The Patriots and the Panthers. There was no reason to care about the Super Bowl this year. There was no controversy ? no Barrett Robbins, no Eugene Robinson, no Ray Lewis.
There are only a few meets remaining before the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, and this weekend's races against two tough opponents should serve as an excellent window for the men's and women's indoor track teams' prospects for the remainder of the season.The men's indoor track team will have its work cut out for it this weekend, as they host two difficult teams, Penn State and Connecticut, at home this Saturday.
An Ivy League title cannot be won in a single weekend. But in a span of 24 brief hours, the men's basketball team made a surprisingly early break from the peloton of the league race.In two of their best performances of the young season, the Tigers (9-6 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) swept Brown and Yale on the road.
Ask somebody to think of ice hockey, and most people will conjure up images of huge bloody Russian men knocking out each other's teeth into the path of an oncoming Zamboni.
Women's squash hosted the Betty Constable Invitational from Jan. 23 to Jan. 25 while most of Princeton enjoyed winter Intersession.Named for probably the most well-known figure in women's squash, the Constable Invitational took place over three days and was held all day long.
The past few months, and past few years actually, haven't been easy for the women's basketball program at Princeton.
It doesn't matter if you are a sports fan or not. Some things in sports transcend its boundaries.
The fates of hockey, which had turned a blind eye to the Tigers during winter break, showed their malice again over Intersession as Princeton (5-16-1 overall, 5-9-1 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference) dropped two conference games against Clarkson and St.
"Princeton relay! Princeton relay!" was the battle cry that brought the orange-clad audience to its feet last Saturday.
California in January is a great place, with warm beaches and lots of sunshine. The men's volleyball team certainly enjoyed the change of scenery from the cold and snow in New Jersey.
"I'm just going to take a study break for half an hour, I swear." We've all said that, because that's how Princetonians think.
Senior forward Konrad Wysocki has unexpectedly left the men's basketball team. The decision was announced in a statement released by head coach John Thompson '88 on Monday afternoon.Thompson told the''Prince,' "He's a second-semester senior who decided to step away and focus on other things."Wysocki started the Tigers' first eight games of the season, averaging 6.0 points a game, but was sidelined for over a month after contracting a viral infection in late December.
Like any group of sensible Princeton students, the men's tennis team headed south over Intersession, leaving behind subzero temperatures for warmer weather.The Tigers returned from balmy Florida with a 1-2 record after sandwiching a win over Florida A&M between losses to No.
The month of January did not end as planned for the men's wrestling team, as the Tigers dropped back-to-back home matches against Columbia and Cornell on Saturday.The first conference foe was Columbia, who defeated the Tigers by a score of 26-14.
The men's and women's squash teams knew that Yale would be their toughest test of the young season.
Spencer Gloger '05 is back at Princeton ? again. It is still unclear, however, whether he will ever step back on the court for Princeton.The former men's basketball star, who has not been enrolled at Princeton the past two semesters after being declared academically ineligible in February of 2003, is back at school and enrolled for the spring semester.
O'Brien summarized it, "We played to win verses playing not to lose."Princeton swept both its Ivy League opponents this weekend with wins over Brown, 66-53, and Yale, 66-58 at Jadwin Gymnasium.The Tigers (5-11 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) started Saturday off with an upset of Brown (9-8, 2-2), pulling it down from its No.
"We didn't just beat 'em, we clobbered 'em," senior forward Gretchen Anderson said after women's hockey's 6-3 win over Harvard on Friday night at Baker Rink.Anderson and her teammates followed up their biggest win of the season, however, with a disappointing effort, also at home, in a 3-1 loss to Brown.
PROVIDENCE, R.I./NEW HAVEN, C.T. ? After scoring 18 points to lead the men's basketball team to an impressive 64-49 win at Brown on Friday night, junior guard Will Venable did not attempt a single field goal for the first 39 minutes and 57 seconds of Saturday's game.But with three seconds left, and the Tigers trailing Yale by one, Venable slipped underneath the basket, grabbed a tipped offensive rebound in tight traffic, and calmly laid the ball in.Thanks to Venable's offensive heroics and his suffocating defense, Princeton (9-6 Overall, 2-0 Ivy League) escaped New Haven with a sweep of its first ? and perhaps toughest ? league road weekend.The Tigers' performance against Brown (7-10, 3-1) was perhaps their best all-around showing of the season.
The indoor track teams had a successful Intersession. The men's team won both the Princeton Relays on Jan.
