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Tigers to Return Home, Host Saint Joseph's Wednesday at 5 P.M. on ESPNU
December 12, 2016 | Men's Basketball
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Princeton (4-4) vs. Saint Joseph's (4-4) Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016 5 p.m. ET Jadwin Gym, Princeton, N.J. |
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Probable Starters
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| 25 Steven Cook Sr. • F • 6-5 Winnetka, Ill. 13.5 ppg 4.5 rpg |
31 Pete Miller Sr. • F • 6-11 Winchester, Mass. 3.5 ppg 4.3 rpg |
10 Spencer Weisz Sr. • F • 6-4 Florham Park, N.J. 9.9 ppg 4.3 rpg |
3 Devin Cannady So. • G • 6-1 Mishawaka, Ind. 11.0 ppg 3.0 rpg |
21 Henry Caruso Sr. • F • 6-4 San Mateo, Calif. 9.5 ppg 4.3 rpg |
• 2016-17 Season Stats • 2016-17 Roster • 2016-17 Schedule
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Princeton vs. Saint Joseph's By the Numbers |
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| 4-4, 0-0 Ivy | 2016-17 Record | 4-4, 0-0 A-10 |
| 22-7, 12-2 Ivy NIT First Round |
2015-16 Finish | 28-8, 13-5 A-10 NCAA Second Round |
| 24 (2011) | NCAA Appearances (Last) | 21 (2016) |
| 72.8 (66.0) | 2016-17 PPG (Allowed) | 70.6 (73.6) |
| 35.5 (34.6) | 2016-17 RPG (Allowed) | 35.1 (36.4) |
| 216-483, .447 (184-433, .425) | 2016-17 FG (Allowed) | 200-479, .418 (208-464, .448) |
| 81-217, .373 (48-168, .286) | 2016-17 3FG (Allowed) | 53-154, .344 (79-209, .378) |
| 69-104, .663 | 2016-17 FT | 112-171, .655 |
| Mitch Henderson, sixth season 100-57 |
Head Coach | Phil Martelli, 22nd season 407-277 |
| Steven Cook (13.5 ppg) | Leading Scorer | Shavar Newkirk (21.1 ppg) |
| Steven Cook (4.5 rpg)* *among players with >1 GP |
Leading Rebounder | Shavar Newkirk (4.6 rpg)* Charlie Brown (4.6 rpg)* *among players with >1 GP |
| Spencer Weisz (3.8 apg) | Assists Leader | Shavar Newkirk (4.0 apg) Lamarr Kimble (4.0 apg) |
| 8 | Series Wins | 7 |
| 4 | Series Wins at Princeton | 2 |
| 12/5/2010, 74-65 at Princeton | Last Win vs. Opponent | 12/8/2015, 62-50 at Philadelphia |
| 15, 12/9/89, 62-47 at Philadelphia | Largest Margin of Victory | 20, 12/3/1994, 58-38 at Princeton |
• Princeton and Saint Joseph's will play the back end of a home-and-home series that began a year ago with a 62-50 Saint Joseph's win in Philadelphia. The Hawks return just 17 of their 62 points from that game, a number that could be just five if James Demery, the Hawks' leading returning scorer from a year ago, continues to miss time due to a stress fracture in his left foot. Princeton returns all 50 points from last year, led by 15 from Steven Cook.
• Neither team shot well in last year's game, with the Hawks' .386 field goal percentage better than Princeton's .288. Princeton's starters in that game other than Steven Cook (6-13) were 6 of 32 from the field with Spencer Weisz, Henry Caruso, Amir Bell and Pete Miller in that group. Cook was the only Tiger in double figures.
• Wednesday's game has been designated as a Coaches vs. Cancer game, with both Princeton coach Mitch Henderson and Saint Joseph's coach Phil Martelli on the organization's board, which Martelli chairs. The game is also a part of Princeton's Holiday Hoops Food Drive, and fans can bring two non-perishable food items to gain free admission.
• The program announced Dec. 11 that senior forward Hans Brase will miss the rest of the season due to a knee injury. The announcement came a year after Brase missed the 2015-16 campaign due to a knee injury suffered just before the start of the season.
• Monday, Steven Cook claimed the program's first Ivy League weekly honor of the season, being named the Ivy League Player of the Week. He averaged 14.3 points per game over last week's three contests, including the loss against Cal, win over Hawai'i and win over Liberty with a high of 21 against Hawai'i. That game was Cook's eighth career 20-point contest.
• Princeton traveled nearly 15,000 (approx. 14,801) miles before hosting their first Division I opponent in Saint Joseph's, going to BYU, Lehigh, Lafayette, VCU, Hawaii for Cal and Hawai'i, and Liberty. Until their first Ivy League road trip on the first weekend of February, however, the Tigers won't leave New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, going to Bucknell and Monmouth and hosting Hampton, Cal Poly, Penn, Brown and Yale before the finals break takes up the second half of January.
• Saturday at Liberty, Mitch Henderson acheived his 100th career win, all at Princeton, making him the sixth Princeton men's basketball coach to reach the century mark. Henderson, tied as the fifth-winningest coach in program history, is 16 wins away from becoming Princeton's third-winningest coach outright. He is even with Frederick Leuhring (100, 1912-20) and trails Butch van Breda Kolff (103, 1962-67), Albert Wittmer (115, 1923-32), Franklin "Cappy" Cappon (250, 1938-43 & 1946-61) and Pete Carril (514, 1967-96).
• Teams average 10 of 26 from 3-point range against Saint Joseph's this year, right in line with Princeton's average on the season (10 of 27). The Hawks average 7 of 19 from distance this season.
• The Saint Joseph's game is the beginning of a key nine-day stretch for the Tigers, who go to Monmouth and Bucknell next Tuesday and Thursday. SJU is ranked 126th in the Pomeroy rankings through Sunday's games, with Monmouth 83rd and Bucknell 132nd. Other than that trio, Princeton will face only two other Pomeroy top-150 teams the rest of the way in Harvard (147) and Yale (119). The first month of the season has been a challenging one for the Tigers, who have faced four top-110 Pomeroy teams in BYU (56), Lehigh (107), VCU (49) and California (50). Princeton was 61st through Sunday's games.
• Up Next: Princeton will play a pair of road games in three days beginning Tuesday at Monmouth before heading to Bucknell Thursday. The Tigers last faced Monmouth in 2010 and hosted Bucknell last season. Princeton has won the last three against the Bison since a loss in Lewisburg in Mitch Henderson's first season of 2011-12, and Princeton has won the last two against Monmouth since Sydney Johnson's first season leading the team in 2007-08.
• On Saint Joseph's: The Hawks lost their top three scorers from a year ago and saw a fourth, James Demery, sidelined with an injury after the season's first game. Shavar Newkirk, the team's fifth-leading scorer from a year ago, leads the team this year at 21.1 points per game. SJU won the A-10 tournament and drew a No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament, knocking off ninth-seeded Cincinnati before falling to top-seeded Oregon by five. Entering Monday's games, SJU was eighth in the nation in fewest turnovers with 89 and was also in the top 10 percent nationally in fewest fouls (18th, 137) and turnovers per game (25th, 11.1).
• Under Mitch Henderson, the Tigers now have a 38-33 (.535) record in the pre-New Year portion of the schedule and a 62-24 (.721) record from Jan. 1 forward.
• Markell Lodge is the Hawks' tallest starter at 6-7, and of the three players on the roster taller than Lodge, Javon Baumann (6-8, 16.6 mpg) and Jai Williams (6-9, 8.0 mpg) average less than 20 minutes per game and Pierfrancesco Oliva is out for the season while recovering from knee surgery. Pete Miller (6-11) is Princeton's lone starter above 6-5.
• ESPN's latest bracketology was unveiled Thursday, Dec. 8, and the Tigers were a projected 13th seed in the East in Buffalo against West Virginia with the winner meeting Purdue, Arkansas or Pittsburgh. Among Princeton opponents this season, VCU is a 10 seed in the Midwest, Lehigh is a 15 seed in the Midwest, and Monmouth is a 12 seed in the South.
• Saint Joseph's was the ninth pick in the A-10 preseason media and coaches poll. SJU is Princeton's second A-10 opponent of the season after VCU, which was picked third. Princeton, the top pick in the Ivy preseason media poll, is looking to break a three-game skid against A-10 schools, including the VCU game last month, the trip to SJU last year and a visit to George Mason two seasons ago after Princeton beat GMU in Jadwin in 2013.
• With his last basket during the Hawai'i game, Spencer Weisz became the 31st player in program history to reach 1,000 points, now at 1,003. Two other active Tigers are within their prior season's average of 1,000, Steven Cook at 849 and Henry Caruso at 690. Weisz can now begin the climb up the list of 1,000-point scorers, with Will Venable '05 next at 1,010, followed by former teammate T.J. Bray '14 at 1,024.
• Spencer Weisz tied the program's record for assists in a game last time out against Liberty, dishing 13 helpers to tie T.J. Bray '14 against Penn State. The stat has been kept since the 1974-75 season. Weisz is also climbing the Princeton career leaderboard in that stat, standing eighth with 288 with Marcus Schroeder '10 (295) and coach Mitch Henderson '98 (304) just ahead of him. The program record belongs to William Ryan '84, with 413. Ryan also has the single-season mark of 161, set in the 1983-84 campaign.
• Entering Monday's games, Princeton led the Ivy League in scoring defense (66.0 ppg allowed), scoring margin (+6.8 ppg), 3FG percentage defense (.286), turnover margin (+1.62/gm), assist-to-turnover ratio (1.3), defensive rebounds (27.1 drpg), defensive rebound percentage (.789) and 3s per game (10.1). Spencer Weisz led the Ivy in assist-to-turnover ratio (4.3) and was eighth in the nation in that category. Steven Cook's 13 steals co-led the league. Nationally, Princeton ranked 16th in 3s per game at 10.1 and was also in the top 10 percent in the nation in fewest turnovers (17th, 92) and 3FG percentage defense (28th, .286).
• Princeton has shot better than 40 percent from the field six times this season, all in the last seven games, and four times from 3-point range this season, all in the last five games.
• Princeton returns 99 percent of its points and minutes from last year, a group that includes its top 13 scorers from last year and three 2016 All-Ivy League honorees in Henry Caruso (first team), Spencer Weisz (second team) and Steven Cook (honorable mention).
• Princeton had a change in the starting lineup for the first time this season against Cal, with sophomore Devin Cannady making his first career start and senior Pete Miller entering the lineup for the first time this season. The Tigers continued with that lineup against Hawai'i.
• Princeton has three players who have earned All-Ivy League honors during their careers: Spencer Weisz was the 2014 Ivy League Rookie of the Year and 2015 and 2016 second-team All-Ivy. Steven Cook was 2015 second-team All-Ivy and 2016 honorable mention All-Ivy. Henry Caruso was 2016 first-team All-Ivy.
• Princeton was in the top 10 percent of the nation (top 34) in five statistical categories at the end of last season: third in fewest fouls (503), sixth in fewest turnovers (331), 14th in 3s per game (9.7), 21st in scoring margin (+10.5 ppg) and 31st in 3FG percentage (.383).
• Princeton led the Ivy League at the end of last year in scoring offense (79.1 ppg, 39th nationally) in fewest turnovers, fewest fouls, defensive rebounds per game (26.93), fewest personal fouls per game (17.3) and 3s per game.
• Princeton's 79.1 ppg last season was the third-highest in program history and highest since the 1971-72 season, a program-record 79.69 points per game. The 1964-65 Final Four team averaged 79.69 ppg.
• Princeton is coming off its quadrennial foreign trip. The Tigers went to Italy in late August, spending two nights each in Rome, Florence, Bologna with a side trip to Venice, Vicenza and Cernobbio on Lake Como. Princeton played three games, starting by closing a 21-point fourth-quarter deficit to defeat Fortitudo Kontatto in Bologna, a second-division Italian team, 93-87 in overtime. Khyan Rayner hit a halfcourt buzzer-beater to send the game to OT. Next, Princeton faced ASD Pallacanestro Vicenza, winning that game 67-58 against a third-division Italian team. The Tigers closed the trip with an 84-80 OT loss to Junior Casale, another second-division Italian team. Princeton had 15 players on the trip, not including the freshmen, and 13, except Hans Brase and Elias Berbari, saw playing time. Among the Tigers on the Italy trip was Devin Cannady, who had also studied in Tanzania earlier in the summer.
• The Ivy League has won five NCAA Tournament games in the last seven seasons. Cornell advanced to the Sweet 16 in 2010, Harvard beat New Mexico in 2013 and Cincinnati in 2014, and Yale beat Baylor in 2016. Princeton came within a buzzer-beating bank shot of adding to that in 2011, but Kentucky's Brandon Knight saved a 57-55 win, and Harvard fell to UNC just 67-65 in 2015.
• The Pete Carril coaching tree is going strong in the 2016-17 season. Seven current Division I head coaches played for and/or coached under Carril, including Mitch Henderson '98, Mike Brennan '94 (American), John Thompson III '88 (Georgetown), Chris Mooney '94 (Richmond), Sydney Johnson '97 (Fairfield), Brian Earl '99 (Cornell) and Bill Carmody (Holy Cross).
• #IVYMADNESS: The inaugural Ivy League men's and women's basketball tournaments will take place Saturday and Sunday, March 11-12, 2017, at the Palestra in Philadelphia. The top four teams will earn berths in the tournament, with the semifinals on Saturday and the championships on Sunday. All six games will be broadcast live on ESPN's networks. The winner of the regular season will be the Ivy League champion, and the tournament winner will receive the automatic NCAA tournament bid with the regular-season champion, if different, earning an NIT bid. The site past 2017 has not been determined.
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Individual Notes & Career Highs
34 • Richmond Aririguzoh • Fr. • C • 6-9 • 220 • Ewing, N.J. • Trenton Catholic
Pronunciation: ah-REE-ree-GOO-zoh ... made his career debut against Rowan and grabbed seven rebounds in 11 minutes to stand as Princeton's leader in rebounding average ... brother Franklin is a sophomore on the track and field team at Princeton (middle-distance runner) ... helped Trenton Catholic to three Burlington County Scholastic League titles and two Mercer County Tournament titles ... team MVP as a senior, averaging 15 points, nine rebounds and three blocks per game ... earned team MVP honors with the Iron Mikes' track and field team as a sophomore, competing in the hurdles and discus ... brother Franklin is in the Class of 2019 at Princeton and on the track and field team ... born in Italy, came to the U.S. at age 12.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 4 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 7 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 2 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 1 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 2 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 0 | 0 | 11 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 4 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 7 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 2 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 1 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 2 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 0 | 0 | 11 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
5 • Amir Bell • Jr. • G • 6-4 • 190 • East Brunswick, N.J. • East Brunswick
Pronunciation: ah-MEER ... started the first 64 games of his career ... had 11 double-figure scoring games last season ... as a rookie, was the first freshman to start every game since the 2006-07 season ... his 265 points in 2014-15 were the eighth-most for a Princeton freshman since freshman eligibility began for the 1978-79 season ... had a 77:48 assist-to-turnover ratio as a rookie and 68:49 last season ... all-Greater Middlesex Conference selection in 2013 and 2014 at East Brunswick High School ... was a three-star recruit according to ESPN.com as well as Yahoo! Sports' Rivals.com ... politics major.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 5, last vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) | 3, last vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) | 3 at Lafayette (11/23/16) | 3 at VCU (11/29/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 1 at Lafayette (11/23/16) | 2, last vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) | 1 at Lehigh (11/20/16) | 2 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 29 at Lehigh (11/20/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2014-17 | 28 at Penn (1/9/16) | 9 vs. St. Peter's (11/21/15) | 5, last vs. Lafayette (11/25/15) | 4, last vs. Yale (2/19/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 3, last vs. Cornell (2/27/16) | 9 at Penn (1/9/16) | 4 at Penn (1/9/16) | 8 at FDU (12/3/14) | 38 at FDU (12/3/14) |
11 • Elias Berbari • So. • G • 6-2 • 180 • Greenlawn, N.Y. • Harborfields
Pronunciation: eh-LIE-as bur-BAHR-ee ... made his season debut against Rowan ... played in eight games as a rookie last season ... three-time team captain at Harborfields High School ... helped lead his team to three Suffolk League 5 championships and two Suffolk County Championship appearances ... three-time All-County Scholar Athlete and won the Harborfields Coach's Award as a senior.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 0 | 1 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 0 | 0 |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2015-17 | 0 | 1, last vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 1 vs. Bryn Athyn (1/24/16) | 0 |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
44 • Noah Bramlage • So. • F • 6-9 • 220 • Glandorf, Ohio • Ottawa-Glandorf
Played in 17 games last season and scored in five ... Ottawa-Glandorf's third-leading scorer all-time with 1,442 points, a total that was good for sixth all-time in Putnam County ... a four-year starter, helped lead Ottawa-Glandorf to four straight regional tournament appearances, two state final appearances and the 2013 Division III state championship ... Associated Press Division III first-team All-Northwest Ohio honors twice, and also was a two-time member of the AP Division III All-Ohio second team ... was an integral member of the All-Ohio Red AAU program, helping the team to the EYBL Finals at the Peach Jam.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 3 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 3 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 2 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 0 |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 1 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 1 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 0 | 8 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2015-17 | 14 vs. Lafayette (11/25/15) | 6 vs. Bryn Athyn (1/24/16) | 3 vs. Lafayette (11/25/15) | 1, last at Cornell (2/12/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 1 vs. Bryn Athyn (1/24/16) | 4 vs. Lafayette (11/25/15) | 3 vs. Lafayette (11/25/15) | 5 at Cornell (2/12/16) | 19 vs. Bryn Athyn (1/24/16) |
30 • Hans Brase • Sr. • F • 6-9 • 235 • Clover, S.C. • Hill School (Pa.)
Pronunciation: BRACE ... returned after missing the 2015-16 due to a knee injury, but suffered a season-ending knee injury in the Nov. 29 game at VCU ... opened the season with 11 points at BYU and was 5 of 6 from the field in his last two games against D-I competition (Lafayette, VCU) ... was the team's second-leading scorer (11.5 ppg) and leading rebounder (7.5 ppg) as a junior in 2014-15 and as a sophomore in 2013-14 (11.2 ppg, 5.7 rpg) ... started 77 of his 88 games played over his first three seasons ... has 46 career double-figure scoring games and has reached 20 points twice: 1/31/14 at Harvard (20) and 3/7/15 vs. Columbia (23) ... sociology major.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 11 at BYU (11/14/16) | 4 at BYU (11/14/16) | 2, last at Lafayette (11/23/16) | 0 |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 4 at BYU (11/14/16) | 3 at BYU (11/14/16) | 3 at Lehigh (11/20/16) | 24 at Lehigh (11/20/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2012-17 | 23 vs. Columbia (3/7/15) | 15, last vs. Brown (2/13/15) | 7 at Bucknell (11/30/13) | 3 at Tulane (3/19/14) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 3, last at Penn State (12/14/13) | 8, last vs. Columbia (3/7/15) | 5 at Lafayette (11/19/14) | 9 vs. Kent State (12/31/13) | 39, last at Cal (12/13/14) |
35 • Alec Brennan • Jr. • F • 6-11 • 230 • Weston, Mass. • Milton Academy
More than doubled his scoring output from freshman to sophomore seasons, scoring 80 points after netting 33 as a rookie ... finished 31 of 58 (.534) from the field last season, playing in all 29 games and playing double-digit minutes in 13 games ... played in 23 games as a rookie, all off the bench, and scored in nine games while playing double-digit minutes in six games last season ... as a recruit, garnered a three-star rating from Rivals.com and a 78 grade from ESPN.com ... in 2014, helped Milton Academy win the program's first Independent School League title, claiming the New England Prep School Athletic Conference's Defensive Player of the Year award, Milton's team MVP honors and NEPSAC Class A first-team recognition ... three-time all-league honoree in high school and was a McDonald's All-America nominee ... politics major.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 6 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 5 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 1 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 0 |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 2 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 1 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 1 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 15 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2014-17 | 10 at Hampton (1/3/16) | 8 vs. Bryn Athyn (1/24/16) | 3 vs. Rowan (1/25/15) | 2 vs. Penn (3/8/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 3 vs. Maryland (12/19/15) | 4, last vs. Bryn Athyn (1/24/16) | 1, last vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 4 at Brown (1/29/16) | 21, last vs. Bryn Athyn (1/24/16) |
3 • Devin Cannady • So. • G • 6-1 • 185 • Mishawaka, Ind. • Mishawaka Marian
Pronunciation: CAN-ah-dee ... came off the bench in each of the first 34 of Princeton's games in his career before getting his first start against Cal on Dec. 6, also playing a career-best 33 minutes in that game ... led the team in scoring in the opener at BYU (18 points) and at VCU (16) and against Cal (16) ... team's third-leading scorer last season (11.6 ppg) despite coming off the bench in all 29 games and ranking fifth on the team at 22 minutes per game ... Cannady and Myles Stephens were the only freshmen to play in all 29 games last season ... scored in double figures in 20 games last season, including 17 of the last 21 games ... shot .456 (57-125) from 3-point range last season, but fell short of NCAA minimum to be ranked (2.5 made per game) ... ranked eighth in the nation in free throw percentage at .889 and led the Ivy League ... scored 17 points in his Tiger debut Nov. 13, 2015 against Rider, the second-most by a Princeton freshman in an opener in the era of freshman eligibility, which is since the 1978-79 season (25, Douglas Davis '12 vs. Central Michigan, 11/14/2008) ... led high school, Mishawaka Marian, to an undefeated regular season on his way to becoming the winningest player in Marian history ... was an McDonald's All-American nominee ... finished his high school career second on the school's all-time scoring list with 1,475 points ... named to the North team for the Indiana All-Star game coming out of high school as well as earning a spot on Indiana Basketball Coaches Association/Subway "Supreme 15" Team, a ranking of the Top 15 players in the state.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 18 at BYU (11/14/16) | 7 at Lafayette (11/23/16) | 5 at Lafayette (11/23/16) | 2 at Lehigh (11/20/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 6 at BYU (11/14/16) | 4 at BYU (11/14/16) | 7 vs. Cal (12/6/16) | 33 vs. Cal (12/6/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2015-17 | 23 at Columbia (2/13/16) | 7, last at Lafayette (11/23/16) | 5 at Lafayette (11/23/16) | 4 at Penn (1/9/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 2 vs. Bucknell (12/22/15) | 8 at Columbia (2/13/16) | 4, last at BYU (11/14/16) | 7, last vs. Cal (12/6/16) | 33 vs. Cal (12/6/16) |
21 • Henry Caruso • Sr. • F • 6-4 • 205 • San Mateo, Calif. • Junipero Serra
Pronunciation: cah-ROO-soh ... first-team All-Ivy League 2016 ... team's leading scorer last season (15.0 ppg) ... has shot .444 or better from the field in seven of eight games this season and was at 50 percent or better in each of the first five games this season ... had six of his eight career 20-point games last season ... more than doubled his previous career total last season, scoring 435 points after scoring 179 between his freshman (3) and sophomore (176) seasons ... last season was his first as a starter; started six games as a sophomore in 2014-15 ... had his first three career double-doubles last season, against Lafayette (13 pts, 10 reb), FDU (27 pts, 10 reb) and Lipscomb (24 pts, 12 reb) ... shot .522 (152-291) from the field last season and .446 (37-83) from 3 ... second-leading scorer in program history at Serra, a school which also produced Princeton 1,000-point scorer Dan Mavraides '11 as well as prominent sports figures including Tom Brady and Barry Bonds ... history major.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 14 at Lafayette (11/23/16) | 7 at Lafayette (11/23/16) | 2 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 3, last vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 7 at Lafayette (11/23/16) | 2, last vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) | 4 at Lehigh (11/20/16) | 35 at Lafayette (11/23/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2013-17 | 29 vs. Liberty (12/17/15) | 12 at Lipscomb (12/12/15) | 6 vs. Harvard (2/5/16) | 3, last vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 1, last vs. Harvard (2/5/16) | 10, last at Yale (1/30/16) | 4, last vs. Harvard (2/5/16) | 14 vs. Penn (1/10/15) | 38 at Columbia (2/13/16) |
25 • Steven Cook • Sr. • F • 6-5 • 200 • Sr. • Winnetka, Ill. • New Trier
Honorable mention All-Ivy League 2016 ... second-team All-Ivy League 2015 ... Ivy League Player of the Week Dec. 12 ... leads the team in scoring at 13.5 ppg ... Princeton's second-leading scorer last season (11.7 ppg) ... his 21 points and nine rebounds against Hawai'i marked his eighth career 20-point game and was one rebound away from his second career double-double ... ended last season with seven consecutive double-figure scoring games, averaging 17.6 ppg over those seven contests ... nominee for the Senior CLASS Award and the NABC Good Works Team ... Academic All-Ivy League 2016 ... started all 29 games last season, 24 of 30 games in 2014-15 and 13 of 30 games as a freshman ... economics major.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 21 vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) | 9 vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) | 3, last at Liberty (12/10/16) | 3 at VCU (11/29/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 7 vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) | 5 vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) | 4 at BYU (11/14/16) | 36 vs. Cal (12/6/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2013-17 | 28 vs. Stony Brook (12/6/14) | 10 vs. Lafayette (11/25/15) | 5, last vs. Dartmouth (2/6/16) | 7 vs. Stony Brook (12/6/14) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 3, last at Harvard (3/4/16) | 10 vs. Dartmouth (2/6/16) | 6 at Dartmouth (3/5/16) | 8 vs. Incarnate Word (11/22/14) | 39 vs. Columbia (2/26/16) |
32 • Jackson Forbes • Jr. • F • 6-6 • 220 • Plano, Texas • John Paul II
Made his season debut against Rowan ... played in 20 games last season, reaching his career-high scoring total of nine twice, against Saint Peter's and Bryn Athyn ... played in three games as a rookie ... all-state honoree among Texas Association of Private and Parochial School players ... as a senior, was named second-team TAPPS all-state while once again leading John Paul II to the state final ... architecture major.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 4 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 3 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 2 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 0 |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 2 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 0 | 0 | 9 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2014-17 | 9, last vs. Bryn Athyn (1/24/16) | 3, last vs. Bryn Athyn (1/24/16) | 3 at Stony Brook (12/5/15) | 1, last at Cornell, (2/12/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 3, last vs. Bryn Athyn (1/24/16) | 3, last vs. Bryn Athyn (1/24/16) | 2, last at Norfolk State (1/5/16) | 13, last vs. Bryn Athyn (1/24/16) |
13 • Will Gladson • Fr. • F • 6-10 • 255 • Chesterfield, Mo. • Chaminade College Prep
Played in seven of the team's first eight games ... hit a pair of 3-pointers at Lafayette and again against California ... three-star recruit as rated by ESPN ... earned honorable-mention all-conference as a senior at Chaminade College Prep ... helped the team to a 27-5 record and a state title as a senior.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 8 at Lafayette (11/23/16) | 3, last vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 1, last at Liberty (12/10/16) | 1 at Lafayette (11/23/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 1, last vs. Cal (12/6/16) | 3 at Lafayette (11/23/16) | 2, last vs. Cal (12/6/16) | 2 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 20 vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 8 at Lafayette (11/23/16) | 3, last vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 1, last at Liberty (12/10/16) | 1 at Lafayette (11/23/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 1, last vs. Cal (12/6/16) | 3 at Lafayette (11/23/16) | 2, last vs. Cal (12/6/16) | 2 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 20 vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) |
4 • Mike LeBlanc • Jr. • F • 6-6 • 195 • Dover, N.H. • New Hampton
Pronunciation: leh-BLAHNC ... played in 14 games last season, reaching double-figure minutes in each of a four-game stretch in January ... scored 12 points in the season opener against Lafayette ... played in three games as a rookie ... named a McDonald's All-America nominee in 2014 ... led New Hampton to the New England Prep School Athletic Conference AAA finals in his senior season and was recognized with NEPSAC AAA regional all-star honors ... New Hampton also produced recent former Tiger Patrick Saunders '12 ... politics major.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 8 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 1 vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) | 0 | 1 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 3 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 2 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 0 | 14 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2014-17 | 12 vs. Lafayette (11/25/15) | 3, last vs. Bryn Athyn (1/24/16) | 3 at Norfolk State (1/5/16) | 2 vs. Lafayette (11/25/15) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 4 vs. Lafayette (11/25/15) | 4 vs. Lafayette (11/25/15) | 1 at Hampton (1/3/16) | 14 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
31 • Pete Miller • Sr. • F • 6-11 • 230 • Winchester, Mass. • Northfield Mount Hermon
Has shot .500 or better from the field in five games this season ... played in all 29 games last season and started 28 (except senior night) ... finished second on the team in rebounding at 6.1 rpg last season ... shot .519 from the field last season, second on the team among players with at least 100 field goal attempts ... led the team with 35 blocked shots last season... more than doubled his rebounding total from his sophomore season with 120 boards (56 as a sophomore) as a junior ... had four double-figure scoring games last season, led by a 20-point effort Feb. 13 at Columbia ... had double-doubles in 2015-16 at Lipscomb (12 pts., 10 reb.) and Columbia (20 pts., 13 reb.) ... as a sophomore, played in all 30 games, starting the first 23, and was a .545 shooter from the field ... led the team in 2014-15 with 35 blocks ... had three double-figure scoring games as a sophomore ... played in 29 of the team's 30 games as a freshman ... economics major.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 6 vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) | 7 vs. Cal (12/6/16) | 3 at VCU (11/29/16) | 1 at Lafayette (11/23/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 1, last vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) | 2, last vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) | 0 | 2 vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) | 25 vs. Cal (12/6/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2013-17 | 20 at Columbia (2/13/16) | 13 at Columbia (2/13/16) | 4, last vs. Harvard (2/5/16) | 2, last at Dartmouth (3/5/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 4, last vs. Brown (2/13/15) | 9 at Columbia (2/13/16) | 0 | 4, last at Lipscomb (12/12/15) | 30 vs. Dartmouth (1/31/15) |
2 • Jose Morales • Fr. • G • 5-9 • 165 • Miramar, Fla. • Hun School (N.J.)
Pronunciation: ho-SAY moh-RAH-less ... played in six of the team's first eight games, scoring 10 points against Rowan ... spent a postgraduate year at the Hun School in Princeton ... at Cardinal Gibbons in Florida, helped his senior-year team to a 32-1 record and a 5A state title ... shared 5A Player of the Year honors and won first-team all-state recognition that season ... spent time with the Puerto Rican U16 team in 2013-14.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 10 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 0 | 4 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 1 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 5 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 0 | 0 | 21 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 0 | 10 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 0 | 4 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 0 |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 5 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 0 | 0 | 21 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
14 • Khyan Rayner • Sr. • G • 5-11 • 165 • Portland, Ore. • Jesuit
Pronunciation: KEY-on ... played in 19 games a year ago, seeing double-digit minutes four times ... played in 18 games in 2014-15, seeing double-digit minutes once ... played in seven games as a freshman ... alma mater in Oregon is shared with Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra and the Cleveland Cavaliers' Mike Dunleavy Jr. ... politics major.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 3 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 2 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 1 at Lafayette (11/23/16) | 0 |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 1 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 1 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 0 | 7 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2013-16 | 7 vs. Lafayette (11/25/15) | 2, last vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 2 at Hampton (1/3/16) | 2 at Cornell (3/7/14) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 1 vs. Kean (1/26/14) | 3 vs. Lafayette (11/25/15) | 2 vs. Bryn Athyn (1/24/16) | 5 at Cornell (2/12/16) | 16 vs. Lafayette (11/25/15) |
1 • Vittorio Reynoso-Avila • Fr. • F • 6-5 • 200 • La Mirada, Calif. • La Mirada
Pronunciation ... vit-TOH-ree-oh ray-NO-soh AH-vee-lah ... scored 10 points in his career debut against Rowan, adding five rebounds and three assists in 15 minutes ... three-star recruit, as graded by ESPN and Scout.com ... named Most Outstanding Player on La Mirada's California Division II state championship team in 2015, averaging 14 points per game ... earned salutatorian honors at La Mirada.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 10 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 5 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 3 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 1 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 5 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 0 | 0 | 15 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 10 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 5 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 3 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 1 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 5 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) | 0 | 0 | 15 vs. Rowan (11/25/16) |
12 • Myles Stephens • So. • G • 6-5 • 205 • Lawrenceville, N.J. • St. Andrew's (Del.)
Has shot .500 from the field in six of the team's eight games this season and has scored in every game ... put in a career-best 18 points on 7-of-8 shooting against Liberty on Dec. 10 ... played in all 29 games in 2015-16, one of only two freshmen along with Devin Cannady, to do so ... had three double-figure scoring games last season ... played double-figure minutes 24 times last season, including in each of the last 18 games ... played his freshman and sophomore years at The Pennington School (N.J.) before transferring to St. Andrew's School in Delaware to finish his high school career ... missed his senior year of high school due to injury, was a 1,000-point scorer in three seasons of high school basketball ... won a Prep B State Championship at Pennington and, in the summer of 2015, was the No. 2-ranked player in Delaware by ESPN ... had a stellar career on the AAU circuit with the NJ Roadrunners until his move to Delaware, where he played with We R 1 on the 17U level.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 18 at Liberty (12/10/16) | 4, last at Liberty (12/10/16) | 2, last vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) | 1, last vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 1 vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) | 7 at Liberty (12/10/16) | 4 at Liberty (12/10/16) | 3 at VCU (11/29/16) | 24 at VCU (11/29/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2015-17 | 18 at Liberty (12/10/16) | 6 at Hampton (1/3/16) | 2, last vs. Brown (2/20/16) | 2, last at Harvard (3/4/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 2, last vs. Cornell (2/27/16) | 7 at Liberty (12/10/16) | 4 at Liberty (12/10/16) | 5 vs. Liberty (12/17/15) | 26 vs. Columbia (2/26/16) |
10 • Spencer Weisz • Sr. • F • 6-4 • 210 • Florham Park, N.J. • Seton Hall Prep
Pronunciation: WICE ... second-team All-Ivy League 2015 and 2016, 2014 Ivy League Rookie of the Year ... became Princeton's 31st 1,000-point scorer on Dec. 7 against Hawai'i ... ranked eighth in the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio at 4.29 as of Dec. 11, thanks in part to a 13-assist, two-turnover game at Liberty Dec. 10 that tied Princeton's single-game assist record ... stands led the team in assists last season with 113, good for fourth in the Ivy League ... had an Ivy-best 2.83 assist-to-turnover ratio and was second in the Ivy in assists per game at 3.9 ... had two double-doubles last season, at Lipscomb (21 pts., 11 reb.) and against Bucknell (14 pts., 10 reb.) ... 18 double-digit scoring games last season ... history major.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 17 vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) | 8 at BYU (11/14/16) | 13 at Liberty (12/10/16) | 2 at Lafayette (11/23/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 1 vs. Cal (12/6/16) | 6 vs. Hawai'i (12/7/16) | 4, last at VCU (11/29/16) | 2 at Lehigh (11/20/16) | 35 at Liberty (12/10/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2013-17 | 22 vs. Incarnate Word (11/22/14) | 12 at Saint Joseph's (12/8/15) | 13 at Liberty (12/10/16) | 4 vs. Liberty (12/22/14) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 2, last vs. Yale (2/28/14) | 8 vs. Incarnate Word (11/22/14) | 5 at Lipscomb (12/12/15) | 8 at Lafayette (11/19/14) | 40 at Penn (1/9/16) |
0 • Aaron Young • Jr. • G • 6-0 • 180 • Falls Church, Va. • Virginia Episcopal School
Reset his career single-game scoring best with 18 points and six 3-pointers at Liberty on Dec. 10, playing in the same town where he went to high school ... played in 19 games last season, reaching double-figure minutes twice, and played in 15 games as a rookie first-team All-Virginia Independent Conference Division I honoree in 2014 while leading VES to the VIC state semifinals and earning all-tournament honors ... politics major.
| Season Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2016-17 | 18 at Liberty (12/10/16) | 2 at Liberty (12/10/16) | 0 | 1 at Liberty (12/10/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 0 | 6 at Liberty (12/10/16) | 6 at Liberty (12/10/16) | 0 | 22 at Liberty (12/10/16) |
| Career Highs | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl |
| 2014-17 | 18 at Liberty (12/10/16) | 2, last at Liberty (12/10/16) | 3 at Norfolk State (1/5/16) | 1, last at Liberty (12/10/16) |
| Blocks | FG | 3FG | FT | Min |
| 1 vs. Lipscomb (12/19/14) | 6 at Liberty (12/10/16) | 6 at Liberty (12/10/16) | 2, last vs. Bryn Athyn (1/24/16) | 22 at Liberty (12/10/16) |
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