Word: mannix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that juncture, the Crimson had stayed alive mainly with the impressive outside shooting of Tom Mannix, probably the finest pure shooter in the Ivies, who turned in 5-7, 14 point, first-half performance...
Robinson then hit two quick medium range jumpers to put Princeton up by six with 1:41 to go. Mannix poured in one of his bullet-like 25 ft. jumpers to close the gap to 34-30, but sixth-man forward Neil Christel put a 10 foot jump shot off the glass to restore the Princeton lead...
...Quakers took control of the game early and never let up except for a brief stretch at the end of the first half. After the Crimson controlled the opening tap--Tom Mannix scored the first two points of the contest with a 20-ft. jumper--Penn ran off a string of 8 straight points. Fouling a Don Fleming jumper, which pulled the Crimson to within 4, Harvard never got as close as 6 points again...
Penn captain Ken Hall took care of the apparent shift in momentum, though, by taking the inbound pass and driving the length of the floor to sink a down-the-middle lay-up at buzzer. "That hurt," Mannix said wistfully after the game. "If he hadn't hit that and we had hit the first half of the second half we would have been down...
...Penn defense and the crowd--which, at 4158, Weinhaur called the largest crowd he has ever seen at a Penn home game--proved decisive. "We couldn't make the passes that we had been making (in previous games)," Mannix said of the Penn defense. They're very quick, and they were over-playing the passing lanes...