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Princeton University Athletics
Vs. Cornell
August 17, 1999 | Men's Basketball
Feb. 26, 1999
Game Notes
The site Jadwin Gym * Princeton, N.J.
The date Friday, Feb. 26, 1999 * 7:37 p.m.
The records Princeton: 18-6 (9-2 Ivy League)
Cornell: 11-13 (6-6 Ivy League)
The coaches Princeton: Bill Carmody (third season, 69-12)
Cornell: Scott Thompson (12th season, 140-190)
The series Princeton leads 120-67
Last meeting Princeton defeated Cornell 56-46 * Jan. 30, 1999
The storyline Princeton needs to rebound from its loss to Harvard
to keep its Ivy title hopes alive
Probable Starters
CORNELL
25 Ray Mercedes 14.1 ppg, 5.4 rpg
So., 6-5, 230, The Bronx, N.Y.
40 Keirian Brown 8.6 ppg, 6.3 rpg
Jr., 6-6, 230, Atlanta, Ga.
42 Jeffrion Aubry 10.9 ppg, 9.0 rpg
Sr., 6-11, 240, East Elmhurst, N.Y.
11 Wallace Prather 12.5 ppg, 3.8 rpg
Fr., 5-9, 185, Decatur, Ga.
21 Kevin Cuttica 7.5 ppg, 3.0 rpg
So., 6-3, 190, Hinsdale, Ill.
PRINCETON
32 Gabe Lewullis 15.3 ppg, 5.3 rpg
Sr., 6-6, 210, Allentown, Pa.
44 Chris Krug 2.3 ppg, 2.5 rpg
Fr., 6-9, 215, Cheltenham, Pa.
55 Chris Young 11.5 ppg, 5.1 rpg
Fr., 6-10, 235, Dallas, Texas
10 Brian Earl 15.0 ppg, 3.2 rpg
Sr., 6-2, 180, Medford Lakes, N.J.
15 Ahmed El-Nokali 2.2 ppg, 1.5 rpg
Fr., 6-4, 175, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Tonight's Note of the Night
- Down the stretch they come - Princeton trails Penn by one game with three to play in the Ivy League race. The teams meet Tuesday night at Jadwin Gym.
- A league of their own - Either Penn or Princeton will win the Ivy
League
title for the 28th time in the last 30 years, unless all of the following
happens (in which case Dartmouth would win): Penn and Princeton get swept
this weekend AND Dartmouth sweeps Yale and Brown AND Princeton beats Penn
Tuesday night AND Dartmouth beats Penn in the first round of a three-way
playoff AND Dartmouth beats Princeton in the second round of the playoff.
- Role reversal - Princeton and Penn are 11/13ths of the way to a
reversal
of
the 1996 Ivy race, when Penn defeated Princeton in the first meeting
between the two but lost to two other league teams. Penn then defeated
Princeton at home in the regular-season finale to force a playoff, which
Princeton won.
- Not to get ahead of ourselves, but ... - Should there be a
Princeton-Penn
playoff to determine the Ivy League representative for the NCAA
tournament,
it would be held at Lehigh's Stabler Arena on Friday night, March 5, at 8
p.m.
- I'm honored - Chris Young has been the Ivy League Rookie of the Week
each
of the last three weeks and six times this year.
- The whammy - The only time Chris Young was not the Ivy League Rookie of the Week for the last seven weeks Princeton played was after the first Cornell-Columbia weekend.
- Almost there - Brian Earl has 270 career three-pointers. The
recognized
Ivy League career record of 273, held by Penn's Matt Maloney, includes 29
three-pointers that Maloney made while a freshman at Vanderbilt.
- One last streak to cling to - Princeton has won 24 straight Ivy League
home
games.
- Crimson tide - Princeton allowed 19 points in the five-minute overtime
against Harvard. Princeton has allowed 19 points or fewer in the first
half
of eight different games this season.
- More Crimson - Princeton allowed 87 points to Harvard, the most it has
allowed in an Ivy League game since Columbia scored 92 in 1968.
- Still more Crimson - Princeton's scoring defense went from 49.9 points
before the game against Harvard to 51.5 after it.
- Turning point - Five of the first 35 Ivy League games of Bill
Carmody's
career were decided by 10 points or fewer. Since the weekend at Columbia
and Cornell, six of the last nine Ivy games have been decided by 10 points
or fewer.
- Working overtime - Bill Carmody is 36-0 in Ivy League games that
haven't
gone overtime.
- Swish - Brian Earl is shooting .896 from the foul line. The Princeton
record for a season is .900, by Joe Heiser in 1967-68, followed by .898 by
Chris Thomforde that same year.
- Block party - Chris Young has 43 blocked shots, four behind Rick
Hielscher's single-season record (set Hielscher's freshman year).
- Lineup card - When Ahmed El-Nokali replaced C.J. Chapman in the
starting
lineup against Dartmouth, it marked the first time this year and second
time in his career that Bill Carmody has changed the lineup.
- Young gun - Chris Young has scored 277 points, third-best by a
Princeton
freshman. Kit Mueller is in first with 329 (1987-88), followed by Rick
Hielscher (288, in 1991-92).
- Career oriented - Mason Rocca had a career-high 13 rebounds against
Harvard.
- Minute men - Brian Earl and Gabe Lewullis have both played every
minute of
each of Princeton's four overtime games this year.
- More minutes - Ahmed El-Nokali played the entire 40 minutes against
Dartmouth in his first career start. He then played the first 44:30 before
fouling out against Harvard.
- Moving up the charts - Brian Earl is in sixth place on Princeton's
career
scoring list with 1,346 points, Gabe Lewullis is in 11th place on
Princeton's career scoring list with 1,201 career points. The top 11:
1. Bill Bradley 2,503 2. Kit Mueller 1,546 3. Pete Campbell 1,451 4. Craig Robinson 1,441 5. Bob Scrabis 1,365 6. BRIAN EARL 1,346 7. Geoff Petrie 1,321 8. Bud Haabestad 1,292 9. Brian Taylor 1,239 10. Steve Goodrich 1,207 11. GABE LEWULLIS 1,201 - Can you spare a dime? - Brian Earl is in seventh place all-time in
assists
at Princeton with 245. He trails current Columbia head coach Armond Hill
by
15 for sixth.
- Clunk - Princeton is shooting 33.3% as a team from three-point range.
Princeton's lowest percentage ever is 34.6%, in 1995-96.
- Sixty something - Princeton is undefeated when its opponent scores
fewer
than 60 points and winless when it opponent scores more than 60. Princeton
is 1-2 when its opponent scores exactly 60.
- First time for everything - Brian Earl needs at least 46 points and 12
assists in the next three games to finish the regular season averaging
better than 15 points per game with at least 100 assists. No player in
Princeton history has ever done so.
- Center of attention - Chris Young is shooting 51% from the field. Only
once
since 1980 has Princeton's starting center not shot at least 50% from the
field (Rick Hielscher, 1991-92).
- More centers - Since the first game of the 1987-88 season, a span of
268
games, Princeton has used five starting centers: Kit Mueller, Rick
Hielscher, Jesse Rosenfeld, Steve Goodrich, Chris Young.
- The 200 club - In the loss to Harvard Gabe Lewullis joined Brian Earl
and
Sean Jackson as the only players in school history with at least 200
career
three-pointers.
- Just win, baby - Brian Earl has played in more winning basketball
games
than any other player in Princeton history (91).
- More winning - Princeton needs two wins for its fourth-straight
20-win season. Princeton has never had four consecutive 20-win seasons.
- Mason-ry - Mason Rocca is shooting 53% from the field for the year
after
shooting 41% for his first two years.
- More Mason - Mason Rocca leads Princeton in offensive rebounds and
free
throw attempts despite being fourth in minutes played.
- Another whammy - Princeton has not lost consecutive Ivy League games
since
losing to Brown and Penn in 1995 and has not lost consecutive Ivy League
games when neither of the teams was Penn since losing to Cornell and
Columbia in 1993.
- Ah, Ahmed - Ahmed El-Nokali is 14 for 17 on two-point shots.
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