex - Princeton is outrebounding its opponents 649-605. Princeton has not outrebounded its opponents for a full season since 1967-68.
Moving up the charts - Brian Earl is in seventh place all-time at Princeton with 1,319 career points. He trails Geoff Petrie by two points for sixth place and Bob Scrabis by 46 points for fifth.
More charts - Gabe Lewullis is in 11th place all-time at Princeton with 1,155 career points, 52 behind Steve Goodrich for 10th and 84 behind Brian Taylor for ninth. At his current averge, he would score 73 more points in the regular season.
Stop, thief - Gabe Lewullis is eighth place all-time at Princeton in steals with 126.

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