PHILADELPHIA — Join us for the 225th installment of one of college basketball's biggest rivalries as Princeton takes on Penn at The Palestra. Follow the action live at 7 p.m.
PHILADELPHIA – In three years with the Penn men’s basketball team, Zack Rosen had never defeated Princeton in front of his home fans. On Monday night, he made sure that he and the other seniors would not be Penn’s first players to graduate without that experience. The star point guard led a stellar offensive performance by the Quakers, who dropped the Tigers 82-67 to remain undefeated in the Ivy League.
After suffering a stroke late last Thursday, Chuck Dibilio ’15 was released from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia on Wednesday morning and is currently recovering at home, according to a post on his Facebook wall and confirmed by a hospital official.
The men's squash team maintained its perfect record with victories at Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend. The women swept Dartmouth 9-0 but narrowly lost 5-4 at No. 1 Harvard on Sunday afternoon.
Competing against local rivals Rutgers, St. John’s and St. Joseph’s, the women's track and field team shook off whatever cobwebs had accumulated over break and crushed the competition. Producing individual winners in nine out of the 16 events, Princeton scored 195 points, beating runner-up St. John’s by 76. And against a number of diverse Northeast teams in the Saturday Night at The Armory event, the men's team defeated 14 other squads, winning with 134 points.
Facing No. 9 Cornell at Baker Rink on Saturday night, the men’s hockey team rallied from a three-goal deficit to salvage a 3-3 tie. Sophomore defenseman Kevin Ross netted the equalizer at 12 minutes, 14 seconds in the third period, just one night after Princeton overwhelmed No. 12 Colgate 6-2 at Baker Rink. The Tigers finished their best weekend yet with a 1-0-1 record against two nationally ranked teams.
Sophomore sensation and 141-pounder Adam Krop continued to lead the Tiger wrestling team this weekend as it took a commanding 41-9 victory in its match against Millersville on Friday before falling to national power No. 5 Cornell 30-9 Saturday night. Past losses to the Big Red, which has finished second in the nation each of the past two seasons, have lacked any trace of positivity. This year, however, Princeton took three victories against the national power, including yet another stunning performance from Krop.
Three men’s lacrosse players were drafted Friday night in the 2012 Major League Lacrosse draft, all of them on the defensive side of the ball. Senior defender Chad Wiedmaier was taken No. 7 overall by the Hamilton Nationals, while senior goalkeeper Tyler Fiorito was selected at No. 10 by the Chesapeake Bayhawks. Senior long stick midfielder John Cunningham rounded out the Princeton selections as he was chosen by Denver with the 46th pick.
The women’s hockey team took a road trip to central New York this weekend hoping to avenge a couple of home losses from earlier this season. The Tigers dropped Colgate 5-3 on the road but lost 1-0 at No. 3 Colgate.
The women’s basketball team had little difficulty fine-tuning their skills in the Ivy League this weekend. The Tigers (13-4 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) dismantled Cornell 64-35 on Friday and followed with a crushing 94-35 rout of Columbia on Sunday afternoon. The decisive wins extended Princeton’s win streak to six games and continued to solidify the Tiger hold on the top spot in the Ivy League.
NEW YORK – With nine minutes to play in its second Ivy League game, the men’s basketball team had its backs to the wall. But nine players contributed significantly down the stretch as Princeton took command with an 11-0 run and held on for a 62-58 victory, keeping their hopes of a second straight Ivy League title alive.
NEW YORK — The men's basketball team tries to rebound from Friday's loss at Cornell, likely playing to keep its hopes for a repeat title alive at Columbia. Follow the action from Levien Gymnasium at 7 p.m.!
Every kid grows up pretending to do what senior guard Doug Davis of the men’s basketball team did last March. With almost no time left on the clock and facing defeat at the hands of a bitter rival, Davis fought to find an open space on the floor and reached out to grab his prize: The last piece of Frist pizza.
In an announcement that shocked the college basketball world, Fairfield head coach Sydney Johnson ’97 said Thursday that he would leave his current position at the end of the season to coach the men’s basketball team at the University of Phoenix eCampus.“I love, love, love University of Phoenix basketball,” Johnson said at a press conference yesterday morning.
According to numerous industry sources, the Harvard men's basketball team's recuriting efforts have taken a strange turn in recent weeks. The Crimson's top targets, including a 6-foot-8 forward named JaBron Lames, mysteriously disappeared around the time the NBA lockout ended.
One month after former Yale football head coach Tom Williams admitted he lied about being a Rhodes Scholarship candidate on his resume, Princeton’s coach has found himself in the same trouble. Sources close to The Daily Princetonian have called into question claims head coach Bob Surace ’90 made on his resume that he “watched, played and coached” football “all the time” before coming to Princeton.
The college conference realignment carousel took a shocking turn this week when the University announced that the football team will play in the Big East starting in the 2012 season.
In several weekend matchups that were as hard and physical as a fan could solicit, Princeton dominated its opponents inside and out.
And so the title defense begins. In a non-conference schedule that has had its highs and lows, the men’s basketball team has bounced back from a 1-5 start to win eight of its last 10 games as it enters Ivy League play this weekend. The Tigers (9-7) open their slate on the road, taking on Cornell (5-9) on Friday followed by Columbia (11-5) on Saturday.
Coming off a resounding win at Penn on Saturday that extended its winning streak to four games, the women’s basketball team is looking to keep its momentum as it comes time to defend last year’s Ivy League championship.
