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Tigers, Columbia to Meet Saturday in New York
February 17, 2018 | Men's Basketball
The Princeton men's basketball team's road swing continues Saturday at Columbia, another team battling for an Ivy League Tournament berth.
Princeton (11-13, 3-6 Ivy) at Columbia (6-16, 3-6), Saturday, Feb. 17, 7 p.m. ET, Levien Gym, New York, N.Y.
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• The Mitch Henderson Show airs Tuesday nights during basketball season from 6-7 p.m. on Fox Sports 920 The Jersey. (The Feb. 6 broadcast was Wednesday, Feb. 7 due to the Penn game.) Originating live from Winberie's Restaurant & Bar (1 Palmer Square, Princeton), the weekly show features men's basketball head coach Mitch Henderson '98 along with assistant coaches, players, and other special guests. Derek Jones, the play-by-play voice for Princeton basketball on the Princeton IMG Sports Network and Ivy League Network, serves as host – tweet him your questions for Coach Henderson @DerekJones79. Fans who can't make it Winberie's can listen on Fox Sports 920 or live online. A podcast of each episode is also available following the show at GoPrincetonTigers.com/podcasts and the Princeton Athletics channel on iTunes.
• Up next: The Tigers will have their final home weekend next Friday against Harvard and Saturday against Dartmouth. It'll be the final home Ivy games of the careers of seniors Aaron Young, Mike LeBlanc, Amir Bell and Alec Brennan.
• Since the first official varsity game on Jan. 26, 1901, Princeton entered the month of February having never had a game in which both teams scored 100-plus points. The Tigers have now had two such games, breaking the program record for combined points in a game with 202 in Brown's 102-100 OT win on Feb. 3 in Jadwin. That record lasted 13 days until Princeton and Cornell went three OTs last night in Ithaca with Cornell winning 107-101 for 208 combined points.
• Saturday at Columbia, the Tigers will be looking to break a five-game Ivy skid. Princeton last lost five Ivy games in a row in 2008, when the team endured a nine-game league skid on the way to a 3-11 Ivy record.Â
• Princeton and Columbia are on the outside looking in at the Ivy League Tournament with five games left, both at 3-6. Brown and Cornell, each 4-5, are tied for fourth, one game behind Yale in third. Penn and Harvard co-lead at 8-1.
• Amir Bell is now eighth in Princeton history with 298 career assists, a stat kept since the 1974-75 season. He needs seven assists to pass coach Mitch Henderson '98, which would make Bell the fourth Tiger to play for Henderson to pass him on that list alongside Spencer Weisz '17, T.J. Bray '14 and Ian Hummer '13. Henderson graduated fourth on the Tiger career list and would be eighth when Bell passes him.
• Princeton has done well of late against Columbia, winning eight in a row since a 2014 home loss. The Tigers haven't lost in Levien Gym since 2009, winning eight in a row in Manhattan after losing four in a row there from 2006-09. It's the team's longest active road winning streak in the league, four years longer than the four-game winning streak at Brown.Â
• Against Columbia in a 72-56 Tiger win on Jan. 12, Devin Cannady led the Tigers with 17 points with Sebastian Much (13) and Jerome Desrosiers (12) joining Cannady in double figures. Princeton outshot Columbia 46.2 percent to 34.4 percent from the field. The Tigers won despite committing 15 turnovers (nine for Columbia), leading to nine fewer field goal tries. Mike Smith (17.3 ppg, 14 vs. Princeton) and Quinton Adlesh (11.8 ppg, 13 vs. Princeton) were in the ballpark of their season-long scoring averages, but the Tigers held Lukas Meisner (11.9 ppg) scoreless, going 0 for 4 from the field. Also helping the Tigers were 15 3-pointers drained on 31 tries, with six Tigers contributing to the total and Desrosiers and Much hitting four apiece.
• Columbia opponents average 9.9 3-pointers per game with six opponents, including Princeton, making 14 or more 3-pointers against the Lions. For comparison, Princeton opponents average 7.3 3s made per game. The Lions also hit their share of triples, averaging 10.2 3s per game, good for 19th in the nation. Â
• Devin Cannady continues his climb up Princeton's 1,000 career points list after joining the club Jan. 6 at Penn. Now 15th all-time at 1,169, he's one of just five players with between 1,100 and 1,200 points, along with Chris Thomforde '69 (1,122), Rick Hielscher '95 (1,130), Frank Sowinski '78 (1,133) and former teammate Steven Cook '17 (1,148).
• Cannady has 429 points this season and needs 87 the rest of the way to have scored 516, which would be the most any Tiger has scored since Brian Taylor '84 poured in 676 points in 1972 (entered with the Class of 1973). Cannady needs 457 points over the rest of this season and next to pass Ian Hummer '13 to become the second-highest scorer in Princeton history. It'd be the third time that the title of second-to-Bill Bradley '65 (2,503) on Princeton's all-time scoring list has changed under Mitch Henderson. Douglas Davis '12 changed the No. 2 spot for the first time in 21 years in 2012, and Hummer did it the next year.Â
• Cannady, with 71 3-pointers this year, is the seventh player in program history with three 50 3-pointer seasons and the fourth with two 70 3-pointer seasons. The others in the smaller club are Sean Jackson '92, Brian Earl '99 and Douglas Davis '12. Only Davis and Earl had four 50 3-pointer seasons, which Cannady is able to achieve as well.
• Last year, the four-member freshman class of Will Gladson, Jose Morales, Vittorio Reynoso-Avila and Richmond Aririguzoh logged a combined 462 minutes. This year's five-member freshman class of Sebastian Much, Jerome Desrosiers, Ryan Schwieger, Elijah Barnes and Charlie Bagin have more than doubled that already, with 1,164 minutes so far. Will Gladson had 304 of the 462 last year and Much, Desrosiers and Schwieger have 1,099 of the 1,164.
• Princeton has turned around tough Ivy starts before under Mitch Henderson. In his first season of 2012, Princeton was 2-3 before going 8-1 the rest of the way for a 10-4 finish. In 2014, Princeton started 0-4 in the Ivy before going 8-2 the rest of the way to finish 8-6. In 2015, Princeton was 5-5 in the Ivy before winning the last four to finish 9-5.  Â
• Entering Saturday's (2/17) games, Princeton ranked in the top 10 in Division I in fewest turnovers (21st, 291), 3s made per game (9.9) and fewest fouls (34th, 415). Devin Cannady had the top individual ranking at 20th with 36:52 minutes per game. Columbia was 19th in fewest turnovers (287), 19th in 3FGs made per game (10.2), and 31st in fewest fouls (413), while Quinton Adlesh was eighth with a .476 3FG percentage.
• The Tigers have used nine starting lineups this season. The Tigers last used the same starting lineup in back-to-back games against Yale and Brown Feb. 2-3. Â
• With six 3-pointers last night at Cornell, Devin Cannady tied former teammate Spencer Weisz '17 for fifth on Princeton's all-time career list with 209. Brian Earl '99 holds the school's career record at 281, and Cornell's Ryan Wittman holds the Ivy career record at 377. Cannady has got 71 this season, tied for the eighth-most in program history. Princeton's single-season 3-pointer mark belongs to Sean Jackson '92, who drilled 95 in 1990-91. The Ivy League record held by Wittman is 109 in his senior year of 2009-10.Â
• Devin Cannady, Myles Stephens and Amir Bell have combined for 51 percent of the minutes through 24 games. All three average at least 34.1 minutes per game, and no other Tiger is closer than rookie Sebastian Much at 19.5 mpg. The Bell-Cannady-Stephens trio accounts for 3,015 of the 4,154 points on the roster, or 72.6 percent.Â
• Under Mitch Henderson, the Tigers now have a 48-42 (.533) record in the pre-New Year portion of the schedule and an 82-31 (.726) 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. Â
• 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.
• 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.Â
• 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.Â
• The Ivy League men's and women's basketball tournaments return to Philadelphia, where they will take place Saturday and Sunday, March 10-11, 2018. The top four teams will earn berths to the tournament, with the semifinals on Saturday and the championships on Sunday. All six games will be broadcast live on ESPN's networks. For tickets and more information please visit IvyMadness.com.
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