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Huffman Leads Brown to 64-55 Win over Princeton in Men's Basketball
March 02, 2007 | Men's Basketball
Damon Huffman's long three-point shot from the left wing with 1:13 left, his fifth three-pointer of the game, lifted the Brown men's basketball team to a 64-55 win over Princeton before 2,351 at Jadwin Gym Friday night.
Huffman, who scored a game-high 21 points and added three assists, thwarted a Princeton comeback that saw the Tigers (11-15, 2-10 Ivy) cut a nine-point second-half deficit to as little as two points with under four minutes left.
Trailing 56-53 with 2:50 on the clock, Marcus Schroeder went to the foul line for Princeton and missed two free throws. The Tigers then trailed 58-55 with 1:41 left and had the ball, but Zach Finley was called for traveling on the baseline to give the ball back to the Bears.
Huffman then drained his final three-point shot of the game near the end of the shot clock for the Bears, and Brown would made three of four free throws in the final 37 seconds left to pull away.
"Our three-point defense has been terrific and tonight it was not," said Princeton head coach Joe Scott. "Huffman and McAndrew have made those shots all year and we did not do a good enough job of making it hard for them. We had our chances late in the game after making a nice comeback, but free throws have been a thing that's hurt us over the last few weeks."
Brown made eight of its 15 three-point attempts, including a 5-for-8 performance from Huffman and a 3-for-6 night from behind the arc from Mark McAndrew, who had 16 points.
Princeton made seven three-pointer of its own, including four from Luke Owings, and that shooting helped the Tigers recover from a 46-37 deficit with 12 minutes left. Owings hit a three from the left wing to make it 46-40 with 11:55 left, and another trifecta from a similar spot a minute later made it 46-43. The Tigers would then use some aggressive play from Noah Savage, who made all six of his free throws, to pull within 58-55 in the final three minutes before Huffman's shot.
Owings led Princeton with 16 points, shooting 6-for-8 from the field and 4-for-5 from three-point range in 22 minutes. Schroeder had eight of his career-high 13 points in the second half, shooting 5 for 9 from the field.
The Tigers, who trailed 28-25 at halftime, shot 58% in the second half from the field (11 for 19), but Brown made 10 of its 16 second-half shots, including six of its nine attempts from three-point range in the final 20 minutes.
The game marked the first appearance as a head coach at Jadwin Gym for Brown coach Craig Robinson, the two-time Ivy League Player of the Year for Princeton before graduating in 1983.
Princeton got off to a hot start from the field early and took as much as a six-point lead at 14-8 when Justin Conway scored in the lane seven minutes into the game. Brown would recover, however, taking its first lead of the game at 22-21 with 4:16 left in the half on a Huffman three-pointer and pulling ahead by three at halftime after two Huffman free throws in the final seconds.
The Tigers outrebounded Brown 25-19, including 9-3 on the offensive glass, but the Bears made 20 of their 25 free-throw attempts compared to just eight of 13 for Princeton.
NOTES
* Penn clinched the outright Ivy title and the league's automatic NCAA tournament berth with an 86-68 win over Yale in Philadelphia Friday night. Yale visits Jadwin Gym Saturday night at 7:35 p.m. (Patriot 8).
* Owings now has a combined 31 points and 10 rebounds in his last two Friday night games. He had 15 points and seven rebounds in 18 minutes at Dartmouth last Friday.
* Seven Princeton players had at least one offensive rebound. Junior Kevin Steuerer had two offensive boards.