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Tigers top Dartmouth for fourth straight win
Chapman, Young pace Princeton in 68-57 victory
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Princeton
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34
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34
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68
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Dartmouth
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31
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26
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57
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PRINCETON
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Min
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FG
M-A
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FT
M-A
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Reb
O-T
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A
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F
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PTS
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Chapman
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38
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6-7
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0-0
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0-4
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2
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0
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16
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Robins
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18
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5-8
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2-2
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1-3
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0
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4
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14
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Young
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37
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6-11
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2-4
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0-6
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5
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2
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15
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El-Nokali
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40
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2-2
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2-4
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0-3
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1
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1
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6
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Gloger
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33
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2-4
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5-6
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1-5
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3
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2
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10
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Baah
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9
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0-0
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0-0
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0-2
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0
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2
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0
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Walton
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22
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2-5
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2-2
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0-3
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5
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3
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7
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Rocca
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3
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0-1
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0-0
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0-0
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0
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1
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0
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TOTALS
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200
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23-38
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13-18
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2-26
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16
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15
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68
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Percentages: Fg-.605, Ft-.722. 3-Point Goals: 9-16, .563 (Chapman 4-5, Robins 2-3, Young 1-3, Gloger 1-3, Walton 1-2). Team Rebounds: 2. Blocked Shots: 6 (Young 5, Gloger 1). Turnovers: 18 (Gloger 5, Young 5, Walton 4, Robins 2, El-Nokali 1, Chapman 1). Steals: 12 (El-Nokali 3, Chapman 3, Robins 3, Young 2, Gloger 1). Technical Fouls: 0. Attendance: 2,100.
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DARTMOUTH
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Min
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FG
M-A
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FT
M-A
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Reb
O-T
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A
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F
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PTS
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Gee
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30
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5-11
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3-6
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2-7
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1
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5
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16
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Kemp
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8
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1-2
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0-0
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0-0
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1
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1
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2
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McGinnis
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29
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3-9
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2-2
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0-5
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0
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3
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8
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Boyd
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36
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3-6
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2-2
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0-2
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6
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2
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8
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Buth
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38
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5-13
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2-2
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1-1
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3
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2
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14
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Neeser
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4
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0-0
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0-0
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0-0
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0
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0
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0
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Ellis
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4
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0-1
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0-0
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0-1
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0
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1
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0
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Friel
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10
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0-2
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0-0
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0-1
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0
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0
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0
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Hall
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1
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0-0
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0-0
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0-0
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1
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1
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0
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Osmanovic
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22
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2-6
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0-0
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2-3
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0
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2
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4
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Kissling
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18
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1-2
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2-2
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1-3
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0
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3
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5
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TOTALS
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200
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20-52
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11-14
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6-23
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12
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20
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57
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Percentages: Fg-.385, Ft-.786. 3-Point Goals: 6-23, .261 (Kemp 0-1, Buth 2-6, Ellis 0-1, Gee 3-4, Grield 0-2, McGinnis 0-5, Osmanovic 0-2, Kissling 1-2002Gee 0-1, McGinnis 0-2, Boyd 2-3, Buth 0-3, Friel 2-5, Ellis 0-1, Hall 1-2, Kissling 1-4, Osmanovic 0-1). Team Rebounds: 2. Blocked Shots: None. Turnovers: 15 (Gee 5, Buth 4, Osmanovic 2, Boyd 1, Kissling 1). Steals: 13 (Gee 5, Buth 4, Osmanovic 2, Boyd 1, Kissling 1). Technical Fouls: 0.
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By Steve Craig
For Packet OnLine
Saturday, Feb. 26, 2000
HANOVER, N.H. — The Princeton Tigers maintained their faint hopes of winning a share of the Ivy League men's basketball
championship Saturday night, beating Dartmouth, 68-57.
Princeton did it the hard way — on the road against a Dartmouth team intent on sending its seniors out with a home win to offset a
disappointing season. It wasn't until the final minute, when Princeton made seven of eight free throws, that the win was sealed.
Princeton improved to 17-9 and 9-2 in the Ivy. Dartmouth, seen in the preseason as a possible contender, is 8-17 and 4-8.
Unfortunately for the Tigers, at about the same time freshman Spencer Gloger was wrapping up the win at the line, some 150 miles to the south, Pennsylvania was hanging on to its unbeaten Ivy League record with a 62-61 win at Harvard. Penn (18-7 overall) is 11-0 in the league. Princeton will need Penn to lose at least one of its next two, then beat the Quakers in the regular-season finale.
"Now there's three games left and we have to try to win those," Princeton head coach Bill Carmody said. "There's no gifts. We're not looking at the scoreboard. We knew when we had two losses it was going to be tough."
Carmody said his goal is to make winning on the road a habit, noting that it's no easy task, particularly "at Dartmouth on a Saturday
night when you're playing back-to-back."
For the second consecutive night Princeton received balanced scoring, putting four players in double figures a night after having five in a 63-48 win at Harvard.
C.J. Chapman led Princeton in scoring with 16 points, knocking down four of five 3-pointers — three in the first half when Princeton shot 61.7 percent from the floor, 66.7 percent (six of nine) from behind the arc, but led only 33-31.
"I told them to guard somebody," Carmody said of his halftime instructions. "Our offense was fine."
Princeton barely cooled off in the second half, finishing with sterling percentages of 60.5 from the floor and making nine of 16 3-point attempts.
Chris Young, Princeton's 6-foot-11 sophomore center, picked up his game measurably in the second half, scoring nine of his 15
points, gathering all six of his rebounds and blocking two shots to finish with five for the game.
Ray Robins jump-started Princeton's offense in both halves, knocking down two quick threes to start the game, then flipping in a tough runner for the first basket of the second half on his way to 14 points. Gloger finished with 10.
Gloger had been bottled up most of the night by Dartmouth's Greg Buth but stepped way behind the arc to drop in a 3-pointer with
10:20 to play to give Princeton its first double-digit lead, 52-42, with 10:20 to play.
The Tigers maintained a comfy 8-10 point edge for the next five-plus minutes and seemed in great shape when Dartmouth senior
forward and leading scorer Shaun Gee (16 points) picked up his fourth and fifth fouls just 30 seconds apart, both on questionable holding calls while trying to follow Ahmed El-Nokali as he worked without the ball.
"My opinion is, when you have a good player at any level, that fifth foul better be a good foul," Dartmouth head coach Dave Faucher
said. "The fans don't come to see the refs. But that wasn't the game. Matter of fact, after that the crowd came into the game and gave us a surge."
Indeed, after El-Nokali missed the ensuing front end of a one-and-one and Vedad Osmanovic dropped in a feathery 17-footer, most of
the near-capacity crowd of 2,100 fans were on their feet, either yelling at the officials or for Dartmouth.
Either way, it was getting noisy, the lead was down to 57-51, and the Tigers needed a hoop.
Enter Young, who calmly drove the middle and dropped in a lefty layup to quiet the uprising.
"We were in the timeout and the crowd really raised its level and we knew we had to keep our composure and stay tough," Young said. "Any basket at that stage is a big basket."
Dartmouth could never get the lead below six, though it did have several shot opportunities to do so.
The last came after El-Nokali again missed the front end of a one-and-one with 1:16 to play. Flinder Boyd and Osmanovic both had
shots that missed, then Gloger stripped Buth of the ball and was fouled.
Gloger made one with 52.3 seconds to play, then corralled the loose ball when he missed the second and was fouled again. This time he made both, upping the lead to 64-55.
One key to the win was the job Chapman did on Buth in the second half. Buth had scored 12 points in the first half but had just two
in the second. Gee was also slowed in the second half, with better defense by Robins and plenty of help from Nate Walton off the bench.
"Certainly we discussed it that two guys had 22 of their 31 points at the half," Carmody said. "We started switching out on things
more."
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