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(01/11/14 5:58pm)
The men's basketball team begins the "Fourteen-Game Tournament" that is the Ivy League season tonight with a trip to the Palestra to face rival Penn. The teams have had opposite seasons so far, with the Quakers winning just two of their first 12 games and the Tigers (11-2) off to their best start in recent memory. Still, in the Ancient Eight, anything can happen when these two teams, which have 47 Ivy titles between them, face off. The 'Prince' is here on the liveblog to bring you all the action.
(01/10/14 11:22am)
It is a time-honored tradition that, before the first men's basketball game of the season between Princeton and Penn, the Sports Editors of theDaily PrincetonianandDaily Pennsylvanianexchange columns in which they trash-talk the other school's team. Though we felt sort of bad doing it this year, given Penn's record, we nonetheless proudly present this year's exchange.Daily PennsylvanianSports Editors Steven Tydings, Ian Wenik and Riley Steele's column can be found here. Below is Sports Editor Stephen Wood's column:
(12/10/13 9:50pm)
The men’s basketball team is doing better now that Ian Hummer ’13 is gone.
(12/07/13 11:06pm)
The men’s basketball team stormed past Fairleigh Dickinson Saturday, continuing its best start since the 1997-98 season. The Tigers (6-1) have not lost since they fell to Butler by three on Nov. 16.
(12/05/13 12:43pm)
The women’s basketball team will hope to improve on a 2-3 away record Friday as it takes on Navy in Annapolis, Md. The matchup has the makings of a very tight game.
(11/24/13 10:30pm)
With 10 minutes to go against No. 4 Quinnipiac, the men’s hockey team was about to face a long drive home from Hamden, Conn. The Tigers (3-8 overall, 2-6 ECAC) had lost to the Bobcats (12-2-1, 6-1-1) 3-0 at Baker Rink the day before, and they now were down 3-1.
(11/21/13 2:16pm)
The Dartmouth Big Green is all that stands between the No. 19 football team and its first outright Ivy League championship since 1995.
(11/17/13 10:29pm)
The women’s basketball team improved over the course of its season-opening loss to Rutgers, and it picked up right where it left off Sunday with an authoritative 81-58 throttling of defending MAAC champion Marist.
(11/16/13 10:57am)
The football team faces the last big test of its season Saturday at Princeton Stadium, as Yale comes to town. This rivalry game, always heated, is more important than ever for the Tigers (7-1 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) this season. If they defeat the Bulldogs (5-3, 3-2), the Tigers will be one game away from going perfect in the Ivy League and winning their first league championship since 2006. In fact, a Tiger win combined with a loss by Harvard to Penn would give Princeton the title with a week left in the season. If Princeton and Harvard both win, the Tigers will still clinch a share of the title.
(11/14/13 11:19am)
This Sunday, the women's basketball team will have its home opener against Marist in its second game of the season. The team lost its season opener against Rutgers 79-65. Head coach Courtney Banghart will continue to evaluate a young and evolving team as the Tigers take on the Red Foxes (0-1), who come in having won the MAAC eight times in a row.The team this year has a big hurdle to overcome: the loss of last year's seniors, including star forward Niveen Rasheed, who led the team in scoring with 16.7 points a game; third-leading scorer center Megan Bowen; and three-time Ivy League defensive player of the year guard Lauren Polansky.The Tigers showed that they are up to the challenge in last week's game against Rutgers. Junior guard Blake Dietrick, who was fourth in scoring on last year's team, had a game-high and career-high 20 points. Sophomore forward Alex Wheatley added 14 points and 10 rebounds for the double-double, while senior forward Kristen Helmstetter, who was second in scoring last year, added eight points and nine rebounds. Freshman Vanessa Smith added seven points off the bench. Head coach Courtney Banghart said the game gave her and her team confidence.“I actually thought the Rutgers game was a valuable experience for us, for our young team,” she said. “If we’re not continuing to evolve at this stage [of the season], it’s gonna be a real long year.”“This group has been very effective on the offensive end, so I think we've stressed the defensive side of things thus far,” Wheatley added.The team has worked in practice to continue honing its strong offense and improving its defense.“Each practice, we get a little better and grow in a new direction, both offensively and defensively. We're always working to improve,” Wheatley said. “I think the game last weekend was a good measure of where we are right now. There are always things we can improve upon, and the lessons we learned from the Rutgers game help us with the rest of our season.”Although the team lost the opener against a strong Rutgers team that it beat the year before, it has a chance to bounce back in the game against Marist. Last year, the team lost 45-56 in a tough contest against Marist. This year, the Tigers are looking for revenge. The team showed a lot of potential against Rutgers and hopes to build upon that against Marist. Princeton has proved that it can score, so the Tigers will try to use their high-powered offense in front of a home crowd to win their first game of the season.The Red Foxes are led by the experienced Leanne Ockenden, a senior guard who was named MAAC Defensive Player of the Year last season. Ockenden is a force on both sides of the ball and put up a team-leading 16 points in Marist’s opening day loss to No. 7 Kentucky. That is not to say that the team is dominated by upperclassmen —freshman guard Katherine Fogarty hit double digits in her first college game, putting up 11 points as the Red Foxes fell 75-61.“We have a game plan from the coaches, and we will prepare to face a tough team,” Wheatley said.Marist, which received two votes in the most recent AP Top 25 poll, may be the toughest opponent the Tigers see for some time.“We’ve really challenged [ourselves] with a very tough nonconference schedule,” Banghart said.This early-season matchup between high-scoring mid-majors will tip off Sunday at 2 p.m. in Jadwin Gymnasium.
(11/09/13 10:33am)
The football team is in the City of Brotherly Love this weekend looking to spoil Penn's Homecoming game at Franklin Field. The Tigers (6-1 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) need to win out in order to win the Ivy title while the Quakers (4-3, 3-1) are one game behind. A win for the home team would mean at least a two-way tie at the top of the Ivy League, while a Princeton win would mean that only Yale and Dartmouth stand between the Tigers and their first Ivy Championship since 2006.
(11/09/13 10:25am)
Throughout the week, Sports Editor Stephen Wood exchanged emails with Ian Wenik of the Daily Pennsylvanian about the upcoming Princeton-Penn football game. Here's how their conversation went:
(11/07/13 10:00pm)
Last season, the football team took the field against Penn trying to keep its hopes of an Ivy League title alive, only to have them dashed by the eventual champions. Though the Tigers (6-1 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) control their own destiny in the hunt for the championship this year, they will need to beat the Quakers (4-3, 3-1) Saturday to keep it that way.
(11/06/13 12:23am)
“The nature of collegiate athletics, not to be cliche, is that you have turnover,” women’s basketball head coach Courtney Banghart said at her team’s preseason press conference.
(11/03/13 3:04pm)
As the race for the Ivy League title heats up, the men’s soccer team kept itself in the hunt over fall break, stumbling against Harvard but rallying to defeat Cornell 2-1 Saturday. The win gave the Tigers (6-7-1 overall, 3-1-1 Ivy League) three much-needed points, keeping them tied with Penn for second place in the Ivy League, just two points behind the Crimson (5-7-2, 4-1).
(10/26/13 5:00pm)
The football team needed a touchdown to win. As Princeton was losing to Harvard at the tail end of a wild game, junior quarterback Quinn Epperly looked for senior receiver Roman Wilson in the corner of the end zone, and as Wilson came down, he sealed an improbable victory.
(10/26/13 8:55am)
Unbeaten in the Ivy League, the football team is in Cambridge to take on undefeated No. 22 Harvard. The Tigers (4-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) have not won here since 2005, but the Crimson (5-0, 2-0) is more likely to be thinking about last year, when Princeton scored 29 unanswered points in the final 12 minutes to defeat its rival. Tensions will be high as junior quarterback Quinn Epperly and senior receiver Roman Wilson, the men responsible for the final touchdown of that game, face the Crimson again, and the stakes will be high as well - the winner of this game will leave Harvard Stadium with at least a share of the top spot in the league.
(10/24/13 8:39pm)
Earlier this week, Sports Editor Stephen Wood and Jacob D. H. Feldman, Football Beat Writer of The Harvard Crimson, exchanged emails about the upcoming Princeton-Harvard football game. Here's what they said about Saturday's game, which comes a year after the Homecoming comeback which defined Princeton's 2012 season:
(10/24/13 2:54pm)
The football team will travel to Cambridge this weekend hoping to repeat one of the greatest upsets in Princeton history. The Tigers won on an improbable touchdown throw from now-junior quarterback Quinn Epperly to senior wide receiver Roman Wilson last time they played Harvard, shocking the undefeated Crimson and breathing life back into the football program.
(10/22/13 8:30pm)