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Princeton University
Lafayette
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Men's Basketball Defeats Lafayette 82-64
December 01, 2010 | Men's Basketball
With an 82-64 defeat of Lafayette on the Leopards' home floor Tuesday night, Princeton reached 80 points in back-to-back games against Division I teams for the first time since Pete Carril, a Lafayette alumnus, was coaching the Tigers to the 1975 NIT championship.
The total boosted Princeton to 503 points on the season, the highest total since the Brian Taylor-led Tigers scored 580 through the first seven games of the 1971-72 season. Taylor went on to play the second-most games of any Princeton alumnus in the NBA behind Bill Bradley.
Lafayette led after scoring the first basket and then never again. A Levi Giese three-pointer made it a two-point game at 12-10 in favor of Princeton with 14:44 to play before the half, and the Tigers went on a 10-2 run to grab their first double-digit lead.
A 12-5 run in the first five minutes of the second half made it a 16-point game for the Tigers at 52-36, and the Leopards got no closer than nine the rest of the way.
Princeton's largest lead was the final margin of 18 points, created by a Will Barrett free throw in the last minute.
"I do think that we stuck to our principles and did what we wanted to and executed pretty well, I think, this game offensively," Dan Mavraides, who was 5 for 10 from the floor for 17 points, said.
Ian Hummer scored a game-high 22 points and added six rebounds, also a game high shared with three others including teammates Mavraides and Kareem Maddox. Douglas Davis added 16 points as the third Tiger in double figures.
The loss dropped the Leopards to 1-6 on the season, though Princeton and Villanova are the only teams to defeat Lafayette by more than single digits. Princeton improved to 4-3, with two of the three losses coming by a combined three points and the other to No. 1 Duke.
The Tigers held Lafayette to 40% shooting while hitting 61.2% of their own shots, the highest percentage for Princeton since a 75-48 win over Harvard on Feb. 25, 2006.
"They did throw a lot defensively at us, but I think we handled ourselves very well," Hummer said after a 10-for-12 night from the field that boosted him to a 62.5% shooting clip on the season.
Included in Princeton's field goal percentage against Lafayette was a 15-for-20 (75%) second half in which the Tigers clamped down further on the Leopards, holding Lafayette to 35.7% shooting, including 2 of 9 from three-point range.
Jared Mintz, Lafayette's leading scorer on the season, co-led the Leopards with 17 points alongside Jim Mower, while Ryan Willen also reached double figures with 10.
The Tigers will return to competition Sunday at 5 p.m. when they welcome Saint Joseph's to Jadwin for the first time since December 1995.