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Yale edges Princeton 66-64 to win Ivy League tournament
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Azar Swain scored 23 factors and Yale held on for a 66-64 victory over Princeton to win the Ivy League event on Sunday.
The Bulldogs will play within the NCAA Event for the sixth time. Yale final went to the NCAAs in 2019 and was to be the league consultant for the cancelled 2020 occasion. The Ivy League cancelled its 2020-21 season.
Second-seeded Yale, which led almost the whole sport, was up by 9 with a minute left. However Ethan Wright hit a 3-pointer and Jaelin Llewellyn added two extra, the ultimate one with 24 seconds remaining, to get the top-seeded Tigers inside two after Yale’s Bez Mbeng had made a pair of free throws for Yale.
After Yale’s Isaiah Kelly missed two free throws with 14.4 seconds to go, Llewellyn drove inside however his effort to kick out a cross went off the underside of the backboard and struck him as he went out of bounds with 1.5 left. Yale, which had two five-second violations within the closing minutes, threw a protracted inbounds cross that Llewellyn intercepted however his desperation heave wasn’t shut.
Yale gamers rejoice after defeating Princeton within the NCAA Ivy League males’s school basketball championship sport, Sunday, March 13, 2022, in Cambridge, Mass.
(AP Picture/Mary Schwalm)
Swain shot 9 of 21 with three 3-pointers. Mbeng added 13 factors and 11 rebounds plus three steals and Matt Knowling had 12 factors and 5 assists for the Bulldogs (19-11), who cut up with Princeton through the common season however completed a sport again of the first-place Tigers.
Tosan Evbuomwan scored 20 factors with 11 rebounds and 5 assists for Princeton (23-6), which got here in on an eight-game win streak. Llewellyn added 18 factors and Wright 15. Princeton, ranked within the prime 10 nationally in field-goal (49.05) and 3-point proportion (38.99) and eighth in scoring offense (80.4), shot 41%, made 10 of 30 from the arc and tied their season low for factors.
Yale took a 7-4 lead on a Bbeng 3-pointer and led the remainder of the way in which, holding a 32-25 halftime benefit. The Bulldogs led by as many as 11 within the second half, holding off a number of Princeton fees.
Yale shot 46%, made 6 of 17 from the arc and was plus-nine on the boards.