Following a heartbreaking end to its 2012-13 season, the men’s basketball team will soon begin a new quest for the Ivy League title that eluded it by one game last spring.
As the end of the season approaches, Harvard is in the lead but has by no means locked up the Ivy League title.
It’s not often that a team goes into a season with high expectations after losing four of its five starters from the previous year, especially when one of those players is among the greatest the league has ever seen.
Men’s Basketball1. Princeton vs. Harvard Saturday, Feb.
The wrestling team is set to open its season this Sunday at the Binghamton Open in New York, and junior Ryan Cash will be back for his third year wrestling for the Tigers in the 125-pound classification.
In its final non-conference game of the regular season, the men’s soccer team fell 2-0 at homeTuesdaynight to American University(6-7-5 overall, 3-3-2 Patriot League). It was the Tigers’ (6-8-1, 3-1-1 Ivy League) first shutout loss at Roberts Stadium since September. The first half proved frustrating for the Tigers early on.
With three games left in the season, several teams could still win the Ivy League title. It all depends on Princeton, however, as the Tigers have surged back to relevance and now control their own destiny.
The weekend ended on a high note for the women’s soccer team, as it dominated the senior night game against Cornell with a 4-0 win at Roberts Stadium.
For the cross country teams, the Ivy League Championships are always one of the toughest meets of the season.
The men’s hockey team started its season with a bang in a 3-2 overtime win over Dartmouth in the Liberty Hockey Invitational on Oct.
Over fall break, the women’s hockey team had a tough slate of ECAC opponents to officially open its season.
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 No. 9 women’s field hockey team took on Cornell and Rider this weekend. Two victories — a shutout of Cornell (9-7 overall, 3-3 Ivy League) that earned it a share of the Ivy title and an overtime triumph over Rider Sunday afternoon — extended the team’s win streak to six, with its last loss coming at the hands of top-ranked Maryland. Saturday saw Princeton (12-4, 6-0) continue its in-league dominance, as it outmatched its opponents on the offensive and defensive ends.
After being named the Sports Network FCS National Offensive Player of the Week and Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week following his record-breaking performance in Princeton’s triple-overtime 51-48 win over Harvard last weekend, junior quarterback Quinn Epperly continued to break records.
After a huge win in Harvard and having won five straight games, the Tigers return to host the Cornell Big Red.
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. If that sounds more like the end of last year’s Princeton-Harvard game than a recap of this year’s, that is because the end of this year’s game was eerily similar.
Unbeaten in the Ivy League, the football team is in Cambridge to take on undefeated No. 22 Harvard.
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.
Capping off a run of five straight away games, the field hockey team will hit the road for its third consecutive weekend to take on Harvard and Albany.
This weekend the No. 15 men's water polo team will play its final three regular season games of the season, taking on George Washington, Fordham and Iona at home.
