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...current Princeton team plays exactly the way my team did, with a few new wrinkles and some better athletes. My coach was the ornery philosopher Pete Carril. Princeton's current coach, Bill Carmody, apprenticed under Carril for 14 years. Carril saw the 94-ft. by 54-ft. hard court as a moral playground where the cardinal virtue was unselfishness. The embodiment of unselfishness was the assist, the small act of grace of giving up the ball to a teammate who has a better shot. Check out the box score of a Princeton game: the team gets two-thirds...
Harvard played a solid game. It played a physical defense and had a relatively productive offense. It just was not enough to force Princeton to lose its composure. Never once did Princeton move away from their seamless, Pete Carril-invented system...
Many of the Princeton players have played together for four years, including two years under the system designer, former Princeton coach Carril. The team played in sync with each other. They were experienced and calm...
Arguably, Princeton (11-0 Ivy, 20-3) is better than it was last season, when it beat UCLA in the first round of the NCAAs. Only one player left to graduation (Chris Doyal), and the team's last loss was in December. And, of course, the departure of Pete Carril has not prevented first-year coach Bill Carmody from running that annoying offense...
...Princeton coach Pete Carril after upsetting defending champion UCLA 43-41 in the first round of the NCAA tournanent...