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Tigers Drop 58-34 Decision to Stanford at Pete Newell Challenge
December 21, 2005 | Men's Basketball
Dec. 21, 2005
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OAKLAND, Calif. - Matt Haryasz and Chris Hernandez scored 18 of their combined 21 points in the first half, helping Stanford begin the game with a 19-3 run, as the Cardinal defeated Princeton by a 58-34 score in the first game of the 2005 Pete Newell Challenge at the Arena in Oakland Wednesday night.
Hernandez and Haryasz scored all 12 Stanford points in a 12-1 run after Princeton (2-7) scored its first basket, giving the Cardinal (4-4) a 19-3 lead 8:15 into the game. Stanford then scored eight consecutive points after Kyle Koncz hit a three-pointer on Princeton's next possession, with Mitch Johnson's jumper putting the Cardinal ahead 27-6 with 8:35 left in the half.
Princeton, which lost its third straight game, trailed by as many as 34 points in the second half before scoring the game's final eight points.
"They played like a confident team and it showed," Princeton head coach Joe Scott said of Stanford. "They obviously played well right from the beginning and made a lot of shots right away."
"Things kind of snowballed on us tonight, obviously," Scott said. "We did a much better job offensively in the second half, but didn't do any of those things in the first half."
The Cardinal came out in a zone defense that limited Princeton's effectiveness, holding the Tigers to just 28% shooting in the first half. The Tigers' leading scorer, Noah Savage, played only five first-half minutes due to foul trouble and finished with eight points, all in the second half, while sophomore Kyle Koncz led the Tigers with nine points.
Princeton shot just 33% for the game (13 for 40) and 7 for 21 from three-point range. Dan Grunfeld added 11 points for Stanford, which won its second straight game after a three-game losing streak. The Cardinal made 12 of 21 first-half shots on the way to a 35-14 halftime lead and made 6 of 10 three-point shots for the game.
Stanford outrebounded the Tigers 33-16 and forced 18 Tiger turnovers. The teams were meeting for the first time since the 1971-72 season.
"I thought we did a good job attacking their zone," said Stanford head coach Trent Johnson. "The shots went down for us and didn't go down for them."
NOTES: * Former Princeton head coach Pete Carril was honored with the "Pete Newell Lifetime Achievement Award" at halftime. Carril, a 1998 Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, made a brief speech before the crowd after receiving the award. He coached at Princeton for 29 seasons and won 514 games.
* Princeton has started the season 2-7 since the 1979-80 season, when the Tigers won just twice in their first 13 games before winning 11 of 14 Ivy League games to tie for the league title. Princeton fell to Penn in an epic league playoff game that season, 50-49.