The classiest move would be to kick Duncombe out of the basketball program altogether. A fan should be able to go to a basketball game without having to fear the wrath of an unbalanced player frustrated about his poor performance.

Sophomore Vince Curran, who had played only 101 minutes all season long, took over for Duncombe and promptly scored 14 second-half points to spark the Quaker victory.

What is this, Fiddler on the Roof?: Curran finished Friday's game with career highs in points (16) and rebounds (five).

Hey coach, what's this kid's secret?

"[Curran's] got a competitive edge," Schneider said. "He always dives for the ball and he plays hard. He's a Philadelphia kid, he grew up playing basketball in the Palestra and he takes all this Penn tradition very seriously, too, which helps him a lot."

Let's hear it for tradition.

The Net Chords Are Burning:

There is very little chance of accurately describing Princeton's shooting streak in the second half of Saturday's game, when the Tigers popped in five consecutive three-point shots in a five-minute span.

Captain Bob Scrabis hit the first two, Troy Hottenstein and Jerry Doyle added one each and Scrabis capped off the incredible string with another long-range bomb at the 8:46 mark.

The statistician's play-by-play report may have come the closest to capturing the incredible nature of the string:

Scrabis three-pointer. All net.

Scrabis from way outside. All net.

Hottenstein three-pointer from the corner. All net.

"I thought the key to the game was the first several minutes of the second half, when we turned the ball over three or four straight times," Roby said, "instead of turning the screws on them and starting to get them to think about the fact that they lost two when they could've clinched."

"You get that to play on their mind a little bit," Roby added, "and their shots become a little more tentative. We threw it away, and it got them to relax and they stuck those threes."