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Princeton University Athletics
Vs. Harvard
August 17, 1999 | Men's Basketball
Feb. 5, 1999
The site Jadwin Gym * Princeton, N.J.
The date Friday, Feb. 5, 1999 * 7:37 p.m.
The records Princeton: 13-4 (4-0 Ivy League)
Harvard: 9-9 (3-3 Ivy League)
The coaches Princeton: Bill Carmody (third season, 64-10)
Harvard: Frank Sullivan (15th season, 195-205)
The series Princeton 103-34
Last year Princeton defeated Harvard 76-48 * Feb. 7, 1998
Princeton defeated Harvard 77-55 * Feb. 20, 1998
The storyline Princeton enters the biggest five days of the season
Probable Starters
HARVARD
40 Dan Clemente 12.6 ppg, 4.4 rpg
So., 6-7, 220, Albany, N.Y.
25 Damian Long 4.9 ppg, 2.3 rpg
Jr., 6-2, 185, Spokane, Wash.
43 Paul Fisher 10.7 ppg, 7.3 rpg
Sr., 6-8, 225, Des Moines, Iowa
15 Tim Hill 16.2 ppg, 2.6rpg
Sr., 5-11, 165, Ijamsville, Md.
22 Mike Beam 11.9 ppg, 3.4 rpg
Sr., 6-2, 195, Indianapolis, Ind.
PRINCETON
32 Gabe Lewullis 14.8 ppg, 5.2 rpg
Sr., 6-6, 210, Allentown, Pa.
44 Chris Krug 2.5 ppg, 2.6 rpg
Fr., 6-9, 215, Cheltenham, Pa.
55 Chris Young 10.4 ppg, 5.2 rpg
Fr., 6-10, 235, Dallas, Texas
10 Brian Earl 14.4 ppg, 2.4 rpg
Sr., 6-2, 180, Medford Lakes, N.J.
22 C.J. Chapman 5.1 ppg, 1.9 rpg
So., 6-0, 175, Aurora, Colo.
Tonight's Note of the Night
- Ivy items - There are 12 teams in Division I undefeated in their leagues. Three of them are in the Ivy League (Princeton, Penn, Dartmouth), no other league has more than one.
- More Ivy - Princeton has won 32 straight Ivy League games.
- Sizzling - Princeton has won eight straight games. Dartmouth has won
six
straight, Penn has won nine straight.
- The Fab Four - Princeton scored 102 points in two games last weekend,
four
players (Chris Young, Brian Earl, Gabe Lewullis, Mason Rocca) combined for
99 of them.
- Ready when the bell rings - Princeton's last eight opponents have
averaged
18.5 points in the first half.
- Just win, baby - Bill Carmody's .865 (64-10) winning percentage is the fourth-best by a Division I head coach for his first three years and best since Buck Freeman at St. John's from 1928-30.
- More winning - Brian Earl has played in 86 winning basketball games at
Princeton. The record by one player is 89, set last year by Steve
Goodrich.
- The whammy - Princeton has defeated Harvard 16 straight times.
- Clunk - Princeton shot 1 for 16 from three-point range against
Columbia
for
its lowest shooting percentage ever on three-pointers (6.3%).
- Un-clunk - Princeton went 5 for 11 from three-point range in the
second
half against Cornell after shooting 4 for 26 against Columbia and in the
first half against Cornell.
- Ah, Ahmed - Ahmed El-Nokali played 35 minutes last weekend without
attempting a shot.
- Windex - Princeton has three players (Chris Young, Mason Rocca, Gabe
Lewullis) averaging at least five rebounds per game. The last time
Princeton had three players average at least five rebounds per game was
1977-78 (Frank Sowinski, Bob Roma, Bill Omeltchenko).
- More windex - Princeton is outrebounding its opponents by more than
three
rebounds per game. No Princeton team has outrebounded its opponents for a
full season since 1967-68.
- Closing in - Brian Earl has 256 career three-pointers, good for second
place in Ivy League history. Matt Maloney (Penn '95) is in first with 273,
17 ahead of Earl.
- Centers of attention - Chris Young is shooting 52.6% from the field.
Princeton's starting center has shot at least 50% from the field every
year
but one since 1980.
- More centers - Chris Young has started every game this season. The
last
three freshmen to start at center for Princeton combined for eight
first-team All-Ivy selections, three Ivy Player of the Year awards and one
Ivy Rookie of the Year award.
- Minute men - Gabe Lewullis has played every minute of all seven
Princeton
games that have been decided by 10 points or fewer, including two overtime
games. Brian Earl has played 287 of the 290 minutes in those seven games.
- Minute men II - Chris Young had his first 40-minute game in
Princeton's
win
over Columbia.
- More minutes - Brian Earl has played every minute of a game 25 times
in
his
career.
- Aw, shoot - Ahmed El-Nokali averages one shot every 11 minutes, Chris
Krug
averages one shot every 8.1 minutes. Gabe Lewullis, Brian Earl and Chris
Young all average one shot every 3.5 minutes.
- Young vs. Goodrich, volume 7 - Chris Young has 177 points, 88
rebounds, 44
assists and 29 blocked shots with at least 10 games to go in his freshman
season. Steve Goodrich had 185 points, 80 rebounds, 35 assists and 21
blocked shots for his entire freshman year.
- Depth chart - Princeton used seven players in the two games last
weekend
(five starters, plus Ahmed El-Nokali and Mason Rocca).
- D plus - Princeton leads the nation in scoring defense at 49.1 points
per
game. Princeton has led the nation in scoring defense 10 straight times
and
16 times in the last 23 years.
- More D - Princeton's first four Ivy League opponents have averaged
40.0
points per game.
- Still more D - Princeton is allowing 49.1 points per game. Princeton
has
allowed fewer than 50 points per game for a full season twice in the last
23 years (1991, 1992).
- History lesson - Princeton needs one win in its remaining 10 games to
ensure it will not have a losing record for the season. Princeton has had
just one losing season since 1956 (1984-85).
- More history - Princeton has never had a losing record in the Ivy
League.
- Swat man - Chris Young has 29 of Princeton's 53 blocked shots.
- Young gun - Chris Young has been the Ivy League Rookie of the Week
three
times.
- Surgical strike - Nate Walton, who played the first five games of the
season, will miss the rest of the year after undergoing foot surgery in
December. He is currently recuperating in California and will return to
school as a first-semester junior this fall.
- Mason-ry - Mason Rocca has averaged 10 points and 7.3 rebounds the
last
four games after averaging 5.1 points and 4.3 rebounds the first 13 games
this season.
- More Mason-ry - Mason Rocca is shooting 62.5% from the field (2 0 for
32)
for the last eight games after shooting 48.1% for the first nine games of
the season.
- Still more Mason - Mason Rocca leads Princeton in offensive rebounds
and
free throw attempts despite being fifth on the team in minutes played.
- The shut out - Princeton has had a starter not score 11 times in 17
games.
- No me in team, sort of - Gabe Lewullis and Brian Earl have averaged a
combined 25 points per game during the current eight-game winning streak
after averaging a combined 32.8 points per game in the first nine games of
the year, when Princeton was 5-4.
- Three for all - Princeton has attempted 312 three-pointers and 278
two-pointers in non-Ivy League games and 86 three-pointers and 104
two-pointers in Ivy League games.
- Coming attractions - Princeton is at Penn Tuesday night.
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