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Princeton falls to Lafayette in overtime
Young scores 24, Gloger 21 in 70-69 heartbreaker
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Princeton
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38
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25
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6
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69
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Lafayette
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36
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27
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7
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70
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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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Baah
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9
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0-1
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0-0
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0-0
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1
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3
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0
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Young
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45
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6-14
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11-13
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0-6
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4
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3
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24
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El-Nokali
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42
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1-3
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4-5
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0-2
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1
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3
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6
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Gloger
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45
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6-10
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4-4
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0-5
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3
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3
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21
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Chapman
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32
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3-7
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1-2
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0-3
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0
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4
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10
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Bechtold
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7
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0-3
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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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Walton
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45
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3-5
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2-5
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1-6
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4
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3
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8
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TOTALS
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200
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19-43
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22-29
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1-23
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16
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18
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69
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Percentages: Fg-.442, Ft-.759. 3-Point Goals: 9-21, .429 (Baah 0-1, Young 1-2, Gloger 5-9, El-Nokali 0-1, Bechtold 0-1, Chapman 3-7). Team Rebounds: 5. Blocked Shots: 3 (Young 3). Turnovers: 16 (Walton 7, El-Nokali 3, Chapman 2, Gloger 2, Young 2). Steals: 6 (Bechtold 2, Walton 2, Gloger 1, Young 1). Technical Fouls: 0. Attendance: 6,432.
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LAFAYETTE
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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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Whitfield
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41
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5-14
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2-2
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1-4
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1
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2
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17
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Bieg
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31
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1-3
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0-0
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0-3
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5
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5
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3
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Ciosici
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27
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5-11
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0-0
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3-14
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2
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5
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10
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Worthington
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36
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1-2
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0-0
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1-4
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0
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3
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2
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Ehlers
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43
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5-15
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7-11
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3-7
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5
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1
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19
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Burke
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20
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4-8
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2-2
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1-2
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1
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1
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13
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Barr
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17
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2-8
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2-3
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4-5
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2
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5
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6
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Kuberka
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3
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0-0
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0-0
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0-1
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1
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1
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0
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Homer
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7
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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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23-62
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13-18
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13-40
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17
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23
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70
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Percentages: Fg-.371, Ft-.722. 3-Point Goals: 11-20, .550 (Whitfield 5-9, Bieg 1-2, Ehlers 2-4, Homer 0-1, Burke 3-4). Team Rebounds: 3. Blocked Shots: None. Turnovers: 14 (Ciosici 4, Burke 3, Ehlers 3, Barr 2, Whitfield 1, Worthington 1). Steals: 10 (Barr 3, Bieg 2, Ehlers 2, Worthington 2, Whitfield). Technical Fouls: 0.
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By Ken Weingartner
For Packet OnLine
Saturday, Jan. 8, 2000
Chris Young on Saturday night took 14 shots for Princeton. The fact he never got a chance to take a 15th made Lafayette quite happy.
The Leopards, who saw their top two big men — 6-foot-11 Stefan Ciosici and 7-foot Frank Barr — foul out in overtime, managed to keep Young from getting the ball down the stretch to preserve a 70-69 victory over Princeton at Jadwin Gym.
Princeton (7-7) hoped to take advantage of a mismatch in the middle on its final possession, but the 6-11 Young was denied the opportunity to handle the ball during the last 14 seconds.
C.J. Chapman missed an open 3-pointer with five seconds to play, and Nate Walton failed to convert a follow-up chance from the corner as time expired.
It was the first win at Jadwin for Lafayette (8-4) since an 85-74 triumph Dec. 8, 1954 — a span of 14 games. The Leopards were led by Brian Ehlers with 19 points.
“We were trying to go down to Chris,” said Walton, who finished with eight points and seven assists. “When I first looked, it looked like a guy was in front of him. I didn’t want to try a lob right off the bat. I wanted to give him a chance to get open.
“I’m kind of second-guessing myself. Maybe I should’ve tried to take one more dribble, take it to the hole and maybe get fouled. There really wasn’t a shot-blocker in there. We wanted to get the ball to Chris, it just didn’t happen.”
Tigers coach Bill Carmody was disappointed his team was unable to take advantage of the mismatch. Young finished the contest with a game-high 24 points.
“The last play of the game, you want to get the ball down low, you want to get it to your center,” Carmody said. “The guy was only about 6-5 who was in there on him, and I thought he was pretty open. But we didn’t throw it down.
“You don’t want to take a ‘three’ at that point,” he added. “I just thought we had to get the ball down there to Chris and get fouled.”
Carmody also was disappointed that the Tigers, playing without lone senior Mason Rocca because of ankle surgery, failed to win the game prior to overtime. After Princeton freshman Spencer Gloger drilled his fifth 3-pointer of the contest to tie the score at 63 with 2:15 to play in regulation, neither team found the basket again.
“I thought that if we were going to win it, we had to win it in regulation,” Carmody said. “We had two possessions where we didn’t get a good shot. You’ve got to win the game there at home.”
There were 14 lead changes and 11 ties in the contest, which Princeton trailed by its largest margin, 56-48, with 9:02 remaining in regulation. When Ciosici, who finished with 10 points and 14 rebounds, went to the bench with his fourth foul 50 seconds later, the Tigers began to claw their way back.
Young scored seven points — two on a layup and five from the foul line — and Gloger added five as the Tigers pulled even at 63-63.
Princeton led 38-36 at the end of the first half, thanks in large part to the hot shooting of Gloger as the freshman matched 3-pointers with Lafayette sharpshooter Tyson Whitfield. Gloger connected on 4 of 5 from beyond the arc in the first 20 minutes and finished the half with 16 points.
Gloger scored Princeton’s final five points before the break. He also enjoyed a four-minute stretch in the middle of the period in which he tallied all 11 of the Tigers’ points during the span.
Whitfield, who entered the game shooting 47 percent (36 of 76) from 3-point range, was 4-for-6 on 3-pointers and ended the half with 12 points.
The teams combined for 14 treys in the half, with Lafayette connecting on eight.
The Tigers took their first lead of the game, 29-27, with 3:48 left in the first half when C.J. Chapman drilled a 3-pointer. The basket punctuated a 7-0 run by Princeton, the largest spurt by either team in the first half.
Princeton turned over the ball 16 times in the contest and was outrebounded 43-28. The Tigers had just one offensive rebound, by Walton, while Lafayette had 15 offensive rebounds.
“There were some good points, but we probably gave them 20 or 30 points,” Walton said. “Any time you lose a close game at home, it’s a bad feeling. We’ve lost a lot of close games this year. We could easily be something like 12-2, but we’re not. So we’ve got to figure out what to do to change it.”
The Tigers will have plenty of time to figure something out. Princeton will be idle for 16 days because of semester exams, returning to action Jan. 24 by hosting Catholic before starting its Ivy League schedule.
Princeton hopes to have Rocca, who is expected to miss six weeks, back in the lineup Feb. 11 against Dartmouth.
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