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RPS
03-19-2019, 07:41 PM
There's a nice NYT article about Bella Alarie, daughter of Mark (https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/mark-alarie-1.html), here (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/sports/a-star-princeton-player-has-a-sense-of-where-shell-be-the-wnba.html). The title offers a nice allusion to John McPhee's classic Bill Bradley-at-Princeton tome (https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Where-You-Are-Princeton/dp/0374526893) and the article itself chronicles Bella's ascension from being a player who couldn't even get a "letter of interest" from Duke to a likely first round WNBA draft choice. Chris Young, the long-time major league pitcher who played basketball and baseball at Princeton, is quoted as saying, "I’d pay to watch two players in college basketball: Zion Williamson and Bella Alarie."

It's well worth a look.

weezie
03-19-2019, 08:45 PM
There's a nice NYT article about Bella Alarie, daughter of Mark (https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/mark-alarie-1.html), here (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/sports/a-star-princeton-player-has-a-sense-of-where-shell-be-the-wnba.html). The title offers a nice allusion to John McPhee's classic Bill Bradley-at-Princeton tome (https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Where-You-Are-Princeton/dp/0374526893)



My father had a copy of the Bradley biography autographed by Bradley at a Princeton Club of Detroit meeting. I have that book now and I cherish it.

And that is a great article about Bella Alarie! Thanks for the link.

RPS
03-19-2019, 09:18 PM
I wouldn't call McPhee's book a biography, exactly, but it's one of my two favorite basketball books ever (this (https://www.amazon.com/Breaks-Game-David-Halberstam/dp/1401309720) is the other).

HereBeforeCoachK
03-19-2019, 11:05 PM
With Mark's place in the pantheon of Duke basketball (which IMO is way up there) - a case could be made that she should've been given a hard look by Coach P. out of courtesy...and then look what Duke would've had.

RPS
03-20-2019, 12:26 AM
With Mark's place in the pantheon of Duke basketball (which IMO is way up there) - a case could be made that she should've been given a hard look by Coach P. out of courtesy...and then look what Duke would've had.Dad was disappointed (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/recruiting-insider/wp/2015/02/06/national-cathedrals-isabella-alarie-grows-out-of-fathers-shadow/?utm_term=.7cf455d6ccb5), too, that there was never even contact made.

weezie
03-20-2019, 08:06 AM
I wouldn't call McPhee's book a biography, exactly, but it's one of my two favorite basketball books ever

Yes, I stand corrected.

luvdahops
03-20-2019, 10:50 AM
There's a nice NYT article about Bella Alarie, daughter of Mark (https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/mark-alarie-1.html), here (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/sports/a-star-princeton-player-has-a-sense-of-where-shell-be-the-wnba.html). The title offers a nice allusion to John McPhee's classic Bill Bradley-at-Princeton tome (https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Where-You-Are-Princeton/dp/0374526893) and the article itself chronicles Bella's ascension from being a player who couldn't even get a "letter of interest" from Duke to a likely first round WNBA draft choice. Chris Young, the long-time major league pitcher who played basketball and baseball at Princeton, is quoted as saying, "I’d pay to watch two players in college basketball: Zion Williamson and Bella Alarie."

It's well worth a look.

I've watched a few Princeton WBB games this year, including the win over Penn Sunday in the Ivy tournament final, as a family friend is also on the team. Bella is an absolutely dominant player, with season averages of 23 ppg, 10.4 rpg, 3.3 apg and 2.9 bpg, shooting 52.6% on FGs and 83% on FTs. Those are pretty much video game numbers for WBB.

Billy Dat
03-20-2019, 01:46 PM
She looks a lot like Mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73-dnAibUOU

budwom
03-20-2019, 02:42 PM
She made the right choice given the current regime, I am sad to say. Wish it were not so.