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Princeton University Athletics
Princeton Announces Challenging 2001-02 Men's Basketball Schedule
August 29, 2001 | Men's Basketball
Aug. 29, 2001
The Princeton men's basketball team will play 12 home games, including three against teams that made the 2001 NCAA touament, and in tournaments at California and in Washington, D.C. in one of the tougher schedules in recent Tiger history, head coach John Thompson announced today.
Princeton's schedule features two teams in the preseason Top 10 in Maryland and Kansas and could feature five preseason Top 25 teams.
Princeton, which won its eighth Ivy title in the last 13 years in Thompson's first season as head coach a year ago, opens the 2001-02 season at the Black Coaches' Association Classic at California, where it faces the host school on Nov. 15. The other two teams in the tournament are St. Joseph's, a Sweet 16 team a year ago, and Eastern Washington.
Princeton is also in the BB&T Classic at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C., where it will take on 2001 Final Four-participant Maryland and then either Connecticut or George Washington in early December. Princeton has 12 home games, including three against teams from last year's NCAA tournament. The highlight is Dec. 12, when powerhouse Kansas comes to Jadwin Gym in a return game from Princeton's trip to Allen Fieldhouse in the 1999-2000 season. Holy Cross and Monmouth, who also visit Jadwin as seven of Princeton's 13 possible Division I non-league opponents were in last year's NCAA tournament.
The Ivy League season begins Jan. 11 at Harvard. The Tigers face Pennsylvania Feb. 12 at home and March 5 in Philadelphia.
The complete schedule:
November
BCA Classic at Berkeley, Calif.
15 at California TBA, 16 vs. St. Joseph's/Eastern Washington TBA
24 at Florida International TBA
28 RIDER 7:30
December
BB&T Classic at MCI Center, Washington, D.C. 2 vs. Maryland TBA, 3 vs. Connecticut/George Washington TBA
8 MONMOUTH 7:30
12 KANSAS TBA
21 LAFAYETTE 7:30
29 at Rutgers TBA
January
5 HOLY CROSS 7:30
11 at Harvard TBA
12 at Dartmouth TBA
28 DIVISION III OPPONENT 7:30
February
1 COLUMBIA 7:30
2 CORNELL 7:30
8 at Yale 7:00
9 at Brown TBA
12 PENNSYLVANIA TBA
15 DARTMOUTH 7:30
16 HARVARD 7:30
22 YALE 7:30
23 BROWN 7:30
March
1 at Cornell TBA
2 at Columbia TBA
5 at Pennsylvania TBA
5 at Pennsylvania TBA