2003–04 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team
The head coach was John Thompson III and the team captains were Ed Persia and Judson Wallace.[2] The team played its home games in the Jadwin Gymnasium on the university campus in Princeton, New Jersey, and was the champion of the Ivy League, which earned them an invitation to the 65-team 2004 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament where they were seeded fourteenth in the Atlanta Region.[2] Princeton clinched the Ivy League title on March 6, 2004, at Dartmouth,[6][7] making the March 9 annual Ivy League season finale contest against Penn meaningless.Nonetheless, the Tigers defeated Penn 76–70 in overtime giving them a nine-game winning streak as they entered the NCAA Division I basketball tournament.[8] In its March 18, 2004 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament Atlanta Regional first-round game against the Brandon Mouton-led Texas Longhorns at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado the team lost by a 66–49 margin.
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