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1st |
2nd |
OT |
Final |
| Penn (20-8, 12-2 Ivy) |
12 |
38 |
9 |
59 |
| Princeton (12-15, 10-4 Ivy) |
28 |
22 |
10 |
60 |
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| Keys to the Game |
| Key sequence |
With Penn on a 22-6 run to trim an 18-point deficit to just two, Eric Osmundson slipped inside, but couldn’t finish a layup attempt. Princeton appeared to be headed for a shot clock violation at the other end, until Kyle Koncz found Justin Conway at the top of the key for a huge three-pointer to stem the Quaker tide. At the other end, Penn got two great looks at open threes, but couldn’t knock down either one. Conway got inside position and drew the foul on the rebound, then hit both free throws to restore the Tiger margin to seven with under five minutes left in the second half. Penn would resume its run, outscoring Princeton 12-5 the rest of the way in regulation, so Conway’s one-man five-point spurt almost certainly saved Princeton from losing the game in regulation. |
| Key sign it was over |
Penn owned a four-point lead with under two minutes left when Quaker wing Brian Grandieri drove, but couldn’t get the shot to fall. Penn JV call-up Greg Kuchinski muscled the ball away from Princeton JV call-up Conway, but instead of going up for a layup, Kuchinski passed to the outside. With the shot clock running down, Grandieri forced up a long three that clanged off the iron. At the other end, Osmundson committed an ill-advised reach-in foul to put Conway on the line, and the junior hit both free throws. Ibby Jaaber missed a layup and Grandieri came up with the offensive board, but couldn’t hit a putback in traffic. Noah Savage tied the game with a point-blank look with 41 seconds left. Out of a timeout, Jaaber drove, was fouled, but could only hit one of two free throws to give Penn a razor-thin one-point lead with nine seconds left. Scott Greenman slipped past the Penn defense up the sideline, rushed the ball into the frontcourt, and found a wide-open Conway underneath for a layup to put the Tigers on top with 2.5 left. Without a timeout, Penn tried a long inbound pass that was tipped to David Whitehurst, but the sophomore couldn’t hit a desperation three-pointer at the buzzer. |
| Key performance |
Conway. After a miserable outing in the previous matchup with Penn, Conway redeemed himself in a big way with a career game. He finished with 21 points and six assists, including the game-winning layup in the final seconds of overtime. |
| Key statistic |
Penn’s 12 first-half points. The Quakers outscored the Tigers 47-32 after halftime, but the 16-point deficit after 20 minutes proved to be one point too many. The Quakers shot just 5 of 18 (27.8 percent) and committed 11 turnovers on just 27 possessions (40.7 percent) in the first stanza. Only a Jaaber layup in the final seconds of the first stanza kept Penn from being on pace to do Princeton’s infamous 21-point effort one worse. |
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| Notes |
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The win was just the second for Princeton in the last ten games against Penn and the second such win at Jadwin Gym since 1998. |
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Jaaber finished with a game-high 26 points. He scored just two points on 1-for-8 shooting in the first half, then exploded for 24 points in the final 25 minutes. |
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Mark Zoller was the only Quaker who played well offensively in the first half with seven points, but committed his third, fourth, and fifth fouls in a 104-second span to foul out with 7:17 left in regulation. Fran Dunphy was forced to play overtime without both of his starting forwards when teammate Steve Danley followed Zoller to the bench with his fifth foul with 28 seconds left in the second half. |
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Greenman had a rough Senior Night, shooting just 3 of 10 from the floor and missing both three-point attempts, while commiting four turnovers. But the Tiger captain did get the assist on the game-winner and had five steals. |
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Penn shot 15 of 22 (68.2 percent) in the second half, while Princeton hit just 6 of 16 (37.5 percent). But in overtime, the Quakers went just 2-for-8 from the field, while the Tigers hit all three field goal attempts. |
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In sharp contrast to the previous meeting when Penn outscored Princeton 20-3 in points off turnovers, the Tigers owned a 15-12 edge in that department. That was largely on the strength of a 13-1 edge in the first half. |
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Penn’s first lead of the game came on a Jaaber free throw nine seconds into the overtime period. |
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