Princeton University Athletics
Thursday, April 25
Wilson, N.C.
7:00 PM
Princeton University
at
Barton
Photo by: Beverly Schaefer
Princeton's NCAA Journey Begins at Barton Thursday
April 24, 2019 | Men's Volleyball
The last time Princeton won the EIVA Championship before Saturday, Sam Shweisky was a freshman at Vassar College and 11 players on the current roster weren't even born.
Safe to say, this has been a long time coming.
NCAA Tournament Info
Safe to say, this has been a long time coming.
| NCAA Opening Round: Barton College Bulldogs | |
| Game Times | Thursday, Apr. 25 - 7:00 p.m. l Wilson Gym |
| Game Coverage | Live Stats | Video |
| @PUTigers l @BartonAthletics | |
| All-Time Series | Princeton leads the all-time series, 1-0. |
| Last Meeting | Mar. 19, 2014 – Princeton 3, Barton 1 (Recap) |
| Princeton | Roster l Schedule l Stats l @PrincetonVolley |
| Barton | Roster | Schedule | Stats | @BartonVB |
| Related Links | Five Named All-EIVA Princeton Moves Into AVCA Coaches' Poll |
NCAA Tournament Info
- Princeton will take on the Barton College Bulldogs at Wilson Gymnasium in Wilson, N.C. on Thursday (Apr. 25) in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament at 7 p.m.
- The winner of that game will make the trip to California to battle Pepperdine (Apr. 30, 10:30 p.m. EST) at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, Calif.
- The Tigers' only other trip to the NCAA Tournament was following their 1998 EIVA title. They lost in the national semifinal to Pepperdine (3-0).
- After George Huhmann swung his arm and produced the final kill of the EIVA Championship thriller, Dillon Gym went into a whirlwind, celebrating something done just once in program history … an EIVA Championship.
- Saturday's victory over Penn State was the second conference title in program history (1998).
- Princeton earned the right to host the EIVA Championships for the first time, finishing with a 13-1 conference mark in the regular season.
- The Tigers avenged its only conference loss (Saint Francis) with a 3-0 takedown of the Red Flashes in the EIVA Semifinals.
- In the final, Huhmann finished with 25 kills and a .426 attack percentage while Parker Dixon produced 15 kills and a .489 attack percentage. Joe Kelly had 51 assists in the victory. All three were named to the All-Tournament squad.
- Huhmann earned the tournament's Most Valuable Player award.
- It was announced on Monday that Princeton was in the AVCA Coaches' Poll for the first time since Feb. of 2015.
- The Tigers came in tied at the No. 13 position. Barton was receiving votes in the poll.
- This is only the second time since 1998 that Princeton has been ranked in the top-15 poll and 15th time overall (records date back to 1986). The No. 13 ranking isn't far removed from Princeton's best-ever national rank; following the 1998 EIVA championship run over both Penn State and Rutgers-Newark, the Tigers reached No. 11 in back-to-back polls.
- The Tigers started the season 0-5, but played four nationally ranked foes. The Tigers took one match in California over UC-San Diego before a six-game winning streak to open EIVA action. During that stretch, Shweisky's group dropped just four sets.
- Princeton made the trip to Utah which featured a five-set heartbreaking loss to No. 8 BYU.
- Shweisky's squad wrapped up the regular season with five straight wins, clinching home court advantage in the EIVA Tournament with a 3-1 decision over Saint Francis.
- Princeton's 17 wins are the most in Shweisky's tenure and the second most in program history.
- Off the banner regular season, Princeton was honored with five All-EIVA members and the Coach of the Year accolade.
- Huhmann became the first Princeton player ever to be named the Uvaldo Acosta Memorial EIVA Player of the Year while Shweisky was picked as Bob Sweeney EIVA Coach of the Year for the second time (2010).
- Joining Huhmann on the All-EIVA first team was Dixon. Greg Luck, Kendall Ratter and Kelly earned second nominations.
- Barton is 25-4 this season and reached the NCAA Tournament after taking home the Conference Carolinas Tournament title. This is the second time in the program's eight-year history that it has reached the NCAA Tournament (2017) and the first time it has earned the right to host.
- The Bulldogs are paced by four All-Conference Carolinas First-Team honorees including Angelos Mandilaris and Aleksa Brkovic, the 2019 league offensive and defensive players of the year.
- Mandilaris leads Barton's conference in kills with 449 while Brkovic has 268 digs.
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