Things are looking up for the men’s volleyball team (1-3 overall, 0-0 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association).
While the Northeast was paralyzed by a devastating snowstorm this weekend, the men’s and women’s track and field teams managed to avoid most of its ill effects to register a series of confident performances in nationally attended meets.
In what is shaping up to be one of Princeton’s most promising seasons in years, the men’s wrestling team completed a perfect weekend with a victory over Sacred Heart last Sunday.
"Peyton Manning is the greatest quarterback of all time.”
As a Harvard graduate student, I’m often asked whether I’ll root for Princeton or Harvard as a contest between the Ivy League rivals nears. The questioners are never Princetonians. For them, the answer would be obvious.
In its last two regular-season road games, the women’s hockey team left an impression of being far less threatening than “Snowmageddon.”
The crowd sat stunned, wide eyes transfixed on the blur of arms and legs pulling away bullet-like from the rest. “How can she be so far ahead?”
Since the beginning of the season, the women’s basketball team had this past weekend circled on their calendar.
Prior to this weekend’s contests, senior goalie Zane Kalemba said that the men’s hockey team had to accept its injuries and not use them as a crutch.
Dominating defense and strong contributions from the bench earned the men’s basketball team two more Ivy League wins on the road this past weekend when it beat Harvard on Friday and Dartmouth on Saturday. After these hard-fought victories, the Tigers remain one of two undefeated teams in Ivy League play.
The women’s basketball team has more on the line than its 10-game winning streak when Princeton faces off against Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend in Jadwin Gymnasium.
Heading into their final weekend of Ivy League play, the men’s and women’s squash teams are in unfamiliar territory. Neither team controls its own destiny in the Ivy League title race. Both teams play at Dartmouth on Saturday and at Harvard on Sunday.
A three-game winning streak, the ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Week and the league’s leading goal-scorer. Sounds like the men's hockey team is back on track.
The Princeton women’s hockey team goes on the road this weekend for two key ECAC showdowns against Colgate and No. 10 Cornell, in a repeat of a double-header from earlier in the season.
Off to a hot start at the beginning of league play, the men’s basketball team (11-5 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) will head to Cambridge on Friday to face Harvard (14-4, 3-1). And on Saturday night, Princeton will take on Dartmouth (4-14, 0-4) in Hanover, N.H. In the Crimson, the Tigers will face a formidable opponent — led by point guard Jeremy Lin, Harvard has garnered considerable national recognition for its performance early in the season.
??I hate the colts. I am a diehard fan of another AFC South team, and watching Peyton Manning get eaten by Saints defensive end Will Smith would be like Christmas in February. Unfortunately, I’ve been down this road enough times to know the simple truth: The Colts are too good to lose on Sunday. The passing game is too precise, the blocking is too efficient and the defense is simply too good when it counts.
Sophomore forward Paula Romanchuk is better known as “Chukie.” Though this nickname may sound cute, when Romanchuk takes the ice she transforms into a player to be feared.
The men’s basketball team has gotten off to one of its best starts in recent history. Behind the tutelage of third-year coach Sydney Johnson ‘97, Princeton (11-5 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) has staked out an early spot atop the Ivy League standings. The Tigers are led in scoring by sophomore Doug Davis, who averages 14.1 points per game, and junior Dan Mavraides, who averages 11.5 points.
Who dat gonna beat dem Saints? Saints fans have been asking that all year and have yet to receive an answer in the playoffs. I know: When I write about Saints fans, you probably think of those crazy rednecks in that Youtube video that shoot up a big-screen TV, but bear with me for a minute. The common wisdom regarding Super Bowl XLIV is that the Colts are by far the superior team. This assumption has been reflected in the current Vegas spread of Colts -5 or -6. But, as is often said, on any given Sunday, any team can win. The Saints have been underrated all season, especially during the playoffs, and will prove their naysayers wrong on the grandest stage of all.
After dominating the first half of its schedule, the women’s basketball team (15-2 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) is ready to tear through its Ivy competition. The Tigers lead the league in most statistical categories, from scoring offense to scoring defense, and their average margin of victory is an incredible 19.3 points per game.
