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Will the streak make it to a quarter century? Find out live from Jadwin gymnasium
Live from Jadwin gymnasium
The men’s basketball team will not win the Ivy League. But Princeton (14-7 overall, 2-5 Ivy League) still has plenty of reasons to fight. A big one is the continuation of the 24 year home win streak against Harvard, who will be visiting Jadwin Gymnasium Saturday night. The streak survived against the 25th ranked team two years ago and a 2-12 season in the league with a double overtime win in 2007. A similarly big upset will be required to extend it.
New look men’s team off to best start since 2007
Senior guard and captain T.J. Bray got the ball with 4.4 seconds left near midcourt and made one final drive to the basket to try and lift the Tigers over the Bulldogs. In a play symbolic of Princeton’s (14-7 overall, 2-5 Ivy League) Ivy League performance, he got all the way into the paint, before fumbling the ball out of bounds. Yale (13-9, 7-1) won 66-65 in overtime, ending any miracle Ivy League title runs the team may have dreamed of the night before after escaping Brown with a 69-65 victory.
Women’s basketball will host Yale and Brown on Friday and Saturday nights at Jadwin Gymnasium. Princeton (13-6 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) is 61st in the RPI ratings and sits in a tie for second in the Ivy League, trailing Harvard by half a game. The Tigers suffered their lone conference loss to the Crimson in their first game back from finals break, but have since won three straight by an average of 22.3 points. Yale (10-10, 4-2) is coming off a heartbreaking one-point loss to Harvard in New Haven and occupies fourth in the league table. Brown (8-12, 2-4) has won two of its last three, albeit against conference doormats Dartmouth and Columbia.
The men’s basketball team suffered another crushing defeat Friday night against Columbia before rebounding to smother Cornell Saturday in the first pair of conference matchups at home. Princeton (13-6 overall, 1-4 Ivy League) fell 53-52 to the Lions (14-9, 3-3) after a couple of controversial calls in the final minute went against the Tigers. The next night saw Princeton play its best defense of the season, stymieing the Big Red (1-19, 0-6) in a 69-48 win, the first against a Division I opponent this calendar year.
Princeton loses 53-52 after leading by 8 at the half
Men’s basketball will try to turn its season around this weekend in match-ups against Columbia and Cornell at Jadwin Gymnasium. Princeton (12-5 overall, 0-3 Ivy League) is winless through three conference games for the first time since 2007 when they lost their first four league contests en route to a 2-12 record. Despite a sterling non-conference record, the Tigers have been unable to win close games recently, losing by three and six at Penn and Harvard respectively and taking Dartmouth to overtime.
This is the first in a series of articles recounting the feats of great Princeton teams from a variety of sports.
The men's basketball team suffered two Ivy League defeats over the weekend, effectively eliminating the already-small chance they had at winning the conference. Friday night saw Princeton (12-5 overall, 0-3 Ivy League) fall 82-76 at Harvard (18-3, 4-0). Playing at Dartmouth (9-9, 2-2) the following night, the Tigers forced overtime before losing 78-69. Princeton’s defensive woes continued as both opponents shot greater than 50 percent from the field, including more than 40 percent from three, and outrebounded the Tigers.Princeton ended its finals break with a home matchup last Sunday versus Division III Kean College. The Tigers jumped out to an early 19-2 lead and never looked back, coasting to an 84-54 victory. Just about every player on the roster saw action as nobody played more than 25 minutes. Senior guard T.J. Bray, senior forward Will Barrett and freshman forward Spencer Weisz led the way with 15 points each. Princeton shot the ball 62 times from the field, the most in regulation since they played Goucher, another Division III opponent, four years ago. Even more impressive were the 43 attempted three-pointers, a mark that set the school record for three-point attempts in regulation. The Tigers also pulled in 45 rebounds and recorded seven blocks, both the most since last year’s game against Division III TCNJ.“Coach Carril reiterated to me and the staff how important this game is for us,” said Coach Mitch Henderson ’98. “Exams here can do funny things to you and [this game] is just a way of reminding our guys you got to get the blood and competitive juices flowing a little bit.”Princeton then traveled to Cambridge to face Harvard in the first of two critical matchups against the three-time reigning conference champs. Princeton hung right with Harvard in the first half, shooting a blazing 61 percent from the field including five of nine from beyond the arc. Sophomore forward Hans Brase scored the team’s first 11 points and had 18 at the half on seven-of-nine shooting. But the Tigers also turned the ball over 10 times, matching their season average, and allowed the Crimson six offensive rebounds. This meant that Harvard got six more shots than the Tigers, which, combined with Princeton’s paradoxically abysmal 2-8 from the line, resulted in a 36-35 Crimson lead at the half. Princeton’s shooting cooled off in the second half as Harvard built up a 63-48 advantage with 9:40 left.“I thought the key to the game was the first four minutes of the second half,” Henderson said afterwards. “Saunders took over and kind of changed the game and we let up a couple huge threes.”It was still an 11-point lead with 2:44 to play when, as usual, the senior duo of Bray and Barrett took over. A three from Bray with under a minute to play got the deficit to four, but Princeton missed three shots on their ensuing possession and the game was all but over. Bray led the way for the Tigers with 12 of the team’s last 16 points en route to a career- and game-high 26 on a season best nine-of-13 shooting. Brase also recorded a career high 20 points and added seven rebounds. Wesley Saunders had a fantastic outing for the Crimson, leading them in points, rebounds and assists with 24, 9 and 7.“I didn’t want to start this way but you just try to win every game. You can’t look ahead to the next night,” Bray said. “Now we’re 0-2 and we’ve got to try and claw our way out of it.”The loss to Harvard was bad enough, but very much expected as the Tigers were 7.5 point underdogs going in. The loss to Dartmouth, though, was about as shocking as the loss to Penn, another team Princeton was expected to beat by about eight points. Henderson opted for a different starting lineup featuring four forwards. Freshman forward Steven Cook got the first start of his career and freshman guard Spencer Weisz started for the first time since Bray sat out against Fairleigh Dickinson. Senior guard Jimmy Sherburne came off the bench for the first time all season and saw less than a minute on the court, while junior forward Denton Koon saw his second-fewest minutes of the season with 12. Meanwhile, senior guard Chris Clement played 26 minutes, the second-most of his season.The game was close for the entirety of regulation, as Dartmouth never built more than a six point lead. Barrett’s layup and foul shot with 18 seconds left tied the game at 63 and aggressive defense sent the game to overtime. Everything fell apart in overtime as Princeton committed three turnovers and six fouls, and made just two buckets. Dartmouth shot 11-of-12 from the line in the extra period, putting the game out of reach with 30 seconds left following a technical foul.“Dartmouth’s playing really well,” Henderson said. “They’re playing like a team and rooting like hell for each other. They beat us.”There were still some positives to the game. For the last four-and-a-half minutes of regulation, Princeton played some of its most aggressive defense of the year, double-teaming the ball on every possession. They forced four Dartmouth turnovers and erased a six-point deficit during that span. Barrett dropped a career high 28 points, a mark not bettered by a Princeton player since Kareem Maddox ’11 put up 31 against Tulsa in December 2010.“I just like to take what comes to me and they were giving me open shots so I was taking them. My shot felt great today,” Barrett said.Bray added 16 and, following the Harvard game, has now played in 75 percent of the team’s games, making him officially eligible for the statistics leaderboards. He appears among the NCAA’s top-20 in assists per game, as well as the more complex categories of effective field goal percentage, offensive rating and win shares per 40 minutes.The Ivy League is the only conference without a postseason tournament and thus awards its NCAA bid to the regular season champion. This results in an unmatched level of competition and tenacity in the gauntlet pundits have dubbed the “fourteen game tournament”. At 0-3, Princeton is already three-and-a-half games behind undefeated Harvard, a deficit TeamRankings.com says there is a .7 percent chance of overcoming.“We’ve got to take a look at everything and try to figure things out,” Henderson said after the Dartmouth loss. “We continue to put ourselves in a really bad hole so we’ve got a lot of work to do. There’s still a lot of basketball left to play.”Up next are games against Columbia and Cornell, the first two home matchups in league play and the first home matchups in two months that all students will actually be on campus for. This weekend is sure to go better than the last as Princeton has lost just one home Ivy League contest in the last three seasons and Cornell has yet to beat a Division I opponent this year.
PHILADELPHIA, PA -Princeton’s hopes of an Ivy League title took a huge hit Saturday with a shocking 77-74 loss to Penn at the Palestra.
The halftime score was 35-23, and the men's basketball team was being outshot, outrebounded and outplayed. When the Tigers (8-1) came out of the gates slowly in the second half to go down 41-23 with a full 17 minutes left, Princeton fans had plenty of reason to give up. After all, Princeton was shooting just 29 percent from the floor including an abysmal 15.4 percent from behind the arc. Penn State (8-4) was dominating the paint, shooting 60 percent from inside and outrebounding the Tigers 24-9.
The men’s basketball team squares off against Penn State Saturday in what should be one of the toughest games of the season for the Tigers. And as if that wasn’t exciting enough, the game will also be played at Penn State’s Rec Hall — the home of Nittany Lions basketball from 1929-96 — instead of the Bryce Jordan Center, the first time a game has been held there in 18 years.
Men’s basketball hosts Fairleigh Dickinson Saturday at 7 p.m. in Jadwin Gymnasium. The Tigers (5-1) are off to their best start in 16 years and look to continue a four game win streak against the Knights (3-7). Princeton is ranked 70th in the country in Jeff Sagarin’s college basketball computer rankings, which are based on which teams have beaten which teams and by how much. These rankings go back to the 1999-2000 season and have never seen the Tigers ranked this high at the end of the season.
The men’s basketball team defeated George Mason 71-66 Tuesday night at Jadwin Gym in a rollercoaster ride of a game.
The men’s basketball team heads to Houston on Saturday to take on Rice in its fourth game of the season. The Tigers (2-1), fresh off Wednesday night’s thrilling overtime win against Lafayette, are off to their best start since 2009, when they also went 2-1.Should they win Saturday, it would be the team’s first 3-1 start in seven years.
The men’s basketball team opened its season Sunday at Jadwin Gym with a comfortable 67-50 win against Florida A&M. Despite a lackluster second half, Princeton largely dominated the Rattlers (0-2 overall), holding them to 32.7 percent shooting and just 1-11 from beyond the arc.
The No. 13 men’s water polo team begins its postseason this weekend with the CWPA Southern Division tournament in Annapolis, Md. The Tigers (17-4 overall, 7-1 CWPA Southern Division) are seeking their first Southerns win since 2010, having finished second and third in 2011 and 2012, respectively. The team suffered a tough 12-11 loss against Mercyhurst in the semifinals last year, despite leading 10-8 in the fourth quarter. Princeton rides a four-game win streak into the tournament but has not played since Oct. 26.
The women’s soccer team recorded its first Ivy League points of the season Saturday, tying Columbia 3-3. The game was characterized by missed opportunities, costly defensive breakdowns and some disputed calls down the stretch. Princeton (5-4-4 overall, 0-3-1 Ivy League) outshot the Lions (7-4-3, 0-2-2 Ivy League) 27-5, including 7-0 in overtime, but the Lions made their shots matter, putting all five on goal.