A convincing 6-3 victory over No. 2 Penn last Wednesday has put the No. 1-ranked women?s squash team in prime position to regain the Ivy League title it relinquished to the Quakers last season.
Though the wrestling team?s season has been a dramatic improvement from last year?s, a sobering trip to the West Coast over Intersession showed just how far the team has to go.
The end of exams signaled the start of a busy weekend for Princeton fencing. Both the men and the women kicked off Intersession by hosting the first home meet of the season in Jadwin Gymnasium.
Both the men?s and women?s track and field teams had successful outings at the Penn State National Open on Jan.
Fasten your seatbelts: It looks like the seemingly unstoppable men’s basketball team, whose performance over Intersession gave the Tigers their first five-game win streak since 2004, is just getting started.
The men’s volleyball team’s annual Intersession road trip to California is a bit of a homecoming for much of the team. Though eight of the squad’s 15 members hail from the Golden State, it took all four games for the Tigers to settle in: They lost their first three games of the new season before recording a convincing win for the ride back to New Jersey.
With less than one minute left to play in the men’s hockey team’s 5-1 victory over Brown, freshman forward Brodie Zuk stuck his skate out to block a shot. The play had little effect on the outcome of the game.
Usually when a team loses back-to-back games, its coach is more upset than Courtney Banghart was Saturday night. The women’s basketball head coach only expressed affection for her players, an affection she had seen reflected in the large crowds at both games.
Generally speaking, recording two wins and a loss in a week is nothing to be ashamed of, but for the women’s hockey team, not completing a three-game sweep of Quinnipiac, Yale and Brown was a disappointment.
Correction appended This is the second of a two-part series about the history of Princeton basketball.
On the evening of Saturday, Jan. 10, in its Ivy League season debut, the women?s basketball team handily defeated Penn, 64-49.
The men?s basketball team (4-8 overall) will have a long time to enjoy and build off its current two-game winning streak.
Consistency is the name of the game. After struggling to keep a winning record earlier in the season, the women?s ice hockey team (11-8-1 overall, 8-5-0 ECAC Hockey) broke into the national rankings in the most recent poll, taking the No.
As finals have begun, the men?s hockey team is now getting some much-needed rest before its next game.
Though Groundhog day is still weeks away, head coach Roger Hughes didn?t get the message. Hughes reportedly walked out of his office in Jadwin Gym today, saw his shadow and promptly delayed the start of spring practice by six weeks.?We?re all really confused,? junior running back Jordan Culbreath said.
?I just stopped trying after a while,? senior Zeb Blackwell of the club rifle team said after the Tigers defeated the fencing team in an intersquad scrimmage, 27-0.
One year after Princeton successfully recruited four-star linebacker Jonathan Meyer of Connecticut, Bill Tierney of the men?s lacrosse team pulled off an even more impressive feat.
Called the ?the best basketball-playing cabinet in American history? by the Wall Street Journal and approximately 7,000 other news outlets, the incoming Barack Obama administration defeated the men?s basketball team 62-54 last night at Jadwin Gym.
Members of the men?s and women?s hockey teams have often wondered why attendance at their games lags behind other sports such as football and basketball.
The women?s ice hockey team is on a roll, and it will take quite a force to slow its momentum.
