Tigers tripped up by Runnin’ Rebs: Historic season comes to a close for men's basketball
As the clock struck zero under the bright lights of Levien Gymnasium on March 16, men’s basketball had a chance to reflect.
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As the clock struck zero under the bright lights of Levien Gymnasium on March 16, men’s basketball had a chance to reflect.
March is here, and your Tigers are dancing.
Each week, Sports and Data editors at The Daily Princetonian 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 our past By the Numbers coverage here.
The Tigers are back in March Madness — and nobody’s underestimating them now. Fresh off back-to-back appearances in the round of 32, Princeton women’s basketball (25–4 overall, 13–1 Ivy League) is ready to make noise once again.
After a weekend where the women’s basketball team toppled Columbia en route to their fifth consecutive Ivy Madness title, and the men’s team fell in disappointing fashion to Brown, the Princeton Basketball program learned their postseason fates Sunday evening.
NEW YORK, NY — After a season of buildup between the two Ivy League superpowers, the final battle arrived.
NEW YORK, NY — One year ago today, under the bright lights of the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, Calif., the Princeton Tigers had achieved the impossible by taking down Arizona in a massive upset that began their Cinderella run to the Sweet 16. The Princeton community — and the country — took notice. Princeton basketball became a national name.
It’s not called Ivy Madness for nothing.
Coming off back-to-back appearances in the NCAA tournament, this year’s Tigers’ women’s basketball squad will hope to make their postseason success a trilogy with this weekend’s Ivy Madness conference tournament. On Friday, March 15, Princeton women’s basketball (23–4 overall, 13–1 Ivy League) will head to Levien Gymnasium at Columbia University to take on Penn (15–12, 7–7) in the semifinal round of the tournament and, if they win, face the winner between Columbia (22–5, 13–1) and Harvard (16–11, 9–5) the next day. Despite having the same conference record as Columbia, the Tigers have the top seed because they outrank Columbia in the NET ranking.
Inside and outside of the Orange Bubble, all eyes are on this year’s edition of the Princeton Tigers. Fresh off a Cinderella run to the Sweet 16 fueled by wins over powerhouses Arizona and Missouri, the men’s basketball team (24–3 overall, 12–2 Ivy League) hopes to secure back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances for the first time since 1998. With only three losses, a neutral site win against Rutgers, and a NET ranking of 48, Princeton has built an impressive resume — and the Ivy League has taken notice.
There’s a term for a repeat, there’s a term for a three-peat, and we have even heard of the occasional “four-peat.” But doing something six times in a row is so infrequent that there’s nothing in our lexicon for it.
Ahead of Ivy Madness, The Daily Princetonian takes a behind-the-scenes look at the recent successes of the men’s and women’s basketball teams. This supplement looks at the people who make up the teams now and the strategies that have propelled the Tigers to the top of the Ivy League.
Each week, Sports and Data editors 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 last week‘s By the Numbers.
You don’t have to go too far back in time to find the moment that senior guard and captain Kaitlyn Chen became the star of the Princeton women’s basketball program. On Mar. 30, 2022 — the Ivy Madness final — Princeton faced their rival Columbia at the Lavietes Pavilion in Cambridge, Mass., with an NCAA Tournament berth at stake. The then-rookie Chen dropped a career-high 30 points in the battle and was named the Ivy Madness Tournament’s most valuable player. Postgame, Chen earned effusive praise from Tigers’ great Abby Meyers ’22.
This weekend, under cloudy skies in Orlando, Fla., Princeton softball (5–4 overall, 0–0 Ivy League) competed against four teams in the University of Central Florida (UCF) Knights Classic. The Tigers won their first game, but failed to keep that momentum going and lost their next four games.
Though basketball is not what Ivy League schools with low acceptance rates and mandatory senior theses are typically known for, over the past decade, the Tigers have made a name for themselves on the court in both men’s and women’s basketball.
Though analysts may hail the coaching systems of Carla Berube and Mitch Henderson ’98 as the driving forces behind the women’s and men’s basketball team’s recent success, it could be argued that star power that has propelled Tiger basketball into the national spotlight.
70–25 is a score you usually see in a video game.
The No. 10 Princeton women’s water polo team (12–2 overall, 4–0 Collegiate Water Polo Association) defeated four teams this past weekend in a CWPA conference showdown at DeNunzio pool, sweeping the weekend slate.