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Men's Basketball Sweeps First Ivy Weekend, Defeats Yale 67-63
January 30, 2011 | Men's Basketball
Princeton, winners of 12 of its last 13 games, improves to 14-4 on the season and 2-0 in the Ivy. Yale falls to 9-9 overall and 2-2 in league play.
The victory, coupled with Harvard's 78-57 win over Cornell Saturday night, sets up a showdown between two of the league's last three Ivy-undefeated teams Friday night at Jadwin Gym. The Tigers and Crimson will tip off at 7 p.m. and will be televised on ESPNU. Penn remained undefeated with its 80-78 overtime win over Brown in Philadelphia.
The week to retool will help, Sydney Johnson, the Franklin C. Cappon-Edward G. Green '40 head coach of men's basketball, said.
"I look at Monday, to be honest," Johnson said. "There are some things that we didn't do well. We'll fully acknowledge that tonight. We're going to shore those things up (during the week)."
Though the Tigers may take an undefeated Ivy record into next weekend's Harvard-Dartmouth series, the win didn't come easy, and that didn't surprise Johnson.
"It's hard to win in the Ivy League," Johnson said. "We've got to enjoy the fact that we got two wins, but we need to get better and move on."
Princeton led by as much as 13 points after the break and withstood a Yale comeback that pulled the Bulldogs to within one point with 90 seconds to go at 64-63.
That remained the score when with 29.2 seconds left, a Yale pass went out of bounds to give the ball back to the Tigers with the shot clock expired.
Mack Darrow went to the free-throw line on Princeton's next possession and sank both to put the Tigers ahead by three at 66-63 with 19.8 seconds left.
Porter Braswell drove the lane for the Bulldogs on Yale's subsequent possession but was stuffed by Kareem Maddox, and Dan Mavraides was fouled after picking up the loose ball. Mavraides made the second of two free throws with 8.6 seconds left to put Princeton up by four, and Austin Morgan's three-point attempt for Yale drew only iron to allow the Tigers to hold on.
The Bulldogs had started 2-0 in Ivy play before losing at Penn Friday night. That Yale fought hard to avoid its second league loss was what Johnson expected.
"We're going to go at people aggressively and compete as much as we can," Johnson said. "If we can get a win like tonight, that's one step towards our goal, and that's all it is. To feel bad necessarily that Yale competed for 40 minutes, that's what they're supposed to do and we're going to do the same."
Douglas Davis led Princeton with 18 points, while Kareem Maddox, who was three rebounds away from being the first Tiger in 44 years to have three straight double-doubles, had 17 points as one of four Tigers in double figures.
Ian Hummer led Princeton to a 33-24 rebounding advantage over the Bulldogs, pacing the Tigers with 11 rebounds to go with his 12 points for the sophomore's third double-double of the season.