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Tigers Begin Season-Ending Homestand With Brown Friday Night
February 28, 2007 | Men's Basketball
A string of three games in five days at Jadwin Gym to end the 2006-07 season begins Friday night for Princeton when the Tigers host Brown at 7:35 p.m. (WBUD-AM 1260, GoPrincetonTigers.com, live streaming video at the TigerZone).
The game features former Princeton captains on the respective benches as Princeton alum and two-time Ivy League Player of the Year Craig Robinson '83 brings his Bears (10-17, 5-7 Ivy) to Jadwin Gym for the first time during his coaching tenure.
The Tigers (11-14, 2-9 Ivy) have defeated Brown 54 times in the 56 games they've played against the Bears on the Princeton campus. Brown defeated the Tigers 63-48 at the Pizzitola Center in Providence Feb. 3.
Princeton will host Yale Saturday night (7:30 p.m., Patriot 8) and then Penn Tuesday night (7 p.m., ESPNU) to conclude the season. The Tigers have won 10 of their last 13 home games dating back to last February.
FACT OF THE DAY
On Familiar Turf Princeton plays its final three games of 2006-07 at home beginning Friday night against Brown. The Tigers have won 10 of their last 13 games at home dating back to February of last season.
EIGHT MORE THINGS YOU MIGHT WANT TO KNOW
The Bear Facts Princeton has won 54 of the 56 games it has played against Brown on the Princeton campus (36-2 at Jadwin Gym).
Welcome Back First-year Brown head coach Craig Robinson was a two-time (1982, 1983) Ivy League Player of the Year at Princeton and ranks fourth all-time on Princeton's scoring list (1,441 points).
Just Missed Tiger head coach Joe Scott was a freshman at Princeton in the fall of 1983, three months after Brown coach Craig Robinson graduated from Princeton.
Tigers and Ivy Princeton alums Armond Hill '85 and John Thompson III '88 coached against each other six times from 2000-2003 while Hill was the head coach at Columbia.
Balancing Act Eight players (Strittmatter, Conway, Owings, Gunn, Finley, Savage, Koncz, Schroeder) have led Princeton in scoring in at least one game this season.
On The Defensive In six of its last seven games, Princeton has held its opponent without a field goal for a stretch of at least seven minutes, including an 18-minute stretch at Harvard Saturday.
A Step Beyond Princeton is shooting 38% from three-point range in its 11 victories this season and 31% from three-point range in its 14 defeats this season.
Numbers Game The Tigers are 10-2 this season when they have a better field goal percentage than their opponent and 1-12 when their opponent has a better field goal percentage.
BACK TO THE IVY LEAGUE...
Injury Report Kyle Koncz has a stress reaction in his left foot and has not practiced since early January. Koncz has played in the last five games after missing the Dartmouth game Feb. 10.
Injury Report 2 Kyle Koncz was averaging 11.5 points per game and shooting 50% from three-point range prior to his injury. Koncz is averaging 6.5 points and shooting 32% from the arc since the injury.
Outside the Lines Princeton has taken 539 three-point shots (21.6 per game) and 508 two-point shots (20.3 per game) this season.
Three In A Row Luke Owings now has 108 three-point shots, 12th all-time at Princeton. Noah Savage has 103 career three-point shots, 13th all-time at Princeton. Kyle Koncz has 101 three-point shots, good for 14th all-time at Princeton.
Minute Man Freshman guard Marcus Schroeder leads NCAA Division I in minutes played per game (38.8). Schroeder has played 969 of a possible 1000 minutes this season.
Tight Ones Princeton is 3-1 in games decided by three points or less in 2006-07.
MORE NOTES & ANECDOTES
In Charge Princeton Director of Athletics Gary Walters is the chairperson of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee this season. 2006-07 is Walters' fifth and final year on the committee.
Wait 'Til Next Year! Princeton will play in the Maui Invitational in November 2007 along with Duke, Illinois, Oklahoma State, Arizona State, LSU, Marquette and host Chaminade.
574 & Counting Princeton is one of only three Division I teams (Vanderbilt and UNLV are the others) to have made at least one three-point shot in every one of its games since the rule took effect for the 1986-87 season. The Tigers have now made at least one three-pointer in 574 straight games.
The 60's Princeton has won 36 of its last 38 games (2003-04 to present) in which it has scored 60 or more points in regulation time.
Us Or Them Either Princeton (nine times) or Penn (nine times) has been the Ivy League's NCAA tournament representative in each of the last 18 seasons (1989-2006).
Us Or Them 2 Princeton has won 25 Ivy League titles; Penn has won 24 Ivy championships. The other six Ivy League schools have combined to win 10 league crowns.
Shining Moments Princeton has made 23 NCAA tournament appearances. Only 21 Division I schools had made more appearances than the Tigers entering 2006-07.
Accepting Charity Princeton finished fourth in the nation last season in free-throw percentage as a team, connecting on 77.3% of its free-throw attempts (266 of 344). Saint Joseph's, New Hampshire and Gonzaga finished ahead of the Tigers.
Coach Speak Joe Scott is in his third season as Princeton's head coach and his 11th season overall as a coach for the Tigers. He was an assistant for eight seasons at Princeton from 1992-2000.
More Coach Speak Joe Scott played point guard for the Tigers from 1983-87 and still ranks tied for fifth all-time at Princeton with 144 steals.
Even More Coach Speak Joe Scott was named the Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year in 2004 (at Air Force) and finished fourth in the balloting for Associated Press National Coach of the Year.
Final Coach Speak Assistant coaches Mike Brennan and Howard Levy also played basketball at Princeton for former coach Pete Carril, who was also Scott's head coach.
Branching Out Five Princeton graduates or former Princeton assistant coaches are currently Division I head coaches. (Bill Carmody, Northwestern; Chris Mooney, Richmond; Craig Robinson, Brown; Joe Scott, Princeton; John Thompson, Georgetown).
PLAYER NOTES & ANECDOTES
Captain, My Captain Senior Justin Conway is Princeton's team captain in 2006-07. Conway is a former walk-on to the program who had played one career minute prior to Jan. 29 of last season.
Numbers Game Justin Conway has averaged 6.9 points, 4.1 rebounds and 2.5 assists in 34 games as a starter beginning last January.
More Honors Justin Conway earned honorable mention All-Ivy honors in 2005-06 despite not playing in Princeton's first two Ivy League games.
Bombs Away Kyle Koncz has made at least three three-point shots in 19 of his last 44 games.
Buckets & Buckets Kyle Koncz needs one three-pointer to become the 15th player in Princeton history to make at least 100 three-point shots.
More Bombs Away 251 of Kyle Koncz's 304 field-goal attempts (83%) the last two seasons have come from three-point range.
Experience Luke Owings has now played in 102 career games entering today's game, 23 more than any other Princeton player (Noah Savage with 79).
Conference Call Luke Owings earned honorable-mention All-Ivy honors as a junior. He averaged almost 11 points and five rebounds in conference play.
Politics Major Luke Owings is the Vice President of Princeton's Varsity Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (VSAAC).
Point Man Noah Savage is Princeton's leading returning scorer from a year ago. He averaged exactly 10 points per game as a sophomore.
Iron Man Marcus Schroeder has played every minute in 17 of Princeton's 25 games. He played all 80 minutes in last weekend's games at Dartmouth and Harvard.
Helping Out Marcus Schroeder's seven assists against VMI Nov. 11 were the most by a Princeton player since Will Venable had seven assists against Harvard in March 2005.
Gunn-Er Lincoln Gunn has made five three-pointers twice this season, against Harvard Feb. 9 and at South Carolina Dec. 20.
Handling It Lincoln Gunn and Marcus Schroeder have combined for 117 assists and 84 turnovers this season.
Old School Marcus Schroeder and Lincoln Gunn have known each other and played basketball
together since elementary school.
Stritt Talk 6-8 Michael Strittmatter has made 22 of his 49 three-point attempts in Princeton's first 25 games this season.
Mr. Reliable Edwin Buffmire had played in every game off the bench this season before a sprained ankle kept him out of four straight games between Feb. 9-16.
History Lesson Kevin Steuerer's father Mickey was a team captain for the 1975 Princeton team that won the NIT, the only Ivy League team to have won a postseason national tournament.