Preview: men's basketball to face Missouri in NCAA Round of 32
On Saturday, the men’s basketball team (22–8 overall, 10–4 Ivy League) has the opportunity to go where the program has never gone before: the Sweet 16.
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On Saturday, the men’s basketball team (22–8 overall, 10–4 Ivy League) has the opportunity to go where the program has never gone before: the Sweet 16.
Just one year after losing in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), the men’s basketball team (22–8 overall, 10–4 Ivy League) finds themselves in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, having sent the Pac-12 champions packing in the opening round.
Don your dancing shoes and grab an extra bottle of water — Princeton women’s basketball (23–5 overall, 12–2 Ivy League) is back in the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive year, and this time, they're doing it at 4,800 feet above sea level.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The parallels are unavoidable and abundant.
Princetonians may have been scattered around the world for spring break, but were united as the 15-seed Princeton Tigers toppled the two-seed University of Arizona Wildcats in Sacramento in the first round of NCAA March Madness Thursday, staging a last-minute surge to win 59–55.
It took half a decade, but the men’s basketball team (21–8 overall, 10–4 Ivy League) is back in the NCAA Tournament, for the 26th time in program history.
This past weekend, the men’s and women’s fencing teams dominated the competition at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regionals, winning individual titles in all six categories. Building off their momentum from the Ivy League Fencing Round-Robins this February, the Tigers triumphed over the best teams in the country, including No. 6 Penn State and No. 5 Duke in the men’s and women’s categories, respectively.
It was a dream weekend for Princeton basketball fans.
Despite early-season setbacks and a double-digit deficit early in the second half of the Ivy Madness final, Princeton women’s basketball (23–5 overall, 12–2 Ivy League) has emerged victorious, with their fourth Ivy Championship and second-consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament following a 54–48 win over Harvard (17–11, 9–5) Saturday night.
On Saturday, March 11, the men’s basketball team (20–8 overall, 10–4 Ivy League) advanced to the Ivy Madness championship game with a 77–70 win over the Penn Quakers (17–13, 9–5) with over 4,500 in attendance at Jadwin Gymnasium. The win extends the Tigers’ winning streak against the Quakers to nine games, and means they’ll have a chance to advance to the NCAA Tournament with a win Sunday against the Yale Bulldogs (21–7, 10–4) in the title game.
On Friday, March 10, the women’s basketball team (22–5 overall, 12–2 Ivy League) advanced to the Ivy League Tournament championship game, extending their win streak to 14 games by defeating the Penn Quakers (17–11, 9–5) in the semifinals, 60–47. Despite the Tigers opening up a double-digit lead in the first half, the Quakers rallied back to cut it to single digits in the third quarter. Princeton ultimately held on, with three scorers in double figures and three players grabbing at least six rebounds.
After a rollercoaster start to the year, Princeton women’s basketball (21–5 overall, 12–2 Ivy League) managed to right the ship and finished the Ivy League regular season with their 13th-straight win last Friday at Penn (17–10, 9–5).
For most of the season, the Princeton men’s basketball team (19–8 overall, 10–4 Ivy League) has been at or near the top of the Ivy League standings, but recent performances may cause onlookers to question whether or not the team can pull off back-to-back wins to capture their second Ivy Madness title.
This past weekend, senior wide receiver Andrei Iosivas participated in the National Football League (NFL) Combine in Indianapolis, Ind., an annual showcase for the nation’s top college prospects. The Combine was the latest in a long list of pre-Draft activities Iosivas has participated in. Last month, he competed in the Senior Bowl, becoming only the third Tiger to do so and the first representative from the Ivy League in seven years.
On Tuesday, March 7, two Brown basketball players filed a lawsuit in federal court in the United States District Court in the District Court of Connecticut, accusing the eight Ivy League institutions and the Ivy League Council of Presidents of violating antitrust law by refusing to offer athletic scholarships.
With a fifth-straight Ivy League regular season championship under their belts, it’s no surprise that the Princeton women’s basketball team could be found all over the Ivy League awards this year.
After finishing 8–2 and coming up just short of the Ivy title in the 2022 season, the Princeton football team is facing a significant loss to its roster.
For Princeton men’s basketball, having players selected to All-Ivy teams has become routine, and this season was no exception.
This past weekend, Princeton softball (3–7 overall, 0–0 Ivy League) traveled to Austin, Texas to compete in the Longhorn Invitational Tournament. They went 1–4 for the weekend, and were able to stop a seven-game losing streak by winning their final game of the weekend in a rematch against the Tennessee State Tigers (9–10, 0–0 Ohio Valley) by a score of 6–5.
This past weekend, the baseball team (2–5 overall, 0–0 Ivy League) contested their second away series of the season, this time traveling to Durham, N.C. to take on Duke (8–3, 0–0 Atlantic Coast). The Duke Blue Devils had been on a four-game winning streak with a team average of .317 and an on-base-plus-slugging (OPS) of .975. The Blue Devils were also averaging more than 15 runs per game during that stretch, which included a shutout 9–0 win over ninth-ranked East Carolina.