Cannady's Second Half Helps Tigers Rally, Beat Monmouth 60-57

Saturday, November 24

West Long Branch, N.J.

3:00 PM

Princeton University

2-2

Monmouth

0-7

Princeton

Monmouth

Devin Cannady helped Princeton rally to beat Monmouth.

Photo by: Ali Nugent/Monmouth

Cannady's Second Half Helps Tigers Rally, Beat Monmouth 60-57

November 24, 2018 | Men's Basketball

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Devin Cannady scored 18 of his 21 points in the second half and the Princeton men's basketball team rallied to beat Monmouth 60-57 Saturday in West Long Branch.

"It's one of those wins – I hope that I'm right – but I really feel like it's a gutsy win and it's going to propel our group forward in a really cool way," Mitch Henderson, the Franklin C. Cappon-Edward G. Green '40 head coach of Princeton men's basketball, said.

Check out highlights from Saturday's game below:

Princeton trailed by as many as 12 points as late as with 13-plus minutes to go at 40-28. The deficit still stood at 10 with just less than nine minutes to go, but that's when the rally began.

3:59 2nd | Monmouth 50, Princeton 49
It's a tight one here at Monmouth! Myles Stephens drives to the rim to get the Tigers within a point. Watch the game here: https://t.co/en01BLQptz pic.twitter.com/NlkHBqKDVv
— Princeton Basketball (@Princeton_Hoops) November 24, 2018

A 15-4 run from that point, including eight points from Cannady, gave Princeton its first lead of the game at 52-51 with 3:38 to go, and from there, the teams were never more than three points apart.

"Every time we would go to the bench for timeouts and medias, all my teammates on the bench, 'Keep shooting, Devin, keep shooting,' and so when you have that kind of trust and Myles' (Stephens) ability to be at the rim and Jose (Morales) coming off ball screens, Richmond (Aririguzoh) getting rebounds, they open shots up for me," Cannady said. "I was off, definitely, for the first half and then when you see a couple go in, at least for me at least one shot, go in, then you build that confidence."

Cannady broke a 55-55 tie with a 3-pointer with 40 seconds left, and though Monmouth had the opportunity to tie after Deion Hammond was fouled shooting a 3, Hammond made only two shots, and the Hawks were forced to foul. Cannady, a career 90-percent free throw shooter, nailed a pair, and Monmouth couldn't get a 3-point try off on its last possession as Princeton left with the win.

0:33 2nd | Princeton 58, Monmouth 55
Devin Cannady. Clutch.
Watch the finish here: https://t.co/en01BLQptz pic.twitter.com/GoEzxT6wB3
— Princeton Basketball (@Princeton_Hoops) November 24, 2018

Cannady, who missed the team's first two games due to injury, has put up 21 points in each of his first two games back and is shooting .556 (15-27) from the field and .563 (9-16) from 3.

The Tigers will hit the road again Wednesday for a 7 p.m. game at Maine before returning home next Saturday against George Washington for a 4 p.m. start.

Postgame Notes

• Devin Cannady moved closer to Gabe Lewullis '99 (1,277) and 11th place on Princeton's all-time scoring list, now with 1,266 points. He also moved closer to Sean Jackson '92 (235) and third place on Princeton's career 3-pointers list, now with 227.

• Myles Stephens' 13 points moved him past former teammate Amir Bell '18 (1,043) and Sydney Johnson '97 (1,044) into 30th place on Princeton's all-time list, now with 1,049. Dan Mavraides '11 is 29th with 1,054.

• Princeton now leads the all-time series with Monmouth 13-5 and has won the last two in the series.

• Jose Morales' 10 points were a career-best against a Division I opponent and matched his career best overall. He scored 10 against Rowan two seasons ago. The points came in a career-high 31 minutes, surpassing the 25 he played against Lehigh last season. Morales also added six assists and four steals, both career-bests surpassing his four assists and three steals in the game against Rowan two years ago.