1951–52 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team

The head coach was Franklin Cappon and the team captain was L. Charles DeVoe.[1] The team played its home games in the Dillon Gymnasium on the university campus in Princeton, New Jersey.[2] The team was the winner of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League (EIBL).The team earned an invitation to the sixteen-team 1952 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, where it lost to the Duquesne Dukes by a 60–49 margin on March 21, 1952, at the Chicago Stadium in the first round and then subsequently lost to the Dayton Flyers by a 77–61 margin the next night in a consolation game.[1] This was Princeton's first invitation to the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

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