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(03/27/14 7:24pm)
A couple season firsts are on tap for Princeton this weekend: It is the opening weekend of conference play with games against Harvard and Dartmouth, and the Tigers (5-15 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) will hopefully be playing their first games at Class of 1895 Field. The Crimson (11-11, 0-0) visit for a doubleheader Friday before the Big Green (10-13, 0-0) comes to town for another two games Saturday.
(03/26/14 9:20pm)
(03/25/14 1:30pm)
Princeton saved its worst for last in a season-ending loss at Fresno State Monday night. The last 10 minutes saw the Tigers (21-9 overall, 8-6 Ivy League) make just three baskets on 16 tries, commit seven fouls, cough up five turnovers, allow 62.5 percent shooting and ultimately throw away their season. The final score was 72-56, the largest margin of defeat during the season. Yet, Princeton trailed by just one at 45-44 with 11:50 left.
(03/24/14 6:19pm)
The topic I am about to discuss has been thoroughly debated in the public sphere over the last several years, though I think I bring a slightly different perspective to the table. Many feel college athletes ought to receive compensation beyond scholarships for the contributions they make to their universities. Most proponents have suggested the schools pick up the tab by offering players a portion of any profits generated by their sport. A popular idea is to lock this money away in a trust fund until the player graduates to provide an incentive to stay in school. This has its pros and cons, but I would rather not get into them. I am fully in favor of professionalizing college sports but in a manner that completely bypasses the universities and any issues of fairness to other students and the purpose of our higher education system.
(03/23/14 8:09pm)
A lot happened in the last minute of Princeton’s second round WNIT game at Seton Hall. The game was tied three times, seven points were scored and three turnovers were committed. The last three seconds were even crazier. The Pirates (19-13 overall, 8-10 Big East) had taken a one point lead with 10 seconds left after converting an old-fashioned three point play. The Tigers (21-9, 11-3 Ivy League) had the chance to tie, but junior guard Alex Rodgers turned the ball over with three ticks of the clock remaining and the game should have been just about out of reach. Princeton, like any team in its position, fouled immediately. Alexis Brown missed the first free throw, giving the Tigers a chance to at least send it to overtime. Then she missed the second and Princeton rebounded and called timeout. Just as the Tigers were about to inbound, Seton Hall called a timeout of its own. March was certainly at its maddest. Princeton finally ran its play with 1.4 seconds left and junior guard Blake Dietrick got a decent look, but clanged it off the backboard and the Pirates won 75-74.
(03/23/14 6:15pm)
Princeton scored its third postseason opening round win in as many tries in the College Basketball Invitational last Wednesday over Tulane in New Orleans. The Tigers (21-8 overall, 8-6 Ivy League) had knocked off Duquesne in 2010 and Evansville in 2012 before the 56-55 win over the Green Wave (17-17, 8-8 Conference USA). Despite what the final score might suggest, the game was never in serious jeopardy, as Princeton built a 14 point lead before a couple missed free throws and late threes cut the lead from seven in the final 31 seconds.
(03/13/14 4:26pm)
The Ivy League announced yesterday that Harvard guard/forward Wesley Saunders was the coaches’ pick for its men’s basketball player of the year award. Now I’m no basketball expert, so can someone please tell me what they see in Saunders that I do not? Because all I see are conference statistics perhaps not even worthy of a first team selection, let alone the designation of “best” player in the league.
(03/11/14 6:45pm)
Regular season finale from Jadwin gymnasium
(03/11/14 10:23am)
It certainly was not the prettiest game, but the Tigers found a way to get it done late against Penn, something they’ve struggled mightily with over the course of this season’s Ivy League schedule. Princeton (20-8 overall, 8-6 Ivy League) hung on for a 70-65 win over the Quakers (8-20, 5-9), despite being narrowly outshot. The win gave the team its fifth straight win, part of its third 20-win season in the last four years and a tie for third place in the league.
(03/09/14 6:35am)
Men sweep Cornell and Columbia on the road, ensure .500 record in conference
(03/08/14 5:47pm)
Live from Levien gymnasium in New York City. Follow along as Princeton tries to keep its third place (and postseason) hopes alive
(03/06/14 4:51pm)
Crunch time has arrived for women’s basketball following last weekend’s loss at Brown. The defeat at the hands of the lowly Bears dropped Princeton (18-7 overall, 9-2 Ivy League) into a first place tie with Penn. The regular season ends against the Quakers (19-6, 9-2) next Tuesday, but the Tigers must first survive matchups against Cornell and Columbia in this weekend’s homestand.
(03/04/14 2:31pm)
Every year in college basketball, it seems like there is that one mid-major team that rips through its weak conference schedule and ends up ranked higher than many people would like. Last year it was Gonzaga, which somehow ended up first in both polls going into the tournament, despite its 1-2 record against ranked opponents. The Bulldogs pretty much ended up there by default since they started out with a preseason rank of 21 and consistently moved up as teams ahead of them lost. Yet how many fans, coaches or analysts actually considered Gonzaga the best team in the country? I boldly predicted that it would become the first one-seed to lose in the first round, and it ended up barely surviving Southern University before losing in the second round.
(03/03/14 2:35pm)
Men’s swimming and diving picked up four wins at this weekend’s Ivy League championships but fell to Harvard 1495-1413. Princeton held a five-year win streak coming into the meet, but the Crimson was able to defend its home pool with nine event wins. The Tigers never got within 50 points after falling into a 105-point deficit after day one. Third-place Penn’s Chris Swanson won Swimmer of the Meet after winning the 500- and 1,650-yard freestyle events and placing second in the 1,000.
(03/03/14 12:44pm)
Men sweep Brown and Yale in final weekend of home conference play
(02/28/14 5:53pm)
Live from Jadwin Gymnasium
(02/27/14 6:01pm)
The five-time defending champion Princeton men’s swimming and diving team will try to set the all-time record this weekend for consecutive Ivy League Championships in Cambridge, Mass. The toughest competition will come from Harvard, who has finished runner-up each year of the Princeton's streak thus far and is the only squad other than the Tigers (6-2 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) to win the meet since 1994. The Crimson (8-2, 7-0) defeated Princeton at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet earlier this winter, although the dual meet setting is a far cry from that of the championship meet, where depth, and not top talent, reigns supreme. Last year the Tigers suffered a 200-153 loss to Harvard at DeNunzio Pool in the same H-Y-P meet but vanquished the Crimson by a 70-point margin at the league championships.
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(02/23/14 7:49pm)
Murphy’s law states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Someone ought to tell that to the women’s basketball team, as a perfect series of events unfolded which boosted them into sole possession of first place in the Ivy League. A weekend sweep of Dartmouth and Harvard, coupled with Penn’s win in Cambridge and loss to the Big Green, moved Princeton (17-6 overall, 8-1 Ivy League) past the Quakers (17-6, 7-2) and the Crimson (17-7, 7-3) in the standings.
(02/23/14 1:40pm)
In a play symbolic of Princeton’s season, sophomore forward Hans Brase missed a dunk with eight minutes left and the Tigers (15-8 overall, 3-6 Ivy League) trailing Harvard by one. The Crimson (22-4, 9-1) took the ball right up the court and guard Brandyn Curry hit a tide-turning three. Moments later they went up six on forward Steve Mondou-Missi’s authoritative dunk and Princeton never recovered.