Tigers Play at Harvard Looking for New England Split

Feb. 5, 2005

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The Princeton men's basketball team has had plenty of good karma at Harvard's Lavietes Pavilion the past several years. The Tigers, coming off a Friday loss for the second time in two weekends of Ivy League play, are hoping those good vibes return on Saturday night when they meet the Crimson at 7 p.m. in Cambridge (WHWH-AM 1350, GoPrincetonTigers.com, WPRB-FM 103.3).

Four Princeton wins at Harvard the past four years have come by a combined 14 points, and last year's nine-point Tiger win came in a game that was tied with less than two minutes left before Scott Greenman's three-point shot ignited a 9-0 Princeton run.

Princeton has won 10 straight games against the Crimson, sweeping the season series each of the last five years. The Tigers have won 27 of their last 28 games against Harvard in the last 14 seasons.

The Tigers (10-7, 1-2 Ivy) led Dartmouth by nine points with 4:30 left Friday night before an 18-1 Big Green run ended the game. Harvard (7-11, 2-3 Ivy) found itself tied with Penn at 35-35 early in the second half Friday night, but the Quakers then scored 11 points in a row and hung on for a 70-57 win.

Princeton hasn't been 1-3 in league play since the 1994-95 season. The Tigers have not lost both games of their trip to Harvard and Dartmouth since the 1983-84 season, when current head coach Joe Scott was a Princeton freshman. That team started 0-2 in league play but came back to win the league with a 10-4 record and advance to the NCAA tournament.

With no Ivy team having played more than five league games, every team but Penn already has at least two losses.

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