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Princeton University Athletics
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Men's Basketball Continues at Yale Saturday
January 30, 2010 | Men's Basketball
Princeton (10-5, 1-0 Ivy) at Yale (8-12, 2-1 Ivy)
Saturday, Jan. 30 at Lee Amphitheater, 6 p.m.
Princeton Head Coach: Sydney Johnson (third season, Princeton '97, 29-42 overall & at Princeton)
Radio: WPRB 103.3 FM & GoPrincetonTigers.com (Dan Loney, Play-by-Play; Noah Savage '08, Color)
All-Time Series: Princeton leads 139-81 overall and 55-54 in New Haven, 44-33 at facility
Streak: Overall - Princeton, 1; Away - Yale, 3
Live Stats | Live Audio
Last game (1/29/10): Princeton 63, at Brown 46
Last season vs. Yale: at Princeton 62, Yale 54 (2/28/09) | at Yale 60, Princeton 48 (2/13/09)
Last game's starters:
20 Douglas Davis, So., G: Scored double-digit points in 9 of last 11 games
21 Marcus Schroeder, Sr., G: 21-to-3 assist-turnover ratio in January
22 Patrick Saunders, So., F: Has started the last 14 games
33 Dan Mavraides, Jr., F: Win at Brown was team's first this season with Mavraides scoring less than 10 pts
55 Pawel Buczak, Sr., C: Had four points, two rebounds in foul-limited eight minutes at Brown
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 | 41 Darrow | 52 Connolly | 55 Buczak
Individual career stats can be found on each player's roster page.
Yale links: Yale men's basketball page | Yale game notes
-Princeton began its Ivy League season Friday night at Brown with a 63-46 win. Princeton shot 48.5 percent in the first half en route to a 40-18 halftime lead. Douglas Davis scored all of his 16 points before the break, and the Tigers limited Brown to four first-half field goals. The Tigers were whistled for a season-high 24 fouls but never led by less than double digits following an 11-2 run that put Princeton up 13-5 with less than eight minutes gone in the game.
-Last season against Yale, the Tigers were outrebounded 43-23 in the first game, though only 16 of Yale's 41 individual rebounds from that contest return this season. Yale also outshot Princeton by 10 percentage points despite the Tigers hitting 7 of 14 three-pointers and Yale making just 2 of 11 from distance. Douglas Davis led Princeton with 11 points and Alex Zampier led Yale with 13, though Ross Morin and Travis Pinick, who each had 10 for Yale, finished their careers last season. In the rematch at Jadwin, Davis, Zampier and Morin again reached double-digit points, but Dan Mavraides led Princeton with 16 points while the Tigers won the rebounding battle and shot 53.5 percent to avenge the earlier loss.
-Old Dominion moved past Princeton into the No. 1 spot in scoring defense through Thursday's games at 54.8 ppg allowed, but Princeton, No. 2 in that ranking, has since lowered its points allowed to 54.5 ppg thanks to allowing Brown just 46 points.
-One game into the Ivy League season a year ago, Princeton was 6-8 overall. This season, the Tigers have won eight of their last nine heading into the Yale game to stand at 10-5 overall.
-Princeton started at least 2-0 in the Ivy League in both of Sydney Johnson's first two seasons in 2008 and 2009. Before that, Princeton had not started 2-0 in the Ivy since 2004.
-Princeton has not swept the Brown-Yale trip since 2004. That year was also the last time Princeton started the Ivy season on the road at those two schools.
-Princeton had nine wins before the start of the Ivy League season for just the third time in the past 12 seasons. The 1997-98 team went into Ivy play at 11-1, and since then, the top winners were 2004-05 (9-5) and 2006-07 (9-7). Princeton is seeking its first winning season since 2004-05.
-Princeton is 8-0 this season when it scores more than 60 points.
-Princeton is 7-0 this season when it leads at the half, 2-5 when it trails and 1-0 when it is tied.
-Princeton ranks No. 1 in the Ivy League in several statistical categories, including scoring defense (54.5 ppg), rebounding defense (31.3), steals (8.8 spg) and turnover margin (+2.5).
-Princeton's lead in the Ivy League in turnover margin is substantial, +2.5 per game to +0.6 for second-place Cornell.
-Three Tigers are ranked in the top 250 in the country in a statistical category through Thursday's games. Marcus Schroeder is 25th in steals per game at 2.4 and 35th in assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.47, while Douglas Davis is 44th in three-point field goal percentage at 40.2 percent and 77th in threes made per game at 2.5. Dan Mavraides ranks 250th at 1.9 threes per game.
-Princeton is 9-2 when Dan Mavraides reaches double digits in scoring. Princeton's other records when players score at least 10 points are: Nick Lake (0-1), Douglas Davis (7-3), Patrick Saunders (2-2), Zach Finley (2-0), Ian Hummer (4-1), Pawel Buczak (2-0) and Will Barrett (1-0).
-The Tigers are 3-0 when either of their centers, Pawel Buczak or Zach Finley, score in double digits. Finley scored 13 in the season-opening win at Central Michigan, while Buczak's 14 points helped the Tigers to a win at Saint Joseph's on Jan. 2. Both players reached double digits in the comeback win over Manhattan in November.
-The race to be Princeton's active career scoring leader is competitive, with senior Zach Finley (557) leading sophomore Douglas Davis (545), senior Marcus Schroeder (480) and junior Dan Mavraides (467).
-After defeating Marist, Goucher and Brown, Princeton has won three straight games by double digits for the first time since the 2002 Ivy League season.
-In Princeton's last three games, the Tigers have shot a combines 51.2 percent from the field.
-Princeton has accrued 53 assists in the last three games against Marist, Goucher and Brown while giving up just 23 turnovers.
-Princeton has out-assisted its opponents 37-9 in the last two games combined.
-Princeton has had more assists than its opponent in each of the last nine games.
-Princeton has out-stolen its opponents 35-12 in the last three games.
-The Tigers have gone 33 for 67 (.493) from three-point range in their last three games.
-Douglas Davis has scored double digits in five straight games, his longest such stretch of the season.
-Marcus Schroeder's seven points at Brown were his most since scoring eight at George Washington on Nov. 24.
-Kareem Maddox has had five of his seven blocks on the season in the last two games.
-Zach Finley has scored in five straight games for the first time this season.
-In the last four games, Zach Finley is 12 for 13 from the field.
-Dan Mavraides' six points against Brown marked the first time Princeton has won this season when Mavraides did not score double digits. It ended a streak of eight straight 10-plus games for the junior.
-Freshman Ian Hummer had his fifth double-digit scoring game of the season at Brown and reached 10 points for the first time in back-to-back games.
-Several Tigers are on Ivy statistical leader lists this season. They are:Pawel Buczak: 8th in blocks per game (0.9), 9th in offensive rebounds per game (1.7).
Douglas Davis: 2nd in three pointers per game (2.6), 7th in points per game (14.1), 7th in free-throw percentage (80.6), 8th in three-point field goal percentage (41.1), 9th in steals per game (1.3), 9th in minutes per game (30.8).
Dan Mavraides: 6th in three pointers per game (1.9), 8th in steals per game (1.3), 9th in defensive rebounds per game (3.6), 10th in free-throw percentage (77.5), 10th in points per game (11.8), 12th in rebounds per game (4.9).
Patrick Saunders: 2nd in three-point percentage (48.6).
Marcus Schroeder: 1st in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.6), 3rd in minutes per game (33.9), 3rd in steals per game (2.2) and 6th in assists per game (3.3).
On Yale: Alex Zampier is the Ivy League's leading scorer (18.1 ppg), just ahead of Cornell's Ryan Wittman (17.9 ppg) ... Yale is No. 1 in the Ivy League in offensive rebounds at 12.3 per game ... Porter Braswell led the Bulldogs in scoring with 14 points against Penn while Greg Mangano added 10 ... Yale had a starter from every class against Penn, with Austin Morgan (Fr.), Greg Mangano (So.), Michael Sands (Jr.), Porter Braswell (Jr.), Alex Zampier (Sr.) ... Yale outshot Penn 53.5 percent to 35.8 percent.
Tigers from the Line
| Player |
Season |
Career |
| 3 Sherburne | 1-2 (.500) | 1-2 (.500) |
| 11 Foley |
0-0 |
0-1 (.000) |
| 12 Barrett | 6-8 (.750) | 6-8 (.750) |
| 14 Lake |
2-2 (1.000) |
29-38 (.763) |
| 15 Comfort |
0-0 |
5-8 (.625) |
| 20 Davis |
29-36 (.806) |
60-77 (.779) |
| 21 Schroeder |
12-14 (.857) |
88-115 (.765) |
| 22 Saunders |
6-6 (1.000) |
36-43 (.837) |
| 23 Maddox |
9-13 (.692) | 70-86 (.814) |
| 24 Finley |
16-28 (.571) |
89-152 (.586) |
| 33 Mavraides |
31-40 (.775) |
92-116 (.793) |
| 34 Hummer | 23-37 (.622) | 23-37 (.622) |
| 40 Gabel | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 41 Darrow | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 52 Connolly | 1-1 (1.000) |
1-1 (1.000) |
| 55 Buczak |
19-26 (.731) |
55-85 (.647) |
Assists: 5 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Steals: 2 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Blocks: 2 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Three-Pointers: 0
Free Throws: 1 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Minutes: 17 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Assists: 1, last vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Steals: 1 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Blocks: 1 at Marist (1/6/10)
Three-Pointers: 0
Free Throws: 0
Minutes: 5 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Steals: 1, last at California (11/29/09)