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Frankly, it never pays to trust these supposedly authoritative sources. The writers have never seen most of the teams play, and a few telephone calls to the coaches just don't do the trick--no matter how engaging a conversationalist Princeton mentor Pete Carril really...
...Harvard was ever going to upset a Pete Carril team, this was the year to do it. The Tigers, an uninspired unit, played a dreary game, shooting 44 per cent from the floor, and committing 22 turnovers...
...Carril's Harvard jinx held; his victory was his 24th out of 25 contests in his 13 years at the Princeton helm...
...Carril coaches in constant despair; he whines, grunts, implores and terrorizes his players into performing--usually quite well...
...Carril method--if having all the blood vessels in your head stand out is a method--has taken Princeton to the NCAAs three times and to a .688 overall winning percentage. Besides hysteria, program-eating and white-shirt-wearing, the Carril style usually means incredibly tight defense, patient offense (read: mostly short players) and winning. Carril is not pretty...