For the men’s basketball team, there really is no place like home. Princeton continued its domination of the hardwood of Carril Court in a 68-57 victory over visiting Marist on Wednesday night.
After a much-needed successful home stand in which it won five of six games, the women’s hockey team looks to continue its winning ways on the road this weekend against conference opponents Clarkson and St. Lawrence. Since snapping their seven-game winless streak against Brown in a 4-0 shutout, the Tigers (8-10-1 overall, 5-6-1 ECAC Hockey) have been overwhelming their opponents on offense and defense and are now looking to extend their current five-game winning streak at Clarkson (6-10-3, 3-3-1) today and St. Lawrence (9-8-2, 4-3) on Saturday.
After a successful home opener before winter break, the men’s and women’s track and field teams return to action today and Saturday. The women will compete at home in Jadwin Gymnasium at the Princeton Quad Meet against Rutgers, St. Joseph’s and St. John’s. The men will travel to Annapolis, Md., for a dual meet against Navy.
Jason Garrett ’89 will be the full-time head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, the team announced Thursday afternoon. He was appointed to the position on an interim basis in November after fourth-year head coach Wade Phillips was fired mid-season.
Six weeks ago, I constructed an arbitrary formula to predict the NFL’s playoff teams and confidently declared things like “the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers will be the top seeds,” “the Atlanta Falcons aren’t that good” and “the New York Giants will make the playoffs instead of shamefully blowing a 21-point fourth-quarter lead over their hated rivals in the most depressing regular-season football game of my lifetime.” That worked out well. In response to these glaring mistakes, it’s time for me to take stock of the season and figure out what I’ve learned about the playoff teams.
The women’s hockey team returned from its winter break a week early for two contests at home Friday and Monday, pulling out twin 3-0 victories. The Tigers (8-10-1 overall, 5-6-1 ECAC Hockey) topped both No. 5 Boston College (11-3-4) and Quinnipiac (13-7-1, 6-6), pushing themselves to No. 3 in the conference standings, just one point behind Quinnipiac. With the second victory, the Tigers stretched their win streak to five, which includes four shutouts.
Until Dec. 17, the wrestling team had yet to live up to its potential and earn a big win. The Tigers (2-5) quieted the critics and quelled fears that their unusually young but talented squad would not be able to compete at a high level.
Heading into last week’s University of Connecticut Hockey Classic tournament, the men’s hockey team had not won an in-season tournament in more than 10 years, the last coming in the 1998-99 season’s Mariucci Classic in Minnesota. The Tigers (10-5-1 overall, 6-3-1 ECAC Hockey) brought that drought to an end over winter break, picking up wins in both games in Connecticut, including a final triumph over the host Huskies.
After a pair of victories in North Carolina, the women’s basketball team returned to Jadwin Gymnasium on Tuesday, beating La Salle 94-51 on a milestone day to finish nonconference play with an 11-3 record.
There were many reasons to write off an upset against University of Central Florida as highly unlikely. The Knights were 12-0 under a new head coach, ranked No. 19 in the nation in the Associated Press poll and No. 21 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches’ poll, enjoyed home court advantage, and had Michael Jordan’s kid on their roster. But the men’s basketball team opened up scoring a minute and a half into the game and did not relinquish the lead until five minutes into the second stanza.
The 2001 season was the perfect moment in time for the men’s lacrosse team. It was the single year that goalie Trevor Tierney ’01 and defenseman Ryan Mollett ’01 shared the Tigers’ field with lacrosse legend and attackman Ryan Boyle ’04. Boyle, then a freshman, scored 16 goals and contributed 37 assists in his first year. With the help of Tierney and Mollett’s defensive prowess, Princeton clinched a 14-1 overall (6-0 Ivy League) season and the NCAA national championship.
It is true that in NCAA athletics, each competitor is talented and successful when it comes to his or her respective sport.
It had been more than a calendar year since the women’s basketball team lost a game at Jadwin Gymnasium, but it appeared that streak might come to an end Friday night. At the twelve-minute mark, sophomore forward Niveen Rasheed was whistled for her fifth foul, disqualifying the Tigers’ leading scorer as the hosts trailed Drexel.
Everything they could do, he could do better.
December has been busy but extremely successful for the women’s basketball team. The Tigers (7-2) opened the month with a win against Delaware on Dec. 1, followed by a home win against Rider four days later. The team followed that with a dominating performance against Navy, and on Monday, Princeton topped Lafayette 90-58. Next up for the Tigers is Drexel (6-1), against whom the team will look to defend its undefeated home record on Friday at 7 p.m. at Jadwin Gymnasium.
The wrestling team looks to overcome a number of obstacles this weekend in its final team dual meet of the calendar year. The Tigers (1-4) travel to Bucknell in Lewisburg, Pa., to take on Bucknell and Drexel on Friday.
Coming off two dominating victories over University of Massachusetts Lowell last weekend, the men’s hockey team will travel to the University of Connecticut to finish the 2010 portion of its season at the annual Toyota UConn Classic. The Tigers (8-5 overall, 6-3 ECAC Hockey) will compete against three non-conference opponents: Bowling Green (6-12-2), Connecticut (5-7-3) and Holy Cross (6-7-2). Princeton will face Bowling Green on Dec. 29 and either Connecticut or Holy Cross on Dec. 30.
Who would have ever thought that Joe Paterno would outlast Urban Meyer as a head coach?
The men’s basketball team will defend its five-game win streak on Dec. 17 in Staten Island, N.Y., when it takes on Wagner College (4-5). This game will be the Tigers’ (7-3) third consecutive road game in a series of six.
