WEST LONG BRANCH ? With seven-tenths of a second left in the game and the score tied at 57, it looked certain that the men's basketball team was headed for a second straight overtime contest against a team it should have handily beaten.
Athletes find motivation in unique places.Some respond to fiery speeches, while others strive to make their families proud.For swimmer Carl Hessler, all it takes is a picture.Hessler, a senior captain and Princeton record-holder in four events, doesn't respond to a picture of just anyone.
After three successful seasons for the Tigers, senior center Andrea Kilbourne took a one-year break from the rigors of Princeton ? where hockey had to be secondary to her academics ? to make hockey her entire life.In her fourth year of women's hockey at Princeton, Kilbourne currently has 142 career points, 55 more than anyone else on the team.
It's early in the season, but the Tigers are already proving themselves a major force this year in women's squash.Competition will be tough from other Ivy League teams and especially from last year's national champions, Trinity College.
Before I even get started, I would like to say that it's good to be back. No, not from Thanksgiving break, not even from fall break.
Coming off last year's second-place finish in the national collegiate men's squash tournament, the Tigers are eager for an even more successful season this winter.Looking back on the 2001-2002 season, Princeton has much to be proud of.A 5-4 win over Yale late in the season earned the Tigers the title of Ivy League champions, although they later lost to Trinity College for the top squash honors in the nation.But Princeton can't afford to live in the past.
Women's hockey would be perfectly happy playing the rest of its 18 games at home.Princeton (6-2-2 overall, 2-0-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) is now 5-0-1 at Baker Rink after a 2-2 tie with Maine and a 6-2 win over Northeastern this weekend.The No.
After notching a win against Tennessee-Martin at home on Wednesday, things went downhill for the women's basketball team as they headed to California after Thanksgiving to play in the Stanford Invitational.On Wednesday, the Tigers cruised to a 92-74 win against Tennessee-Martin at Jadwin Gym, highlighted by shooting an impressive 52 percent from three-point range.
Princeton had the early-season jitters. That and Florida International's quick defense limited the men's basketball team to 21 of 54 shooting from the field Saturday night en route to a 68-65 overtime victory.The Panthers (4-0 overall) also kept Princeton (1-2) to 11-34 shooting behind the arc and created 19 turnovers which turned into points.In a game similar to last year's 49-44 loss in Miami, the Tiger offense was not playing up to snuff.
With a large turnover in starters, the Tigers have a team capable of either competing for an Ivy League championship or finishing with another below average season similar to last year.The 2002-2003 team is very different from last year's team, and with only five returning starters, head coach Mike New needs a number of wrestlers to step into leadership roles.Even with four starters graduating from last year's team, senior All-America Greg Parker returns for his final year and he will again be competing for a national championship.
Playing against UMass for the first time since former Princeton coach Don Cahoon left the University, the men's hockey team (1-10-0 overall, 1-8-0 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference) fell, 5-3, Sunday afternoon in Amherst.It was a tough Thanksgiving weekend overall for the Tigers as well, with the team losing for the second time in a week to Ivy and ECAC rival Yale ? once at home, 7-1, and again in New Haven, 6-1.Against Yale, the lone Princeton goal came from freshman forward Sebastian Borza on a one-timer late in the third period.
After splitting two games last weekend at the Sooner Invitational in Oklahoma, the men's basketball team returns to Jadwin Gymnasium this weekend for its home opener against Florida International.In their season kickoff, the Tigers used a strong second half to down Western Michigan 62-59 and advance to the finals against the seventh-ranked Sooners.
There was a brief time in men's hockey's 7-1 loss to Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference rival Yale Tues-day night when it seemed as if Princeton had a chance.
There's nothing better than ending a season on a high note.The women's cross-country team did just that when Princeton wrapped up its season this weekend with a pair of events.
In the midst of two weeks of hard-hitting competition in Texas and California, the women's basketball team returns to Jadwin Gym tonight to take on a friendlier opponent ? the University of Tennessee Martin.The Tigers are coming off a tough weekend in Waco, Tex., where they opened their season by suffering a painful 86-47 loss to Baylor.The second game in Texas was much brighter, as the Tigers defeated Southwest Texas State, 82-81, thanks to junior post Eileen Powers' last-second score in overtime.UT-M is playing its season opener tonight, after going 8-20 last year.
If Princeton women's hockey were a police force, then Baker Rink would be their prison. The Tigers' have locked up their visitors so far this season and have let them leave with nothing but bad memories.
"A couple plays here and there, we're 9-1," football head coach Roger Hughes said. Princeton (6-4 overall, 4-3 Ivy) has come far since finishing 3-6 last year."Every game is like a playoff game," senior wide receiver and captain Chisom Opara said.
Competing without three of its normal starters and with several other wrestlers still not at 100 percent, the Tiger wrestling team had a rough day in its season opener.Princeton (0-2 overall) faced Bloomsburg and Findlay, two of the top Div.
Last year, men's swimming and diving won first place at Easterns, finally knocking Harvard out of first place after playing bridesmaid to the Crimson for seven years.
Riding a streak of 32 straight dual-meet wins over three seasons, the three-time defending Ivy League champion women's swimming team entered the 2002-2003 season full of hope for Ivy League and national success.The squad opened up against Boston College, who the Tigers have soundly defeated in their opening meets the past two years.
