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Men's Basketball to Renew Series at Saint Joseph's Saturday
December 31, 2009 | Men's Basketball
Princeton (6-4, 0-0 Ivy) at Saint Joseph's (4-7, 0-0 Atlantic 10)
Saturday, Jan. 2 at Hagan Arena, 2 p.m.
Princeton Head Coach: Sydney Johnson (third season, Princeton '97, 25-41 overall & at Princeton)
Radio: WPRB 103.3 FM & GoPrincetonTigers.com (John Sadak, Play-by-Play)
All-Time Series: Tied, 6-6; SJU leads 1-0 on its campus, Princeton leads 3-2 in Philadelphia
Streak: Overall - Saint Joseph's, 1; Away - 1
Live Stats | Live Audio
Last game (12/30/09): at Princeton 45, Wagner 42
Last time vs. Saint Joseph's (11/16/01): Saint Joseph's 74, Princeton 63 at Berkeley, Calif.
Last game's starters:
20 Douglas Davis, So., G: Season-high four steals against Wagner
21 Marcus Schroeder, Sr., G: 12 steals in the last two games
22 Patrick Saunders, So., F: Totaled 25 minutes in the last two games
33 Dan Mavraides, Jr., F: Season-high 21 points against Wagner
55 Pawel Buczak, Sr., C: 6 of 12 blocked shots on season have come in last two games
Princeton stats: 2009-10 Stats
Individual game-by-game: 3 Sherburne | 11 Foley | 12 Barrett | 14 Lake | 15 Comfort | 20 Davis | 21 Schroeder | 22 Saunders | 23 Maddox | 24 Finley | 33 Mavraides | 34 Hummer | 52 Connolly | 55 Buczak
Individual career stats can be found on each player's roster page.
Saint Joseph's last game (12/29/09): at Siena 92, Saint Joseph's 75
Saint Joseph's links: Saint Joseph's men's basketball page | Saint Joseph's game notes
Outside reading: Trentonian | Staten Island Advance
-Princeton continues its stretch of four games in eight days Saturday against Saint Joseph's. The Tigers won 45-42 Wednesday night against Wagner and will travel to Maine for a Monday game, then to Marist for a Wednesday contest before the exam break.
-The Tigers are on a four-game winning streak, their longest since winning seven straight last season from Jan. 3-Feb. 7, 2009.
-Princeton rallied from 12 points down with 10:30 to go against Wagner, going on a 14-0 run to pull ahead. Kareem Maddox's dunk-plus-foul with five seconds left put the Tigers ahead 45-42.
-Wagner committed 27 turnovers and had eight turnovers during Princeton's 14-0 run. Wagner committed two turnovers during the last two minutes during a 6-0 Princeton run that turned a three-point Wagner lead into a three-point Princeton win.
-Princeton won against Wagner despite losing the rebounding battle 31-24 and the shooting percentage statistic 43.2 percent (16 of 37) to 34.0 percent (17 of 50).
-Princeton has gone 13 of 67 from three-point range in the last three games, including 5 for 27 against Wagner, the second-most three-point attempts of the season for the Tigers.
-26 of Princeton's 84 steals on the season came in the last two games, with 12 against Monmouth and 14 against Wagner. Marcus Schroeder had 12 of those 26, resetting his career best twice, including seven against Wagner, the second-highest total for any Tiger in a single game.
-Princeton has blocked 10 shots in the last two games, a season-high for two contests. On the season, Princeton has 33 blocks.
-The 84 points Monmouth and Wagner managed against Princeton were the fewest the Tigers have allowed in back-to-back games since giving up 76 to Cornell and Columbia Feb. 6-7, 2009.
-Princeton's 14 steals against Wagner were its most against a Division I team since Feb. 12, 2000, when the Tigers took 14 from Harvard.
-Monmouth and Wagner combined to commit 47 turnovers against the Tigers in the last two games. It was the highest two-game total for a Princeton opponent and the second time this season Princeton's opponents have had 20 or more in back-to-back games.
-Princeton's opponents have managed to block a total of eight shots in the last four games.
-Monmouth and Wagner totaled 11 assists combined in Princeton's last two games. No Princeton opponent has had more than seven assists in the last four games.
-With Dan Mavraides scoring 21 points and Douglas Davis as the next highest with eight against Wagner, it marked the first time this season Princeton has won with only one player in double digits.
-Jimmy Sherburne made his career debut against Wagner, logging 11 minutes after missing the team's first nine games while recovering from a shoulder injury sustained during his high school season.
-Douglas Davis and Dan Mavraides have combined to take 43.8 percent of the Tigers' shots this season and 56.9 percent of three-point attempts. The duo has scored 44.1 percent of the team's points.
-13 of Kareem Maddox's 20 points this season have come in the last three games.
-Zach Finley's four rebounds against Wagner were his most since the second game of the season against Manhattan (six).
-Dan Mavraides' 21 points helped improve Princeton's record to 6-1 when he reaches double digits. The Tigers are 0-3 when he does not.
-26 of Dan Mavraides' 44 rebounds this season have come in the last four games, helping him take the team lead at 4.4 rebounds per game.
-Dan Mavraides' five three-pointers against Wagner were a career best.
-Six of Pawel Buczak's 12 blocks on the season have come in the last two games.
-Sophomore Douglas Davis stands at 461 career points, just ahead of senior Marcus Schroeder (459) and behind senior Zach Finley (528) on the active career scoring list.
-Princeton has held four straight Division I teams to 50 or fewer points for the first time since the 2001-02 season. Princeton has not held five straight D-I teams to 50 or fewer since the 1990-91 season. Saint Joseph's has not been held to 50 at all this season and not since Alabama did so (48) in the Maui Invitational in November 2008.
-Sydney Johnson is 1-1 against Saint Joseph's all-time, splitting games in his sophomore and junior seasons as a player at Princeton. Phil Martelli is 3-2 against Princeton all-time, combining his time as an SJU assistant (2-1) and head coach (1-1).
-Princeton's only game on the Saint Joseph's campus was a 58-38 loss on Dec. 3, 1994. Both of Saturday's head coaches were there, with Sydney Johnson in his sophomore season at Princeton and Phil Martelli as an assistant coach at Saint Joseph's, one year before he took over the head coaching position.
-Princeton has played Saint Joseph's four times at The Palestra (3-1), four times at Jadwin Gym (3-1), and once each in Charlotte, N.C. (0-1), Berkeley, Calif. (0-1), SJU's Alumni Fieldhouse (0-1) and Princeton's University Gym (0-1).
-There are three alumni of the Hun School in Princeton on the teams' rosters, including Princeton's Douglas Davis and Saint Joseph's' Idris Hilliard and Mike Auriemma.
-Heading into Dec. 31, Princeton ranked No. 1 in the Ivy League in scoring defense at 56.4 ppg allowed. Princeton was also tops in the league in rebounding defense at 32.3 rebounds per game allowed, and in turnover margin at +1.5 per game.
-Princeton and Saint Joseph's have three common opponents this season in Cornell, Penn and George Washington, but games are still to be played against each of those teams for either Princeton or SJU. The Hawks lost at Cornell, 78-66, on Dec. 6, while Princeton lost at GW, 65-50, on Nov. 24.
-On Saint Joseph's: The Hawks have not shot below 40 percent in any of the last four games but have won just one of those contests ... The Hawks are allowing the most points per game in the Atlantic 10 at 78.9 and are also last in their league in rebounding margin at -8.4 per game ... Saint Joseph's has been hurt on the glass in part by offensive rebounds, where it ranks at the bottom of the A-10 at 8.6 per game ... The Hawks are 4-1 when Carl Jones scores double digits and 0-6 when he does not ... Jones is the team's fourth-leading scorer and one of four players averaging double-digit scoring this season, all between 12.6 and 10.1 ppg ... Todd O'Brien is the only Hawk with a double-double this season with 10 points and 10 rebounds against Holy Cross ... the Hawks are 3-0 in Hagan Arena this season with the one win off their home floor coming against Boston College in the Virgin Islands ... the Hawks have three spots on Atlantic 10 top-10 statistical rankings this season, with Garrett Williamson ranking ninth in the conference in steals at 1.7 spg and Darrin Govens fifth in threes per game at 2.2 and eighth in three-point shooting percentage at 38.7 percent.
Tigers from the Line
| Player |
Season |
Career |
| 3 Sherburne | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 11 Foley |
0-0 |
0-1 (.000) |
| 12 Barrett | 5-6 (.833) | 5-6 (.833) |
| 14 Lake |
2-2 (1.000) |
29-38 (.763) |
| 15 Comfort |
0-0 |
5-8 (.625) |
| 20 Davis |
22-25 (.880) |
53-66 (.803) |
| 21 Schroeder |
7-8 (.875) |
83-109 (.761) |
| 22 Saunders |
2-2 (1.000) |
32-39 (.821) |
| 23 Maddox |
5-7 (.714) |
66-80 (.825) |
| 24 Finley |
13-19 (.684) |
86-143 (.601) |
| 33 Mavraides |
23-28 (.821) |
84-104 (.808) |
| 34 Hummer | 19-31 (.613) | 19-31 (.613) |
| 40 Gabel | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 41 Darrow | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 52 Connolly | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 55 Buczak |
11-16 (.688) |
47-75 (.627) |
Assists: 2 at California (11/29/09)
Steals: 1 at Rutgers (12/3/09)
Blocks: 1 at Rutgers (12/3/09)
Three-Pointers: 0
Free Throws: 0
Minutes: 8 at California (11/29/09)
Steals: 1, last at California (11/29/09)