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Senior Night For Men's Basketball Brings Archrival Penn To Jadwin Gym
March 10, 2008 | Men's Basketball
The 218th meeting between the men's basketball teams from Princeton and
Penn will conclude the NCAA college basketball regular season. Tuesday
night's 7 p.m. game at Jadwin Gym, also Senior Night for five members of the Class of 2008, will be televised live by ESPNU.
The five seniors?co-captains Kyle Koncz and Noah Savage as well as Kevin Steuerer, Matt Sargeant and Zach Woolridge, will be recognized in a pregame ceremony.
Co-captains Koncz and Savage are both three-year starters. Savage will play in his 111th career game Tuesday, among the most in team history, while Koncz has now started 63 games in the last three seasons.
The Tiger co-captains each have 155 career three-pointers, tied with Bob Scrabis '89 for fifth place all-time at Princeton.
Senior Kevin Steuerer has been a starter at some point in each of the last three seasons for Princeton. He has started the last 16 games this season and is averaging better than five points per game in that time.
Zach Woolridge earned his first career start just this past Friday, against Columbia, and responded with 15 first-half points to help Princeton to a victory. Woolridge, who entered the Columbia game with five career points in 11 appearances, also started against Cornell the next night.
Matt Sargeant, who has dealt with injury throughout his Princeton career, started nine games as a freshman.
TODAY'S TIP-IN...
Last Call Princeton and Penn play the last regular-season game in NCAA college basketball tonight. Princeton has now hosted this game in each of the last four seasons after it alternated between Jadwin Gym and The Palestra for the previous 12 years.
LAYUPS...
Senior Night Five Princeton seniors will play their final game tonight. Kyle Koncz, Noah Savage and Kevin Steuerer have started 63, 87 and 27 games respectively during their careers.
Three's Company Kyle Koncz has made three or more three-point shots 19 times in 53 games the last two seasons for Princeton.
Experience Counts Noah Savage will play in his 111th career game tonight. Savage started every games his first two seasons and has started every game as a senior.
Up The Charts Kyle Koncz and Noah Savage enter tonight's game tied for fifth place all-time (with Bob Scrabis ?89) at Princeton with 155 career three-point shots.
Family Affair Kevin Steuerer has started the last 16 games for Princeton at guard. Steuerer's father, Mickey, was an All-East pick that led the Tigers to the 1975 NIT Championship.
What A Night Zach Woolridge scored 15 points in the first half in his first career start Friday against Columbia. Woolridge entered the game with five career points.
For Starters... Matt Sargeant started nine games as a freshman for Princeton.
FROM WAY DOWNTOWN...
605 & 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 605 straight games.
Deep Thoughts Princeton made 10 three-pointers against Cornell Saturday, the ninth time in 28 games the Tigers have made at least nine “threes” in a game this year.
More Deep Thoughts Three of Princeton's four coaches also rank in the top 10 all-time at Princeton in career three-point shots (Earl, 1st; Johnson, 4th; Greenman, 10th).
Rivalry Renewed Tonight's game is the 218th in the series between Princeton and Penn. The Tigers have played only Columbia (219 times) more often in program history.
Us Or Them Either Princeton or Penn or both teams earned at least a share of the Ivy League championship 19 consecutive seasons before this one (1989-2007).
Us Or Them 2 Either Princeton or Penn or both teams have earned at least a share of the Ivy League championship in 46 of the 53 official seasons of Ivy League competition.
THE MID-RANGE GAME...
Remembering VBK The Tigers are wearing a “VBK” patch on their uniforms in 2007-08 in honor of former coach Butch van Breda Kolff, who passed away last August. van Breda Kolff led the Tigers to the 1965 Final Four and had a 103-31 record in five seasons at Princeton.
Aloha & Mahalo Princeton was the first Ivy League team to play in the Maui Invitational. The Tigers played Duke, Arizona State and host Chaminade at that tournament Nov. 19-21.
Hoya Saxa Princeton head coach Sydney Johnson was an assistant coach at Georgetown in 2007, when the Hoyas went to the Final Four.
The Company You Keep Princeton entered the 2007-08 season ranked 17th all-time in NCAA Division I with 1,533 victories.
Shining Moments Princeton has made 23 NCAA tournament appearances. Only 22 Division I schools had made more appearances than the Tigers entering 2007-08.
History Lesson Cornell will represent the Ivy League in the NCAA tournament in 2008. Either Princeton (nine times) or Penn (10 times) had represented the Ivy League in the NCAA tournament 19 consecutive seasons (1989-2007).
Us Or Them 3 Princeton has won 25 Ivy League titles; Penn has won 25 Ivy championships. The other six Ivy League schools have now combined to win 11 league crowns.
Branching Out Six Princeton graduates or former Princeton assistant coaches are currently Division I head coaches. (Bill Carmody, Northwestern; Craig Robinson '83, Brown; Joe Scott '87, Denver; John Thompson '88, Georgetown; Chris Mooney '94, Richmond; Sydney Johnson '97, Princeton).
The Worldwide Leader Princeton appeared on national television on ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNU six times this season.
Princeton In The Pros Two recent Princeton graduates play in Italy's top division. Mason Rocca '00 plays for Napoli and also played for the Italian national team in the 2006 FIBA World Championships, while Judson Wallace '05 plays for Capo D'Orlando after two seasons playing in Germany.
More Princeton in the Pros Former Tiger basketball star Chris Young '02 played in the Major League Baseball All-Star game in 2007. The San Diego Padres' starting pitcher led the National League in earned run average for much of the 2007 season.
Even More Princeton in the Pros Head coach Sydney Johnson played seven seasons of professional basketball in Italy and Spain after graduating from Princeton. His teams won three league championships in those seven seasons.
PLAYER NOTES & ANECDOTES
Bombs Away Kyle Koncz has made 155 three-point shots in 86 career games.
Filling It Up Kyle Koncz scored a career-high 24 points against Harvard Feb. 2 at Jadwin Gym. He scored 21 of those points in the first half.
Toughing It Out Kyle Koncz missed the Dartmouth game Feb. 23 due to a hip injury but returned to the starting lineup Feb. 29 at Brown.
For Starters... Noah Savage has started 87 career games, most of any player on the current Princeton roster.
It's About Experience Noah Savage played in his 100th career game Feb. 8 at Cornell.
Playing The Percentages Noah Savage is a 38% career shooter from three-point range and a 77% career shooter from the free-throw line.
Leader Of The Pack Zach Finley led Princeton in scoring during the non-conference season. Finley averaged 11.1 points per game in those 15 games.
Filling It Up Zach Finley is shooting 57% from the field (39 for 69) in Ivy League games. He would rank second in the Ivy League in that category with five more made field goals.
Swatting Them Zach Finley's seven blocks against Chaminade were the most by a Princeton player since Chris Young had seven against Xavier on Dec. 27, 1999.
Helping Out Lincoln Gunn has three or more assists 16 times in 26 games this season. His 81 assists this season lead the Tigers.
No Sophomore Slump Lincoln Gunn is shooting 35% from three-point range as a sophomore after shooting 29% from behind the arc as a freshman.
Return To Paradise Lincoln Gunn served as a ballboy while attending the Maui Invitational several times as a child while growing up in California.
Twice As Nice Marcus Schroeder has a nearly 2-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio this season (50 assists, 29 turnovers).
Making The Most Of It Kevin Steuerer is third on the team with 48 assists despite averaging just 22 minutes per game this season.
History Lesson Kevin Steuerer's father Mickey was a team captain for the 1974-1975 Princeton team that won the NIT, the only Ivy League team to have won a postseason national tournament.
Second To None Kareem Maddox had 14 points in the second half to lead Princeton to a win over Columbia. Maddox shot 6 for 9 from the field in the half.
All-Around Player Kareem Maddox led Princeton with 16 points against Cornell. He also had two blocked shots in the game.
Land O'Lake Sophomore Nick Lake is shooting 34 for 66 from the field this season (52%) and 14 for 35 from three-point range (40%).
Stepping Up Junior guard Jason Briggs has averaged 19 minutes per game in Princeton's 13 Ivy League games. Briggs is shooting 56% from the field (23 for 41) and 8 for 15 from three-point range in Ivy League play.