Last year, the men’s hockey team allowed five goals in a game only four times in the entire season. Less than halfway through its 2009-10 campaign, Princeton (3-5-1 overall, 2-4-1 ECAC Hockey) has already done that six times.
The men’s basketball team headed out west this past Sunday with the hopes of repeating history by pulling off another shocking upset over a California-based team. But unlike in 1996, when Princeton surprised heavily favored UCLA, the Tigers (2-3) never came close, losing to No. 23 California (4-2), 81-60, at the Haas Pavilion in Berkeley, Calif.
Three days after carving turkeys at Thanksgiving, the men’s and women’s fencing teams took to the road to try to carve up some of their strongest competition at the Harvard Invitational.
The women’s ice hockey team split a two-game series against No. 8 Boston University at Baker Rink this past weekend, earning a 3-1 win over the Terriers on Friday before falling, 3-2, the following day.
The undefeated women’s basketball team will look to continue its winning streak over the Thanksgiving recess, as it travels to California to face UCLA and UC Irvine.
For many Princeton students, Thanksgiving morning will be an opportunity to catch up on much-needed sleep.
Coming off three straight games without a win, the men?s hockey team will look to get back on track against a high-powered No.
Princeton simply could not make shots, and it ultimately fell to George Washington by a score of 65-50. But the game was actually closer than it appeared on paper.
Freshman wrestler Garrett Frey followed his first-place finish at the Binghamton Open last weekend with another impressive performance at the Keystone Classic on Sunday. Frey took second in the 125-pound bracket, losing to Jasen Borshoff of American, 5-3, in the final. The tournament was hosted by Ivy rival Penn and held at the Palestra.
From a look at the box score, it would appear that Elena Delle Donne dominated. Delaware’s star forward lit up the women’s basketball team for 35 points and grabbed a game-high nine rebounds.
The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams had an eerily similar weekend.
Associate Editors for Sports Eben Novy-Williams and Rachel Orland sit down with senior writers Mary Reid Munford and Vikram Rao to discuss this weekend's actions. The men's soccer team lost to Bucknell in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the field hockey team lost to Maryland in the Final Four and the football team finished its season with a win over Dartmouth. The quartet of writers also discuss the sudden firing of head coach Roger Hughes.
The Princeton women followed a second-place finish at NCAA Regionals with a fifth-place finish in the year-end race.
The Princeton men’s and women’s squash teams traveled to Ithaca, N.Y., for a weekend double header to open the season. The men defeated the Western Ontario Mustangs on Saturday, but the women lost to the Stanford Cardinal. Both squads defeated Cornell on Sunday in an important match for the Ivy League title race.
Football head coach Roger Hughes was fired Sunday afternoon, less than 24 hours after the football team finished its third consecutive season with a 4-6 overall record.
A topsy-turvy season came full circle for the football team, as the Tigers defeated Dartmouth, 23-11, on Saturday to round out their third consecutive 4-6 season.
No. 18 Princeton defeated No. 12 Navy, 5-4, to win their third title and gain a berth in the NCAA Championship.
On Friday night, the Tigers (6-3-1 overall, 5-2-1 ECAC Hockey) fell 1-0 to No. 7 Cornell (6-3-1, 6-1-1) before rebounding with a 3-2 win Saturday afternoon over Colgate (2-9-3, 1-4-3).
For the second time in as many games, the men’s basketball team dug itself into a huge hole.
The Tigers lost by a 7-5 margin, ending Princeton’s dreams of bringing home an NCAA title.
