Every Tuesday, Sports and Data writers analyze recent athletic competitions to provide analysis and insight on the happenings of Princeton athletics and individual players across the 38 intercollegiate teams at Princeton. Whether they are record-breaking or day-to-day, statistics deliver information in concise ways and help inform fans who might have missed the action. Read past By the Numbers coverage here.
Princeton Tigers: October 29 — November 4
The Tigers played 17 games and matches across 12 sports and five U.S. states over the past seven days. Of the nine games where only one team came out on top, the Tigers won 77 percent of matches, surpassing last week’s 67 percent. Multiple-day meets and tournaments are counted individually for each day of the competition. Competitions with more than one event or individual results — such as golf and cross country — are not included in our win percentage analysis.
This week, the Tigers won two-thirds of their games. They took home half their games on the road, including a big women’s volleyball contest at Brown in four sets. The Tigers held strong onto home field advantage, winning almost 90 percent of games at Princeton.
Zero, zilch, nil, nada
After a 1–0 shutout win over Dartmouth, No. 3 men’s soccer will head into their final regular season game — this Saturday, against Penn — having conceded zero goals in Ivy League play. If they hold Penn scoreless, they will be the first team in Ivy League soccer history to not give up a single Ivy League goal.
4,261
Men’s hockey took on the University of Alaska Fairbanks this weekend, a school that is a staggering 4,261 road miles away, according to Google Maps. The drive would take approximately 69 hours, taking the team through Pittsburgh; Chicago; Madison, Wisconsin; Minneapolis; Fargo, North Dakota; Saskatoon, Canada; and the small town of Delta Junction, Alaska.
Stuffing the trophy case
Princeton athletics took home four Ivy League championships this weekend, completing the double in both soccer and cross-country. Men’s and women’s cross-country dominated, with each squad finishing with five runners in the top 11. In their final game, women’s soccer clinched the regular season title with their fifth win in a row, and men’s soccer secured their own title with still one game left in their undefeated Ivy campaign.
Tiger tyranny
For the fifth straight year — excluding 2020, when there was no season due to COVID-19 — men’s cross country has won the Ivy League Championships, their seventh in eight years. The current streak by the Tigers is the second-longest in Ivy history, only behind Dartmouth’s eight-year streak from 1984 to 1991.
Eleven is heaven
For the first time since 2015, women’s cross country has the most Ivy League championships (11), passing Harvard’s 10 titles. In their win last Friday at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, the Tigers posted the eighth-best score in Ivy League Heptagonal Championship history, a 27. For context, a team’s score is made from its top five runners, with the first-place finisher receiving one point, second-place two points, and so on.
Bring out the brooms
Men’s hockey swept their home openers against the University of Alaska Fairbanks this weekend, tallying 11 goals in the two wins. The Tigers had not started their season with a home opener sweep since 1955, when the Orange and Black scored 12 in two games against Providence College.
Twice at the top
With their win over Brown on Saturday, women’s soccer secured the outright Ivy League regular season title, marking the first time in program history that the Tigers have won back-to-back regular season Ivy League titles outright. In the past, the Orange and Black had shared the title after winning the title outright the year before and vice versa, but never outright.
From historical droughts broken to all-time Ivy title bragging rights taken back, the Tigers saw success on the course, on the field, and on the ice this past week, as Ivy Tournaments start this weekend for field hockey and women’s soccer. Check back in next week to learn about all things Princeton Athletics — By The Numbers.
Harrison Blank is a head Sports editor at the ‘Prince.’
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