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Rising senior Amir Bell and the Tigers will head to Florida for the Hoophall Miami Invitational in December.
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Men's Basketball Team to Play in the Hoophall Miami Invitational in December
March 29, 2017 | Men's Basketball
Two seasons ago, the Princeton men's basketball team traveled to Miami to face the Hurricanes during the holiday break in late December, leading by as many as seven points in the second half before the 13th-ranked Hurricanes battled back to win.
Next season, the Tigers will meet Miami again, this time as part of the Hoophall Miami Invitational. They'll also meet in a different venue than in December 2015, taking the battle to downtown Miami and the AmericanAirlines Arena, home of the Miami Heat.
Set for Saturday, Dec. 2, the game will be part of a doubleheader with Syracuse and Kansas, and both games will be televised on the ESPN family of networks. Start times have yet to be determined. Tickets will be available here.
"We played Miami a couple of years ago, so we know they are a very good team," Mitch Henderson, the Franklin C. Cappon-Edward G. Green '40 head coach of Princeton men's basketball, said. "This is an opportunity for us to play at AmericanAirlines Arena, and with Syracuse and Kansas there, it highlights four great programs in December."
Princeton and Miami have met three times, though the 2015 game was the only recent meeting. Princeton came to Miami for two games in December 1948, splitting the pair.
The Tigers are able to return 57 percent of their points from a season that saw the team go 14-0 in the Ivy League for the first time since 1998, win the inaugural Ivy League Tournament title and push fifth-seeded Notre Dame to the final possession in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Though the Tigers lose three starting forwards in Ivy League Player of the Year Spencer Weisz, fellow first-team All-Ivy Leaguer Steven Cook and Pete Miller, among those able to return are forward Myles Stephens, the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year, a first-team All-Ivy Leaguer and the Ivy League Tournament Most Outstanding Player, guard Devin Cannady, an All-Ivy League honorable mention, and guard Amir Bell, who surged in Ivy League play to shoot .581 from the field and .559 from 3-point range. Stephens (15.4 ppg) and Cannady (14.4 ppg) were Princeton's two leading scorers during the Ivy League season.
Bell, with 17 points, and Cannady, with 13 points, were two of the four Tigers in double figures in the Dec. 29, 2015 game at Miami.
Miami earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament this year, and like Princeton, graduates two of its top four scorers in third-team All-ACC guard Davon Reed and forward Kamari Murphy, the only players to start all 33 games for the Hurricanes in 2016-17. Guards Ja'Quan Newton (13.5 ppg) and Bruce Brown (11.8 ppg) are the team's leading returners.
Next season, the Tigers will meet Miami again, this time as part of the Hoophall Miami Invitational. They'll also meet in a different venue than in December 2015, taking the battle to downtown Miami and the AmericanAirlines Arena, home of the Miami Heat.
Set for Saturday, Dec. 2, the game will be part of a doubleheader with Syracuse and Kansas, and both games will be televised on the ESPN family of networks. Start times have yet to be determined. Tickets will be available here.
"We played Miami a couple of years ago, so we know they are a very good team," Mitch Henderson, the Franklin C. Cappon-Edward G. Green '40 head coach of Princeton men's basketball, said. "This is an opportunity for us to play at AmericanAirlines Arena, and with Syracuse and Kansas there, it highlights four great programs in December."
Princeton and Miami have met three times, though the 2015 game was the only recent meeting. Princeton came to Miami for two games in December 1948, splitting the pair.
The Tigers are able to return 57 percent of their points from a season that saw the team go 14-0 in the Ivy League for the first time since 1998, win the inaugural Ivy League Tournament title and push fifth-seeded Notre Dame to the final possession in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Though the Tigers lose three starting forwards in Ivy League Player of the Year Spencer Weisz, fellow first-team All-Ivy Leaguer Steven Cook and Pete Miller, among those able to return are forward Myles Stephens, the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year, a first-team All-Ivy Leaguer and the Ivy League Tournament Most Outstanding Player, guard Devin Cannady, an All-Ivy League honorable mention, and guard Amir Bell, who surged in Ivy League play to shoot .581 from the field and .559 from 3-point range. Stephens (15.4 ppg) and Cannady (14.4 ppg) were Princeton's two leading scorers during the Ivy League season.
Bell, with 17 points, and Cannady, with 13 points, were two of the four Tigers in double figures in the Dec. 29, 2015 game at Miami.
Miami earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament this year, and like Princeton, graduates two of its top four scorers in third-team All-ACC guard Davon Reed and forward Kamari Murphy, the only players to start all 33 games for the Hurricanes in 2016-17. Guards Ja'Quan Newton (13.5 ppg) and Bruce Brown (11.8 ppg) are the team's leading returners.
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