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Brown Tags Men's Basketball with 61-43 Defeat in Providence
February 14, 2009 | Men's Basketball
A night after being outrebounded by the largest margin in more than three years against Yale, the Tigers gave Brown its first win of the Ivy League season, 61-43.
Last weekend, the Tigers (9-10, 4-2 Ivy) put on highly impressive performances in wins over Cornell and Columbia to start 4-0 in the Ivy for the first time since 2004. This week, the Big Red posted two wins and regained control of the league race at the midway point.
Cornell leads at 7-1, two games ahead of Princeton. Columbia also pulled within two games at 5-3, while Dartmouth and Yale each suffered its fourth league loss tonight.
“This was the first weekend where people were gunning for us,” said Sydney Johnson, the Franklin C. Cappon-Edward G. Green '40 head coach of men's basketball at Princeton following.
Kareem Maddox, who led Princeton with 10 points to pace the Tigers for the first time since co-leading the team in the St. Bonaventure game Dec. 6, also noticed the extra intensity from Princeton's opponents.
“We got both of their best games this weekend,” sophomore Maddox said.
Brown's (7-15, 1-7) win snaps a seven-game losing streak, all in Ivy play. The Bears never trailed in the second half after closing a five-point Princeton lead with a 7-2 run to end the first stanza.
The Bears also posted the highest number of assists for any Princeton opponent this season, 15, a night after Yale tied the previous season-high with 14. Brown outshot Princeton 42.1% to 29.4% after the break and outscored the Tigers 40-22 in the second half.
Even though Princeton only slightly trailed in rebounding 28-27, the Bears piled up the stats elsewhere. Three Brown players ? Matt Mullery with 19, Peter Sullivan with 13 and Adrian Williams with 11 ? finished in double-figure scoring.
The same way the rebounding stat changed from the night before, so did the opponent's plan of attack on offense. Where Yale used size inside, Brown took a weapon Princeton is known for, the three-pointer. The Bears canned eight threes to Princeton's five, making it just the second time this season that Princeton's opponent has had more three-pointers than the Tigers.
All that added to matching the largest Brown margin of victory over Princeton in Providence since 1960 at 18 points. The Pizzitola Center remains one of three buildings in which the current Tiger seniors have not won, though Princeton will have the opportunity to scratch the other two -- Levien Gym at Columbia and The Palestra at Penn -- off the list later this season.
Princeton will have a five-game homestand, its first since February 2002, beginning Tuesday with a nationally televised game against Penn at 7 p.m.