Meanwhile women down 11 in 4th quarter 
All of our players and coaches look completely checked out.
Jon Jaques owns Mitch Henderson. They don’t just beat us easily, they rip our heart out and stomp on it.
Mitch already waving the white flag with Cash “Instant Turnover” McSweeney.
Yeah, I’m out. This garbage isn’t worth anyone’s time.
Tell me why I didn’t take my wife out to dinner tonight instead of asking her to join me at this $&#%¥%? game against $&”%#^+ Cornell. I don’t usually agree with GK’s brutal pessimism but boy does he have this one nailed. This game was over in the first 5 minutes. Once again the Tigers looked thoroughly unprepared for what hit them, despite seeing the this twice a year.
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You the man gokinsman, bold prediction comes through.
But Mitch is untouchable. We can complain, agonize and wince, but I think he’s there as long as he wants . I’m fine with it.
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That was awful. Missing like ten layups against shorter players or while uncontested certainly didn’t help, but getting beaten consistently to loose balls and rebounds while forgetting how to guard basic two-man actions was even more of a problem. Not taking open threes when they were in rhythm was also exasperating. Definitely a team that looked like the hunted rather than the hunter for almost the whole game.
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Very poor game for Hicke, Happy and Clark.
Only discernable game plan was for Abdullahi to go one-on-one.
The team shows no ability to drive-and-dish.
Meanwhile Cornell performs continuous brush-picks off the ball until one of them work with either an open cutter or a defender going under the pick.
The bright spot for me was Malik, who continues to improve and build confidence. Without Stanton, though, there was very little battling for loose balls from others. At one point in an involuntarily reflex that surprised me, I yelled “hit the damn floor” when three Tigers just stood around and watched as a Cornell player dove to secure a loose ball
Another low point was Landon Clark making a nice cut, receiving a pass and missing the layup at point blank range with nobody anywhere near him. The kid is 6’8”. Just dunk the damn ball!
I was impressed with Cornell’s ball movement, cuts, picks and screens that resulted in open shot after open shot. In stark contrast, Princeton’s offense has devolved into players desperately trying to create their own shots. Just very hard to watch.
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OTOH, Davis’ lob to Happy, as if he could leap and dunk, was absurd.
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Once again, Penn knows what to do with Cornell.
Does Mitch want to put his ego aside and learn from others? Or is he content to be humiliated twice a year forever?
Congratulations, Mitch, you’ve done it: I’m extremely envious of Penn 
I wouldn’t be envious of Penn. Mitch Henderson’s all-time record against the Quakers is 23-5. This was always going to be a rebuild year. Princeton lost its two best players and Davis for much of the year, and now Stanton. The Tigers are young and will bounce back next year. The future is bright.
The future is bright in what way? Are their 4 or 5 stars coming in? Who do you see that provides this bright future? I’ll hang up and listen.
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I don’t think people realize how much the landscape is changing. You can’t win the same way you used to. And Mitch was never a juggernaut to begin with (2 NCAA appearances in 14 years).
This season is a window into the future and Mitch’s weaknesses have been fully exposed. Poorly motivated, soft on defense, and consistently inconsistent. And I’m being kind by excusing the horrendous TOs this year (this team is indeed very young).
As a Yale fan, I would love for Princeton to have a coach other than Mitch Henderson
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Gokinsmen, you are way too negative. Princeton won three regular season titles in a row, 2022-2024. In Henderson’s tenure, the Tigers have only finished outside of the top 4 once. Only Yale has done better. Two of our best recent players, Xaivian Lee and Caden Pierce, have gone and are going to top programs. Tosan and Allocco are getting playing time in the NBA. The landscape is changing but Mitch is still recruiting at a very high level. We need a true point guard and a bigger, more physical center but the nucleus coming back is excellent. Your gripe should not be with the coaches but with the school/league administrations. Resistance to embrace NIL (even Penn’s idea of paid internships for players) will relegate the Ivies to DIII. That is the real problem not the current coaching staff.
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Part of this is self-inflicted. I think Princeton thought that it could be the exception to the prevailing trends because, well, of course it’s Princeton, so we’re going to have players who will want to stick it out for 4 years even as others in the IL were already suffering here.
Then it finally happened to Princeton and now it’s playing catch up.
Allocco is in the G league
If I find the time I will watch that game to see the difference in defense.
I’m not saying this would have made a difference but didn’t the Ivies used to switch the order on back-to-backs? Eg Princeton would have played @ Cornell, @ Columbia then home against Columbia then home against Cornell.
