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Men's Basketball Wraps 2014-15 Season
March 12, 2015 | Men's Basketball
Princeton's 2014-15 men's basketball season came to a close Tuesday night at The Palestra with the program's first-ever win over the Quakers of 20 points or more at the hallowed 88-year-old venue. Here is a look at some more notes from the season that was.
• Head coach Mitch Henderson '98 surpassed a couple of coaching contemporaries, Sydney Johnson '97 and John Thompson III '88 on the program's wins list. He is now at 74-46 in four seasons at Princeton and has the seventh-most wins in program history with Bill Carmody sixth at 92 wins.
• Princeton defeated Brown on Feb. 13 in Jadwin Gym, making the Bears the last Ivy team that Princeton defeated 100 times. As Ivy basketball followers might expect, Princeton and Penn are the only schools to have defeated all the other Ivies at least 100 times each in men's basketball, with Penn just beating Princeton to completing the list by three seasons.
• Speaking of the Quakers, Princeton swept Penn this year and have taken six of eight from Princeton's historic rivals in Henderson's four seasons. The all-time series now stands at 124-108 in favor of the Quakers.
• March continued to be a good month for Princeton in Jadwin Gym, as a weekend sweep of Cornell and Columbia allowed Princeton to run its March home winning streak to 13 games with the last loss coming in 2008.
• Princeton fielded a young lineup in 2014-15, with Princeton's top four scorers all able to return next year with sophomore Spencer Weisz, junior Hans Brase, sophomore Steven Cook and freshman Amir Bell. The last time Princeton's top four scorers were all non-seniors was 2009-10, when the top five all came back to help Princeton win the 2011 Ivy League title.
• Of Princeton's 2,066 points this season, the team will lose just 16.8 percent to graduation, and of the team's 6,000 minutes, just 18.4 of them will graduate this year.
• Ending the season on a four-game winning streak allowed Princeton to complete a winning season at 16-14. Princeton and Harvard are the only schools to have a winning season in each of the last six years, and with a 9-5 Ivy campaign this year, Princeton is the only team to have a winning Ivy season in each of the last seven years.
• Princeton's. .463 field goal percentage was its best since 2010-11, when the team shot .465 from the field. Among players who can return next year, the team's field goal percentage was .472.
• Princeton's .377 clip from 3-point range was its best in two years, since the 2013 team shot .395 from distance. Of Princeton's 252 3-pointers this season, 188, or 74.6 percent, can return next year.
• Princeton had a positive assist-to-turnover ratio for the fifth straight year.
• For the second straight year, Princeton got to the free-throw line more than its opponents. The Tigers hadn't done that in the 2012 or 2013 seasons.
• Princeton did not have a player cross the 1,000-point mark this season after seeing T.J. Bray '14, Ian Hummer '13 and Douglas Davis '12 achieve the milestone in recent seasons. But, Hans Brase is well on pace to become the 31st member of the 1,000-point club next season, as he will enter his senior season of 2015-16 with 831 points, the active leader by 230 in front of current sophomore Spencer Weisz (611).
• Hans Brase had his highest-scoring season as a Tiger with 344 points, seven more than he had a year ago and more than double his freshman total of 150 when he played in 28 games, making 18 starts. Brase's 51 3-pointers co-led the team and were a career best by 17 over last season's total of 34. Brase also bettered his rebounding average by 1.8 boards per game over last season to 7.5.
• Alec Brennan appeared in 23 games as a freshman, and the big man had multiple field goals on three occasions with a season high of nine points against San Diego on Nov. 28 while also blocking two shots in that game.
• Henry Caruso played in eight games a year ago as a freshman for 14 total minutes and had three points. He had quite a few more this year, playing in 29 of 30 contests and cracking the starting lineup for six of the final seven games of the season, all except senior night. He was a .526 shooter from the field, and although it wasn't a huge portion of his total, with just 23 of 95 field goal attempts from 3-point range, Caruso was a .435 shooter from distance, making 10. He was also a strong free-throw shooter, hitting 66 of 81 for an 81.5 percent clip, and he was named Ivy League Player of the Week on Jan. 12 after scoring 37 total points against Norfolk State and Penn, both wins.
• Sophomore Steven Cook played in 22 games last season and made 13 starts and still managed to more than triple his scoring total from a year ago, with 302 points this year for a 10.4 per-game average while earning second-team All-Ivy League honors. A starter for most of the season, Cook played in every game against a Division I opponent and made 24 starts. His steals total went up nearly fourfold, from 12 to 45 swipes this season, while more than tripling his assist total, from 14 to 44.
• Daniel Edwards completed his career and made the most of his senior night, starting and scoring five points in four minutes of work, including a 3-pointer.
• Jackson Forbes made three appearances as a freshman, including in the season finale at Penn. He hit a 3-pointer against Rowan for his first career field goal.
• Bobby Garbade completed his career and had his first start as a Tiger on senior night. He had eight assists and just three turnovers this season, following up on a junior year in which he had seven assists and two turnovers.
• Ben Hazel appeared in 24 games as a senior and made five early-season starts. He had his best shooting season of his career, hitting at a 39.6 percent clip from the field, while also adding a career-best 23 assists. Of his 353 career points, 301 came over the last two seasons.
• Mike LeBlanc played in three games as a freshman and went 2 for 2 from the field, both from 3-point range, against Rowan for his first career field goals.
• Like many of his sophomore classmates, Pete Miller produced more this season than last, serving as a starter for much of the season (23 starts) while playing in all 30 games after playing in 29 last season. He upped his field goal percentage from .464 a year ago to .545 while putting in more than twice as many shots, with 73 buckets this year and 32 a year ago. He got to the line more than twice as often as he did a year ago, with 66 tries to 31 as a freshman. With all that, his point total was more than double what it was in 2013-14, with 174 points this year and 73 a year ago, translating to a 5.8 point-per-game clip.
• Sophomore Hashim Moore scored 14 points this season with 12 of those coming against Rowan when he went 5 of 7 from the field.
• Khyan Rayner played in more than twice as many games this season than he did as a freshman a year ago, playing in 14 contests. He scored all but two of his points this season in the month of December.
• Mike Washington Jr. began the second half of his career by matching a career best and playing in 10 games. He had four assists this season, breaking into that category for the first time as a Tiger, with just one turnover on the season.
• A year after Spencer Weisz was the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, he raised his coring total by 87 points and earned second-team All-Ivy League honors. With 611 career points, another season like this one will put him on the doorstep of joining the 1,000-point club. His 51 3-pointers co-led the club, and his 11.6 point per game average was the best on the team, making him as a sophomore the youngest player since Douglas Davis '12 in 2009-10 to lead the team in scoring.
• Clay Wilson closed his Princeton career by making 42 3-pointers, the most he made in a season as a Tiger, while playing in a career-high 30 games and getting two starts, including on senior night. His 200 points were also a career best, as were his 23 assists.
• Freshman Aaron Young was twice named Ivy League Rookie of the Week this season while playing in 15 games. He took 21 field goals on the season, all from beyond the arc, and made mroe than half of them, at 12. His Ivy honors came on Dec. 29, after a nine-point outing against Liberty, and on Jan. 26, after he put in 15 points against Rowan.