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Dartmouth
Hot Shooting, Balanced Scoring Leads Men's Hoops Past Dartmouth
February 21, 2003 | Men's Basketball
Feb. 21, 2003
Hanover, N.H. - Ray Robins scored 17 points and Scott Greenman added a career-high 11 points to lead the men's basketball team to a 70-60 win over Dartmouth in front of 1,221 fans at Leede Arena. Princeton shot a season-best 69.4% from the field (25 for 36), including 60% from three-point range (9 for 15).
A pair of streaks helped Princeton stay two games back of Pennsylvania - a winner over Princeton's next opponent, Harvard. The Tigers led 10-9 midway through the first half before scoring 13 unanswered points. Ed Persia scored all eight of his points during that stretch, beginning with a backdoor layup and ending with a three-pointer off an inbounds play. A dunk by Judson Wallace and consecutive three-pointers by Persia and Robins helped Princeton to a 23-9 lead. Dartmouth used six three-pointers in the first half to get within seven points at intermission, and was able to get the deficit to 40-34 before Princeton put the game away with a 13-1 run. Robins opened the run with a three-pointer off a double screen. Wallace followed with a jumper in the paint, and Konrad Wysocki scored on a runner. Following a Dartmouth free throw, Robins hit a layup and a fast-break dunk. Wallace's cutting layup pushed the lead to 53-35.
"Tonight's game scared me coming in," head coach John Thompson said after improving his career record to 43-31. "We wanted to limit their threes. They have some very good shooters. We could have done a better job with that. On the offensive end, I thought we did a very good job of executing."
Wallace ended the game with 14 points, while Will Venable added 13 points. Princeton scored 20 of its 25 baskets on assists, with a game-high seven coming from Kyle Wente. The senior captain continued his solid play in Ivy League games with five steals and four rebounds.
Greenman came off the bench to score 11 points. Following a long three-point attempt, the New Jersey native drained three-pointers from the right corner and the left wing on back-to-back possessions. He ended with 11 points, matching a career-best set earlier against Ursinus, and scored more points than he did in all of his first seven Ivy League games combined (six).
Princeton will travel to Cambridge, Mass., to play Harvard Saturday at 7 p.m. (WBUD 1260 AM, GoPrincetonTigers.com). Princeton defeated the Crimson 67-61 earlier in the season, thanks to a 21-point effort from Venable and a career-best 20-point effort from Wallace.