As a sophomore, he hit a jumper with three seconds left to force overtime against Penn on February 3, 1987, but Princeton lost by a point.
[10] In the final game of the regular season of his senior year on March 4, 1989, Scrabis scored 19 second half points to lead Princeton to a 74–63 Ivy League-clinching and NCAA Tournament bid-clinching victory over Harvard.
Scrabis took the first of two shots in the closing seconds of the game that were blocked by Alonzo Mourning to preserve a 50–49 margin of victory for Georgetown.
[15] Because of his role in preserving NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament invitations for lesser automatic bids, Bleacher Report described Scrabis as "the face of Cinderella".
[16] Scrabis was an All-Ivy first team selection in 1988 and 1989 and earned Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year in 1989.