The first weekend of the season was tough on the men's baseball team. The Citadel beat Princeton in the first three games of the four game series.
The men's hockey team outshot and, for the most part, outplayed Clarkson in their first game of the first-round series against the Golden Knights.
There would be no meltdown for the fifth-ranked women's hockey team Saturday night, not if senior forward Sarah Butsch had anything to do with it, and boy, did she.Toward the end of the third period, the Tigers (21-6-4 overall, 15-2-3 Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League) skated in disbelief.
The softball team's players may have been confused when they ended the past weekend's Tar Heel Invitational with a 4-2 win over North Dakota on Sunday.
Emotion was the theme of the night on Saturday when the Princeton women's basketball team took the court against Yale for Senior Night.
It looked, for a time, as though Princeton's men's lacrosse team might not be able to get by the No.
Emotion was the theme of the night on Saturday when the Princeton women's basketball team took the court against Yale for Senior Night.
Shortly after nine o'clock on Saturday night, as the men's basketball team dribbled the final 16 seconds off the game clock, the sports information staff on hand at Yale's Lee Amphitheater phoned in a hard-fought, 56-45 Princeton victory over the host Bulldogs.Among the Ivy League locales to which the news was immediately sent was the Pizzitola Center 100 miles away in Providence, R.I., where Brown was in the midst of an overtime battle with visiting Penn.
Shortly after nine o'clock on Saturday night, as the men's basketball team dribbled the final 16 seconds off the game clock, the sports information staff on hand at Yale's Lee Amphitheater phoned in a hard-fought, 56-45 Princeton victory over the host Bulldogs.Among the Ivy League locales to which the news was immediately sent was the Pizzitola Center 100 miles away in Providence, R.I., where Brown was in the midst of an overtime battle with visiting Penn.
It all came down to threes. Three-pointers and three-point plays off fouls propelled women's basketball over its most formidable hurdle standing in the way of an Ivy League championship.Princeton (20-6 overall, 11-2 Ivy League) rolled past Brown (18-9, 12-2) with a stunning 72-55 victory at Jadwin Gym Friday night.
It looked, for a time, as though Princeton's men's lacrosse team might not be able to get by the No.
Saturday afternoon's women's lacrosse game at John's Hopkins made history. For Princeton, however, it was the wrong kind of history.
No longer does senior squash player Yasser El Halaby sit among exclusive company in the annals of collegiate squash.
Saturday afternoon's women's lacrosse game at John's Hopkins made history. For Princeton, however, it was the wrong kind of history.
It all came down to threes. Three-pointers and three-point plays off fouls propelled women's basketball over its most formidable hurdle standing in the way of an Ivy League championship.Princeton (20-6 overall, 11-2 Ivy League) rolled past Brown (18-9, 12-2) with a stunning 72-55 victory at Jadwin Gym Friday night.
No longer does senior squash player Yasser El Halaby sit among exclusive company in the annals of collegiate squash.
The slow offensive style of Princeton lacrosse is almost as canonized as that of its basketball counterpart.
The last time I spoke with Jason Doneger '05 ? the former standout attackman and All-American for the Tigers ? he was on campus for a banking information session, talking with me and others about the life of a Wall Street equities trader.
This afternoon, the baseball team embarks on a season-opening stretch of 17 consecutive road games, traveling to Charleston, S.C.
In other sports, there are the playoffs. Nothing a team does during the season really matters once it gets there.
