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Column: Henderson finds right rotation for Princeton

Column: Henderson finds right rotation for Princeton

At the start of the 2012-13 season, head men's basketball coach Mitch Henderson '98 had lots of options in filling out his five-man lineup, with few obvious solutions. Senior forward Ian Hummer and junior point guard T.J. Bray were mainstays from opening day, but Henderson went through several different looks for the other three positions; as Princeton blew leads against Northeastern, Rutgers and Wagner, the answer seemed out of reach.

SPORTS | 01/13/2013

Squash: Women dethrone No. 1 Crimson at home

Both the men's and women's squash teams played their biggest matches of the season to date on Sunday, and both teams came out of Jadwin Gymnasium with victories. A day after cruising to wins over Dartmouth, both Princeton squads won tight, hard-fought victories against Harvard, as the men and women each finished with 5-4 wins.

SPORTS | 01/13/2013

Women's Basketball: Cagers open title defense with rout

The women's basketball team started the Ivy League season with a dominating victory over Penn, setting the tone for another year as a powerhouse in the conference. The Tigers won 77-47 over Penn, giving them little room to make it close competition.

SPORTS | 01/13/2013

Men's Basketball: Tigers thrash Penn to open league slate

Led by junior point guard T.J. Bray, the men's basketball team started off Ivy League play with a home victory over rival Penn on Saturday. The Tigers (7-7 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) were playing against the Quakers (2-13, 0-1) for the first time since ending Penn's Ivy title hopes with a win in last year's regular-season finale. Revenge was not on the docket, however, as Princeton took the game by a score of 65-53.

SPORTS | 01/13/2013

NCAA: Harvard cheats at everything*

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — NCAA enforcers have descended on Harvard’s campus to investigate widespread allegations of misconduct inside and outside the classroom. Instead of the standard team for the Northeast, NCAA president Mark Emmert summoned a crack team of investigators from Birmingham, Ala., to spearhead the effort. They will investigate a wide variety of purported violations by both Crimson football and basketball.

SPORTS | 01/10/2013

Women's Basketball: Cagers forced to play Ivy season one-handed*

After going 41-1 in conference play over the last three seasons, the women’s basketball team will have an extra challenge this year. When Princeton kicks off league play against Penn tomorrow, the Tigers will play with one arm tied behind their backs. Literally. According to the league office, the Ivy League has instituted this policy in order to “make the games halfway interesting.”

SPORTS | 01/10/2013

Hummer's secret revealed: Basketball diet*

After three and a half years of establishing himself as one of the top players in the Ivy League, the secret to senior forward Ian Hummer’s success has come to light. In addition to his hardwood bloodlines and physical abilities, the star senior has a lesser-known habit — his diet consists only of regulation-size basketballs.

SPORTS | 01/10/2013

Sanchez joins sprint football, still may not start*

The sprint football team announced Thursday afternoon that a new player would join the team as a walk-on for the 2013 season: former New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez. After recruiting several players from the varsity football team last season, the sprint squad is looking to continue its tradition of raiding losing football teams for players.

SPORTS | 01/10/2013

Davis '12 wins pickup game, proving Jeremy Lin is little bitch*

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Former guard Doug Davis ’12 defeated Harvard graduate and Houston Rockets point guard Jeremy Lin 20-19 in a pickup game of one-on-one basketball Thursday night at a community park in New Haven.

SPORTS | 01/10/2013

Football: Coach refuses to start popular left-handed quarterback*

Head coach Bob Surace ’90 surprised fans this week by refusing to name left-handed sophomore Quinn Epperly the starting quarterback for the football team’s final game of the season. With rookie Kedric Bostic sidelined due to concussion symptoms, Surace will instead be turning back to a more conventional quarterback with right-handed sophomore Connor Michelsen, who was benched two weeks prior.

SPORTS | 01/10/2013

Badminton Club beats TCNJ; students storm court*

Mere seconds after junior Racket McBirdie sent the final birdie to the floor in Dillon Gymnasium, hundreds of students stormed out of the bleachers and rushed onto the court, jubilantly celebrating the badminton club’s 5-2 victory over The College of New Jersey on Thursday night. The celebration continued a trend of Princeton court-stormings that has become even more prevalent in recent months.

SPORTS | 01/10/2013

Men's Basketball: Ivy favorites set to begin league play

The Ivy League men’s basketball season begins this weekend, with four teams kicking off the proverbial 14-game tournament on Saturday. That quartet includes the two Ancient Eight title favorites, Princeton and Harvard, which both take on opponents that have struggled this year.

SPORTS | 01/09/2013

On Tap with ... Kimberly Newell

Rookie Kimberly Newell is making headlines as the starting goalie for the women’s ice hockey team — she sits at second in saves in the ECAC with 492 this season. Last weekend at the International Ice Hockey Federation U18 Women’s World Championship in Finland, Newell saved 19 out of 20 shots in the championship game to win gold for Team Canada. She sat down with the ‘Prince’ to discuss playing with the boys, strange goals and heavy metal.

SPORTS | 01/08/2013

Women's Track & Field: Kiwi shines in debut season

At a little over 5 feet, 7 inches, freshman Julia Ratcliffe is far from being the biggest weight thrower. But she is strong — strong enough to crush the Ivy League record in her first competition as a Tiger.

SPORTS | 01/08/2013

Men's Basketball: Freshman Brase earns starting role

As the Tigers (6-7) gear up to start Ivy League play, freshman forward Hans Brase has begun to emerge as a starter with impact potential. The South Carolina native is the first Princeton men’s basketball player to start consistently as a freshman since guard Doug Davis ’12 in 2009.

SPORTS | 01/08/2013

Women's Basketball: Rookie quintet makes early contributions

Every season, there are always uncertainties about how the freshmen on a team will adjust to college-level play and the extent to which they will be able to contribute. For the five freshmen on the women’s basketball team, however, these questions have hardly been an issue. Despite the presence of a talented senior class, the freshmen quintet, consisting of guards Amanda Berntsen, Michelle Miller and Annie Tarakchian along with forwards Alex Wheatley and Taylor Williams, has received considerable playing time and provided an offensive boost in scoring and rebounding for the Tigers. The Class of 2016 has combined to score nearly a quarter of the Tigers’ total points so far this season, with each member averaging at least five minutes per game.

SPORTS | 01/08/2013

Men's Hockey: Princeton alumni return to ice after NHL lockout

After a fierce 16-hour discussion in a midtown Manhattan hotel, rumors circulated on the morning of Jan. 6 that the NHL and the NHLPA would bring the competition back to the ice and away from the negotiating table. Both sides have all but promised the fans a 48-game or 50-game schedule after the lockout, the second-longest stoppage in the past decade behind the full-season lockout of 2004-05. The conclusion of the lockout will be welcome news for five Princeton alumni: George Parros ’03, Kevin Westgarth ’07, Jeff Halpern ’99, Darroll Powe ’07 and Mike Moore ’08.

SPORTS | 01/08/2013

Football: Brown recovers at home after life-threatening incident

On Oct. 9, Sophomore cornerback Khamal Brown was rushed to the hospital after he became sick and unresponsive in afternoon practice. Doctors performed an emergency operation to drain out blood that had accumulated in his brain and later determined that the rupturing of an arteriovenous malformation — or AVM, an abnormal connection of veins and arteries — had caused the blood spillage.The AVM was likely present since birth, and there is no reason to believe the rupturing was at all football-related. Brown has been in stable condition since being released from the hospital in late October and will take the spring semester off from school to recover at his home in Atlanta.

SPORTS | 01/06/2013

Women's Hockey: Without coach, starting goalie, Princeton splits pair vs. UConn

The women’s hockey team seemed like two different squads when it faced Connecticut in a two-game series at the Freitas Ice Forum on Wednesday and Thursday. After losing to the Huskies in a crushing 5-1 defeat on Wednesday, Princeton (6-10-2 overall, 2-8-2 ECAC) came out on Thursday and handily beat Connecticut 4-1.

SPORTS | 01/06/2013

Men's Hockey: Princeton moves into 2nd in ECAC

The men’s hockey team opened 2013 with a bang, leaping into second place in the ECAC with home victories over Harvard and Dartmouth. The Tigers now have a 4-3-3 record in ECAC play, good for 11 points, nine behind Quinnipiac but two clear of everyone else.

SPORTS | 01/06/2013

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