Tigers Pull Away From Lafayette

Wednesday, November 22

Princeton, N.J.

7:00 PM

Princeton University

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Lafayette

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Lafayette

Princeton

Devin Cannady led Princeton in scoring Wednesday night against Lafayette.

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

November 22, 2017 | Men's Basketball

Box Score

Princeton scored 15 straight points around the midway point of the second half and kept Lafayette off the board for nearly four and a half minutes as the Tigers pulled away from the Leopards in a 60-46 win Wednesday night in Jadwin Gym.

The run, fueled in largest part by two Sebastian Much threes and five points from Aaron Young, turned a 35-33 Tiger deficit into a 48-35 lead, and Princeton never led by fewer than 10 after that.

Devin Cannady led Princeton with 17 points, continuing his run of putting up double figures in every game on the young season. Freshman Much had a career-high 10 points, all in nine second-half minutes off the bench.

Princeton found success on the glass, outrebounding Lafayette 37-24 overall and grabbing 10 offensive rebounds to just one for the Leopards. Cannady and Mike LeBlanc paced Princeton in that stat with a game-high seven boards. That advantage led to a 14-0 Princeton edge in second-chance points, and although both teams had 12 turnovers, Princeton had a 16-6 advantage in points off those miscues.

In outscoring Lafayette 33-17 after the break, Princeton upped its shooting clip from 33.3 percent in the first half to 44.4 in the second while clamping down on Lafayette to a 28 percent clip in the second half after seeing the Leopards shoot 50 percent on the way to a lead that grew as large as six points in the closing minutes of the first half.

The Tigers will make the trip to North Jersey to face Fairleigh Dickinson (3-2) Sunday at 2 p.m.

Postgame Notes:

• Sophomore Richmond Aririguzoh turned in a career-high six points in a career-high 22 minutes. His previous minutes high against a Division I opponent was nine, most recently in the regular-season finale against Dartmouth last season.

• Senior Amir Bell tied a career high with six assists. He had six helpers last season against Monmouth.

• Rookie Charlie Bagin made his career debut and junior Elias Berbari and sophomore Vittorio Reynoso-Avila made their season debuts.

• Freshman Jerome Desrosiers had his first career points, making a 3-pointer with just less than five minutes to go in the game.

• Senior Mike LeBlanc has posted rebound career highs in back-to-back games, grabbing four at Saint Joseph's and seven tonight.

• Rookie Sebastian Much had the most points (10), field goals (four), 3-pointers (two) and minutes (11) of his new Tiger career.

• Freshman Ryan Schwieger notched his first career blocked shot.

• Lafayette went 4 for 20 (.200) from 3-point range. None of Princeton's first four opponents have hit 40 percent from 3 this season, topping out at 37.5 percent (BYU).

• Much's 10-point game made him the first Tiger other than Bell, Devin Cannady and Myles Stephens to hit double figures this season. Cannady is the only Tiger to do so in all four games.

• Princeton now leads the all-time series against Lafayette 51-19 and has won eight of the last nine in the series.