Word: koko
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...another group of people appreciated Merchant’s brilliance. These people raise eyebrows when Penn’s Koko Archibong is benched and go to sleep wondering whether Columbia coach Armond Hill will make it to 2004. They scan college newspapers for injury reports that team web sites neglected to make clear. They can tell you who’s coming off the bench for the Big Red and who Frank Sullivan is trying to recruit for next year’s Crimson. They’re the first to know when Princeton’s Andre Logan goes...
...Crimson handled the potent Quaker interior game well, again containing Penn’s frontcourt tandem of Ugonna Onyekwe and Koko Archibong and outscoring the Quakers 26-10 in the paint. However, the focus on the inside game allowed Penn’s perimeter shooters to get open looks all night. They capitalized, shooting an astounding 52 percent from three-point range...
...Penn’s Koko Archibong hadn’t seen daylight down low in the first twenty minutes against the Crimson Saturday night, but drilled a 23-footer 20 seconds after halftime. Harvard senior Sam Winter coughed the ball up on the ensuing possession, and the Quakers swung the ball around to an unguarded Jeff Schiffner. The shot fell. Just like that, the gains of a gritty, late first-half run by the Crimson had all but vanished. A six-point deficit had ballooned back to double-digits...
Given the customary dominance of Penn’s ubiquitous 6’8 forwards, Ugonna Onyekwe and Koko Archibong, the strategy may have seemed mystifying. But both players’ numbers, particularly Archibong’s, have been down somewhat this year...
Penn began the second half with three-pointers from All-Ivy forward Koko Archibong and guard Jeff Schiffner to open up a 12-point lead and never looked back...