With only three weekends left in the season, the Princeton men's hockey team has its work cut out if it wants to finish in the top five and win home ice advantage for the playoffs.
As the Princeton announcer introduced the Penn players, the Quakers clutched one another and hopped in a circle like overactive toddlers in a playground.Then, like stern and conscientous parents they locked the backdoor, eliminated all fire hazards and set an example for others to follow.The men's basketball team (10-9 overall, 5-2 Ivy League) bowed to Penn (17-6, 4-3), losing 62-38, in its most crushing loss this season."We got spanked," freshman guard Will Venable said.Princeton missed shots in a variety of ways ? clanging balls over the rim, bouncing them off the blackboard, fumbling layup attempts and three-pointers alike.
Men's swimming and diving wrapped up its dual meet schedule convincingly last weekend with back-to-back wins over Columbia and Navy.Princeton traveled to Columbia Friday, Feb.
"The game three years ago always stays in our thoughts," Penn head coach Fran Dunphy said.He was referring to the "Palestra Miracle," a game in which Princeton came back from 24 points down at halftime to win the game, 50-49.Last night's competition between the two teams was like that game three years ago, except without the Palestra.
It wasn't the missed lay-ups. It wasn't the piss-poor officiating in the second half, no matter what the Tiger partisans claimed.
An undefeated season.A goal so unobtainable only one team in the National Football League has ever accomplished it.
In what is fast becoming the biggest rivalry in college squash, Princeton (8-0 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) won the latest match 5-4 over Harvard (6-2, 4-1) before 500 stunned fans at the Crimson's Murr Center Sunday to win its second Ivy title in the last three years.The winner of the Harvard-Princeton match won the Ivy title the last three years, and in each of those years the margin of victory was 5-4.Head coach Bob Callahan '77 figured Princeton would need to win the top five positions to pull out a victory.
North Carolina vs. Duke. Indiana vs. Purdue. Tennessee Tech vs. Middle Tennessee State.Rivalries are the blood that flows through college basketball's veins.
At this point, it's all about Heps and the post-season. As the indoor track season winds down, the chances to qualify for either the IC4A or NCAA championships grow fewer and fewer, adding a sense of immediacy to the last couple of meets of the year.
'The Game' is tonight at 7:30. Penn and Princeton. Always the biggest game of the season. The rival schools have been the end-all of Ivy League men's basketball for decades.
In its first Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association action of the year, the men's volleyball team knocked off rival Juniata College before losing to national powerhouse Penn State.The five-set (28-30, 30-27, 36-38, 30-24, 15-10) win was the Tigers' first win over Juniata in their last four matches."Juniata's a team that's on the same level as us but for some reason we've always lost to them," senior captain Scott Dore said.
The Princeton women's hockey team (13-6-2 overall, 9-3-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference ? North) beat the teams it was supposed to this weekend, as it disposed of Cornell (5-15-1, 4-7-1) and Colgate (11-11-2, 1-7-2).Although the Big Red and the Raiders both sit near the bottom of the ECAC-North, they are very different teams.
The sellout crowd of 3,100 invaded the court as the team's star finished the visiting team with an emphatic dunk at the buzzer.
In life, love and hockey, it's the little things that count.The Princeton men's hockey team has made huge strides on both ends of the ice since the beginning of the season.
With eight seconds left in regulation and the Tigers trailing, 67-64, junior Allison Cahill threw up a desperate shot from the three-point line.
Only at Princeton could the senior captain of the wrestling team be both a mechanical engineering major and an experienced weatherman.
With a militant flourish, Princeton women's hockey marched through New York two months ago and conquered Ithaca and Hamilton.
The fans began to scream. It was late in the second half of the men's basketball team's methodical deconstruction of Cornell Saturday night, en route to a 60-38 victory, but the roaring of the crowd had nothing to do with any Princeton basket.
The women's basketball team leapt into Ivy League competition this year with surprising back-to-back victories.First, on Jan.
When most people think of volleyball, they think of people relaxing on the beach, taking in the sun and gently hitting a ball around.Scott Dore thinks of returning an 80-mph serve and digging the ball off the gym floor while it is 30 degrees outside.Even when growing up in California, the senior co-captain didn't play much beach volleyball."Usually, at the beach I would just hang out and go in the water," the Newport Beach native said.Like many high school kids, Dore stuck with football and basketball.
