Around the Ivies: Men's Basketball
Daily Princetonian StaffThe long-awaited Ivy League basketball season finally got underway last weekend, with most teams winning their opening-day matchups.
The long-awaited Ivy League basketball season finally got underway last weekend, with most teams winning their opening-day matchups.
As the women’s volleyball season comes to a close, Cara Mattaliano is just getting started in her college career: The freshman outside hitter has earned two Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors and is ranked second in the Ivy League in kills per set with 3.39.
The men’s hockey team dropped its home opener to No. 9 Yale and subsequently stumbled against Brown over the weekend.
Princeton women’s basketball team started its season on an unconventional note, as a technical foul was called on the Princeton bench before the game even started due to a scorebook error, leaving the Tigers with a 2-0 deficit before the game officially began.
The No. 5 Princeton field hockey team earned an important victory Saturday in its final match of the season, defeating Penn 5-1 in Philadelphia.
The men’s water polo team finished third at the Southern Division Championships this weekend, beating Mercyhurst 9-7 in the third place game on Sunday.
The men's basketball team opens their season against Florida A&M in Jadwin Gym. The game is indicative in seeing how Princeton will play without star Ian Hummer '13, who led the team last here in scoring, rebounding, assists, blocks and offensive rebounds.
The men’s basketball team opened its season Sunday at Jadwin Gym with a comfortable 67-50 win against Florida A&M.
In an interview at the beginning of the school year, Penn President Amy Gutmann spoke to the state of Quaker athletics.
The football team is in the City of Brotherly Love this weekend looking to spoil Penn's Homecoming game at Franklin Field.
Throughout the week, Sports Editor Stephen Wood exchanged emails with Ian Wenik of the Daily Pennsylvanian about the upcoming Princeton-Penn football game. Here's how their conversation went: Stephen Wood, The Daily Princetonian Sports Editor: I'll start off: what do you think caused that debacle last weekend?
The men’s and women’s hockey teams are gearing up for an important weekend of league hockey, as both squads will face off against Yale on Friday night and Brown Saturday night.
Last season, the football team took the field against Penn trying to keep its hopes of an Ivy League title alive, only to have them dashed by the eventual champions.
The No. 13 men’s water polo team begins its postseason this weekend with the CWPA Southern Division tournament in Annapolis, Md.
“The nature of collegiate athletics, not to be cliche, is that you have turnover,” women’s basketball head coach Courtney Banghart said at her team’s preseason press conference. That makes it sound simple, but her team and the men’s basketball team will see more than their share of turnover as their seasons get underway this weekend.
Following a heartbreaking end to its 2012-13 season, the men’s basketball team will soon begin a new quest for the Ivy League title that eluded it by one game last spring.
As the end of the season approaches, Harvard is in the lead but has by no means locked up the Ivy League title.
It’s not often that a team goes into a season with high expectations after losing four of its five starters from the previous year, especially when one of those players is among the greatest the league has ever seen.