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Princeton University Athletics
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Men's Basketball to Seek Weekend Sweep Against Brown
February 20, 2010 | Men's Basketball
Princeton (16-6, 7-1 Ivy vs. Brown (9-17, 3-6 Ivy)
Saturday, Feb. 20 at Jadwin Gym, 6 p.m.
Princeton Head Coach: Sydney Johnson (third season, Princeton '97, 35-43 overall & at Princeton)
Radio: WPRB 103.3 FM & GoPrincetonTigers.com (John Sadak, Play-by-Play)
All-Time Series: Princeton leads 93-24 overall and 55-4 in Princeton, 37-4 at facility
Streak: Overall - Princeton, 2; Home - Princeton, 1
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Last night's games (2/19/10): at Princeton 82, Yale 58 | Brown 80, at Penn 73
Last game vs. Brown (1/29/10): Princeton 63, at Brown 46
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.
Brown links: Brown men's basketball page | Brown game notes
-Last night against Yale, Princeton never trailed after answering the Bulldogs' first bucket with three of its own, building a lead as large as 25 in an 82-58 win. Four Tigers scored in double figures, led by Dan Mavraides with 20 points. Princeton was 13 for 19 from three-point range, with Mavraides and Patrick Saunders canning four apiece. Pawel Buczak had a career-high seven assists as Princeton piled up 25 helpers.
-Princeton's 82 points were its most against its longtime rivals since 1973. The points were also the most for Princeton against any Division I team since 2002, when the Tigers put 89 points on Lafayette.
-Princeton's 68.4 three-point field goal percentage was its best since Feb. 25, 2006, when it also hit 13 of 19 in a 27-point rout of Harvard.
-Princeton last had 25 assists against a Division I team on Jan. 7, 2003, a 33-point win over UMBC.
-Buczak's seven assists were the most for any Tiger this year. Marcus Schroeder was the last to have seven assists, doing so against Brown on Feb. 27, 2009.
-Zach Finley has blocked five of 10 shots this season in the last four games.
-With 20 points against Yale after 24 against Penn, Dan Mavraides earned the first back-to-back 20 point games of his career.
-Princeton's sweep of Yale was its first since 2006. Princeton last swept Brown in 2004, which is also the last time it swept both Brown and Yale in the same season.
-Earlier this season against Brown, Princeton held the Bears (a day before the Bulldogs) to their lowest field goal percentage (.300) and lowest point total (46) of the season, still season-low numbers. The Tigers made Brown's leading scorer Matt Mullery earn his points from the line, as Mullery went 2 for 8 from the field and 6 for 8 from the stripe. Douglas Davis led Princeton with 16 points, while Dan Mavraides had eight rebounds. The win was Princeton's first at Brown since 2005.
-Princeton would equal its 2009 Ivy League win total (eight) with a victory over Brown.
-Princeton's 16-6 record is its best record through its first 22 games since 1999, when it was 17-5.
-Brown began playing annually at Princeton in 1954 and had never won on campus until 2003. The Bears have won four of the last seven in Jadwin, though the Tigers won the last meeting a year ago.
-Helped by Princeton's 5-0 road record so far this
Ivy season (and Harvard's 4-1 record), road teams have a 19-16 record
in Ivy games this season. Seven of the eight Ivy teams (Dartmouth) have
a road win, and only Princeton does not have a road loss.
-Princeton has held its first eight Ivy opponents to
an average of 48.0 points.
-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 19 games.
-Through Thursday's games, Princeton ranked No. 1 in the nation in scoring defense at 52.2 points per game (now 52.5). Northern Iowa, at 55.2 points per game, was second. Princeton's next-highest ranking was in field-goal percentage defense, where the Tigers' .393 average ranks 27th.
-Some scoring defense superlatives: The NCAA Division
I record for scoring defense in a season since the shot clock was
instituted in 1985 (at 45 seconds) belongs to Princeton and the 48.2
ppg it allowed in 1992. Since the shot clock moved to 35 seconds in
1993, the D-I record belongs to Air Force's 2004 team, which held
opponents to 50.9 ppg. That Air Force team was coached by Princeton
alum Joe Scott '87.
-Through Thursday's games, three Tigers were ranked among the top 250 players in the nation in a statistical category. Douglas Davis' 2.3 three-pointers per game ranked 100th. Dan Mavraides' .818 free-throw percentage ranked 108th. Marcus Schroeder's 2.2 assist-to-turnover ratio ranked 55th and his 1.9 steals per game ranked 83rd.
-Princeton is 13-1 this season when it shoots 40
percent or better. The only loss among those games was at California in
November.
-Princeton is 9-0 this season when it scores more than 60 points.
-Princeton is 11-0 this season when it leads at the half, 4-6 when it trails and 1-0 when it is tied.
-Princeton has not lost a game by more than one
possession since Dec. 3 against Rutgers. Since then, Princeton is 14-2
with a two-point loss at Maine and a three-point loss against Cornell.
-Entering the weekend, Princeton ranked No. 1 in the Ivy League in four statistical categories, including scoring defense (52.2 ppg), field goal percentage defense (.393), rebounding defense (29.7) and steals (8.0 spg).
-Princeton's shooting percentages from the field and
beyond the arc are better on the road than at home, even though the
Tigers have won seven of nine in Jadwin this season. Overall, Princeton
is shooting .425 at home and .445 on the road, and from three-point
range, the Tigers are shooting .376 at home and .385 on the road.
-Princeton is 7-1 when Ian Hummer scores 10-plus points, including seven straight wins, and 13-2 when Dan Mavraides hits double digits, as both did at Penn. Princeton's other records when players score at least 10 points are: Douglas Davis (11-3), Patrick Saunders (3-2), Zach Finley (3-0), Pawel Buczak (2-0), Kareem Maddox (2-0), Will Barrett (1-0) and Nick Lake (0-1).
-The Tigers are 4-0 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, and Finley hit double digits again with 10 against Columbia.
-In the five games after his 21-point, 8-for-8 shooting performance at Marist, Patrick Saunders went 1 of 11 from the field scoring eight points. In the last three games, against Cornell, Penn and Yale, Saunders was 9 for 12 from the field and 6 for 7 from beyond the arc, scoring 26 points.
-Sophomore Douglas Davis, with 622 points, has
scored the most points of any Tiger through his freshman and sophomore
seasons since Chris Young '02, who had 801 points in 1998-99 and
1999-2000.
-Marcus Schroeder stands in sixth place on Princeton's career assist list with 273. 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 143. Johnson holds the record with 169.
-Douglas Davis has scored at least eight points in 20 of 22 games this season. Dan Mavraides has reached double digits in 12 of the last 16 games, and Ian Hummer has hit at least 10 in five of the last nine games.
-Douglas Davis has missed only one free throw
since the return from finals break, going 17 for 18.
-Kareem Maddox has scored 54 of his 80 points this season in Princeton's eight Ivy games.
-Sixteen of Kareem Maddox's 18 blocked shots this season have come in the last nine games.
-In the 2010 portion of Princeton's season, Zach Finley has been averaging 5.8 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.
-Heading into Friday's games, several Tigers were on Ivy statistical leader lists this season. They are:
Douglas Davis: Threes per game (T2nd, 2.3);
Free-throw percentage (5th, .846); Points per game (7th, 13.2);
Three-point percentage (7th, .419); Minutes per game (9th, 31.3)
Kareem Maddox: Blocks per game (9th, 0.9)
Dan Mavraides: Threes per game (6th, 1.9);
Free-throw percentage (6th, .818); Defensive rebounds (9th, 3.7);
Steals per game (10th, 1.1); Points per game (11th, 11.9); Rebounds per
game (13th, 4.6);
Marcus Schroeder: Assist-turnover ratio (1st, 2.2); Steals per game (3rd, 1.9); Minutes per game (4th, 33.8); Assists per game (6th, 3.1)
On Brown: Brown leading scorer Matt Mullery has shot 50 percent or better in all five games after the Princeton game, including 9 of 12 shots at Penn last night ... Mullery's 14 field goals against Sacred Heart in December are the highest of any player in the Ivy this season ... Mullery has had four double-doubles this season, including last night at Penn (22 pts, 11 reb) ... Peter Sullivan scored 44 points last weekend between the Harvard (21) and Dartmouth (23) games, following it with 18 at Penn last night ... Brown has been outrebounded in 22 of 26 games this season, but outrebounded Penn 34-32 last night ... Providence grabbed 56 of 94 rebounds in a 78-62 win over Brown in December ... Peter Sullivan's 12-for-12 performance from the free-throw line against Sacred Heart stands as the most free throws made without a miss for any Ivy Leaguer this season ... Entering the weekend, Brown averaged 4.1 steals per game, had a turnover margin of -3.2, and averaged 7.7 offensive rebounds per game, all league-lows.
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 47-54 (.870)/77-95 (.811)
21 Schroeder 16-18 (.889)/92-119 (.773)
22 Saunders 8-8 (1.000)/38-45 (.844)
23 Maddox 23-30 (.767)/84-103 (.816)
24 Finley 26-44 (.591)/99-168 (.589)
33 Mavraides 54-66 (.818)/115-142 (.810)
34 Hummer 31-55 (.563)/31-55 (.563)
40 Gabel 0-0/0-0
41 Darrow 0-0/0-0
52 Connolly 1-1 (1.000)/1-1 (1.000)
55 Buczak 23-34 (.676)/59-93 (.634)
Will Barrett
2009-10 Season/Career Highs
Points: 13 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Rebounds: 8 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Assists: 3, last vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Steals: 3, last at George Washington (11/24/09)
Blocks: 1, last at George Washington (11/24/09)
Field Goals: 5 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Three-Pointers: 3 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Free Throws: 5 at California (11/29/09)
Minutes: 26 vs. Army (11/21/09)
Pawel Buczak
2009-10 Season Highs
Points: 14 at Saint Joseph's (1/2/10)
Rebounds: 9 vs. Monmouth (12/16/09)
Assists: 7 vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Steals: 3 at George Washington (11/24/09)
Blocks: 3, last vs. Wagner (12/30/09)
Field Goals: 5 at Saint Joseph's (1/2/10)
Three-Pointers: 2, last vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Free Throws: 2, last at Dartmouth (2/6/10)
Minutes: 37 at Central Michigan (11/14/09)
Career Highs
Points: 15, last at Penn (3/10/09)
Rebounds: 10 vs. UNCG (1/3/09)
Assists: 7 vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Steals: 4 vs. Brown (2/27/09)
Blocks: 4 vs. Columbia (2/7/09)
Field Goals: 7 at Manhattan (12/14/08)
Three-Pointers: 3 vs. Cornell (2/6/09)
Free Throws: 7 at Penn (3/10/09)
Minutes: 37 at Central Michigan (11/14/09)
John Comfort
2009-10 Season Highs
Points: 2 vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Rebounds: 1, last at Brown (1/29/10)
Assists: 0
Steals: 1 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Blocks: 0
Field Goals: 1 vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Three-Pointers: 0
Free Throws: 0
Minutes: 4 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Career Highs
Points: 6, last vs. Harvard (2/20/09)
Rebounds: 3 at Yale (2/13/09)
Assists: 1, last at Yale (2/13/09)
Steals: 1 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Blocks: 1 vs. Lehigh (1/7/09)
Field Goals: 2, last vs. Harvard (2/20/09)
Three-Pointers: 2 vs. Penn (2/17/09)
Free Throws: 2, last vs. Brown (2/27/09)
Minutes: 19 vs. Penn (2/17/09)
Brendan Connolly
2009-10 Season/Career Highs
Points: 5 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Rebounds: 4 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Assists: 5 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Steals: 2 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Blocks: 2 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Field Goals: 2, last vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Three-Pointers: 0
Free Throws: 1 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Minutes: 17 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Mack Darrow
2009-10 Season/Career Highs
Points: 4 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Rebounds: 2 vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Assists: 1, last vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Steals: 1 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Blocks: 1 at Marist (1/6/10)
Field Goals: 2 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Three-Pointers: 0
Free Throws: 0
Minutes: 5 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Douglas Davis
2009-10 Season Highs
Points: 23 vs. Lafayette (12/6/09)
Rebounds: 5, last at Penn (2/16/10)
Assists: 4, last at Brown (1/29/10)
Steals: 4 vs. Wagner (12/30/09)
Blocks: 1 at Central Michigan (11/14/09)
Field Goals: 8, last vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Three-Pointers: 7 vs. Lafayette (12/6/09)
Free Throws: 6, last at Rutgers (12/3/09)
Minutes: 40, last at Yale (1/30/10)
Career Highs
Points: 27 at Manhattan (12/14/08)
Rebounds: 5, last at Penn (2/16/10)
Assists: 4, last at Brown (1/29/10)
Steals: 4, last vs. Wagner (12/30/09)
Blocks: 2 vs. UNCG (1/3/09)
Field Goals: 10, last vs. Manhattan (12/14/08)
Three-Pointers: 7 vs. Lafayette (12/6/09)
Free Throws: 6, last at Rutgers (12/3/09)
Minutes: 43 vs. Maine (11/19/08)
Zach Finley
2009-10 Season Highs
Points: 16 vs. Manhattan (11/18/09)
Rebounds: 7 vs. Columbia (2/12/10)
Assists: 2, last vs. Columbia (2/12/10)
Steals: 3, last vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Blocks: 2 vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Field Goals: 5, last vs. Columbia (2/12/10)
Three-Pointers: 0
Free Throws: 8 vs. Manhattan (11/18/09)
Minutes: 29 vs. Columbia (2/12/10)
Career Highs
Points: 22 vs. C. Conn. St. (11/11/07)
Rebounds: 15 vs. Penn (2/17/09)
Assists: 4, last vs. Dominican (1/27/08)
Steals: 3, last vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Blocks: 7 at Chaminade (11/21/07)
Field Goals: 10 vs. C. Conn. St. (11/11/07)
Three-Pointers: 0
Free Throws: 8 vs. Manhattan (11/18/09)
Minutes: 37, last vs. Penn (2/14/09)
Bobby Foley
2009-10 Season Highs
Points: 3, last vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Rebounds: 0
Assists: 0
Steals: 1 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Blocks: 0
Field Goals: 1, last vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Three-Pointers: 1, last vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Free Throws: 0
Minutes: 9 vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Career Highs
Points: 6, last vs. Lafayette (1/9/08)
Rebounds: 4 at Lehigh (1/6/08)
Assists: 2 at Lehigh (1/6/08)
Steals: 1, last vs. Goucher (1/24/10)
Blocks: 0
Field Goals: 2, last at Yale (2/13/08)
Three-Pointers: 2, last vs. Lafayette (1/9/08)
Free Throws: None
Minutes: 22 at Lehigh (1/6/08)
Gus Gabel
2009-10 Season/Career Highs
Has not played
Ian Hummer
2009-10 Season/Career Highs
Points: 17 at UNC Greensboro (12/13/10)
Rebounds: 9 vs. Columbia (2/12/10)
Assists: 3 vs. Columbia (2/12/10)
Steals: 2, last at Penn (2/16/10)
Blocks: 3 at George Washington (11/24/09)
Field Goals: 6, last at Penn (2/16/10)
Three-Pointers: 0
Free Throws: 9 at UNC Greensboro (12/13/09)
Minutes: 35 vs. Columbia (2/12/10)
Nick Lake
2009-10 Season Highs
Points: 10 vs. Army (11/21/09)
Rebounds: 7 vs. Army (11/21/09)
Assists: 1 at Rutgers (12/3/09)
Steals: 1, last at California (11/29/09)
Blocks: 1 at Rutgers (12/3/09)
Field Goals: 3, last vs. Army (11/21/09)
Three-Pointers: 3 at Central Michigan (11/14/09)
Free Throws: 2 vs. Army (11/21/09)
Minutes: 33 at Central Michigan (11/14/09)
Career Highs
Points: 16 at Brown (2/29/08)
Rebounds: 9 at Fordham (11/26/08)
Assists: 3, last vs. Penn (3/11/08)
Steals: 2, last vs. Penn (3/11/08)
Blocks: 1, last vs. Dartmouth (1/30/09)
Field Goals: 6 vs. Cornell (3/8/08)
Three-Pointers: 3, last at Central Michigan (11/14/09)
Free Throws: 4, last at Fordham (11/26/08)
Minutes: 33 at Central Michigan (11/14/09)
Kareem Maddox
2009-10 Season Highs
Points: 14 at Harvard (2/5/10)
Rebounds: 9 at Dartmouth (2/6/10)
Assists: 3, last at Dartmouth (2/6/10)
Steals: 2 at Brown (1/29/10)
Blocks: 3, last vs. Columbia (2/12/10)
Field Goals: 5 at Harvard (2/5/10)
Three-Pointers: 1 at California (11/29/09)
Free Throws: 4, last vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Minutes: 32 at Harvard (2/5/10)
Career Highs
Points: 16 vs. Cornell (3/8/08)
Rebounds: 10 vs. Maine (11/19/08)
Assists: 5 vs. Maine (11/19/08)
Steals: 2, last at Brown (1/29/10)
Blocks: 3, last vs. Columbia (2/12/10)
Field Goals: 6, last vs. Cornell (3/8/08)
Three-Pointers: 2, last at Brown (2/13/09)
Free Throws: 6 vs. Harvard (2/20/09)
Minutes: 45 vs. Maine (11/19/08)
Dan Mavraides
2009-10 Season Highs
Points: 24 at Penn (2/16/10)
Rebounds: 9 vs. Monmouth (12/16/09)
Assists: 5 vs. Army (11/21/09)
Steals: 4 vs. Monmouth (12/16/09)
Blocks: 1 at Marist (1/6/10)
Field Goals: 8 vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Three-Pointers: 5 vs. Wagner (12/30/09)
Free Throws: 10 at Penn (2/16/10)
Minutes: 40 at Maine (1/4/10)
Career Highs
Points: 24 at Penn (2/16/10)
Rebounds: 9 vs. Monmouth (12/16/09)
Assists: 5 vs. Army (11/21/09)
Steals: 4 vs. Monmouth (12/16/09)
Blocks: 1, last at Marist (1/6/10)
Field Goals: 8 vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Three-Pointers: 5 vs. Wagner (12/30/09)
Free Throws: 10 at Penn (2/16/10)
Minutes: 43 vs. Penn (2/17/09)
Patrick Saunders
2009-10 Season Highs
Points: 21 at Marist (1/6/10)
Rebounds: 6 vs. Lafayette (12/6/09)
Assists: 2, last at Dartmouth (2/6/10)
Steals: 2 vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Blocks: 2 at California (11/29/09)
Field Goals: 8 at Marist (1/6/10)
Three-Pointers: 5 at Marist (1/6/10)
Free Throws: 4 at Maine (1/4/10)
Minutes: 30 vs. Lafayette (12/6/09)
Career Highs
Points: 21 at Marist (1/6/10)
Rebounds: 9 vs. Penn (2/17/09)
Assists: 3 at Penn (3/10/09)
Steals: 2 vs. Yale (2/19/10)
Blocks: 6 vs. Penn (2/17/09)
Field Goals: 8 at Marist (1/6/10)
Three-Pointers: 5 at Marist (1/6/10)
Free Throws: 4, last at Maine (1/4/10)
Minutes: 33, last at Penn (3/10/09)
Marcus Schroeder
2009-10 Season Highs
Points: 9 at Dartmouth (2/6/10)
Rebounds: 7 at UNC Greensboro (12/13/09)
Assists: 6, last at Yale (1/30/10)
Steals: 7 vs. Wagner (12/30/09)
Blocks: 1 vs. Wagner (12/30/09)
Field Goals: 3, last at Dartmouth (2/6/10)
Three-Pointers: 3 at Dartmouth (2/6/10)
Free Throws: 4 vs. Manhattan (11/18/09)
Minutes: 40 vs. Lafayette (12/6/09)
Career Highs
Points: 17 vs. Yale (3/3/07)
Rebounds: 8, last vs. Concordia (1/25/09)
Assists: 7, last vs. Brown (2/27/09)
Steals: 7 vs. Wagner (12/30/09)
Blocks: 1, last vs. Wagner (12/30/09)
Field Goals: 5, last vs. Arizona State (11/20/07)
Three-Pointers: 3, last at Dartmouth (2/6/10)
Free Throws: 7 vs. Yale (3/3/07)
Minutes: 44 vs. Harvard (2/9/07)
Jimmy Sherburne
2009-10 Season/Career Highs
Points: 3 at Marist (1/6/10)
Rebounds: 1 vs. Wagner (12/30/09)
Assists: 1, last at Maine (1/4/10)
Steals: 0
Blocks: 1 at Saint Joseph's (1/2/10)
Field Goals: 1 at Marist (1/6/10)
Three-Pointers: 0
Free Throws: 1 at Marist (1/6/10)
Minutes: 11 vs. Wagner (12/30/09)