More thoughts at halftime

• The Tigers are really right in this at halftime (down 29-24) without having played close to their best defense. It will be interesting to see if more or less playing time will be given to the freshmen as crunchtime nears...it seems like Princeton has every intention of hanging in this one.
• Some ball boy is out on the court shooting threes from near mid-court. He just made one (finally) and then grinned all over the place to see if anyone noticed. He's, like, 20 or something. Plus, he's wearing pants. Just collect the balls, don't shoot them.
• Back come the Tigers out of the locker room. There's a small section of Orange and Black fans compressed in a small corner of the vast Value City Arena here in Columbus, Ohio. Enough to make their presence heard when Princeton hits the floor. But there are about twice as many Loyola fans (i.e. 30 instead of 15) and they are making a lot of pre-meditated remarks about the Tigers' SAT scores or something.
• The pizza here in Columbus, Ohio is a fine thing. It's not cut into slices so much as really little rectangles. They brought about 50 boxes of it to the press room at halftime. Plus there's a soda fountain. Jadwin Gym? Not so much.