Around the Ivies: Women's Basketball
Alan BalsonWith just under a month left until league play begins, the Ivy League women’s basketball teams have been testing their mettle against non-conference foes.
With just under a month left until league play begins, the Ivy League women’s basketball teams have been testing their mettle against non-conference foes.
Both the men's and women's track and field teams returned to Jadwin Gymnasium to host their season home opener at the New Year’s Invitational this past Friday, after convincing performances in the Metro Holiday Meet at Ocean Breeze Park in Staten Island a week prior.Facing off against competition mainly from Rider and Monmouth, the men’s track and field team dominated its opposition.
At the end of back-to-back-to-back weekends on the road, the men’s basketball team found success in their second-to-last road trip before winter break.
Despite over a decade of practicing gymnastics, then-sophomore TJ Smith arrived on campus last year without any means to continue the sport.
The Princeton women’s ice hockey team (9-4-1 overall, 5-4-1 ECAC) is scheduled to host the Penn State Nittany Lions (4-10-4, 1-3-4 College Hockey America) for its fifth annual two-game series this weekend at Baker Rink.
The men’s basketball team looks to rebound from its first two losses of the season as it faces a struggling Lipscomb team (3-8 overall) on the road this weekend. Despite the loss of last season’s leading rebounder and second-leading scorer Hans Braseto an ACL injury at the beginning of the year, Princeton (4-2) jumped out to an exceptional start to the season, winning its first four games.
The Princeton women’s basketball team will look to extend its five-game win streak in a home game against Pittsburgh on Saturday. The game will be the third in a series of four home games.
Dearest Princetonians, you have reached, if you will, the home stretch of your regular season. With classes just a week and a half away from winding down, you may, as I do, begin to wonder in vain why we have been allotted merely two weeks of rest and relaxation instead of three, as has been the case in years past.
Buoyed by impressive performances by the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams, Princeton edged out seven other teams to place first at the three-day Big Al Open meet, hosted in DeNunzio Pool.
This past Thursday, Dec. 3, the men’s water polo team traveled to USC’s Uytengsu Aquatic Center for an NCAA play-in game against the University of California San Diego (UCSD). The ninth-ranked Tigers lost to the No.
The men and women of Princeton fencing faced four teams this past weekend at Sacred Heart’s Tradition Tournament in Fairfield, Conn.
After getting off to as strong of a start as they had seen in a long time, the men’s basketball team was dealt its first loss of the season this past Saturday, falling on the road 77-91 to the Stony Brook Seawolves and star forward Jameel Warney, the reigning back-to-back American East Player of the Year.The Tigers (4-1 overall), going 3-0 in their first homestand of the season, came into this weekend with reason to be confident, having dispatched of Stony Brook (4-2) 77-64 in the two teams’ only meeting of the 2014-2015 season.
The Princeton men’s and women’s squash teams were both active this past weekend as they closed out the year of 2015 with a combined five matches at home.
Men’s hockeyThis weekend, the men’s hockey team (4-8 overall, 3-5 ECAC) swept Yale and Brown on the road for the first time since the 2007-2008 season, with the Tigers throwing momentum into a three-game winning streak.
In a gym teeming with Tiger supporters, the Princeton women’s basketball team defended their home court against their opponents of the north, as they took down the University of Michigan Wolverines (7-1) to the tune of 74-57 on Sunday afternoon.
Both the men's and women's track and field teams opened their seasons on Saturday as they competed in the Metro Holiday Meet at Ocean Breeze Park in Staten Island.
Women’s Hockey Fresh off of a dominating performance in upstate New York against the Rochester Institute of Technology, the women’s hockey team looks to continue its winning ways on the season.
By Cameron Zeluck Remember Brandon Roy? The guy who was supposed to start a dynasty with a young Portland Trail Blazers team; the guy who cried walking off the court after scoring 18 in the 4thagainst the soon-to-be-champion Mavericks in the 2011 Playoffs; the guy who could have become Kevin Durant’s biggest rival in the West? What about Tracy McGrady?
The Princeton men’s basketball team has stormed out of the gate in its first month, rattling off victories over Rider, St.
Capping a strong season, the no. 4-seeded Princeton Tigers (22-4) prepare to take on the no. 5-seeded UC San Diego Tritons (14-13) in the opening round of the men’s water polo NCAA tournament championships.