Princeton, Penn to Renew Rivalry Tuesday in Jadwin on ESPNU

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Myles Stephens and the Tigers will host Penn Tuesday in Jadwin.

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Princeton, Penn to Renew Rivalry Tuesday in Jadwin on ESPNU

February 06, 2018 | Men's Basketball

Two of the top three teams in the Ivy League standings will get together in Jadwin Gym Tuesday when Penn and Princeton meet for the 239th time.

It's Princeton student night, with a Jadwin Jungle T-shirt for the first 500 students, as well as a freshman pizza party. It's also Youth Night, with all kids 12 and under receiving free admission if wearing their jersey or school colors.

Princeton (11-9, 3-2 Ivy) vs. Penn (15-6, 5-0 Ivy), Tuesday, Feb. 6, 6 p.m. ET, Jadwin Gym, Princeton, N.J.
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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 will be 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 five-game, nine-day run will conclude with the Tigers' first full Ivy road weekend of the season at Harvard, Friday on ESPNU, and Dartmouth, Saturday on Eleven Sports and the Ivy League Network.

• Henderson is set to coach his 200th game at Princeton Tuesday vs. Penn. The only other Tiger mentors to coach 200 games are Albert Wittmer (1923-1932, 115-86), Franklin "Cappy" Cappon (1938-43 & 1946-61, 250-181) and Pete Carril (1967-96, 514-261). Henderson, at 127 wins, is third behind Cappon (250) and Carril (514, 1967-96), for whom Henderson played his first two seasons at Princeton.

• The race for berths in Ivy League Tournament is starting to take shape, and the Tigers enter Tuesday's game in the third spot. Penn is at 5-0, Harvard next at 5-1, then Princeton at 3-2 and Brown and Columbia next at 3-3. After Tuesday's game, all the Ivy teams will have played the same number of league games the rest of the way, with the remainder of the league season over the next four Friday and Saturday nights.

• Last time against Penn on Jan. 6 at The Palestra, Penn snapped Princeton's eight-game winning streak against the Quakers in a 76-70 Penn win. Five Quakers were in double figures as Penn got just nine bench points. Penn's Ryan Betley and Princeton's Devin Cannady had a co-game-high 21 points. Penn shot 51.9 percent from the field, outdoing Princeton's 45.5 percent. Princeton is 1-4 when opponents shoot better than 50 percent from the field, with the USC game (.522) as the only win of those five. Penn's .519 shooting clip against Princeton is tied for its fifth-highest of the season, and the Quakers are 7-0 when shooting 49 percent or better. Princeton has held 12 opponents below 49 percent from the field and is 8-4 in those games.

• Tiger rookie Jerome Desrosiers will see some familiar faces on the Penn side Tuesday, with Jackson Donahue, AJ Brodeur and Collin McManus all fellow alums of Northfield Mount Hermon in Massachusetts.

• No Penn opponent has made more than nine 3-pointers in a game this season. Princeton made seven against the Quakers, tied for its fewest of the season. Princeton averages 10 made 3s and has made at least that many nine times, including in four of the five games since Penn.

• Princeton is coming off the highest-scoring game in program history as the Tigers and Brown combined for 202 points, surpassing the 200 Princeton (118) and Wichita State (82) scored in the 1965 NCAA third-place game that saw Bill Bradley '65 score a program-record 58. Princeton has scored at least 70 points in each of the last seven games after scoring 70 in five of the first 13 games.

• Devin Cannady continues his climb up Princeton's 1,000 career points list after joining the club Jan. 6 at Penn. Now 19th all-time at 1,110, 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 370 points this season and needs 146 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 just 516 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.

• Cannady, with 61 3-pointers this year, is the seventh player in program history with three 50 3-pointer seasons. The others are Sean Jackson '92, Brian Earl '99, Gabe Lewullis '99, Kyle Koncz '08, Douglas Davis '12 and former teammate Spencer Weisz '17. 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 1,031 minutes so far. Will Gladson had 304 of the 462 last year and Much, Desrosiers and Schwieger have 969 of the 1,031.

• The Tigers have overcome tough starts to have a strong Ivy League season before under Mitch Henderson. In Henderson's first season of 2011-12, Princeton started 1-5 before finishing 10-4 in the league, a record that's now one likely to make the Ivy League Tournament. In 2012-13, Princeton started 3-6 before going 10-4 in the league. In 2014-15, Princeton started 3-8 before going 9-5 in the league. Last season, Princeton started 4-6 before going 14-0 in the Ivy. This year, the Tigers are starting to show it again, winning nine of 12 after a 2-6 start to stand 11-9 overall and 3-2 in the Ivy.

• Entering Sunday's (2/4) games, Princeton ranked ninth in the nation in fewest fouls (338), 12th in fewest turnovers (243), 23rd in 3FG percentage (.398) and 27th in 3s made per game (10.0). Devin Cannady led the individual rankings for the Tigers with a 30th-best 3.05 made 3s per game. Penn was ranked third in defensive rebounds per game (29.90), sixth in 3FG percentage defense (.298), and 26th in total rebounds per game (39.67).

• The Tigers have used seven starting lineups this season. Ten Tigers have started a game, and only senior Amir Bell and juniors Devin Cannady and Myles Stephens have started all 20. Tiger rookies have accounted for 23 starts between Sebastian Much (15), Jerome Desrosiers (seven) and Ryan Schwieger (one), while two other seniors (Mike LeBlanc, five, Alec Brennan, four) have started, as have two sophomores (Will Gladson, five, Richmond Aririguzoh, three).

• Devin Cannady's climb up Princeton's 3-pointer list will remain in sixth place for a while as he closes the gap between his 199 career 3s and the 209 that former teammate Spencer Weisz '17 posted. Princeton's single-season 3-pointer mark belongs to Sean Jackson '92, who drilled 95 in 1990-91. The Ivy League record held by Cornell alum Ryan Wittman is 109 in his senior year of 2009-10. Cannady enters the Brown game with 59 3s.

• Devin Cannady, Myles Stephens and Amir Bell have combined for 50.5 percent of the minutes through 20 games. All three average at least 33.3 minutes per game, and no other Tiger is closer than rookie Sebastian Much at 20.2 mpg. The Bell-Cannady-Stephens trio accounts for 2,862 of the 3,881 points on the roster, or 73.7 percent.

• Under Mitch Henderson, the Tigers now have a 48-42 (.533) record in the pre-New Year portion of the schedule and an 82-27 (.752) 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Ivy League Network (ILN) is available on Apple TV, Roku and the ILN app for Android and Apple devices.

• The Mitch Henderson Show airs Tuesday nights (except for airing Wednesday, Feb. 7) during basketball season from 6-7 p.m. on Fox Sports 920 The Jersey. 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.