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Victorious Men’s Basketball team to play in NCAA March Madness By Chris Murphy and Jack Graham Staff Writers
Hopefully the Princeton fans and players like to dance, because the Tigers just punched their ticket to the biggest one in the nation. Princeton defeated Yale by a score of 71-59 in the inaugural Ivy League tournament game, behind an energetic crowd filled with a majority of fans clad in the iconic black and orange. The Tiger players and fans alike celebrated the win as the clocked ticked to zero, storming the court and shooting off confetti as Princeton punched their ticket to their first NCAA tournament since 2011. “We’re so happy,” Coach Mitch Henderson said after the game. “I don’t have a lot of words. I’m so proud of the team. I’m so happy to be their coach and I’m thrilled to be representing the Ivy League in the NCAA tournament.” It wasn’t a picture perfect game for the Tigers by any means. Princeton started off slow on offense as the Yale defense forced plenty of early turnovers and airballs. After senior Steven Cook’s turnaround jumper in the first 15 seconds, the Tigers would
MILES HINSON :: SPORTS EDITOR EMERITUS
The men’s basketball team trumped the Yale Bulldogs this past Sunday to win the inaugural Ivy League Tournament. The team now sits at the 12th seed in the upcoming NCAA tournament.
wait nearly four minutes to score their next field goal – a tip in by freshman Will Gladson at the 15:36 mark. But the Tigers knew, as they have all season, that their defense would always keep them in games. “As a team we never think we are going to be out of
it,” Stephen Cook agreed. Having had one of the top defenses in the Ivy League all season, the Tigers put that on display here, preventing Yale from getting any sustained success on offense. Highlighted by Cook’s emphatic dunk on an attempted Yale lay-up, the defense held serve un-
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Women’s Basketball Ivy runner-up
til the offense found their rhythm and took this game over. The offense found its rhythm at the 11:40 mark when junior Amir Bell connected on a mid-range jumper to end another scoreless drought. The Tigers followed this up with a three-pointer by Cook
to give the Tigers a 14-11 lead. A few minutes later, Cook would strike again, elevating high to slam the ball in and force a foul, sending the crowd into a frenzy. Yale would strike back, taking a 26-24 lead late in the first half, but Princeton would right the ship and reclaim the lead heading into halftime up 31-29. In the second half, the Tigers smelled blood in the water and relentlessly attacked the Bulldogs. What ensued in the second half was a three-point clinic by the Princeton offense. A corner three from Cook put the Tigers up six at the 17:41 mark and forced Yale into a timeout. Sophomore Devin Cannady would later connect with his own three from NBA range. Sophomore Myles Stephens had a three-point play of his own, driving to the basket and generating the foul on a nice layup. Gladson would add another three at the 8:05 mark, putting the Tigers up 58-45. Yale would have one final run in them midway through the second half, but a deep three by Stephens put him over 20 points for the game and took the life out of the Bulldogs. See VICTORY page 6
OVERLINE
Former graduate student files lawsuit against U., seeks compensation
By Marcia Brown Head News Editor
By Chris Murphy and Jack Graham Staff Writers
The Princeton women’s basketball team’s season came to an unfortunate end this afternoon after the team suffered a defeat in the Ivy League Tournament final against top-seeded Penn. Despite fighting valiantly, Princeton came up short against a strong Penn team playing in its home arena, losing 57-48. The game began in competitive fashion. Penn scored the first four points of the game, but Princeton battled back with a jumper by Leslie Robinson and a three-pointer from freshman Bella Alarie to bring the score to 8-7 in favor of Penn midway through the first quarter. Princeton would be hampered, however, after star player Alarie went to the bench with foul trouble, not to return until the second quarter. After one quarter, Princeton
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trailed 15-14, but things began to unravel in the second. Penn demonstrated why it was the odds-on favorite to win the tournament, forcing Princeton’s offense into bad shots and turnovers. Penn opened the quarter on a 12-point run, and Princeton failed to score for the first 6:48 of the quarter. At the half, Penn led 29-18, with Princeton posting a less-than-ideal 22.6 percent shooting percentage for the half. Junior Michelle Nwokedi opened the second half with a pair of three-pointers and Anna Ross added another to give the Quakers a comfortable 38-21 lead, just one minute into the third quarter. Princeton, for its part, refused to allow Penn to blow open the margin any further. The Tigers tightened up defensively, received offensive contributions from a number of players, and ended the quarter trailing 45-30. The Tigers showed spark in
Swim team alumnus Sandy Thatcher ‘65 discusses the team’s suspension, Chang Che argues for male responsibility for birth control, and the Editorial Board commends USG Movies and encourages similar initiatives. PAGE 4
the fourth quarter, with Alarie and senior Taylor Brown nailing threes to cut the lead to 11. Ultimately, however, the margin would prove too wide and Penn too stellar for Princeton to mount a comeback. Penn was led in scoring by its two stars, Anna Ross and Michelle Nwokedi, who scored 15 and 17 points respectively. Princeton struggled offensively throughout the game, shooting only 18 out of 64 from the field, or 28 percent. The Tigers were led in scoring by Alarie with 11. For a Princeton team that commenced its season with four losses, reaching this point in the Ivy League Tournament represents a big success, but next year’s team will undoubtedly want more. Returning with major contributors including Leslie, Alarie, and sophomore Sydney Jordan, Princeton may be equipped to win an Ivy League Championship of its own.
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misconduct. Moreover, according to the documents, the University did not interview all of the plaintiff’s witnesses. Because the student fell into a depression while he was experiencing a hostile environment, he failed to maintain the B average required to be enrolled as a graduate student at the University. The University then terminated his enrollment. “Due to Princeton’s actions, John Doe’s graduate degree has been thwarted and the monies spent on obtaining a graduate degree at Princeton squandered. John Doe’s future career and educational prospects have been damaged by his experience at Princeton,” the case documents read. The plaintiff John Doe’s attorneys Kimberly C. Lau and Avi Lew are part of Warshaw Burnstein, LLP, according to the case documents. “This matter was investigated extensively and fairly in full compliance with University policies and procedures,” Day wrote. “The lawsuit is without merit, and we intend to mount a vigorous defense.” The lawsuit will seek financial damages should Doe prevail, according to the AP. The University said they are not aware of any similar lawsuits. Associate News Editor Abhiram Karuppur contributed reporting.
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Women’s basketball was defeated by Penn on Sunday, taking second-place honors in the tournament.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court in New Jersey on March 9, a former University graduate student, identified only as John Doe in the case, alleged that the University did not take his case of sexual assault and attempted suicide seriously enough. The University responded that the lawsuit contains inaccurate representations of how the University handled the student’s case. “The University responds seriously and compassionately to victims of sexual misconduct and to all students who need support,” Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day wrote in a statement. The University received notice of the lawsuit on March 10, according to the Associated Press. Because the University just learned about the case, it has not selected counsel. The trial date has not been set, and the University has not yet been served with the complaint. According to case documents, the plaintiff notified the University that he had been sexually assaulted twice in 2014, and the plaintiff accused the University of demonstrating “a disturbing deliberate indifference and gender bias regarding John Doe’s status as a ‘complainant’ on the basis of his male sex.” Notably, when the plaintiff notified the University of the sexual assaults, the University charged John Doe and the perpetrator dubbed Student Y with sexual
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Forough met with students at a dinne rdiscussion on Friday, sharing her experiences as a refugee and now computer science professor.
Code to Inspire founder Fereshteh Forough speaks on teaching computer science to Afghani women By Samvida Venkatesh Science Contributor
Seeking to help Afghan girls learn coding skills and to empower them both financially and socially, Fereshteh Forough founded Code to Inspire, the first coding school for girls in Afghanistan. At a dinner discussion in the Wilson College PDR on Friday, Forough shared her life’s journey, from being born as an Afghan refugee in Iran, to graduating with a master’s degree in computer science from the Technical University of Berlin, to finally founding CTI in 2015. An after-school program for high school and collegeaged young women, CTI currently provides an education in coding, website building, and mobile app development to 80 girls. Located in Herat, Afghanistan’s third largest city, CTI provides a safe educational environment with laptops and internet access in a country where less than 10 percent of the population uses the Internet. Forough explained that safety is important for the program because of the political climate in Afghanistan, where it is dangerous for Afghan women to travel alone. “The families of the girls, especially the fathers and brothers who make most of the decisions for the family, were initially hesitant to send girls to us — they thought the Internet was the devil!” Forough said. However, she explained that after families saw the facilities and met the mentors, most of them became CTI’s biggest advocates, thus helping the program gain wider recognition in the community. CTI has garnered so much attention that Forough has begun thinking of expanding the program to other cities in Afghanistan, including Kabul. She explained
that people from Egypt and other countries in Africa and the Middle East have requested her to found similar schools in their countries. The trouble, though, is that despite being registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that receives funding from tech companies like Google, CTI still requires donations to keep running, according to Borough. “We opened with $20,000, which is not a lot of money,” she explained. Forough added that apart from teaching girls to code, CTI also helps them find jobs online. She explained that the technology industry is bigger in the capital city of Kabul than in Herat, making many of the jobs for which CTI students and graduates are qualified only available to them remotely. “Women [in Herat] have no mobility, it’s often unsafe for them to travel alone to Kabul, and in our culture women don’t live independently in cities, they need a guardian,” Forough explained. She noted that working online erased the geographical and physical barriers to employment while helping women earn money in a safe environment. Addressing the issue in Afghanistan of women lacking decision-making power in the family, Forough said that women bringing income into the home could help them gain more independence. “I want to change the way Afghanistan is viewed by the world, and to show that women can add value to their households and to the community,” Forough said of her overarching goals for CTI. Growing up as the fifth of eight children in a refugee family in Iran, Forough said that she often felt like she was viewed as an unwanted guest in her home country. She explained that the chal-
lenges she faced in her childhood gave her the strength to overcome many obstacles later in life. For example, as one of ten girls in an undergraduate computer science classes that had over seventy boys, Forough said she often received nasty letters or entered the classroom to find terrible words scrawled on the blackboard and walls. “Boys found it hard to accept that a girl was better at coding than them,” she said, noting that when she was appointed a tutor for the class, many boys refused even to show up. Even as a professor of computer science at Herat University, Forough says she has found that boys did not want to be taught by a female professor. She explained that her male students often did not attend class until they realized that they needed to go to class in order to do well. Conversely, Forough noticed the girls in her class were often hesitant to ask questions for fear of ridicule. It was this phenomenon, she said, that first inspired her to start CTI. Forough said she also wants CTI to address the societal trend by which women who graduated with a degree in computer science are less likely than men to be hired by employers. In discussing this trend, the educator cited her own example of being unable to find projects as a woman in her field. Many women become teachers in schools instead of entering the technology industry, she explained. Through CTI, Forough hopes to make it more acceptable for women not only to study computer science but also to work in the tech industry and gain higher financial and social status through their work. “I want to show that everyone can code, regardless of their gender,” Forough said.
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Young Alumni Trustee U. website overhaul, new social nominees announced events featured at USG meeting By Alexander Stangl staff writer
The University’s Office of Alumni Affairs has announced that candidates Aleksandra Czulak ’17, Andrew Sun ’17, and Achille Tenkiang ’17 have passed the primary round of the Young Alumni Trustee Election and will move on to the General Election, to be held from May 2 to May 24, according to a press release from Cathy Phillips. The election results were verified and confirmed by an election services company hired to run the election. The YAT Election is hosted each year to pick a current senior to join the University’s Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees is tasked with managing the University’s finances, overseeing ongoing construction projects on campus, allocating resources, and issuing changes in instruction. The goal of YAT members of the Board of Trustees is to provide the Board with insights into the lives of current students on cam-
pus. YAT members serve for four years, guaranteeing that four members of the Board of Trustees are recent graduates. According to the University’s website, the YAT position was created in 1969 in order that the Board would always have four members of recent classes who are more in touch with the current student body. The election is delegated to the Office of Alumni Affairs, and due to the Office’s campaign rules, the candidates’ biographical information cannot be included in this article. Seniors may vote in the primary election for YAT, but juniors, seniors, and the two most recent graduating classes are eligible to vote in the general election for YAT. The University’s website specifies that although the YAT members are elected by a specific subset of the University community, their constituency while serving on the board is the entire University community.
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The Undergraduate Student Government discussed the University website and student committee appointments in their weekly meeting on March 12. Assistant Vice President of the Office of Communications Daniel Day presented the framework for a new University website. The current website was designed in 2007, and according to Day, has failed to keep up with changes in technology and shifts to mobile web browsing. The project was started last spring and is currently in progress under a New York design company. Day indicated that the new website will allow for increased capabilities, including live streaming and article tagging to allow easier navigation. “We want the site to represent today’s Princeton and all its dedication to teaching, research, dynamism, and the diversity of our faculty, staff, and students,” said Day. Day then solicited suggestions for the website from Senate members, which included increased map functionality and links to mail services. The website is scheduled to be launched in mid-May. USG President Myesha Jemison ’18 presented the President’s Report, which included the results of two recent meet-
ings. In the first, Jemison met with Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne and discussed rebranding the USG Office, as well as potential changes to the Graduate Student Government. Jemison also met with several Residential College Advisor Focus groups, with whom she discussed how to achieve more centralized and easily accessible dining information. The Student Groups Recognition Committee Co-Chair Aaron Sobel ’19 presented three student groups for Senate recognition. The groups include Women in Economics and Policy, a group which is dedicated to cultivating students’ interests in economics and public policy, Hike Princeton, which is committed to serving the community by organizing existing trail maps and leading guided hikes, and the Princeton Refugee Initiative, a service group dedicated to refugee-related volunteering and raising awareness in Princeton about social issues relating to refugees. Academics Committee Chair Patrick Flanigan ’18 presented an update on student applications. Flanigan indicated that the committee received 15 applications for around four vacant spots, resulting in a very competitive cycle. Of the 15 applicants, six were selected for inter-
view. The final candidates were Shakthi Shrima ’19, Nicholas Ritter ’20, Olivia Ott ’20, and Samuel Russell ’18. Flanigan stated that the new additions to the Academics Committee will be working on a variety of projects, ranging from to distribution requirement reform to undergraduate advising. Social Committee Chair Lavinia Liang ’18 presented an update on current committee projects. The projects include an Alumni Concert Mixer as well as Coachella in Princeton, an event in which the committee hopes to provide a venue for outdoor viewing of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival’s second weekend. Chief Elections Manager Laura Hausman ’20 presented an update on the Spring Elections Calendar. The calendar begins on March 17, when the USG Senate convenes to review referenda proposals. Voting will occur from April 17 to 19. Undergraduate students as well as student organizations are allowed to submit potential referenda, which must include a ballot question, explanation, and summary of each section of the ballot proposal. More details about the petitioning process can be found on the USG website. The weekly public meeting took place in Frist MPR B at 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 12.
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Commending USG Movies Every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night, the Undergraduate Student Government sponsors a free “Movie(s) of the Week” through its Undergraduate Film Organization (UFO) at the Princeton Garden Theatre, complete with complimentary snacks and drinks. The selection is wide-ranging, including critically acclaimed films, lesser known films, and advanced screenings. It is quite popular as well, with the past two movies, “La La Land” and “Moana,” having at least one sold-out screening. The Editorial Board commends UFO for sponsoring this well-organized, non-alcoholic activity for students, and encourages USG to sponsor similar substance-free events more frequently and to show movies at earlier times. First, the Board appreciates UFO’s thought and dedication behind planning this weekly event. By carefully selecting and screening a diverse set of movies, mixing Blockbuster hits
with the more obscure, the UFO successfully sponsors a way for students to become exposed to all genres of film at no cost. Given that movies, especially those shown during weekend nights, are quite expensive, this event is valuable in providing a great deal for students. Additionally, because this event consistently happens throughout the school year, it is a reliable source of fun for all students. This event is also well-publicized, with two regularly updated social media accounts and a section in the weekly USG e-mail. Furthermore, the Board would like to commend USG for their commitment to sponsoring non-alcoholic alternatives on weekend nights. Based on the success of the weekly USG movies and the benefits they bring to our community, the Board encourages USG and the University to increase the amount of recurring, non-alcoholic programming it offers. To increase the variety of events,
Why men should buy women their birth control Chang Che
contributing Columnist
If pregnancy prevention is both men’s and women’s concern — and it is — then men should pay for their female partners’ birth control. It is now generally accepted in our society that childcare is not just a woman’s responsibility. We believe that women should be as entitled to a job and equal wages as men, and reciprocally, men should equally bear the responsibility of childcare. This acceptance is ref lected in the recent trend of corporations offering paternity leave to their employees. Paternity leave, which is the male version of maternity leave, exemplifies the societal stride toward acknowledging the difference between woman and mother, as well as the inherent difficulties of parenting that were long taken for granted. Society’s alleviation of compulsory female responsibility after pregnancy does not seem to extend to the period before pregnancy. That is to say, pregnancy prevention is still all too often considered a woman’s issue. Out of the 10 or so contraceptive methods available on campus, only one — the male condom — is for men. This enormous imbalance has led us to believe that it is natural for women to shoulder more of the burden. Lisa CampoEngelstein from “Science Progress” specifies what some of these burdens are: “Men typically do not have to dedicate time and energy to contraceptive care, [or] pay out of pocket for the usually expensive and sometimes frequent (often monthly, or at least four times a year) supply of contraceptives… These contraceptive burdens and sacrifices limit people’s freedoms.” It is important to recognize that these burdens are in no way “natural.” They sprouted from the cultural
bias in medical research that believed children were purely a woman’s responsibility. In this way, the same cultural biases that underpinned female antagonism in the workplace — from which we have moved away — were being amplified through the medical innovations of contraceptives. For instance, the introduction of the birth control pill in 1960 — a female contraceptive — meant that, for the first time in history, those who had children had to make a deliberate decision to do so. While there is no doubt that contraception offered a new level of choice to women, it also meant that only women had the capacity to take effective measures against pregnancy. Medical technology led to the reification of cultural expectations of female responsibility toward children. As a result, the next five decades saw an uneven medical interest in female reproductive systems that led to the enormous imbalance of contraceptive availability today. The truth of the matter is that the focus of contraceptive technological development on women has had a negative effect aside from giving women a sense of choice: it has engendered financial, physical, social, psychological, and moral anxieties that men have never experienced. Therefore, when a man in a heterosexual relationship offers to pay for their partner’s birth control, it is recognition that the burden of pregnancy prevention is a human issue, not just a woman’s issue. We must acknowledge the biases of a medical institution that have led to the normalization of female responsibility in pregnancy prevention. And to counter this bias, the least men can do is to offer up their wallets. Chang Che is a senior from Ann Arbor, MI. He can be reached at changc@princeton. edu.
we encourage other groups on campus to take advantage of funding from the Alcohol Initiative to plan their own events as well. By providing alternative options, these substance-free events reduce social pressures encouraging drinking and promote a more inclusive community for students who prefer not to drink due to personal, religious, medical, or other reasons. If other popular substance-free events, like Skate Night, happened more frequently, students who may not be interested in the Street would be able to select from a larger variety of activities on the weekends that more easily fit their interests. Although we understand that UFO has already attempted to reschedule free movie nights to earlier times with the Garden Theatre in the past, we believe that this event could garner even more popularity and further benefit students by showing movies earlier on Fridays or Saturdays. It
would be more inclusive to students who go to sleep earlier but would still like to take advantage of this free movie initiative. The Board recommends that UFO continue efforts to move movie times even slightly earlier, remaining cognizant of the Garden Theatre’s other commercial business on the weekends. Overall, the Board commends these USG weekly movie screenings for providing an enjoyable, wellplanned alternative to alcoholic activities that occur during the weekend and would like to encourage USG to sponsor similar events more often and work with the Garden Theatre to screen movies earlier. The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian. The Board answers only to its CoChairs, the Opinion Editor, and the Editor-in-Chief. It can be reached at editorialboard@ dailyprincetonian.com.
It’s time to start taking ‘locker room humor’ more seriously Sandy Thatcher ’65 Guest Contributor
As a former swimmer at Princeton (1961-1965), secretary of the Friends of Princeton Swimming (1970-1989), author of a 133-page online history of the program, and winner of the Princeton University Competitive Swimming and Diving Team’s 250th Award in 2015, I have a long view of this incident that others may not have. First of all, it is important to recognize that, in Bob Dylan’s famous words, “the times they are a’ changin.’” Donald Trump’s brand of “locker room talk” is no longer acceptable in the way it once was. We do not tolerate philandering in the White House the way we did when John F. Kennedy was president. In the specific context of the swimming team, I have heard from members of the women’s team from different classes spanning several decades who attested to this behavior as common when they were undergraduates. It made them feel uncomfortable, but they felt too intimidated to speak up, lest they be ostracized for not being willing to allow “boys to be boys.” We may consider it a sign of moral and cultural progress that women are not so ready to excuse such behavior today and are ready to challenge their male teammates for engaging in it. And the Daily Princetonian Editorial Board needs to be aware that allegedly “private” communications are heard and seen by their female friends, and not just behind their own closed doors. Because times have changed, not everyone has caught up. I know alumni from my era that think this is all just so much “political correctness” run amok. They think it is merely harmless banter, certainly not deserving of what they consider to be draconian punishment. There is a legitimate concern about collective guilt. As one who worked at Penn State for
twenty years, I know all about the “collective guilt” that Judge Louis Freeh wanted the entire Penn State community to acknowledge after Jerry Sandusky’s child abuse was uncovered and confronted. Each situation needs to be dealt with carefully, lest the truly innocent get caught up in a rush to judgment. But my understanding is that after careful investigation, it was determined that those who may not have directly engaged in this unseemly behavior nevertheless had a bystander responsibility to bring it to the attention of the proper authorities, including the coaches. Remember that Princeton’s longstanding Honor Code requires the reporting of cheating. The code governing team behavior operates in a similar fashion. In a broader context, there is a new level of concern about sexual harassment and violence on college campuses, and actions are finally being taken to acknowledge and deal with the problems. I live not far north of Waco, Texas, where Baylor University is still reeling from the revelations about sexual violence committed by multiple football players. Some of these actions have proven very controversial, such as the use by university disciplinary boards of a lower standard of evidence than courts use in determining guilt. But overall, our country has made great strides in the past half-dozen years. For those especially interested in the culture of sexual harassment and violence as it pertains specifically to athletic programs, I recommend the reading of two reports recently released by The Drake Group, an organization of primarily college-level faculty who are interested in intercollegiate athletic reform: one concerns the problem as it is created by and affects athletes; the other is about misconduct by coaches. Both reports offer a series of recommendations about how the problems could be dealt with more effectively. And the principles they invoke have wider application beyond
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athletics, so all students might want to take heed of them and apply these norms in their own lives. The message as it relates to the Princeton incident is to connect the dots between the kind of culture the swim team’s behavior reflected and the more serious types of harassment and assault that they tacitly normalize by making disrespect toward others seem a natural attitude to have. We have been reminded again just this past week, when the similar online behavior of the Marines United group of 30,000 men was brought to light, that this is a pervasive problem in our society, not limited to college campuses or sports teams. Sandy Thatcher ’65 GS 67 was a copy editor and editor-in-chief of the Princeton University Press. He can be reached at sgt3@psu.edu.
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
The Road to Victory: From Princeton to Philly to Buffalo Tigers play Notre Dame Thursday
Men’s basketball participates in a ceremonial net-cutting in celebration after their win on Sunday in the Ivy League Conference.
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“It’s definitely a special moment for me,” Stephens said. “Growing up in high school, I was around the program a lot, I went to all of the home games in high school, so it’s special to me, but at the beginning of the year Coach said, ‘Let’s get a banner for our seniors’ and we did just that.”
“This is really special, and I’m so appreciative of what these guys have done,” Henderson said. The Tigers overcame some serious foul trouble throughout the game. Bell picked up two fouls earlier in the game and Cook picked up four overal in the game. Yale was in the bonus early and often but could not find the bottom of the basket, converting less than 70 percent of their free throws. On the other
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hand, Princeton wrapped up this game making their free throws and by the final minute were receiving endless standing ovations from the crowd. “The way we are playing right now, I think it’s hard to stop us,” Stephen Weisz commented. Despite a valiant effort from Yale’s Sam Downey, the star of this game is Princeton’s Stephens. The Princeton star showed why he was the defensive Play-
er of the Year for the Ivy League and finished with 23 points, showing his offensive prowess as well. Complimenting him on the scoreboard were Cook and Cannady, who both had double-digit points. But make no mistake, this was a team effort like it has been all season, and as a team this team will celebrate. The Tigers overcame a slow start and roared their way to a decisive
Stat of the Day
23 points Sophomore Myles Stephens led the men’s basketball team with 23 points in the Ivy League Tournament final.
Ivy League tournament title. They will indeed be dancing – we will find out where and against whom later tonight. Congratulations to Yale on an incredible season of their own right. But this day has – and forever will – belong to the Princeton Tigers. A wire-to-wire conference season and the second-longest winning streak in the NCAA – it doesn’t get any better than this.
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