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Harvard, Dartmouth Ahead for Men's Basketball
February 03, 2010 | Men's Basketball
Princeton (11-5, 2-0 Ivy) at Harvard (14-4, 3-1 Ivy)
Friday, Feb. 5 at Lavietes Pavilion, 7 p.m.
Princeton Head Coach: Sydney Johnson (third season, Princeton '97, 30-42 overall & at Princeton)
Radio: WPRB 103.3 FM, GoPrincetonTigers.com, SIRIUS 130 (John Sadak, Play-by-Play)
All-Time Series: Princeton leads 123-38 overall and 52-27 in Cambridge, 20-7 at facility
Streak: Overall - Princeton, 2; Away - Princeton, 1
Live Stats | Live Audio
Princeton at Dartmouth (4-14, 0-4 Ivy)
Saturday, Feb. 6 at Leede Arena, 7 p.m.
Radio: WPRB 103.3 FM & GoPrincetonTigers.com (John Sadak, Play-by-Play)
All-Time Series: Princeton leads 136-61 overall and 55-40 in Hanover, 15-7 at facility
Streak: Overall - Dartmouth, 1; Away - Princeton, 1
Live Stats | Live Audio
Last game (1/30/10): Princeton 58, at Yale 45
Last season vs. Harvard: Princeton 77, at Harvard 71 (1/31/09) | at Princeton 58, Harvard 55 (2/20/09)
Last season vs. Dartmouth: Princeton 59, at Dartmouth 54 (1/30/09) | Dartmouth 66, at Princeton 63 (2/21/09)
Last game's starters:
20 Douglas Davis, So., G: Led Princeton in scoring in both games last week
21 Marcus Schroeder, Sr., G: 15-0 assist-turnover ratio in last three games
22 Patrick Saunders, So., F: Has started the last 13 games
33 Dan Mavraides, Jr., F: Princeton's top rebounder at 4.7 rpg
55 Pawel Buczak, Sr., C: On the team, ranks No. 1 in blocks, No. 2 in assists and rebounds
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.
Harvard links: Harvard men's basketball page | Harvard game notes
Dartmouth links: Dartmouth men's basketball page | Dartmouth game notes
-Princeton opened its Ivy League season with a sweep at Brown and Yale last weekend, taking both games on the road for the first time since 2004.
-The Tigers held Yale and Brown to a combined 91 points and 26 of 80 from the field, a shooting percentage of .325.
-Douglas Davis and Ian Hummer swept the Ivy League Player and Rookie of the Week awards for Princeton after the Brown and Yale victories. It was Princeton's first Player award since Dan Mavraides last February and second Rookie award after Hummer also won in December. It was the first time Princeton swept both awards since Dec. 4, 2000, when Mike Bechtold and Ed Persia won the honor.
-During its current four-game winning streak, Princeton is shooting .512, making 109 of 213 shots. From beyond the arc in those four games, Princeton is shooting .480, making 36 of 75 shots.
-If Princeton wins the rebounding battle against Harvard, the Tigers will have outrebounded four straight opponents for the first time this season. Before getting outrebounded by Cornell last weekend, Harvard had grabbed more boards than seven straight opponents. On the season, Harvard is outrebounding its foes by three per game.
-Princeton and Harvard have two non-Ivy common opponents this season, George Washington and Army. Princeton lost to both, while Harvard lost to Army and beat GW. The Crimson were able to outrebound GW 38-27 and outshoot the Colonials 43.8 to 36.0 percent, while Princeton was outrebounded 39-22 and outshot 41.7 to 34.6 percent. The games occurred more than a month apart, Princeton's in November and Harvard's in late December. Princeton and Dartmouth have only one non-Ivy common opponent, Army, which went 5-0 against the Ivy League this season.
-Princeton is 2-0 in the Ivy League for the third time in Sydney Johnson's three seasons as head coach. Before 2008, Princeton hadn't started 2-0 in the Ivy since 2004.
-Princeton has not swept all four New England teams on the road since 2004. The Tigers swept at Harvard and Dartmouth as recently as last season.
-Princeton will be looking for its first back-to-back wins at Harvard since 2003 and 2004. The Crimson have won three of the last five meetings on their home court.
-Last season against Harvard, Princeton won both games to make the Crimson the only team the Tigers swept in 2009. In the first meeting at Lavietes, two neighbors from south of San Francisco dueled, with Jeremy Lin scoring 27 and Dan Mavraides putting in 22 points to help Princeton win, 77-71. Harvard won the shooting and rebounding battle with both teams hitting better than 55 percent of their shots, but Princeton took care of the ball with a 10-6 turnover advantage and zero steals for Harvard. Princeton never led in the first half of a game that saw eight ties, but the Tigers outscored Harvard 21-15 after the last tie at 56-56 with just more than six minutes to go in the game. In the rematch at Jadwin, Lin and Drew Housman were again in double digits, but it was Douglas Davis' turn to lead a balanced-scoring Tiger team that saw all 10 players score. Harvard held Mavraides without a field goal, but Mavraides was 6 for 8 from the line to contribute to a 58-55 win. Princeton outshot Harvard with both teams above 40 percent, while the Crimson won the rebounding battle and had one fewer turnover, 15-14.
-Last season against Dartmouth, Pawel Buczak led four Tigers in double figures with 14 points as Princeton weathered Alex Barnett's 24 points in a 59-54 win. Princeton won the shooting percentage battle and lost on the glass, including an 11-5 disadvantage in offensive rebounds. Dartmouth was only able to score nine second-chance points to Princeton's four, and the Tigers had a slight 13-11 turnover advantage in the tight victory. In the rematch at Jadwin, Dartmouth spoiled the dedication of Carril Court, peeling away what was as much as a 13-point Princeton lead in the first half to win 66-63. Mavraides led Princeton with 19 points and Douglas Davis (16) and Buczak (11) joining him in double figures, but Barnett again led Dartmouth with 22 and this time had Marlon Sanders (13) and David Rufful (12) as a supporting cast. Princeton outshot Dartmouth 59.0 to 46.3 percent but lost on the glass, 29-17.
-Through games of Jan. 31, Princeton ranks No. 1 in the nation in scoring defense at 53.9 ppg allowed. That is more than a point a game better than second-place Northern Iowa at 55.1 ppg.
-Princeton also ranks in the top 10 percent of Division I in steals per game at 8.8, standing 28th.
-Two Tigers are ranked among the top 250 players in the nation in a statistical category. Marcus Schroeder is 10th in the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.95 per game, 38th in steals per game at 2.2, and 226th in assists per game at 3.5. Douglas Davis is 33rd in three-point field goal percentage at .408 and 77th in threes per game at 2.5.
-Harvard ranks in the top 10 percent of the nation in four statistical categories: free-throw percentage (8th, .759), field-goal percentage (16th, .486), blocks per game (29th, 5.3) and three-point percentage defense (30th, .300). Individually, four Crimson rank among the top 250 in the nation in a category, with the highest standing belonging to Jeremy Lin's 2.7 steals per game, ranking 12th.
-Dartmouth's top NCAA ranking is for its three-point percentage defense, ranked 85th at .319. David Rufful is the only Big Green ranked in the top 250 in a category, with his 1.6 steals per game ranking 179th.
-Through 16 games, Princeton is 11-5 for the first time since the 1998-99 season, when it started 12-4.
-Princeton has 36 total turnovers in the last four games, an average of nine per game. It averaged 15.3 turnovers in the first 12 games.
-Prior to Harvard's 50 points against Cornell, the Crimson hadn't been held below 60 points since scoring 53 in a loss at Army. Princeton has held opponents to fewer than 50 in six of the last 10 games.
-Princeton has defeated Harvard more than any other opponent in the Sydney Johnson era, with the Tigers winning 3 of 4 matchups so far.
-Princeton is 8-0 this season when it scores more than 60 points.
-Princeton is 8-0 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 four statistical categories, including scoring defense (53.9 ppg), rebounding defense (30.9), steals (8.8 spg) and turnover margin (+2.5). Harvard is the league's best in six categories, including free-throw percentage (.759), field-goal percentage (.486), field-goal percentage defense (.397), three-point percentage defense (.300), blocks (5.3) and defensive rebounds (26.1).
-Princeton's lead in the Ivy League in turnover margin is substantial, +2.5 per game to +1.3 for second-place Cornell.
-Harvard and Princeton each have the individual Ivy lead in one statistical category, with 2.7 steals per game for Jeremy Lin and a 2.9 assist-to-turnover ratio for Marcus Schroeder.
-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 (8-3), 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.
-Sophomore Douglas Davis, with 558 points, could pass senior Zach Finley (563) this weekend for the team's active career leading scorer title. Also approaching the 500-point milestone are senior Marcus Schroeder (487) and junior Dan Mavraides (474).
-After defeating Marist, Goucher, Brown and Yale, Princeton has won four straight games by double digits for the first time since the 2002 Ivy League season. The Tigers have outscored their opponents 286-184 in that span.
-Princeton has out-assisted its opponents 49-18 in the last three games combined.
-Princeton has had more assists than its opponent in each of the last 10 games.
-Princeton has had more steals than its opponent in each of the last five games.
-Douglas Davis, who has scored in double digits in six straight games, has had nine rebounds over the last two games for a two-game career-high. Davis has also led or co-led Princeton in scoring nine times this season, including three straight and five of the last six games.
-Douglas Davis is 19 for 31 (.613) from the field and 11 of 19 (.579) from three-point range in the last three games.
-Marcus Schroeder has scored 14 points over the last two games, his second-highest two-game total of the season after 15 against Army and George Washington in November.
-Of the 25 rebounds Kareem Maddox has grabbed this season, 12 have come in the last three games. Maddox has also scored 13 of his 39 points in the last two games.
-In the 2009 portion of the season, Zach Finley averaged 3.7 points per game, including a 13-point performance at Central Michigan and 16 points against Manhattan along with five scoreless games among the 10 played. In 2010, Finley has scored in every game and is averaging 5.8 ppg. With 10 rebounds over the last two games, Finley also matched his highest two-game rebounding total since the Central Michigan-Manhattan games, the first two this season.
-Dan Mavraides scored six points at Brown and seven at Yale, marking the first two times all season Princeton has won without Mavraides reaching 10 points.
-Ian Hummer has scored 28 points in the last three games, his highest three-game total of the season.
-Pawel Buczak's eight points at Yale were his most since scoring 14 at Saint Joseph's on Jan. 2.
-Marcus Schroeder stands in seventh place on Princeton's career assist list with 261. The two spots ahead of him are occupied by two of his current coaches, Brian Earl (263) and Sydney Johnson (280).
-Several Tigers are on Ivy statistical leader lists this season. They are:Pawel Buczak: Blocks per game (8th, 0.9), Offensive rebounds per game (8th, 1.7)
Douglas Davis: Threes per game (2nd, 4.5), Points per game (7th, 14.1), Steals per game (8th, 1.3), Minutes played (8th, 31.4), Three-point percentage (9th, .408)
Dan Mavraides: Threes per game (6th, 1.8), Free-throw percentage (9th, .786), Points per game (10th, 11.5), Rebounds per game (12th, 4.5)
Patrick Saunders: Three-point percentage (2nd, .486)
Marcus Schroeder: Assist-turnover ratio (1st, 2.9), Steals per game (3rd, 2.2), Minutes played (4th, 33.8), Assists per game (5th, 3.5)
On Harvard: Jeremy Lin has led or co-led Harvard in scoring in 14 of 18 games this season and has had 16 double-digit scoring games ... Lin's only single-digit games were against Santa Clara (win) and Army (loss), with six apiece ... for the past 14 games, Harvard has had the same starting five of Lin (Sr.), Doug Miller (Sr.), Keith Wright (So.) and Christian Webster (Fr.); in the first four games, Max Kenyi (So.) started, but has since been replaced by Webster ... Lin and Dan Mavraides were both part of SFGate.com's all-metro teams in 2006, Lin as a first-team All-Bay Area and Mavraides as honorable mention ... the Crimson had a seven-game winning streak snapped at Cornell last weekend ... the 36-point loss to Cornell was Harvard's worst defeat since losing by 55, 111-56, at Stanford on Nov. 9, 2007, the first game at Harvard for head coach Tommy Amaker ... Harvard is 14-4 for the first time since the 1984-85 season.
On Dartmouth: The Big Green won their first game under interim head coach Mark Graupe on Jan. 18, getting a last-second bucket and free throw by David Rufful to beat St. Francis (N.Y.) 65-64 before losing their next three Ivy games ... Dartmouth is 4-0 when shooting 41 percent or better and 0-14 when not hitting that mark ... Dartmouth has had three different leading scorers in its four wins, with Robby Pride leading the team twice (21 vs. St. Francis, 19 vs. Hartford), and Jabari Trotter (16 vs. Lyndon State) and R.J. Griffifn (16 vs. Bucknell) leading once each ... Dartmouth has no player averaging double-digit points but has four players within a half-point of Robby Pride's team-best 8.1 ppg, including Ronnie Dixon, Jabari Trotter and David Rufful ... nine different players have led Dartmouth in scoring in a game this season.
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 |
31-38 (.816) |
62-79 (.785) |
| 21 Schroeder |
12-14 (.857) |
88-115 (.765) |
| 22 Saunders |
6-6 (1.000) |
36-43 (.837) |
| 23 Maddox |
10-14 (.714) | 71-87 (.816) |
| 24 Finley |
18-30 (.600) |
91-154 (.591) |
| 33 Mavraides |
33-42 (.786) |
94-118 (.797) |
| 34 Hummer | 25-41 (.610) | 25-41 (.610) |
| 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)