A: After a bad play [former head] coach [Joe] Scott [’87] said, “STRITTMATTER! There must be a game in Arizona where you get points for SUCKING!”
Q: What has been the greatest highlight in your sports career?
A: High school.
Q: What’s your funniest story about a coach?
A: [Assistant] coach [Tony] Newsom telling me not to wear black socks because I’m already slow and they just make me look slower.
Q: Who is your quirkiest teammate? Why?
A: [Senior guard] Jason Briggs: He doesn’t eat cheese but loves pizza, sleeps during the day and stays up all night, and lives his life according to “Y.O.L.O.” — you only live once.
Q: What has been your most embarrassing moment with the team?
A: My whole life is an ongoing embarrassing moment.
Q: What’s the best part about being an athlete on campus?
A: Being hurt all the time and getting a golf cart.
Q: What’s the worst/hardest part about being an athlete on campus?
A: Being hurt all the time so I have to have a golf cart.
Q: What’s your favorite thing to do when not practicing?
A: Making Team Pessmatter the “best team ever.”
Q: If not basketball, what other sport would you like to play?
A: Football. I am convinced I can be a good tight end. Plus, if [senior linebacker] Collin McCarthy is supposed to be covering me, I know I could get open.
Q: If you were a coach for a day, you would…?
A: Play me and let me shoot as many three pointers as possible.
Q: Favorite class taken at Princeton? Why?
A: Soc[iology] of Law was pretty good, but Bill Foran [’08] was by far the best preceptor I’ve had at Princeton.
Q: Who gets the most guys/girls on the team? Who has the most game off the field?
A; [Freshman guard] Max Huc gets a lot of girls, but he currently doesn’t know his girlfriend’s last name — so does that count?
Q: Do you have a pre-game ritual?
A: Techno dance party.
Q: Most embarrassing song on your iPod?
A: A rap-diss by Jason Briggs ’09 and Noah Savage ’08 about me from freshman year.
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