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1st |
2nd |
Final |
| Yale (11-9, 3-2 Ivy) |
21 |
28 |
49 |
| Princeton (4-12, 2-1 Ivy) |
27 |
39 |
66 |
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| Jadwin Gymnasium – Princeton, NJ |
Boxscore |
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| Keys to the Game |
| Key sequence |
Princeton’s 11 points in 90 seconds. After hitting a three-pointer to tie the game at 40 on the previous possession, Mike Strittmatter connected from distance for a second trip. On the play the officials whistled Yale’s Matt Kyle for a foul off the ball. Luke Owings drained both free throws to give the Tigers a sudden five-point lead, then hit a three-pointer of his own on the next possession to stretch the Princeton lead to eight at 48-40 with 8:31 left. |
| Key sign it was over |
Trailing by nine with 2:42 left, Yale’s Sam Kaplan came up with a steal, but couldn’t convert the fastbreak layup. Princeton got the ball out of bounds and Yale was forced to start fouling. Scott Greenman hit a pair of free throws to push the Tigers’ lead back into double digits, where it would stay the rest of the way. |
| Key performance |
Greenman’s 27-point outburst. The senior captain had struggled with his shot all season, but said he had made an adjustment during the exam break, not jumping so high when shooting. The result was a career game that saw Greenman easily surpass his previous collegiate high of 17 points thanks to 8-of-11 shooting overall and 5-of-7 from three-point range. Greenman also added five assists against just one turnover to go with three steals and four rebounds. |
| Key statistic |
Yale’s 7-of-19 free throw shooting. At one point the Bulldogs were trailing by 10 and were 6 of 16 from the free throw line. Yale was just 4 of 14 from the line in the second half, and one of those misses was the front end of a one-and-one Casey Hughes failed to convert with the game tied and 9:37 left in the contest. |
| Key coaching move |
The Princeton coaches seemed to notice a weakness in the Yale defense and exploited it repeatedly with a diagonal pass from the arc. The result was a ton of layup attemps for the Tigers early on. |
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| Notes |
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Princeton actually won the battle of the boards against a much taller Yale team. The Tigers rebounded at 33.3 percent offensively — well above their season average — while holding the Bulldogs to 30.0-percent rebounding at their offensive end. |
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Justin Conway once again started at center for Princeton, playing 30 minutes. Conway did score four points and grab six rebounds, but also turned it over four times. |
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Noah Savage struggled to get untracked, as foul trouble limited the Tigers’ leading scorer to just 2 points in a mere 20 minutes of playing time. |
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Princeton made its key second-half run to go from down three to up five with Josh Greenberg and Matt Kyle on the floor for Yale. |
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Dominick Martin had 10 points, seven rebounds, and two blooks in his third return to Jadwin since transferring to Yale. However, the big man attempted just five shots on the night, despite towering over his 6-4 Tiger counterpart. The Bulldog big men as a group attempted only 13 shots, as Yale failed to take advantage of a considerable size advantage inside. |
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