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Princeton is within the Sweet 16 for the primary time since 1967, two years after Bill Bradley led the Tigers to the Final Four in 1965. That’s eight years earlier than Princeton’s present head coach, Mitch Henderson, was even born. After a short interlude by Fairleigh Dickinson, Princeton has established itself as 2023’s Saint Peter’s. There’s one thing in that New Jersey water. It feels bizarre calling Princeton a Cinderella, contemplating its $36 billion endowment, however right here we’re. There’s obtained to be a greater time period for this riches-to-more-riches story. Let’s perhaps reel again the Cinderella reference and dub them the event’s Snow Whites, as a nod to their historical past as a dormant basketball royalty reawakened by Prince(ton) Charming, Mitch Henderson.
On the court docket, Ivy League Player of the Year, Tosan Evbuomwan has been the catalyst. The 6-foot-8, 219-pound level ahead hailing from Newcastle, England, is the closest factor to a Cinderella story. Evbuomwan was a late bloomer whose father despatched spotlight tapes to Ivy League colleges hoping one would take an opportunity. Princeton did and Evbuomwan is paying Princeton again for doing so by registering 15 factors, 6.2 boards, and dishing almost 5 assists an evening this season.
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