All seemed to be going according to plan for the men's basketball team Monday night in the early seconds of its first-round game of the EA Sports Maui Invitational.
After recruiting top talent from across the country and honing the skills of returnees throughout the off-season, the men's and women's fencing teams were ready to show off their new and improved squads last weekend.
In the season's first three games on the road, the women's basketball team was unable to stand tall against the opposition.
"I disagree with everything my brothers have said in principle," Greg Callahan '05 said with a laugh upon learning that he was the fourth member of the Callahan clan to be interviewed.Greg and his four younger brothers have all played for their father Bob Callahan '77 on the men's squash team, with three of the siblings playing for Princeton this season.
Beautiful weather. Nationally televised games. Building on a still-undefeated record. These were the things that the men's basketball team had to look forward to as it traveled to Hawaii for the prestigious EA Sports Maui Invitational at the beginning of the week.The Tigers (2-2 overall) got the weather and the television exposure.
After winning more bouts in its first match than it did all season, the Princeton wrestling team further redeemed itself with its second successful showing in as many weeks at the East Stroudsburg Open.
On one of the greatest days of Princeton cross country history, the Tigers experienced some of their worst luck.
The men's and women's swimming and diving teams are sprinting towards their third consecutive championship title after decisively defeating Penn and Cornell on Friday and Saturday afternoon in Philadephia.Neither the Quakers nor the Big Red stood a chance against the Princeton men's team (3-0 overall), falling to the Tigers 214.5-85.5 and 199-101, respectively.
Another Ithaca might have been the home of Homer's wily Ulysses, but the men's squash team hardly faced an epic struggle in upstate New York over the weekend.The Tigers returned from Ithaca doubly victorious after they handily defeated Western Ontario University and Cornell on Sunday.
Heading into the weekend, the men's hockey team was looking at three games against Quinnipiac as a chance to reassert itself in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League (ECACHL). But after Saturday's ugly 4-0 loss against the Bobcats, the Tigers will need to come together and get back to basics as they try to halt a three-game skid."We struggled playing as a team," junior forward Brandan Kushniruk said.
Nothing tastes quite as sweet as revenge, as the women's hockey team discovered this weekend. With Colgate's sweep of Princeton during last season's Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League (ECACHL) quarterfinals still fresh in their memory, the Tigers hit Baker Rink with a vengeance Saturday, dominating the Raiders with a 3-0 win.The No.
When push came to shove, the football team looked to its defensive front seven to make the big play once again.
The men's soccer team was edged by Dartmouth, 1-0, on Saturday in Hanover, N.H., to close out the 2007 campaign.
The No. 4 women's cross country team will compete today in its fifth straight NCAA Championship in Terre Haute, Ind.
The women's basketball team concluded a winless Preseason Women's National Invitation Tournament this weekend with two losses in the consolation round at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala.
The participants of the EA Sports Maui Invitational had an opportunity to show off their skills Saturday, when sophomore guard Lincoln Gunn took on No.
It's official.The Ivy League has finally succumbed to the overwhelming force that is the 2007 Princeton women's volleyball team.With a 3-1 road win against Penn on Wednesday night to close out their regular season, the Tigers completed a perfect 14-0 showing within the Ivy League.
