Princeton (7-7, 0-0 Ivy) at Florida A&M (2-11, 0-1 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference)Sunday, Jan. 1 at 3 p.m. at Al Lawson Center
Princeton head coach: Mitch Henderson (Princeton '98, first season, 7-7 overall/at Princeton)Radio: WPRB 103.3 FM, GoPrincetonTigers.com (John Sadak, Play-by-Play; Noah Savage '08, Color)
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All-Time Series: Princeton leads 1-0, 0-0 away, 0-0 at facility
Streak: Princeton 1 overall; (last meeting 1992)
TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- Princeton will try to climb above the .500 mark for the first time this season. The Tigers lost their first two in the midst of a 1-5 start and are 6-2 since. With Princeton's win at Florida State Friday night (Princeton 75, Florida State 73 3OT (12/30/11), the Tigers have won two games on home courts of "big six" conference teams in the same season since 1966-67. Princeton won at Rutgers on Dec. 7.
Princeton snapped FSU's 51-game home win streak against teams outside the "big six" conferences. Florida International was the last team outside of a major conference to beat FSU at the Civic Center on Dec. 12, 2004.
The Florida State and Rutgers wins mark the first time Princeton has defeated two "big six" conference teams in the same season since 1998-99, when the Tigers beat Florida State, Texas (both neutral), Georgetown (at Princeton, NIT) and N.C. State (road, NIT).
Princeton is on a stretch in which it will play 12 straight Division I opponents on their home floors, something the program has never done. In all, Princeton will travel more than 3,900 miles to complete the 12-game road stretch. The last five games of Princeton's 12-game road stretch against D-I foes are Ivy games determined by the Ivy League. That means Princeton will have 7 of 9 games at home to close the regular season.
The Florida A&M game will mark the eighth new court on which Princeton has played this season. The Tigers had never played in the current buildings of N.C. State, Bucknell, Drexel, Rider, Northeastern, Siena or Florida State.
TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- Reggie Lewis will be the first to tell you that a lot of his basketball success is due to his passion to get first-hand experience to improve his game. In a sense, that was exactly the reason the Florida A&M guard took the time to watch Princeton play FSU — in person.
FAMU plays Princeton today and Lewis didn't want to pass up the opportunity to see for himself what the Tigers will bring to the Lawson Center.
"They don't get rattled," Lewis said. "They take a lot of time off the shot clock. They try to get a lot of second-chance shots too."
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