Princeton Tigers Get First Postseason Win Since '99

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PRINCETON – If the Princeton men's basketball team spent the first several minutes of Wednesday night's opening-round College Basketball Invitational game against Duquesne playing like they hadn't been in a postseason game before, there was good reason.

The last time any Tiger men's hoops team was in the postseason, the current senior class was learning to contribute to their respective high school varsity teams as sophomores.

It had been longer still since Princeton won a postseason game, but both too-long streaks came to an end against the Dukes in a 65-51 win.

"We've had times this season where we've started out slowly and we just kind of figured it out, so I felt like we were going to," said Sydney Johnson, the Franklin C. Cappon-Edward G. Green '40 head coach of men's basketball, about the slow start. "It probably took a little bit longer than I wanted it to."