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Looking for a miracle, m. basketball needs to sweep

Looking for a miracle, m. basketball needs to sweep

The season is not over. Contrary to what many Princetonians have been saying, the men's basketball season is still going, and the Tigers will do battle against Cornell tonight and Columbia tomorrow night, both at home.Yes, an Ivy title and NCAA tournament berth are unlikely, but there is still a lot of basketball left to be played.In order for Princeton (13-10 overall, 8-3 Ivy League) to earn a share of the Ivy title, they need Penn (19-5, 11-0) to lose out and for Brown (15-11, 10-2) to lose at least one of their final two games.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

Men's lacrosse satisfied only with return to title game

Six national championships in eleven seasons. Three straight championship game appearances. Thirteen returning seniors, seven of whom are starters.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

After sluggish start, men's volleyball makes easy work of NYU in 3-1 win

"It ain't over till it's over." As the men's volleyball team learned last night, Yogi Berra knew what he was tallking about.The Tigers had good reason to be confident entering the match against NYU, having stomped the Violets in fifty-five minutes in their last meeting.

SPORTS | 03/05/2003

W. lacrosse shuts out Lafayette in first half, rolls to 15-6 victory

What can a team that finished last season on a 19-game winning streak, won the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship and paid a visit to President Bush in the offseason possibly do that could begin to match up to its former feats?Demolishing its first opponent to continue the nation's longest win streak is not a bad start.The women's lacrosse team (1-0) opened its 2003 season Wednesday by destroying Lafayette (0-1), 15-6, in a game that was nowhere near as close as the score suggests.With the win, head coach Chris Sailer earned her 200th career victory in just over 16 seasons.

SPORTS | 03/05/2003

The many complexities of men's basketball's offense

Think of the Princeton offense as nothing more than a big toolbox. If the right tools are used at the right times, open baskets will be as common as birdhouses in shop class.

SPORTS | 03/05/2003

Men's swimming looks to defend title at Easterns

A 9-0 regular season dual meet record ? outstanding. A victory at the H-Y-P meet ? thrilling.

SPORTS | 03/05/2003

One fan fed up with the business of pro sports

You know what is probably one of the worst ideas ever?The business of sports.I'm so fed up with professional sports these days, that I can't stand to watch them, let alone read about them.

SPORTS | 03/05/2003

Men's hockey to play Brown in first round of ECAC tourney

Providence, R.I. has not treated Princeton very kindly this year. The men's basketball team lost to Brown for the second time this season last weekend, while women's basketball and men's hockey have also left College Hill with an embarrassing "L" tattooed across their foreheads.But the men's hockey team is going back into the Bears' lair this weekend.

SPORTS | 03/05/2003

Absence of Uberoi dooms w. tennis against Terps

It is always difficult to take the stage following a flawless performance. On Sunday, women's tennis did not rise to the challenge after the men's consecutive 7-0, 7-0 victories the previous day against Army and Temple.

SPORTS | 03/04/2003

Frosh Kumar only Tiger to climb past first round at WISA tourney

Princeton squash already had one national champion. Could the women's team make it two? Freshman Ruchika Kumar qualified for the quarterfinals, but could not beat Yale's top player.

SPORTS | 03/04/2003

The frustrations of a Princeton die-hard

"Princeton sucks, Princeton sucks."Now let me preface this column by saying that I don't believe the above quote, but rather heard them this past weekend when sitting as a spectator at a number of Princeton athletic events.My ears, and those of the few Tiger fans around me, were rendered helpless by the onslaught of vulgar chants hurled at our innocent University by the blood-red Cornell hockey faithful and the ravenous Johns Hopkins lacrosse groupies.What specifically dismayed me was my observation of the dearth of Princeton students in attendance at these games.

SPORTS | 03/04/2003

Men's volleyball beats Concordia

Space is tight in the up coming four-team Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association playoff, especially with one of those spots virtually guaranteed to nationally-ranked Penn State.

SPORTS | 03/04/2003

Men's tennis trounces Army, Temple, 7-0, 7-0

If the men's tennis team needed to prove it could beat inferior teams, this weekend provided the perfect opportunity.

SPORTS | 03/04/2003

El-Halaby wins national title as a freshman

Though the men's squash team played on Trinity's courts, the Tigers stole the show.The individual championship came down to a battle between two Princeton teammates ? freshman star Yasser El-Halaby versus senior captain Will Evans ? with the younger Tiger coming out on top.Three Princetonians entered the Men's A Pool Division of the men's squash championships.

SPORTS | 03/03/2003

W. track takes fourth place at indoor Heps

The Princeton women's track team placed fourth last weekend at the annual indoor track Heptagonal Championships.

SPORTS | 03/03/2003

Cornell squeaks by improved m. hockey team

On paper, No. 2 Cornell should have dominated Princeton in Friday's men's hockey contest. As ESPN anchorman Kenny Mayne likes to say, however, "games aren't played on paper, they're played in television sets," or in this case, Baker Rink.Friday the Tigers (3-24-2 overall, 2-18-2 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference) fell 2-1 to the second best team and arguably looked like the better side for most of the game.

SPORTS | 03/03/2003

Disappointing performances plague men's track at Heps

While some Tigers performed up to expectations, a host of normal highpoint scorers did not compete well and, as a result, the men's track team found that rankings are meaningless.

SPORTS | 03/03/2003

W. hockey upsets Dartmouth, climbing to third place in ECAC

With third place in the conference at stake and just over three minutes left on the clock, freshman forward Sarah Butsch knocked the puck into the goal on Saturday to put women's hockey ahead of Dartmouth and secure a 3-2 upset over the Big Green.The next day, the Tigers finished their regular season with a bang, handily defeating Eastern College Athletic Conference cellar-dweller Vermont, 5-0.With these two wins, Princeton improved to 18-8-2 overall and 11-5-0 in the conference, earning the third seed in next week's ECAC tournament.No.

SPORTS | 03/03/2003

Yasser El-Halaby: national champ

After leading his team to No. 2 in the nation in men's squash, Yasser El Halaby claimed the one thing that had been missing from an incredible freshman season: the Intercollegiate Squash Association Individual Championship.In the end, it came down to a battle between two teammates.

SPORTS | 03/02/2003

Women's basketball splits weekend with win vs. Yale

The seniors on the women's basketball team (9-16 overall, 4-7 Ivy League) wanted to hold on for just a second.

SPORTS | 03/02/2003

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