Princeton's wrestling team (0-16 overall, 0-4 Ivy League) hit the road to face New York Ivy League rivals Columbia (6-3, 2-1) and Cornell (6-5, 3-0) this past weekend.
On Friday, the men's basketball team overcame Harvard, proving it can compete with an average Ivy League team.
In tournament competition, one starts to see whether a team will sink or swim.The No. 18 women's water polo team kept afloat this past weekend against some of the top water polo teams in the nation at the Triton Invitational in San Diego.
Whoa there, Princeton.Just take a deep breath.You see, the same thing seems to happen every year with us.When confronted with the sad realities about your basketball program, you throw a hissy fit.You try to say you're better than us, that Penn stinks and that we took your lunch money when you were little kids.Well, Princeton, what I should do with this column is tell you to get over yourselves right now.But no.
As far as starting off on the right foot goes, the Tiger tennis players seem to be doing pretty well.
So, you guys are probably gonna beat us tonight.We're 1-5 in the Ivies. We lost to Dartmouth Saturday night.
West to East, ups and downs ? that's one way to describe how the men's volleyball team has been playing recently.After returning from the West Coast, the Tigers (2-4 overall, 1-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) took a weekend road trip to face two Pennsylvania teams, one ranked No.
After losing its first four Ivy League games, the men's basketball team hit the court with something to prove Friday night.
One week ago, the swimming and diving teams set a high bar for Princeton athletics by sweeping both the men's and women's annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meets.
Basketball coaches constantly preach the importance of beginning games with second-half intensity, and this weekend the women's basketball team (10-11 overall, 4-3 Ivy League) found out the rough consequences of a flatfooted start.With the three best teams in the Ivy League playing one another, the weekend unfolded as a chance for any of the three to firmly establish itself atop the league standings, but cold shooting and early turnovers doomed the Tigers.
For the men's hockey team (10-12-3 overall, 7-9-2 Ivy League ), this season has been full of new players, new strategies and new problems.
On Sunday afternoon, droves of Princeton faithful filled the galleries of the Jadwin Gymnasium squash courts in anticipation of the men's and women's showdown with Harvard.While both the men's and women's teams, boasting identical undefeated records, were playing to claim the Ivy League championship, the women's team was also competing for the dual-match national championship.And both teams took full advantage of the opportunity.Beginning the afternoon, the first round of matches appeared ominous for the No.
During their hotly contested weekend games against Clarkson (16-13-3 overall, 8-10-2 ECAC Hockey) and St.
Nearly one month ago, the women's basketball team (10-9 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) suffered a tough 70-66 loss at home to Cornell (8-11, 4-2). The game was only the team's third Ivy League matchup and the last before its three-week Intersession break.
Prince reporters begin live blogging of the men's basketball team's game against Harvard on Friday night at 7:20 p.m.
Amateur skaters are out in droves, happily partaking of the ice on Carnegie Lake for the first time in years.
Both the men's and women's squash teams have enjoyed tremendous success this season, sporting a flawless combined record of 12-0.
At 0-4 in the Ivy League, the men's basketball team is down ? but with 10 conference games yet to be played, it is anything but out.
