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Men's Hoops: Five Takeaways From the Brown-Yale Weekend
February 01, 2016 | Men's Basketball
Princeton 83, Brown 59: Box Score | Highlights
Yale 79, Princeton 75: Box Score | Highlights
The first Ivy League weekend is in the books for the Princeton men's basketball team. Here are five takeaways from the trip to Brown and Yale:
1. The Never-Quit Tigers: Princeton has trailed by double figures in two of its three Ivy games this season. The rally was successful against Penn, as the Tigers trailed by 11 with less than four minutes to go and went on to win in OT. At Yale, though Princeton trailed by 10 with just less than four minutes to go and wasn't able to close the gap, the Tigers had the ball with the chance to tie with 18 seconds to go.
2. Mind the Arc: Opponents have made 10 or more 3-pointers in just two games this season, at Maryland and at Yale. Both were Tiger defeats. While Princeton's history with Maryland is off-and-on, the Tigers, of course, play Yale twice each year, and Yale's 11 3s in Saturday's game were as many as the Bulldogs had in both meetings last year. The 11 3s were a season high for the Bulldogs and a total they hit only twice last season against Division I opponents, at Penn (12) and at home against Dartmouth (13).
3. 20 from Caruso, Usually Good: Henry Caruso achieved his seventh 20-point game as a Tiger Saturday, pouring in 26. Games when Caruso goes off for a big number are usually good for Princeton, just not against Yale. Princeton is 5-0 when Caruso scores 20 against opponents other than Yale and 0-2 when he hits that number against the Bulldogs.
4. Better from the Stripe: Princeton's .909 clip from the free-throw line Friday night against Brown was its best performance of the season and a sign of the improvement the team has had from the line of late. Over the last seven games, Princeton has hit 73.8 percent (104-141) of its free throws. Over the first 10 games, the Tigers hit 65 percent (134-206) of their tries.
5. Lots of Basketball Left: The Tigers enter the Ivy's second full weekend one game back of Columbia and Yale in the loss column, but Princeton is also the only Ivy team yet to play a league home game. The Tigers' rematch with Yale is in Jadwin on Feb. 19, and Princeton will face Columbia first on the road a week from Saturday and then in Princeton on Feb. 26.