Pete Carril, the Hall of Fame coach who brought renown to the "Princeton Offense" during his 30-year tenure with the tigers, died Monday morning at the age of 92.
Please respect our privacy at this time as we process our loss and handle necessary arrangements. The Carril family said in a statement that more information would be forthcoming.
The NIT was won byPrinceton in 1975, in Madison Square Garden.
During their 11 NCAA tournament berths under Carril, the Tigers' memorable March nights featured the frenzied coach prancing up and down the sideline as they tried to outsmart superior opponents.
Any person can coach basketball. Right now, I can tell you that. Carril said it was not hard to know about a pick-and-roll, a back-pick, and the shuffle-cut. To have an idea of how your team is going to play is difficult. That's under the heading of thinking.
The logic was on display. The tournament's attention was riveted by Carril's tigers taking the No. 1 Georgetown Hoyas the distance in a 50-49 victory.
The ever-so- realistic Carril, who was never shy to create a laugh for his audience, said in a news conference prior to the game. We are a billion-to-one to win the entire tournament. We only have 450 million to beat Georgetown.
Dick Vitale agreed with Carril. Vitale promised in the studio segment that he would go home for the weekend. I'm going to hitch a ride to Providence if Georgetown beats Princeton. I'm going to be their ball boy. I'm going to change into a cheerleading uniform and I'm going to lead the cheering.
The Tigers led at the half, 29-21, and used their patient offense to frustrate the star-laden Georgetown team. Carril huffed and battled from the bench as the Tigers puffed to the end despite mismatches.
"They kind of lulled us to sleep with the back-to-back cuts and running the shot clock down." They took advantage when we slipped up.
The New Jersey school that produces Rhodes Scholars and Pulitzer Prize winners is known more for producing athletes than scholars. The Razorbacks defeated Carril's Tigers, 68-64, in 1990.
After winning the Ivy League in each of the previous two seasons, the Tigers lost to both Syracuse and Syracuse in the NCAA tournament. The March Madness game for the ages was the culmination of Carril's program.
Carril told his team he was going to step down after the NCAA tournament after they won the Ivy title. He wrote on a whiteboard after the victory that he was retiring. I'm very pleased.
The defending national champion, UCLA, was beaten by a No. 13 seed in Indianapolis.
Carril let out a laugh after the game when he said they knocked off a giant.
Lavin was an assistant on the 1996 staff. He said it was one of the most memorable games.
The push and pull of a nail-biting, NCAA-tournament game proved to be the perfect stage for a flustered Carril on the bench, whose white hair stood up in all directions as the Tigers hung on for a classic first-round upset.
Carill's collegiate career ended with a 525-272 mark, which included 518 victories at Princeton. In 1997, a year after the victory over the Bruins, he was inducted into the National collegiate basketball hall of fame.
Carill said that no one ever wants to be a Hall of Fame coach or a Hall of Fame doctor. Nobody ever starts out that way. You don't know where you're going to end up and you don't know why it happens.
In basketball, it was always half decent. We are now a national school. I don't believe that anything will change that.
Carril was an assistant coach in the NBA for three different times and retired in 2011.
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