Usually when a team earns a playoff berth from its last regular season game, the match is a victory.
Although a victory by first-place Harvard Friday evening led to women's basketball's inevitable elimination from Ivy League title contention, Princeton continued to make a spirited push towards second place.Led by senior guard Zakiya Pres-sley, the Tigers cruised past Columbia (4-22 overall, 0-14 Ivy League) and Cornell (5-21, 2-12) over the weekend at Jad-win Gym, keeping alive their hopes of winning 10 games in conference play for the first time since 1991.While the Tigers were certainly not at their best this weekend, they were never in any serious danger of losing to either Ivy League doormat.
Although the men's basketball team has already clinched the Ivy League title and another trip to the NCAA tournament, tonight's regular-season finale against Penn at the Palestra is not without meaning.Tonight's game not only offers the Tigers the opportunity to beat Penn, it also gives the team another chance to add to its legitimate claim as one the best teams in school and Ivy League history.For one thing, the No.
When a team loses only one senior to graduation, it usually means that next year's group will be a veteran squad.
Epee had done it. Foil had done it. In the 73-year history of fencing at Princeton, only the men's sabre squad lacked a team title at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championship.
For the last few weeks men's hockey has played like a team that cannot decide whether or not it wants to make the playoffs.
NEW YORK ? Some nights, Bill Carmody walks off the court looking like a man on his way to a job interview ? head up, hair in place, necktie neatly knotted.But there are other nights when it seems Carmody, the head coach of the men's basketball team, has just suffered through a horrible day at the office ? voice hoarse, hair disheveled, necktie loosened.Following Friday night's game against Columbia in New York, it was the haggard Carmody that talked his way through the post-game press conference, his voice barely audible as he fielded questions about Princeton's hard-fought 51-37 win over the Lions.
As Yogi Berra once mused, it was "d
BALTIMORE ? When the top-ranked men's lacrosse team faced off against No. 4 Johns Hopkins Saturday, it was supposed to be a close game.After all, last year's game between Princeton and Hopkins was close ? the Tigers pulled out a dramatic 7-6 win in overtime.
It's never good when the difference between a win and a loss is determined by something as uncontrollable as an injury.
In college football, it's Notre Dame-Michigan. In college basketball, it's North Carolina-UCLA. In college lacrosse, it's Princeton-Johns Hopkins.Two of the most storied programs in collegiate men's lacrosse square off tomorrow on historic Homewood Field in both schools' season opener.Princeton, the two-time defending national champions, enters the game with high expectations for the upcoming campaign, a No.
In a span of two days, a season of training and competition will be gauged as a success or failure.
Men's track and field is looking for redemption.All eight members of the Ivy League and Navy will converge on Jadwin Gym this weekend to compete in the Heptagonal Championships, the most important event in Princeton's season.
The magic number is down to two as the men's basketball team takes to the road this weekend, looking to wrap up the Ivy League Championship with wins over Columbia tonight and Cornell tomorrow evening.The No.
Bill Tierney has a problem.Not that you'd know it by looking at the men's lacrosse coach, especially if you saw him in his spacious new office in the tower of Dillon Gym.
Lorne Smith was always a goalscorer. He was the guy who anchored the attack on the high school lacrosse team, defeating one team after another with his lethal shot and heady play.
Last May 26, the men's lacrosse team routed Maryland, 19-7, in the NCAA championship final to successfully defend its national title and establish itself as the dominant team in collegiate men's lacrosse.This year, Princeton is looking to solidify its place as one of the best teams in lacrosse history."We try to set big goals around here," head coach Bill Tierney said.
After failing to qualify for the NCAA tournament in 1997 for the first time in six years, women's lacrosse hopes to regain its status as one of the nation's elite teams.With an experienced corps of defenders and the return of star junior midfielder Cristi Samaras, the Tigers hope not only to cruise through the Ivy League, but also to gain another berth in the NCAA Final Four, an honor Princeton earned every year from 1992 to 1996.An exhibition contest last October against Team USA gave Princeton many reasons to believe it will achieve its goal of returning to the Final Four.
In championship meets, victors grab points wherever possible. And whenever possible.Last year, Princeton (8-2 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) finished second in the Eastern Women's Swimming League Championships to Brown (7-1, 7-0) by a mere 57 points.
Last year the women's lacrosse team lost its record holder for points and goals scored in a season.This year she's back.After taking a one-year leave of absence, junior midfielder Cristi Samaras has returned to Princeton with plans to help lead the Tigers to where they didn't go last year ? the NCAA Final Four."I feel strongly we're going to win the national championship," Samaras said.
