The first three meetings between the men’s hockey team and St. Lawrence this season were not close. In scoreline after scoreline, the Tigers asserted their offensive dominance over the Saints with scores of 5-1, 5-3 and 4-1.
The men's basketball team goes for a share of the Ivy League title against archrival Penn at The Palestra on Tuesday night. Follow the action with our live blog!
Following victories against Cornell and Columbia last weekend to finish off an undefeated 12-0 season at Jadwin Gymnasium, the men’s basketball team found itself in sole possession of first place honors atop the Ivy League. With a three-game road trip left to close out the season, Princeton (22-5 overall, 10-1 Ivy League) is firmly in control of its postseason destiny, looking for its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2004. It would also be the Tigers’ first appearance in the tournament during the tenure of head coach Sydney Johnson ’97.
If all goes well for the women’s basketball team this weekend, the squad will cut the nets off the baskets at Jadwin Gymnasium for the second year in a row on Saturday night. The first-place Tigers (21-4 overall, 10-1 Ivy League) will have a chance to complete their campaign to defend their Ivy League title with home games against Dartmouth (7-18, 3-8) on Friday and Harvard (16-9, 8-3) on Saturday.
Saturday night, the men's basketball team will take on Harvard in what many have dubbed the Ivy League's biggest game in nearly a decade. Princeton (23-5, 11-1) can clinch the Ivy League championship and its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2003 with a victory, while Harvard (24-5, 11-2) would earn at least a share of first place with a win. Follow the action live from Lavietes Pavilion in Cambridge, Mass., with our live blog!
Last weekend, fans at Baker Rink watched the women’s hockey team lose in a first-round playoff series. Tonight, the men’s hockey team will try to defend their home ice as they host a first-round ECAC Hockey playoff game against St. Lawrence in a best-of-three series.
The annual battle between men’s lacrosse powerhouses Princeton and Johns Hopkins has turned into one of the great collegiate rivalries — one that will be renewed on Saturday. The teams first battled in 1890, and even though the No. 8 Blue Jays (3-0) lead the series 54-26, two of the last four matches have ended in overtime. Princeton has won the series for the last two years.
If the softball team’s weakness last season could be summarized in one word, it would likely be “injuries.” The Tigers failed to reach their full potential throughout most of the season at the plate, on the mound and in the field due to the sheer number of players out of commission.
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Four weeks after suffering tough losses to Navy and Harvard, the men’s swimming team is prepared to compete against its rivals at the 2011 Ivy League Championships. The Tigers will be swimming in Harvard’s Blodgett Pool from Thursday to Saturday, with preliminary sessions starting at 11 a.m. and final sessions starting at 6 p.m.
For the second consecutive game, the women’s lacrosse team held a multiple-goal lead late in the second half but watched their opponents strike quickly to pull even. And for the second consecutive game, sophomore attack Jaci Gassaway broke the tie with a game-winning goal for a 9-8 Princeton victory.
The scene: a man lies in bed on a Tuesday morning at around 6:30. Is he asleep? No. Has he stayed up all night being unproductive? Not that either! That man is me, and he is enjoying the latest breakthrough in thesis productivity: the 2011 Cricket World Cup, which began on Feb. 19 and continues until the final on April 2.
In 2010, the baseball team won barely one-quarter of its games and finished last in the Ivy League at 6-14. With a lineup and pitching staff that will be dominated by underclassmen, few teams face more uncertainty than the Tigers do entering the new season. But senior left-handed pitcher David Palms likes what he has seen so far.
The signs of spring are reassuring, but few students on campus are more excited about the warm weather than the athletes of the men’s and women’s crews.
Sophomore shortstop Nikki Chu and freshman catcher Maddie Cousens will begin their season this weekend when the softball team travels to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for a three-day tournament.
The No. 10 men’s lacrosse team had a tough start to its season on Saturday, falling to No. 5 Hofstra University in a sloppy, 11-9 loss. Though Princeton’s offense looked dynamic at times and its defense was solid, struggles at the faceoff and in the clearing game doomed the Tigers (0-1 overall).
In a three-shift squash match, losing two matches in the first round digs a team into an early hole. Losing all three matches in the first shift can make that hole seem to be the Grand Canyon. But in each of its final two matches of the Potter Cup, the men’s squash team found itself facing this predicament and emerged from one of the contests with a win and the other, a loss.
Coming into this year’s Ivy League Heptagonal Championship, the Princeton men’s and women’s indoor track teams were each seeking to defend their titles. The teams did not disappoint, and in two thrilling meets, both teams delivered victories.
The Princeton men’s volleyball team dropped their seventh straight game against Springfield on Saturday, falling behind early in a crucial match with huge implications for the team’s playoff aspirations.
We are now experiencing the post-Decision NBA: Where trades happen. Now that the jury is in on the Big Three deal in Miami, teams are either trying to score their own team of stars or clear cap space in order to land one of the class of 2012 free agents.
