Before yesterday's game against Dartmouth, men's hockey head coach Don Cahoon figured that three or four goals would be enough for his team to claim a victory.
The women's squash team may be hoping to "three-peat" this weekend as national champions, but what Princeton specifically wishes for is a repeat of its performance at last year's Howe Cup, the tournament that determines the national champion.Last year, the Tigers lost in the regular season to Harvard, which took the Ivy League title.
With Tuesday's loss to Penn now behind them, the men's basketball team begins the second half of the league season with "must-win" attached to each of the remaining games.Another misstep and the Tigers will be all-but-mathematically eliminated from postseason contention for the first time in four seasons.
Julia Beaver is the junior No. 1 for the women's squash team. She recently sat down with staff writer Sara Conrath.'Prince': How has it felt the past two years winning the national championship?
Four floors below the Jadwin 'Jungle,' an extraordinary Tiger is holding court.It is a far cry from the hallowed grounds of Wimbledon upon which she has twice played in the junior competition.
Between any two points there lies a line that is strewn with obstacles that thwart its natural continuum.
The Ivy League women's basketball season starts with an eight-way tie for first place. Each team has the same record and must play the same 14-game schedule.This year, many observers expected Princeton to break the tie in the early going and rise to the top of the conference standings.
The men's and women's fencing teams took big steps toward respective Ivy League titles last night at Jadwin Gym.The women (14-2 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) never let Penn in the contest, sweeping the Quakers in all three weapons.
With the release of yesterday's Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) national rankings, the women's tennis team has once again proven itself to be the cream of the Ivy League crop.
The guest list hasn't quite been finished yet. Some already know that they'll be going; others aren't so sure.
After losing a 3-1 halftime lead last night and facing a suddenly hot Villanova team, the freshman-laden women's water polo team could have folded.Princeton (1-0 overall, 0-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association) responded like veterans, however, and came back to score eight of the last nine goals to take a 12-5 victory at DeNunzio Pool.The Tigers came back from a 4-4 tie and dominated the second half, pulling away with a surge over a Wildcat team that looked lethargic in the latter stages of the game."It's good to have the first game out of the way," head coach Luis Nicolao said.
Normally, this weekend would be seen as a much-needed reprieve from a grueling Eastern College Athletic Conference schedule.
After seeing its 1999 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tournament come to an end at the hands of New Jersey Institute of Technology, the men's volleyball team had revenge on its mind heading into last night's rematch at Dillon Gym.
A ray of light fell on the wrestling team last weekend at Duquesne. Just when everything seemed to be bleak, the future got brighter.The Tigers solidly defeated Waynesburg, 29-18, and just narrowly lost to Duquesne, 19-18.
The last few seconds of last night's game went by in slow motion. It was an out-of-body experience.
Down nine with four minutes, 37 seconds to play, the men's basketball team needed someone to step up and make a few clutch outside shots.
Only seven games into the Ivy League season, it is do-or-die time for Princeton.Men's basketball's loss to Yale gave Penn, which comes to Jadwin Gym tonight, a one-game lead in the conference.
While the women's squash team's weekend performance in Cambridge, Mass., was not quite as dramatic as that of the Tigers' male counterparts, it was nonetheless a win.
Okay Penn fans, you're probably expecting the usual list of cheap shots and insults that so often grace our pre-game columns whenever your basketball team is involved.
Peter Yik crouched on the court with the sound pounding behind him. The Harvard stands were packed for the men's squash meet that would decide the Ivy championship, a title that Harvard had hoarded for nine straight years.
