Apparently, Durham, N.C., is not only home to basketball stars, but formidable lacrosse ladies as well.
Despite single-digit support from the student section and a dubious attendance record by the Tiger mascot, the men?s basketball team will try to prove against Columbia and Cornell this weekend that home-court advantage still exists at Jadwin Gym.While sporting an 0-16 record in games played everywhere else, Princeton (5-21 overall, 2-9 Ivy League) has been a far superior team at home this season, managing a .500 record.
The fencing and women?s swim teams were pleased this week when the competitive fields for the teams? respective NCAA championships were announced.
Only one week into the season, the baseball team has gotten off to a fast start, taking three of four games from Delaware in its opening weekend.
If at first you don?t succeed, try, try again will have to be the softball team?s mantra going into play this weekend.
Let me start out by saying that I don?t like Harvard. It?s got nothing to do with its need for a fun czar or any particular stripe of Tiger pride.
Q: What was your welcome-to-college moment during freshman year?A: In the classroom, that came pretty quickly.
Hell hath no fury like the merciless women?s lacrosse team, and yesterday Rutgers was feeling its wrath.
Fresh off a defeat of No. 11 George Mason, the men?s volleyball team squared off against Tait Division rival New Jersey Institute of Technology last night in Dillon Gym.
When you go to a women?s basketball game, you probably won?t see former NFL coach Bill Cowher sitting in the stands.
Competition within the Ivy League is stiff. Princeton, Harvard and Yale seem to be locked in an endless race to one-up each other in everything from crew regattas and debate tournaments to the U.S.
The ECAC men?s hockey playoffs begin this weekend, but the Tigers won?t be among the eight teams duking it out in four best-of-three series.
Every Saturday during the winter months, Dillon Gym plays host to the town of Princeton?s youth basketball league.
Last Saturday night, men?s Ivy League basketball saw a couple of historic moments. For the first time in 20 years, neither Penn nor Princeton will represent the Ivy League in the NCAA Tournament, but Cornell will.
With the women?s squash team?s national championship victory last weekend, Princeton squash celebrated another highly successful team season.
Haunted by weaknesses in scoring and defense that have crippled it throughout the season, the women?s hockey teams lost to Clarkson two games to one in the first round of the ECAC playoffs.Despite Princeton (14-12-6 overall, 11-8-3 ECAC Hockey) holding a nine-game winning streak against Clarkson (24-8-5, 13-6-3), the Tigers? offense could not find the back of the net.
Though the softball team (1-3) traveled a long way to play in the Patriot Classic in Fairfax, Va., this past weekend, its efforts came up short.
One of the most cliched plot devices in sports movies is a conflict between a team?s wily veterans and young guns.
The men?s tennis team took to the road this weekend for a series of three matches in three days, coming out ahead overall with two wins and a loss.
Having a number next to your team?s name sure makes it a lot more intimidating.This season, the women?s water polo team seems to be having an easy time against unranked opponents.
