What's the magic number? For Princeton fencing it seemed to be 16-11 as the Tigers foiled Harvard nearly perfect season.
Women's hockey has been sitting near the bottom of the national top-ten rankings and the middle of the conference standings all year, and this weekend provides a chance to make a big splash in both lists.With four games left before the Eastern College Athletic Conference playoffs begin, Princeton (15-7-2 overall, 8-4-0 ECAC) makes its final road trip of the season with stops in Cambridge Friday night to take on top-ranked Harvard (21-1-1, 10-0-1) and Providence Saturday to face Brown (9-10-4, 6-4-1).After a disappointing loss on the second end of a home-and-away series with Yale last weekend, the Tigers sit in fourth place in the ECAC, two points behind sixth-ranked St.
From here on out, every game is a must-win for the men's basketball team. After losing two games last week to league-leading Penn and Brown, the Tigers find themselves in third place in the Ivy League, two games behind the Quakers and a game and a half behind the Bears.Though Princeton will play both of those teams one more time this season, the squad cannot afford any more setbacks in the meantime if its goal of making the NCAA tournament is to be realized.This weekend, the Tigers (11-9 overall, 5-2 Ivy League) travel into the teeth of New England to take on Dartmouth (6-15, 2-6) and Harvard (11-10, 3-5) for the second time this season.Earlier in the year, the Tigers downed the Crimson 67-61 in a game that came down to the final two minutes.
Could it happen again?Earlier this season, when the women's basketball team (8-13 overall, 3-4 Ivy League) faced Dartmouth (11-10, 5-3) and Harvard (16-4, 8-0) in one weekend, it lost by a combined total of 58 points.Last year, the Tigers beat Harvard before the Crimson went on to win the Ivy League Title.
Last Saturday marked the running of the historic H-Y-P triangular track meet. As has come to be expected in recent years, the Princeton men opted for practicality rather than tradition ? they chose not to compete in Cambridge but to send their top scorers to the highly contested Armory Invitational.The former Armory's banked mondo track is considered one of the fastest in the country.
There is an unwritten rule in the world of sports, and it goes like this: a goofy mascot does not make a powerhouse team.
"This is the best Harvard men's team that I've seen in 25 years ? maybe longer," Harvard assistant fencing coach Elliott Lillian said.These words, which are not surprising with Harvard's superiority complex, actually ring true this year.
Familiarity breeds contempt.The men's hockey team understands the meaning of this old adage quite well.
Just two seasons ago, the women's basketball team's averaged 50 points a game and never managed to score over 70 points in any of its contests.A lot has changed since then ? a new head coach, two new classes of players ? and with these changes, the Tigers (8-13 overall, 3-4 Ivy League) have been trying to reverse their past habits.
Ivy League scrimmage victory. Five-Man Team Championship. Ivy League title.Members of the 2002-2003 men's squash team have seen their fair share of triumphs this year.
The youngest Tigers may be the source of strength for women's tennis this spring. However, injuries left four of the five freshmen on the sidelines to cheer on a starting lineup that closely resembled last year's squad.Senior co-captain Kavitha Krishnamurthy will lead the team at No.
Senior Day at DeNunzio Pool was just another day at the office for the swim team.On Friday, as the men's swimming team celebrated the ample accomplishments of the senior class, Princeton put the icing an immaculate regular season.
With the first Princeton?Penn basketball game already lost and then the team's surprising loss to Brown on Friday night, the dream of Princeton qualifying for the NCAA tournament has become somewhat hazy.
In more of a pride match than a pure rivalry, this weekend the Tigers faced one of the most difficult opponent to lose to ? Rutgers.
A somewhat humdrum season became even more so last weekend as the Princeton women's indoor track team suffered a discouraging loss to both Harvard and Yale at the annual H-Y-P meet.Harvard won the competition, held at Cambridge, with 61 points.
A sad silence hovered over the deserted basketball stadium early Saturday afternoon following the men's decisive loss to Brown the night before.
Final exams came early for the women's squash team as it traveled to New Haven this weekend to determine the national champion at the Howe Cup and to show whether it had learned enough this season to pass the test as a team.Princeton was pitted against Yale in the first round on Friday, losing 9-0.
The 300th episode of "The Simpsons", a snow day, the finale of "Joe Millionaire" and four games of Princeton men's volleyball.
The way the men's hockey team has dominated Rensselaer this season, it probably wishes it could play the Engineers (9-19-2 overall, 3-11-2 Eastern College Athletic Conference) more often.
ESPN.com writer Bill Simmons has created the Ewing Theory from years of observation.
