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Princeton University
Saint Joseph's
Men's Hoops Team to Head to Saint Joseph's Saturday Night
November 16, 2017 | Men's Basketball
You can hear it on WPRB 103.3 FM in Princeton or right here on GoPrincetonTigers.com and watch it online on the Atlantic 10 Network.
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Princeton (0-2) at Saint Joseph's (1-1), Saturday, Nov. 18, 7 p.m., Hagan Arena, Philadelphia, Pa.
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• Up next: Princeton will return home to face Lafayette, the team's longest running currently active annual non-conference series. The teams have played annually since the 1990-91 season, and the 70 meetings are second only to the 120 meetings between Princeton and Rutgers among non-conference foes.
• The Princeton-Saint Joseph's series is tied 8-8 all-time, but the Hawks have won the only two meetings to include any of the current players. On Dec. 8, 2015 in Philadelphia, SJU won 62-50. Each team returns only 17 points from that game. Sixty-six of the Hawks' 76 points from last year are back on the roster, led by 19 from Shavar Newkirk, 17 from Lamarr Kimble and 12 from Charlie Brown, while Princeton brings back 45 of its 68, led by 17 from Devin Cannady and 12 from Myles Stephens.
• In last year's game, neither team was able to crack 40 percent shooting, but the Hawks were able to win the boards 58-34 with six Hawks getting between seven and nine rebounds. Among those were 19 offensive boards, leading to a 13-0 edge in second-chance points for the Hawks. More recently, the Tigers were able to turn a 13-rebound deficit in the opener at Butler to a 13-rebound advantage Wednesday against BYU, including 14 offensive rebounds for the Tigers.
• Princeton is looking to break a three-game skid against Atlantic 10 teams. The Tigers last win against an A-10 opponent came on Nov. 26, 2013 against George Mason in Jadwin Gym in the Patriots' first year in the conference. Saint Joseph's has defeated Princeton twice since and VCU has beaten the Tigers once since. Princeton's last win over an A-10 team on the road was on Jan. 2, 2010 at Saint Joseph's, 70-62. The latest visit to SJU, the trip to VCU last year and a 2010 CBI game at Saint Louis were the only games at A-10 teams since.
• The Saint Joseph's game is one of two against A-10 teams set for this season, both on the road. Princeton will play at George Washington on Dec. 6, and the Tigers could face Davidson in the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic on Dec. 25 in Hawaii.
• The Tigers have used two different starting lineups over the first two games, with freshmen Sebastian Much and Jerome Desrosiers starting the opener at Butler and seniors Mike LeBlanc and Alec Brennan starting Wednesday against BYU. Both pairs complemented juniors Devin Cannady and Myles Stephens and senior Amir Bell.
• Just two-and-change seasons into his Tiger career, Devin Cannady stands 13th on Princeton's career 3-point list with 143. He needs just 24 more 3s to vault to solo sixth place. He needs one more 3 to tie Ed Persia '04 for 12th place with Bob Scrabis '89 and Tiger radio color analyst Noah Savage '08 tied for 11th at 155.
• Princeton was voted a close third in the Ivy League's official preseason media poll. Princeton received three of the 17 first-place votes with Harvard getting six first-place votes and Yale eight. Harvard had 121 poll points to 118 for Yale and 114 for Princeton.
• The Tigers have used 11 players in each of the first two games. Devin Cannady, Myles Stephens and Amir Bell have combined for 55.3 percent of the minutes and each averages at least 36 minutes. Among the other eight, none averages more than the 18 minutes a game logged by rookie Ryan Schwieger and senior Mike LeBlanc.
• Both of the Saint Joseph's games this year have been high-scoring affairs, with each team hitting at least 82 points in each game. Princeton averaged 26.3 3-point tries per game last year and hit at a 37.8 percent clip, and although we're only two games in, the Tigers are averaging just 17 tries a game this year but making them at a 47.1 percent rate. Both of the Hawks' opponents this year have hoisted 25 (Toledo) and 30 (UIC) 3s, with Toledo making 14 (56 percent) and UIC nine (30 percent). Both opponents have shot at least 40 percent from the field, with Toledo hitting at 53.6 percent. The Hawks have been at 45 percent in each of the first two games (45.7 Toledo, 45.3 UIC), while the Tigers allowed 54.4 percent to Butler and 43.6 to BYU.
• Princeton knew what it had coming back in the trio of Myles Stephens, Devin Cannady and Amir Bell, a group that accounts for 2,087 of the 2,612 points on the roster, or 79.9 percent. The three are the only players to put up double-figure points in a game so far this season, doing so on five of six combined opportunities.
• Princeton has posted double-figure turnovers in each of the first two games, with 11 at Butler and 19 against BYU. Princeton had 10+ turnovers in each of the first five games last year, averaging 13.6 over that stretch before averaging 9.2 over the final 25 games.
• The Tigers have overcome up-and-down starts to have successful seasons in recent years. Under Mitch Henderson, the Tigers now have a 41-37 (.526) record in the pre-New Year portion of the schedule and a 78-25 (.757) record from Jan. 1 forward.
• Princeton is coming off a 14-0 Ivy League season, the sixth in program history and first since 1998, and the 14th in Ivy League history and first since 2008 (Cornell). That earned the Tigers their 27th Ivy League championship and the top seed in the inaugural Ivy League Tournament, which Princeton won to advance to its 25th NCAA Tournament.
• The Tigers graduated three starters in Ivy League Player of the Year Spencer Weisz, first-team All-Ivy Leaguer Steven Cook, and center Pete Miller. Despite that, Princeton returns two starters in junior Devin Cannady, an honorable-mention All-Ivy Leaguer, and classmate Myles Stephens, the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year, a first-team All-Ivy Leaguer, and the Ivy League Tournament MVP. Princeton also returns senior Amir Bell, who has started 64 games in his career, including five games last year.
• Last season, Mitch Henderson notched his fourth 20-win season as Princeton's coach, the second-most in program history behind Pete Carril's 10.
• Princeton's 19-game winning streak that included the final 17 games of the regular season and the Ivy League Tournament was the second-longest in program history behind the 20 straight that the 1997-98 team won with Mitch Henderson as a senior.
• Mitch Henderson, at 119 wins, is the third-winningest coach in program history behind Franklin "Cappy" Cappon (250, 1938-43 & 46-61), for whom the men's basketball head coaching position is named, and Pete Carril (514, 1967-96), for whom Henderson played his first two seasons at Princeton.
• Junior Amir Bell enjoyed quite a bounce-back in the Ivy League season. In non-conference play, he averaged 3.8 ppg while shooting .268 from the field and .120 from 3. In Ivy play, he averaged 8.7 ppg, shooting .581 from the field and .559 from 3. Bell had Princeton's highest shooting percentages overall (among players with >3 FGA) and from 3 in Ivy League play.
• Princeton has 32 members of the program's 1,000-point club, with Spencer Weisz '17 and Steven Cook '17 joining last season. There are a few candidates to join this season, with Amir Bell at 751 points, Devin Cannady at 771 and Myles Stephens at 565.
• Princeton's trip to Hawaii for the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic Dec. 22-25 will be the program's fifth to the nation's 50th state, following the 1979 Rainbow Classic, the 1998 Rainbow Classic, the 2007 Maui Invitational and last year's Pearl Harbor Classic.
• Entering Thursday's games, Princeton stood at 101 in the KenPom rankings, just three spots behind Yale for tops in the Ivy. The Saint Joseph's game figures to be Princeton's third in a row against a KenPom top-100 team, with Butler at 52, BYU at 66 and SJU at 71. More will come, with USC at 14, Miami (Fla.) at 16, and possible meetings with as many as two of USC, Miami and Davidson (69) in Hawaii.
• Entering Thursday's games, Princeton had the most wins among New Jersey's eight Division I teams since Mitch Henderson took over at Princeton prior to the 2011-12 season. Princeton's 119 wins during that time are three better than Seton Hall's 118.
• Princeton ended last season tops in the nation in fewest turnovers at 298, fourth in fewest fouls at 482, fifth in turnovers per game at 9.9, ninth in scoring defense at 61.4 ppg allowed, 12th in 3s per game at 9.9, 15th in assist-to-turnover ratio at 1.44, and 17th in turnover margin at +3.2/game.
• Princeton ended 49th in last season's final RPI after ending the season ranked 47th in 2016.
• Princeton appeared in ESPN's August 2017 bracketology for the 2018 NCAA Tournament, seeded 12th.
• Princeton will face two teams ranked in each of the current AP and coaches polls. with USC 10th and Miami 11th in the Nov. 13 AP poll and USC 11th and Miami 12th in the preseason coaches poll.
• The Pete Carril coaching tree is going strong in the 2017-18 season. Six current Division I head coaches played for and/or coached under Carril, including Mitch Henderson '98, Mike Brennan '94 (American), Chris Mooney '94 (Richmond), Sydney Johnson '97 (Fairfield), Brian Earl '99 (Cornell) and Bill Carmody (Holy Cross).
