Like a wave on the sea shore, the Princeton women's basketball team crashed upon its opponents this intersession.
After women's swimming head coach Susan Teeter's landmark 100th career win at the women's swim meet this weekend in New York City, there were cheers, celebrating and even a huge orange and black banner, courtesy of the swimmers and their parents, to welcome Teeter into the "Century Club."But Teeter did not receive the traditional push in the water for such a grand accomplishment.The Tigers (8-0 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) dominated Columbia by the score of 138-95, but their coach knew that it wasn't time for a full celebration."Teeter is extraordinarily modest when it comes to this sort of stuff," senior captain Alyson Goodner said.
NEW YORK CITY ? Despite the fact that junior forward Nathan Walton's weekend statistics show just two minutes, two points and two rebounds, those in attendance Saturday night at Levien Gymnasium in New York City would agree his contribution was much greater than those numbers indicate.With the men's basketball team (10-7 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) clinging to a five-point advantage, sophomore center Chris Young's fourth foul with five minutes, ten seconds to play forced head coach Bill Carmody to call on the injured Walton to protect the lead.Walton entered the game and immediately wrestled down an important defensive rebound, despite his broken right hand, which was protected by a clumsy cast.
Chalk it up to traditional post-break rustiness, or perhaps place the blame on old-fashioned poor play.Whatever the reason, the men's hockey team took a step backward in its first three games after a two-week layoff, dropping all three contests to fall to 6-10-3 overall on the season.A 6-2 loss to Rensselaer Friday and a 3-1 loss to Union Saturday at Baker Rink left Princeton tied for seventh in the Eastern College Athletic Conference with a 4-5-3 league record.
In the midst of a 16-day layoff between games, the women's basketball team has done a lot of watching and waiting.
The men's basketball team has seen the scores: Princeton loses at Kansas by 15, and the Jayhawks then blow out Penn by 46.
He is a plainspoken Nebraskan. He is 40 years old. He holds a Ph.D. in exercise physiology. He just came down from Hanover, N.H., and he brought the weather with him.
If you follow Princeton athletics at all, you know where you were when the Palestra Miracle happened.
I am not an expert on Princeton athletics, by any means. But I have seen my fair share of sporting events in three and a half years as a sports reporter and editor for the Daily Princetonian.Of the countless games, press conferences and road trips, certain moments stick out ? moments I don't think I will ever forget.
After a seven-week national search, the University announced at a press conference Friday morning that the 80 candidates to be its next football head coach had been winnowed down to one ? Roger Hughes, Dartmouth's offensive coordinator.A self-proclaimed "long-shot" candidate to replace Steve Tosches, who resigned Nov.
The men's squash team lost to Harvard, 4-1, Sunday in the finals of the United States Squash and Racquet Association Five-man Team Tournament, ending an impressive run for the Tigers.Princeton had defeated the United States Junior National Team in the semifinals before falling to the Crimson."It was tough coming back from break," senior No.
Last year, it would have been impossible for the men's volleyball team to live up to the expectations set by the previous year's miraculous journey to Hawaii ? and the NCAA Final Four.
This is the most vulnerable time for the Princeton men's and women's swimming teams.Deep in the middle of their most intense training of the season, where tired and worn-out bodies are the norm at practice, both teams had to defend their spotless records against intrastate rival Rutgers this past weekend at DeNunzio Pool.Possible upsets were brewing.But the Tiger swimming teams proved themselves invulnerable to such challenges, continuing their undefeated seasons by defeating Rutgers, 167-121 in men's competition and 178-117 in women's competition.The men's team (6-0 overall, 3-0 Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League), however, thought at first that something might be in the air.
Jason Morrow has always been the center of attention, but the senior setter for the men's volleyball team would be the first to say that he is a star by coincidence and not by design.According to the second-year captain of a team looking for its first Final Four trip since Morrow's sophomore year, leadership is "inherent to being a setter ? it comes with the position."The role of the setter on any volleyball team is to position the ball for the hitters in the front row, a job Morrow has handled with ease since his freshman year."From Day One he stepped in and didn't miss a beat," head coach Glenn Nelson says of the talented Morrow.
In their opening competition of the year 2000, the wrestling team was hoping that the New Year would bring with it a fresh start ? and more promising results on the scoreboard.Unfortunately for Princeton, Saturday's Millersville Invitational did not give the Tigers the strong team showing they were looking for.Out of the 25-team field, Princeton finished a disappointing 16th with a team score of 48.5."It's just a tough time for us," head coach Michael New said.
In its first weekend back on North American ice, the women's hockey team knew that things would be different on this side of the Atlantic.
With 14.7 seconds left in overtime, a center having an effective 24-point night and the opposition's two big men sitting on the bench with five fouls apiece, getting one basket in the low post seems like a fairly surmountable task.But it wasn't that easy for the men's basketball team Saturday night.
It all seemed so eerily familiar. A Princeton basketball team falls way behind Penn, then makes a dramatic comeback.This time around, however, there would be no miraculous victory for the female Tigers.
This season has been one of ups and downs for the men's hockey team. Big wins against teams like Yale, currently in second place in the Eastern College Athletic Conference, and Midwestern powerhouse Notre Dame have been coupled with big losses to schools like ECAC bottom-feeder Vermont and Bemidji State, which was recently elevated to Division I.This weekend's results do nothing to break that trend.
This is the team that knocked Princeton out of sole possession of first place at the end of last season.
