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Columbia, Cornell to Visit Men's Hoops This Weekend
February 10, 2010 | Men's Basketball
Princeton (13-5, 4-0 Ivy) vs. Columbia (8-12, 2-4 Ivy)
Friday, Feb. 12 at Jadwin Gym, 7 p.m.
Princeton Head Coach: Sydney Johnson (third season, Princeton '97, 32-42 overall & at Princeton)
Radio: WPRB 103.3 FM, SIRIUS 130 & GoPrincetonTigers.com (John Sadak, Play-by-Play; Noah Savage '08, Color)
All-Time Series: Princeton leads 137-84 overall and 75-33 in Princeton, 36-5 at facility
Streak: Overall - Columbia, 1; Home - Princeton, 4
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Princeton vs. (RV/22) Cornell (20-3, 6-0 Ivy)
Saturday, Feb. 13 at Jadwin Gym, 6 p.m.
TV: Verizon FiOS 1 (local area; Ralph Bednarczyk, Play-by-Play; Tim Capstraw, Color; Amanda Balionis, Sideline)
Radio: WPRB 103.3 FM, SIRIUS 130 & GoPrincetonTigers.com (John Sadak, Play-by-Play; Noah Savage '08, Color)
All-Time Series: Princeton leads 134-76 overall and 79-26 in Princeton, 35-6 at facility
Streak: Overall - Cornell, 1; Home - Princeton, 1
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Last weekend: Princeton 54, at Dartmouth 38 (2/6/10) | Princeton 56, at Harvard 53 (2/5/10)
Last season vs. Columbia: at Princeton 63, Columbia 35 (2/7/09) | at Columbia 58, Princeton 44 (3/6/09)
Last season vs. Cornell: at Princeton 61, Cornell 41 (2/6/09) | at Cornell 60, Princeton 51 (3/7/09)
Last game's starters:
20 Douglas Davis, So., G: Has scored at least eight points in 16 straight games
21 Marcus Schroeder, Sr., G: 30 of 86 points this season have come in Ivy games
22 Patrick Saunders, So., F: Has started 15 straight games
33 Dan Mavraides, Jr., F: Team is 11-2 when Mavraides scores 10+ points
55 Pawel Buczak, Sr., C: 12 rebounds in last two games are second-highest two-game total this season
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.
Columbia links: Columbia men's basketball page | Columbia game notes
Cornell links: Cornell men's basketball page | Cornell game notes
-Cornell will be the first ranked opponent to come to Jadwin Gym since Kansas defeated Princeton 78-62 on Dec. 12, 2001 in front of 6,861 fans. Kansas was ranked No. 4 in the AP poll and No. 5 in the coaches' poll. Cornell is receiving votes in the AP poll and is ranked No. 22 in the coaches' poll.
-With a win over Columbia, Princeton would improve to 5-0 in the Ivy League for the first time since 2002. Princeton has not been 6-0 in the Ivy League since 1999, when it started 7-0.
-Princeton has won 11 of 12 games, its most in a 12-game span since 2004 when the Tigers went 13-1 in Ivy play.
-Princeton's 13 wins is its most in its first 18 games since 1999, when the Tigers started 16-4.
-Princeton has held its first four Ivy opponents to an average of 45.5 points, the lowest average for the Tigers' Ivy opponents through the first four league games since 2002, when Princeton allowed 43.3 points in the same span.
-Last weekend, Princeton won at Harvard and Dartmouth to complete its first road sweep of the New England Ivies since 2004.
-A win over Columbia would surpass last season's win total, 13, with nine regular-season games to go.
-Princeton has started the same five -- seniors Marcus Schroeder and Pawel Buczak, junior Dan Mavraides and sophomores Patrick Saunders and Douglas Davis -- for the last 15 games.
-Last season against Columbia, Princeton won 63-35 in the season's first meeting at Jadwin Gym, with Zack Crimmins as the Lions' leading scorer with five points. Zach Finley led Princeton with 11 points as the Tigers allowed its fewest points to an Ivy opponent in 10 years. Princeton outshot Columbia 44.7 percent to 23.9 percent and outrebounded the Lions 41-26. In the rematch at Levien Gym, Columbia benefited from 16 Princeton turnovers to eight for the Lions in a 58-44 win. Columbia outshot Princeton only 45.5 percent to 42.5 percent and was outrebounded by the Tigers 30-22. K.J. Matsui led Columbia with 17 points and Douglas Davis led Princeton with 10.
-Last season against Cornell, Princeton ended the Big Red's 19-game Ivy League win streak with a 61-41 win at Jadwin. The Tigers outshot the Big Red 50 percent to 31.8 percent and had four players in double figures to one, Louis Dale, for Cornell. Princeton held Cornell to 2 of 17 from three-point range. In the rematch at Newman Arena, it was Cornell with four players in double figures and the hot shooting, bettering Princeton 51.1 percent to 35.4 percent in a 60-51 win.
-Through games of Feb. 11, Princeton ranks No. 1 in the nation in scoring defense at 52.9 points per game. Northern Iowa, at 54.7 points per game, is second. Princeton's next-highest ranking is in free-throw percentage, where the Tigers' 73.9 percent clip is 27th.
-As of Feb. 11, two Tigers were ranked among the top 250 players in the nation in a statistical category. Douglas Davis' 2.4 three-pointers per game ranked 90th. Marcus Schroeder's 2.5 assist-to-turnover ratio ranks 25th and his 2.1 steals per game ranks 37th.
-Princeton has outshot its opponent from the field in each of the last eight games. In Ivy League play, Princeton is outshooting its league foes 45.3 percent to 34.5 percent.
-Princeton is 8-0 this season when it scores more than 60 points.
-Princeton is 9-0 this season when it leads at the half, 3-5 when it trails and 1-0 when it is tied.
-Princeton has outrebounded its opponents in five straight games, its longest such stretch of the season.
-Princeton had a season-low five fouls at Dartmouth; the Tigers' previous low this season was 11 fouls against Goucher. The 17 combined fouls were also a season-low for a Princeton game, with the previous low at 22 against Wagner.
-Princeton ranks No. 1 in the Ivy League in five statistical categories, including scoring defense (52.9 ppg), field goal percentage defense (.398), rebounding defense (30.1), steals (8.4 spg) and turnover margin (+1.9).
-Princeton's shooting percentages from the field and beyond the arc are better on the road than at home, even though the Tigers are 5-1 in Jadwin this season. Princeton is shooting .406 overall and .329 from distance at home, and .441 and .383 on the road.
-Princeton has had two non-Ivy common opponents with Columbia and one with Cornell, all with the same results. Princeton and Columbia both defeated Wagner and lost to Maine, and Princeton and Cornell both defeated Saint Joseph's.
-Princeton is 11-2 when Dan Mavraides reaches double digits in scoring, and 5-1 when Ian Hummer does so. Princeton's other records when players score at least 10 points are: Nick Lake (0-1), Douglas Davis (8-3), Patrick Saunders (2-2), Zach Finley (2-0), Pawel Buczak (2-0), Kareem Maddox (1-0) and Will Barrett (1-0).
-The Tigers are 3-0 when either of their centers, Pawel Buczak or Zach Finley, scores 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.
-During the Feb. 5. Harvard game, sophomore Douglas Davis, with 575 points, became Princeton's leading active career scorer. Senior Zach Finley (567) is in second place. Senior Marcus Schroeder (504) passed the 500 mark at Dartmouth, and junior Dan Mavraides (498) will be there with his next basket.
-Marcus Schroeder stands in sixth place on Princeton's career assist list with 265. He is between two of his current coaches on the list, Brian Earl (263) and Sydney Johnson (280). Schroeder is in seventh place on the career steals list, with 142. Johnson holds the record with 169.
-Douglas Davis has scored at least eight points in 16 straight games and 17 of 18 this season. Dan Mavraides has reached double digits in 10 of the last 12 games.
-Douglas Davis has not missed a free throw since the return from finals break, going 8 for 8.
-In Ivy play, Douglas Davis is averaging 4.7 rebounds per game. Before the Ivy schedule, Davis averaged 2.5 rebounds per game.
-Marcus Schroeder has averaged 7.5 points in Ivy play compared to 4.0 points per game before the Ivy season.
-Kareem Maddox has scored 32 of his 58 points this season in Princeton's four Ivy games.
-Eleven of Kareem Maddox's 13 blocked shots this season and 29 of his 42 rebounds have come in the last five games.
-In the 2010 portion of Princeton's season, Zach Finley has been averaging 4.9 points per game. In the 2009 portion, he averaged 3.7 points, including outbursts of 13 points and 16 points in the season's first two games at Central Michigan and against Manhattan.
-Several Tigers are on Ivy statistical leader lists this season. They are:Pawel Buczak: Offensive rebounds per game (9th, 1.7), Blocks per game (9th, 0.8), Rebounds per game (17th, 3.9)
Douglas Davis: Threes per game (3rd, 2.4), Free throw percentage (5th, .841), Three-point field goal percentage (7th, .402), Points per game (7th, 13.4), Steals per game (9th, 1.2), Minutes played (9th, 31.2)
Kareem Maddox: Blocks per game (9th, 0.8)
Dan Mavraides: Threes per game (6th, 1.9), Free throw percentage (7th, .800), Defensive rebounds (8th, 3.7), Steals per game (9th, 1.2), Points per game (10th, 11.6), Rebounds per game (11th, 4.8),
Patrick Saunders: Three-point field goal percentage (2nd, .486)
Marcus Schroeder: Assist-turnover ratio (1st, 2.5), Steals per game (3rd, 2.1), Minutes per game (4th, 33.7), Assists per game (5th, 3.3)
On Columbia: The Lions broke a five-game losing streak with back-to-back wins against Dartmouth and Brown before losing to Yale Saturday ... Ivy League-leading scorer Noruwa Agho (17.7 ppg) is shooting .632 (60 of 95) in wins and .392 (60 of 153) in losses ... in Columbia's last game, Agho scored a career-high 30 points and went 15 of 18 from the free-throw line ... 10 players have started a game for Columbia this season ... Agho is the league's leading three-point shooter by accuracy, hitting 47 of 91 attempts (.516) ... Agho's 354 points this season are more than twice the total of his next-closest teammate, Patrick Foley (136) ... Columbia's Ampim Asenso is the league's leading offensive rebounder at 2.4 off. rpg ... Columbia is averaging a league-low 10.3 assists per game and a league-low assist-to-turnover ratio of 0.7 (205 assists, 295 turnovers) ... in Ivy games, Columbia is allowing a league-high 68.2 points per game and averaging the second-lowest total on offense, 56.8 ppg ... only reserve Brian Barbour is shooting better than 80 percent from the free-throw line this season (.824); the most accurate starter is Patrick Foley (38-48, .792) ... Brian Grimes is the team's top rebounder with 108 overall and 6.0 per game ... Grimes also has 11 of the team's 39 blocked shots this season ... this weekend will be Columbia's first full Ivy road weekend after hosting each of the first two full weekends ... the Lions lost their only Ivy League road game this season, at Cornell ... Columbia is 6-5 at home this season but just 2-7 on the road ... Columbia (and Cornell) will have six of its last eight games on the season on the road, with the Princeton-Penn weekend in two weeks as the only home games remaining.
On Cornell: The Big Red have won eight in a row and 18 of 19 after starting the season 2-2 with both losses to Big East schools, Seton Hall and Syracuse ... Cornell is coming off its lowest three-point field goal percentage of the season, making just 7 of 25 (.280) against Brown ... Cornell has not shot below .404 in any game this season ... Cornell's three lowest field-goal percentage games of the season were wins, but three of its worst seven were its three losses ... Cornell has shot below 70 percent from the free-throw line in each of its last six games; four of its five lowest free-throw percentage games on the season were its last four games ... Cornell has outrebounded its opponent in each of its last eight games, all wins ... Cornell has had just 20 turnovers in its last three games, which are the Big Red's only single-digit turnover games this season ... Big Red center Jeff Foote is averaging 10.3 rebounds in his last three games but had nine total rebounds in the two games prior, against Columbia and Dartmouth ... Foote is 22 of 34 (.647) from the field in his last three games ... Foote is shooting 10 of 27 (.370) from the free-throw line in the Ivy League season after going 47 of 75 (.627) in non-league play ... guard Louis Dale has shot between 44.6 and 46.6 percent from the field in each of his four seasons and is currently shooting 45.3 percent ... Dale was 8 for 12 (.667) from three-point range in three games against Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale before going 0 for 4 against Brown ... Dale is 14 for 17 (.824) from the free-throw line since the calendar turned to 2010 ... Dale has had at least four assists in each Ivy League game this season ... Ryan Wittman, the league's all-time leader in three-pointers made, has gone 9 of 27 (.333) from beyond the arc in the last four games after making 62 of 146 (.425) in the first 19 games ... Cornell boasts the Ivy's top rebounder (Foote, 8.6 rpg), shooter (Foote, .599 fg pct), assist man (Dale, 5.0 apg), three-point shooter (Wittman, 3.1 threes per game), shot blocker (Foote, 1.8 bpg), and defensive rebounder (Foote, 6.3 def. rpg) ... Cornell ranks in the top 10 in Division I in three categories, with 9.6 three-pointers per game (third), .416 three-point shooting (fourth), 17.4 assists per game (sixth) ... Cornell has four players ranked in the top 250 in the nation in a statistical category with Foote's .599 field-goal percentage holding the highest ranking at second.
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 |
37-44 (.841) |
68-85 (.800) |
| 21 Schroeder |
14-16 (.875) |
90-117 (.769) |
| 22 Saunders |
6-6 (1.000) |
36-43 (.837) |
| 23 Maddox |
15-21 (.714) | 76-94 (.809) |
| 24 Finley |
20-32 (.625) |
93-156 (.596) |
| 33 Mavraides |
40-50 (.800) |
101-126 (.802) |
| 34 Hummer | 28-47 (.596) | 28-47 (.596) |
| 40 Gabel | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 41 Darrow | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 52 Connolly | 1-1 (1.000) |
1-1 (1.000) |
| 55 Buczak |
23-32 (.719) |
59-91 (.648) |
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)