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Mitchell G. "Mitch" Henderson (born August 14, 1975) is an American college basketball coach, currently serving as head coach for the Princeton Tigers men's basketball team. Before taking the Princeton job in 2011, he served as an assistant for the Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball team for eleven seasons under Bill Carmody. He had been a member of three consecutive Ivy League champion Princeton teams as a player (two of which went undefeated in conference, the first tying the school record with 19 consecutive wins and the second achieving 20). He was a co-captain of the second of these undefeated league champions along with Steve Goodrich. ==Early life== Henderson was a twelve-time varsity letter winner at Culver Military Academy in football, basketball and baseball. He had been drafted by the New York Yankees with the 24th pick of the 29th round, 815th overall in the 1994 Major League Baseball Draft.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mitch Henderson )〕 In baseball, he was a pitcher. He was named the 1994 ''South Bend Tribune'' high school Male Athlete of the Year. He did not sign with the Yankees and retained his amateur status although he chose to pursue basketball rather than baseball in college. As a basketball player, he was a four-year starter at Princeton University, where he was captain of the Ivy League champion 1997–98 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team as well as a member of the 1995–96 and 1996–97 conference champions. The latter two teams were undefeated in conference play. These two undefeated Ivy League seasons were coached by Carmody.〔 The 1995–96 team was notable for its upset of the defending national champion UCLA Bruins in the 1996 NCAA Tournament.〔 The 1996–97 team finished the regular season on a school record 19-game winning streak.〔 In the 1997 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, against the fifth-seeded , the team lost 55–52.〔 Henderson had tied the score at 50 with 1:37 to play. Henderson was a 1997 honorable mention All-Ivy League selection. The 1997–98 team posted a 27–2 overall record, reached the top 10 in the national polls, and achieved a 14–0 conference record.〔 The Tigers entered the 1998 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament on a 19-game winning streak and finished the season ranked eighth in the final USAToday/NABC Coaches Poll. He was a 1998 2nd team All-Ivy League selection. In the 1998 tournament opening game for the fifth-seeded Tigers, he scored 19 points to help them defeat the 69–57, which marked the team's 20th consecutive win—a school record.〔 He was briefly a member of the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association during the 1998–99 NBA season, but he did not appear in any regular season games. He also played professional basketball in Sligo, Ireland, from August 1998 to January 1999.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mitch Henderson )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mitch Henderson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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