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Princeton University Athletics
150 Years ??Men's Basketball
November 20, 2014 | Men's Basketball
| Men's Basketball |
| First Match: Jan. 26, 1901 vs. New Jersey State Schools |
| All-Time Record: 1,655-1,030 |
| 1901 | Princeton's first varsity season consists of 12 games over two months; Princeton finished 7-5 |
| 1920 | Frederick Leuhring ends an eight-season tenure in which he becomes Princeton's first coach to win 100 games, finishing at 100-43 |
| 1955 | Princeton wins its final of six Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League titles before the Ivy League began play |
| 1965 | Princeton wins the final 10 games of the regular season and then defeats Penn State and North Carolina State to reach the NCAA semifinals; Bill Bradley '65 sets a then-NCAA Tournament record by scoring 58 points in a 118-82 third-place game win over Wichita State |
| 1967 | Butch van Breda Kolff '45 leaves Princeton to coach the Los Angeles Lakers, guiding the team to a No. 5 AP ranking at season's end |
| 1975 | Under head coach Pete Carril, then in his eighth season, Princeton wins the National Invitational Tournament, defeating Holy Cross, South Carolina, Oregon and Providence to win the title at Madison Square Garden |
| 1980 | Princeton caps a run of winning 21 EITA titles in 31 seasons, including six in the 1950s, seven in the 1960s and seven in the 1970s |
| 1996 | Princeton upsets defending national champion UCLA 43-41 in the Round of 64 of the NCAA Tournament, a game that remains one of the most memorable upsets in NCAA Tournament history and was Pete Carril's last of 514 wins at Princeton |
| 1997 | Pete Carril is inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
| 1998 | Princeton attains a No. 8 ranking by the AP and defeats UNLV in the Round of 64 in the NCAA Tournament |
The 150th anniversary of the first intercollegiate athletic event in Princeton University history will be Nov. 22, 2014, which will be 150 years to the day that Princeton defeated Williams 27-16 in a baseball game. As part of the 150th celebration, Princeton will be commemorating the history of each of its 38 varsity teams, in reverse order of the time they became varsity programs.
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