1954–55 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team

The head coach was Franklin Cappon and the team captain was Harold "Bud" Haabestad, Jr.[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.After ending the regular season tied for the conference lead, the team won a one-game playoff against the Columbia Lions on March 9, 1955, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, by an 86–69 margin for the EIBL championship.The team earned an invitation to the twenty-four-team 1955 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, where it earned a bye before it lost to the La Salle Explorers by a 73–46 margin on March 11, 1955, at the Palestra in Philadelphia in the second round and then subsequently lost to the Villanova Wildcats by a 64–57 margin the next night in a consolation game.[1][3] During the season, Haabestad established numerous Princeton scoring standards, including being the first Tiger basketball player to score 500 points in a season and 1000 in a career.
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