Men's Hoops Team Rolls to Win Over Columbia in Ivy Home Opener

Friday, January 12

Princeton, N.J.

8:00 PM

Princeton University

8-8, 1-1Ivy

Columbia

3-11, 0-1Ivy

Columbia

Princeton

Devin Cannady had a game-high 17 points to lead Princeton over Columbia Friday night in Jadwin Gym.

Men's Hoops Team Rolls to Win Over Columbia in Ivy Home Opener

January 12, 2018 | Men's Basketball

Box Score

The 3-pointers were falling in Jadwin Gym Friday night with the Princeton men's basketball team dropping 15 of them in a 72-56 win over Columbia.

Six Tigers contributed to the 15 3s, which was the second-most of the season for Princeton behind the 16 the Tigers drilled at Cal Poly on Dec. 16. With the win, the Tigers moved to 8-8 overall and 1-1 in the Ivy.

Princeton scored the first eight points of the game and increased its lead as large as 20 with five minutes to go before halftime on a Sebastian Much 3, one of nine triples the Tigers hit in the opening half.

The lead grew as large as 27 after halftime with Devin Cannady leading the way with a game-high 17 points and Much (13) and Jerome Desrosiers (12) joining him in double figures.

Princeton will host Cornell Saturday at 7 p.m. to close out the weekend.

Postgame Notes

• Princeton won its 17th home Ivy game in a row, a streak that dates back to 2015. It's the longest since Princeton won 21 in a row from 2010-13.

• Princeton has now won eight in a row over Columbia and leads the series 153-85.

• Devin Cannady's 17 points moved him past T.J. Bray '14 (1,024) and John Hummer '70 (1,031) into 30th place on Princeton's career scoring list, now with 1,035. Sydney Johnson '97 is 29th at 1,044.

• Cannady moved closer to former teammate Spencer Weisz '17 on the career 3-pointers list. Weisz is fifth with 209 and Cannady remains sixth with 188.

• Cannady's three 3-pointers gave him 50 for the season, making him the seventh player in program history with three 50 3-pointer seasons. Only Douglas Davis '12 and Brian Earl '99, who will lead his Cornell team into Jadwin Saturday, had four 50 3-pointer seasons, which Cannady could achieve next year.

• Rookie Elijah Barnes made two free throws for his first career points.

• In his second start of the season and first since Dec. 2 vs. Miami after recovering from a knee injury, sophomore Will Gladson had a season-high five points and a career-high four rebounds.

• Rookie Jerome Desrosiers had a career high with his 12 points, two more than the 10 he had at Hawai'i on Dec. 25. Desrosiers is averaging 10.0 points per game over the last three games while averaging 4.9 points per game on the season.

• Rookie Ryan Schwieger tied his Tiger best with five rebounds.

• Princeton shot .462 from the field for the team's ninth straight game shooting better than 40 percent.

• Columbia's .344 clip from the field was a season low for a Tiger opponent, with the .351 Akron shot on Dec. 23 as the previous low.

• The 16-point margin of victory was Princeton's second-largest of the season after a 20-point win at Cal Poly on Dec. 16.