Men's Basketball Weekly Release - Week 8

December 24, 2012

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Photos courtesy of Princeton Athletic Communications

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Ivy League men's basketball continues its serving of hoops for the holidays with a trio of games on three-straight days to close out the final weekend of 2012.

A couple of Ancient Eight squads make trips out west as both Yale and Harvard play Saint Mary's (Calif.) on back-to-back days. It will be second game for both teams with Yale taking on Nevada on Friday night and Harvard facing California on Saturday night.

Brown and Cornell tip off the weekend on Friday night with the Big Red playing at Saint Francis (Pa.) and Brown hosting Providence at home for the first time since Nov. 30, 1982, when the two teams met at Marvel Gymnasium. The cross-town rivals meet in a game to be carried live on the NBC Sports Network.

Penn and Princeton are also in action as the Quakers make the short trek to Staten Island to play Wagner on Saturday afternoon and Princeton heads to the Buckeye State to face Akron on Sunday night.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Princeton senior forward Ian Hummer (Vienna, Va.) helped the Tigers to back-to-back, double-digit wins over teams with winning records with victories over Rider and Bucknell. Hummer poured in 15 points, seven rebounds, five assists, two steals and a block vs. Rider. He followed that performance with a 17-point, eight-rebound effort that helped Princeton top that came into the game with only one loss. Hummer was efficient from the floor, knocking down 13 of his 24 attempts.

Hummer's Statistics for the Week

	MIN	FG-A	PCT	3FG-A	PCT	FT-A	PCT	REB	A	B	S	PTS
vs. Rider	32	7-14	.500	0-1	.000	1-2	.500	7	5	1	2	15
vs. Bucknell	34	6-10	.600	0-0	.000	5-7	.714	8	2	2	0	17
TOTALS	33.0	13-24	.542	0-1	.000	6-9	.667	7.5	3.5	1.5	1.0	16.0

 

 

ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Princeton freshman forward Hans Brase (Clover, S.C.) had a breakout week in the Tigers' wins over Rider and Bucknell. Brase posted the first back-to-back, double-digit scoring games of his career with a career-high 17 points vs. Rider followed by 14 points vs. Bucknell. He took advantage of his scoring opportunities, connecting on 66.7 percent (12-of-18) of his shots from the field and a perfect 100 percent (5-of-5) from the free throw line, while averaging 3.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists.

Brase's Statistics for the Week

	MIN	FG-A	PCT	3FG-A	PCT	FT-A	PCT	REB	A	B	S	PTS
vs. Rider	28	7-9	.778	0-0	.000	3-3	1.000	3	3	2	0	17
vs. Bucknell	19	5-9	.556	2-5	.400	2-2	1.000	4	1	0	0	14
TOTALS	23.5	12-18	.667	2-5	.400	5-5	1.000	3.5	2.0	1.0	0.0	15.5

 






HONOR ROLL
Brian Barbour, Columbia (Sr., G - Alamo, Calif.)    
9 points, 5 rebounds, 12 assists, 3 steals vs. Elon

Connor Boehm, Dartmouth (Fr., F - Winnetka, Ill.)    
24 points, 9 rebounds at Bryant

Siyani Chambers, Harvard (Fr., G - Golden Valley, Minn.)    
14 points, 2 rebounds, 5 assists vs. Holy Cross

Steve Frankoski, Columbia (So., G - Florham Park, N.J.)
20 points, 1 rebound, 77.8 FG% vs. Elon

Greg Louis, Penn (So., F - West Palm Beach, Fla.)    
19 points, 11 rebounds at Delaware

Sean McGonagill, Brown (Jr., G - Brookfield, Ill.)    
20 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists, 53.8 FG% at Northwestern 

Austin Morgan, Yale (Sr., G - Reno, Nev.)    
16 points, 4 rebounds, 3 steals, 55.6 FG% vs. Albertus Magnus

Wesley Saunders, Harvard (So., G - Los Angeles)    
15 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals vs. Holy Cross

UPCOMING SCHEDULE 
Friday, December 28
Providence at Brown, 7 pm [NBCSN]
Cornell at Saint Francis (Pa.), 7 pm
Yale at Nevada, 10 pm

Saturday, December 29
Manhattan at Columbia, 4 pm
Penn at Wagner, 4 pm
Harvard at California, 8 pm [PAC-12]

Sunday, December 30
Cornell at Binghamton, 2 pm [TIME WARNER]
Yale at Saint Mary’s (Calif.), 5:30 pm
Princeton at Akron, 7 pm