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Penn snuffs Princeton, 73-52
Jordan (25), Onyekwe (20) pace Quakers' victory
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Princeton
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13
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39
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52
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Penn
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26
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47
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73
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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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4
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0-0
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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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Young
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40
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5-13
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5-8
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1-5
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4
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3
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16
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El-Nokali
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40
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1-5
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0-0
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0-2
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2
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1
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3
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Gloger
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35
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4-11
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0-0
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1-2
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1
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2
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11
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Chapman
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34
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2-6
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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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6
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Robins
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15
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0-4
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2-2
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1-2
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2
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3
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2
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Walton
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32
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4-7
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5-5
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5-11
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5
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5
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14
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TOTALS
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200
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16-46
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12-15
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8-23
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15
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15
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52
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Percentages: Fg-.348, Ft-.800. 3-Point Goals: 8-24, .333 (Chapman 2-6, Robins 0-2, Young 1-4, Gloger 3-8, El-Nokali 1-3, Walton 1-1). Team Rebounds: 3. Blocked Shots: 5 (Young 4, Robins 1). Turnovers: 13 (Gloger 3, Walton 3, Young 3, Robins 2, El-Nokali 1, Baah 1). Steals: 6 (Chapman 3, Walton 2, El-Nokali 1). Technical Fouls: 0. Attendance: 8,722.
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PENN
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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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Jordan
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38
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10-14
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3-3
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0-6
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3
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1
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25
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Owens
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31
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7-11
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0-0
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2-3
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6
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3
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14
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Brown
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26
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0-0
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0-0
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0-2
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2
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2
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0
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Archibong
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1
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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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0
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0
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Langel
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37
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4-9
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0-1
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1-4
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8
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2
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11
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Onyekwe
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39
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8-13
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3-3
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1-6
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0
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3
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20
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Klatsky
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18
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1-2
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0-0
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0-4
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1
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0
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2
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Kapetanovic
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4
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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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1
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0
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Sanger
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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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0
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1
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0
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King
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1
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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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0
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0
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Bailey
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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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0
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0
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0
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Solomito
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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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0
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1
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0
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Tross
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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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0
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0
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0
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Kroller
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1
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0-0
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1-2
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0-0
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0
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0
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1
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TOTALS
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200
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30-53
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7-9
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4-26
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20
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14
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73
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Percentages: Fg-.566, Ft-.778. 3-Point Goals: 6-14, .429 (Onyekwe 1-3, Langel 3-5, Jordan 2-3, Klatsky 0-1). Team Rebounds: 4. Blocked Shots: 4 (Owens 3, Onyekwe 1). Turnovers: 7 (Jordan 3, Onyekwe 2, Klatsky 1, Owens 1). Steals: 6 (Jordan 3, Onyekwe 3). Technical Fouls: 0.
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By Justin Feil
For Packet OnLine
Tuesday, March 7, 2000
History held true again.
Nine times Princeton has played Pennsylvania after one of the teams has
clinched the Ivy League title. And nine times now, the team that has played
with the title already in its hands has won.
Penn used a pair of nine-point spurts to close the first half, built the
lead to open the second half and pushed out to a 73-52 win to finish the Ivy
season undefeated at 14-0. The Quakers are 21-7 overall and will find out
Sunday evening where they begin NCAA tournament play.
Princeton finished 19-10 overall, 11-3 in Ivy play, and will have to await
word late Sunday night about a possible National Invitational Tournament
bid.
The first 10 minutes of the game proved painful to watch for both Princeton head coach Bill Carmody and Penn head coach Fran Dunphy as both teams had
difficulty scoring. But as in the teams' first meeting, Penn took an early
lead, 4-3, on a layup by Penn center Geoff Owens with 16:20 left in the first
half and never trailed again.
"I just thought obviously the game was lost right in the beginning," said
Carmody, whose team faced its customary hostile Palestra crowd of 8,722
screamers. "We got some pretty decent looks early and missed them. They may
have also because neither team scored in the first 10 minutes or so. I
thought if we got a good start, that would be real important to us, and we
missed."
A three-pointer by Chris Young, who led the Tigers in scoring with
16 points, cut a four-point Quakers lead to 8-7. However, Penn then went on
a 9-2 run that ended with 7:48 to play in the half. Trailing 17-9,
Princeton cut the lead with a free throw by Young and a three-pointer by
Ahmed El-Nokali with 6:52 left in the first half. The Tigers would not score
again in the half. Princeton closed the half with six turnovers and a missed
three-pointer by Spencer Gloger.
Princeton would finish with 13 turnovers to Penn's seven, but it was the
shooting that doomed the Tigers. Princeton shot just 20 percent from
the floor in the first half while Penn shot 54.5 percent. The Tigers improved to
46 percent in the second half, but the Quakers improved as well, to 58
percent, including 71 percent from three-point range. For that, Princeton
had no answer on offense.
"(Penn) sags in an awful lot, so we ran some things to get Chris and Spencer
some shots," Carmody said. "I thought he (Gloger) got some really good looks the
first five minutes of the game. Young might have missed his first. Chris has
a sore ankle, and he wasn't moving well in there. I thought we did what we
wanted to do offensively. We just didn't put the ball in the basket.
"I didn't think their defense bothered us tonight like it did at our place," Carmody said. "That's not to say they didn't play hard or play well. I didn't think they took us out of our stuff like they did in Princeton."
Still, offensively, the second half didn't start much better as Princeton
failed to score for the first three minutes. By then it was 34-13 Penn. A
three-pointer by Gloger at the 17:02 mark snapped a 9:50 stretch that
spanned the halves without a Tiger point. Gloger's three began a 12-2 run by
Princeton that C.J. Chapman highlighted with back-to-back three-pointers and
Nate Walton punctuated with a three-point play of his own. Chapman's second
bomb cut the Quaker lead to 11 points, 36-25.
"Nate was the only guy who seemed to have any life out there," said Carmody
of the junior, who scored 14 points, 12 in the second half, and also had 11 rebounds and a game-high five assists. "He was getting loose balls and was doing
everything. He gave us a real spark out there. I'm real pleased with him. He
played like a veteran plays."
Walton might have been alone then for Princeton, who will return every
player that was dressed for the game. Senior co-captain Mason Rocca did not
suit up. While Penn had four seniors on the court, including Michael Jordan,
who led all scorers with 25 points, Princeton had none. And the young Tigers
could not hit their shots until it was too late.
"When you get down by whatever we got down, it's a lot easier to make
shots," Carmody said. "When you have to make them is in the beginning of the game or when it's close because probably a third of the people in this (press) room can make shots when you're down 19. There's no heat and that's what we did.
"I thought we played hard, I was just disappointed that right at the outset, we didn't do some of the stuff," he said. "We got some of the shots we wanted. We got the ball down low. We just couldn't put the ball in the basket. Certainly credit Penn."
Another three-pointer by Gloger, who would finish with 11 points, with 7:13 to play cut Penn's lead to 10 points, at 53-43, for the first time since less than a minute remained in the first half. Princeton could get no closer as Penn closed the game with a 17-3 run before Penn pulled its experienced seniors with 30 seconds left.
Asked what role Penn's experience played in the outcome of the game, Carmody said, "I don't go for that too much. We have guys who have played before that are 19 and 20 years old. We have a tough schedule. We've played in tough arenas. These guys have played against good competition in the summer. It might be a factor, but I don't want to let our guys think that it is. You can win with sophomores."
It's an important point that Princeton's young squad can remember as it looks to better its three-game NIT run from a year ago. Certainly Tuesday's experience will stay fresh on their minds if the Tigers don't ease some of the pain with a strong postseason performance.
"I'll remember it," Walton said of the regular season finale. "Like coach said, when they rush the floor, you don't want to see that. You want to make sure that never happens to you again when you're on the losing side of that. I hope the whole team remembers it during the summer and during every game just how important it is to win."
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