Basketball: Into halftime

• Savage hits an open three from the wing to put Princeton up nine points heading into halftime. The score is 33-24. Tigers are shooting 50 percent from the field despite hitting just 5 of 14 three-pointers. If Princeton starts making open threes, it reall will be dangerous offensively. Until then, the Tigers are good enough to be taking it to this VMI squad.
• 12 assists on 12 field goals at halftime. That's really a good sign.
• Princeton is outrebounding the Keydets 18-10. Owings has grabbed 2 of the Tigers' 4 offensive rebounds, and he's been key in limiting VMI to just one offensive rebound.
• The Tigers do have 12 turnovers to offset their 12 assists. That's a big change from last night. Amazingly, against Loyola, the Tigers had 6 turnovers--but none of them were the really bad kind. Three of them were ball-handling violations (travels/double dribbles) and three of them were player control (offensive) fouls. That means 0 bad passes. Coach Scott was exceedingly pleased with that in last night's press conference. Understandably.