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Princeton University Athletics
Devil Of A Time
November 10, 2000 | Men's Basketball
Nov. 10, 2000
Princeton at Duke
The site * Cameron Indoor Stadium * Durham, N.C.
The date * Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2000 *?9:00 p.m.
Radio/TV * Princeton radio network (WHWH AM 1350, WHTG AM 1410, www.goprincetontigers.com)/ESPN
The records * Princeton: 0-0, Duke: 0-0
The coaches * Princeton: John Thompson (first season, 0-0), Duke: Mike Krzyzewski (26th season, 571-219)
The series * Duke leads 13-1
Last meeting * Princeton defeated Duke 72-55, Dec. 12, 1981
Probable Princeton Starters (1999-2000 stats) 23 Mike Bechtold 4.9 ppg, 2.6 rpg
Jr., 6-6, 190, Lebanon, Pa.
21 Eugene Baah 3.4 ppg, 1.7 rpg
Jr., 6-5, 195, New York, N.Y.
35 Terence Rozier-Byrd Sr., 6-7, 215, Lakewood, N.J.
10 Ed Persia n/a ppg, n/a rpg
Fr., 6-1, 180, Beaumont, Texas
22 C.J. Chapman 7.8 ppg, 2.3 rpg Sr., 6-1, 170, Aurora, Colo.
Tonight's Note of the Night
Where'd everybody go? -- Since Aug. 31, 2000, Princeton basketball has lost its head coach and six of its top returning players. An alphabetical rundown: name where now? note Bill Carmody Northwestern 92-25 in four years at Princeton Ahmed El-Nokali injured one turnover every 23.4 minutes last year Spencer Gloger UCLA Princeton freshman record 65 three's last year Chris Krug ill started exhibition game at center Ray Robins taking year off averaged 10.5 points as starter last year Nate Walton injured team leader in assists last year (113) Chris Young Pittsburgh Pirates honorable mention All-America center
Five More Notes No Media Person Should Be Without
Bench mark -- Princeton's coaching staff of 1999-2000 featured three men who are now Division I head coaches. Former Tiger head coach Bill Carmody is now head coach at Northwestern, former Tiger assistant coach Joe Scott is now head coach at Air Force and former Tiger assistant John Thompson is now head coach at Princeton.
What might have been -- Princeton started one freshman (Spencer Gloger), three sophomores (Ray Robins, Chris Young, Ahmed El-Nokali) and one junior (C.J. Chapman) in its last game of last year (NIT loss at Penn State). Of those five, only Chapman will play against Duke.
Ouch -- Ahmed El-Nokali, one of only two Princeton players not to miss any practices due to injury a year ago, is out for a month after undergoing surgery to repair a tendon in his groin. El-Nokali, the Tiger point guard, led Princeton in minutes played last year.
More ouch -- Princeton senior captain Nate Walton suffered an ankle sprain in practice last Tuesday (Nov. 7) and is not expected to play against Duke. Walton's injury is to the same ankle that required surgery two years ago.
Still more ouch -- Chris Krug, who started 27 games two years ago and the exhibition game this year after taking last year off from school, will miss the Duke game due to illness.
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Small world -- John Thompson makes his debut as Princeton head coach against Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski. Bill Carmody, Thompson's predecessor at Princeton, made his Tiger head coaching debut against Bobby Knight at Indiana in 1996. Pete Carril, Carmody's predecessor at Princeton, made his Tiger head coaching debut in 1967 against an Army team coached by Knight and featuring Krzyzewski as a player.
Point, counterpoint -- Duke scored at least 100 points in a game seven times a year ago. Princeton has allowed at least 100 points in a game three times in its 100-year history, and no team has reached 100 against Princeton since North Carolina (103) in 1968.
More counterpoint -- Duke scored at least 90 points 16 times in 34 games last year. Princeton has reached 90 points 16 times in its last 790 games.
Still more counterpoint -- Princeton returns 43% of its scoring from a year ago. Had everyone eligible to return come back, Princeton would have returned 93% of its scoring.
Last counterpoint -- Princeton's five probable starters have a combined career total of 681 points. Duke's five probable starters have a combined career total of 3,050 points.
Starting over -- Of the 14 players on Princeton's roster, 10 have fewer than 100 career points, eight have fewer than 25 career points and seven have fewer than 10 career points.
More starting over -- Princeton's five starters in the 1997-98 season opener entered that game with 278 career starts, Princeton went on to a 27-2 record and Top 10 national ranking. Princeton's five starters against Duke have combined for 57 career starts.
Still more starting over -- Princeton's five starters against Duke have combined for 57 career starts, C.J. Chapman has 41 of those.
Senior citizen -- Senior Terence Rozier-Byrd will be making his first career start in the game against Duke. Rozier-Byrd will be the first Princeton player to make his first career start in the first game of his senior year since Chris Pavlic in 1992.
Conference call -- Princeton is 4-2 against teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference in the last three years, having defeated North Carolina State twice and Wake Forest and Florida State once each while losing twice to North Carolina.
In case you didn't realize -- Chris Young, an honorable mention All-America last year, started every game the last two years. He was on pace to finish his career second in scoring at Princeton behind Bill Bradley, as well as first in blocked shots, second in assists and fourth in rebounds. Young, also an All-America in baseball as a pitcher (he led Division I with a 1.05 ERA last spring), was a third round pick of the Pirates. After negotiating most of the summer, he signed his contract Aug. 31, making him ineligible for any other sport by Ivy League rules.
Not to dwell on it or anything -- Every returning Princeton player combined has 1,202 career points. Chris Young, Spencer Gloger and Ray Robins (the three Princeton starters eligible to return who did not) had 1,310 career points between them.
D-plus -- Princeton has led the nation in scoring defense each of the last 12 years.
A league of their own -- Princeton has won seven Ivy League championships in the last 12 years.
More league -- Either Princeton or Penn has won the Ivy League championship each of the last 12 years, as well as 30 of the last 32 and 35 of the last 38 years.
NIT-picking -- Princeton is making its third appearance in the Preseason NIT. The Tigers previously defeated Monmouth and lost to Texas in the 1991 event and lost at Indiana in 1996.
More NIT -- Princeton has played in each of the last two postseason NITs, advancing to the quarterfinals in 1999 and losing in the first round a year ago.
Bombs away -- Princeton attempted 38 three-point shots in its lone exhibition game, a 65-61 loss to the California All-Stars. The Princeton record for three-pointers in a game is 39, set in 1995 at Fresno State. The Princeton record for three-pointers averaged per game in a season is 23.5 (1997-98).
Welcome back -- Chris Krug, who started 27 games as a freshman two years ago and took last year off from school, returns to the Princeton lineup this year.
Fresh face -- Freshman Ed Persia will start at guard for Princeton. It marks the third straight year and ninth time in the last 11 years that Princeton has had a freshman start the first game of his career.
Windex -- Every returning Princeton player combined had 76 offensive rebounds a year ago. Duke's Carlos Boozer had 81 by himself.
Moving up the charts -- C.J. Chapman is currently 11th all-time at Princeton in three-pointers made in a career. Chapman needs four to tie Mitch Henderson for 10th and seven to tie Dave Orlandini and Chris Doyal for eighth.
Senior citizen -- When Nate Walton returns from his ankle injury, he will become the first Princeton player ever to appear in five different seasons. Walton played five games of the 1998-99 season before having surgery on his foot. He elected to withdraw from school for the year, and he returned last year as a junior.
History lesson -- Princeton and Duke played in the first game in Cameron Indoor Stadium history, a 36-27 Duke win on Jan. 6, 1940.
The whammy -- Princeton has never won at Duke (0-6).
Sold on Bechtold -- Mike Bechtold has had both of his first two seasons at Princeton end with stress fractures in his right foot.
A march to madness -- Princeton has been to the postseason each of the last five years, the longest such streak in school history.
Young gun -- Princeton freshman Ed Persia made 310 three-pointers in high school.
No place like home -- Two of Princeton's freshmen are from North Carolina: Konrad Wysocki (Greensboro) and Heath Jones (Burgaw).
Nothing's free -- Princeton's returning players combined to shoot 63.4% from the foul line last year.
Deck the Hall -- Princeton coach John Thompson's father (longtime Georgetown coach John Thompson) and college coach (Pete Carril) are both in the Hall of Fame.