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Men's Hoops Falls at Drexel, 64-60
December 10, 2011 | Men's Basketball
PHILADELPHIA -- Too much inside and too much Chris Fouch led Drexel over the Princeton men's basketball team 64-60 Saturday afternoon at the Daskalakis Athletic Center in Philadelphia.
The loss snaps a three-game win streak overall for Princeton, which falls to 4-6. Drexel, which had dropped four of its last five games, improves to 3-4 in a season in which it was the preseason coaches' poll pick to win the Colonial Athletic Association.
Fouch, a junior, was Drexel's leading scorer last season at 14.9 points per game but missed the first four games this season while recovering from knee surgery. Fouch saw just 33 minutes combined over the last two Dragons games and scored eight points.
He had a few more than that today, coupling seven field goals, including two from distance, and seven free throws for a game-high 23 points. He was one of four Dragons in double figures.
"We knew an awful lot about him and we were worried that he was going to break out at some point," Mitch Henderson, the Franklin C. Cappon-Edward G. Green '40 head coach of Princeton basketball, said. "We did not want it to be against us, and it was against us."
Junior Ian Hummer led Princeton with 18 points to stand at 830 for his career. Senior Douglas Davis added 15 points including three 3-pointers, but lost for the first time in five games in his hometown as a Tiger.
Princeton led by five at 14-9 with 10:18 to go in the first half, but the lead slipped away as part of a 9-0 Drexel run over less than two minutes. The Dragons led by as many as seven points in the first half before a Hummer bucket with 19 seconds before the break accounted for the halftime margin as Drexel owned a 29-24 lead at that point.
The Tigers made just 2 of 10 attempts from beyond the arc in the first half and had trouble in the interior, getting outrebounded 17-12 including five offensive boards for Drexel to Princeton's one. The Dragons had 12 free throws in the first half as Princeton struggled to defend inside.
After the break, Princeton took just four 3-point attempts and made two, but things got no easier on the glass. Drexel finished with a 33-26 rebounding edge including 10 offensive boards.
"We had our opportunities," Henderson said. "But I think the game was won for them on the inside."
Even so, Princeton let the lead get no larger than eight points. After a Fouch 3-pointer gave the Dragons a 54-47 lead with 4:45 to play, Princeton went on an 8-0 run to take its only lead of the second half on a pair of T.J. Bray free throws with 1:45 left.
The Tigers came up with a defensive stop on the next play, but a charge call on Hummer turned the ball over to Drexel. From there, Drexel went 10 of 10 from the free-throw line to account for all of its points after the brief Princeton lead. Fouch's 3-pointer to give Drexel the seven-point lead with 4:45 to go was the Dragons' last field goal.
Princeton, in the midst of 12 straight on the road against Division I teams, will play its closest D-I foe Wednesday at 7 p.m. when Princeton plays on Rider's Lawrenceville, N.J., campus for the first time.