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Men's Basketball: Tigers have tall roster, taller expectations

Men's Basketball: Tigers have tall roster, taller expectations

The men’s basketball team is back, and the Tigers are hungry. After failing to follow up the 2010 season’s amazing run in which the team came within two points of knocking out eventual Final Four team Kentucky, Princeton failed to return to the NCAA tournament after finishing third in the Ivy League last year. However, the Tigers are confident going into this season, having been picked first in the Ivy League preseason poll in which they received all but one of the first place votes.

SPORTS | 11/06/2012

Women's Basketball: Princeton chases 4th Ivy League title, 1st tournament win

Since head coach Courtney Banghart took the helm of the women’s basketball team in 2007, expectations have only continued to rise. During the 2011-12 season, Princeton continued to live up to some of those expectations, as it earned a ranking as high as No. 24 in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll. This was the first time an Ivy League team had achieved a national ranking, and the Tigers went on to claim a No. 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Undefeated in the Ivy League last season, Princeton looks to continue its dominance and claim a fourth straight league title.

SPORTS | 11/06/2012

Basketball: Senior stars do it all for men's, women's teams

Senior forwards Ian Hummer and Niveen Rasheed took very different paths to Princeton. But as they enter their final years in orange and black, the two seniors’ basketball careers have converged. As the top returning scorers and rebounders in their respective leagues, Hummer and Rasheed enter the season as Ivy League Player of the Year favorites — and both could end their careers by leading their teams to conference titles.

SPORTS | 11/06/2012

Men's Water Polo: Princeton edges Navy for 3rd at Southerns

The No. 18 men’s water polo team sunk top-seeded Navy at this weekend’s CWPA Southern Division Championships to take third place over the No. 14 Midshipmen. It was the first time in Navy’s history that it failed to place in the top three at the Southern Championships.

SPORTS | 11/05/2012

Men's Soccer: Seniors lead hosts to 3-0 rout of Penn

From players perpetually in the starting lineup to those who lead the reserve team, nearly every member of the men’s soccer team’s Class of 2013 played a key role in the Tigers’ home shutout of Penn on Saturday night. Among those seniors standing out in Princeton’s home finale was Max Gallin, who reassumed the role of starting goalkeeper — which he held for nearly all of the 2011-12 season — and confirmed his ability to lead the team to an overwhelming victory.

SPORTS | 11/05/2012

Women's Volleyball: Yale tops Tigers to claim conference title

With a 3-0 victory over Brown on Friday, the women’s volleyball team set up a showdown with first-place Yale to keep its conference title hopes alive. But at Dillon Gymnasium on Saturday evening, the Bulldogs won a three-set battle over the Tigers (12-10 overall, 9-3 Ivy League) to clinch the outright Ivy League crown.

SPORTS | 11/05/2012

Women's Soccer: Ivy winners draw West Virginia in NCAAs

Two days after winning sole possession of the Ivy League title, the women’s soccer team learned its first NCAA tournament foe when the full bracket was released late Monday afternoon. Princeton will visit No. 17 West Virginia in the first round of the tournament at 7 p.m. Saturday.

SPORTS | 11/05/2012

Weekend Recap: Fencing, women's hockey teams compete

The women’s hockey team earned one point from two games in upstate New York last weekend, losing to No. 2 Cornell 4-0 and tying Colgate 3-3 on the road. Meanwhile, the men's and women's fencing teams opened the 2012-13 season at the Penn State Garret Open.

SPORTS | 11/05/2012

Field Hockey: Princeton routs Quakers 7-0, secures outright Ivy crown

With a 7-0 rout of Penn on Saturday, the field hockey team completed a perfect Ivy League season and earned sole possession of the conference title. No. 2 Princeton (16-1 overall, 7-0 Ivy League), which has won at least a share of the league championship in 18 of the past 19 seasons, will now turn its focus to postseason play in the NCAA tournament, which begins this week.

SPORTS | 11/04/2012

Men's Tennis: Pecotic wins Texas title

Senior Matija Pecotic of the men’s tennis team continued a stellar fall season last weekend, winning the main singles draw of the Texas Fall Invitational. Pecotic, who entered the tournament as the second seed, won four matches without losing a set to claim his fourth individual title of the fall.

SPORTS | 11/04/2012

Women's Soccer: Tigers secure 7-0 Ivy season, NCAA berth

After defeating Cornell 5-1 on Oct. 27, the women’s soccer team found itself on the brink of glory. The Tigers needed just one more win to clinch the outright Ivy League title and to become one of the few teams to go 7-0 in conference play. The only team standing in their way was Penn, the same team that ended Princeton’s title hopes two years ago at Roberts Stadium.Playing on the same field, the Tigers were determined to see a different outcome and they got it. Behind sophomore midfielder Lauren Lazo’s three-goal effort and senior midfielder Caitlin Blosser’s put-away score, Princeton (13-3-1 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) defeated the Quakers (9-6-1, 5-2) 4-2 and earned a bid to the NCAA tournament.

SPORTS | 11/04/2012

Football: Penn hands Princeton 2nd Ivy loss

The football team's game against Penn could mostly be summarized in one word: mistakes. After going on their first four-game win streak since 2006 earlier this season, the Tigers (4-4 overall, 3-2 Ivy League) have started showing hints of the group that went 1-9 in each of the last two seasons. With a 28-21 loss to the Quakers today, Princeton lost control of its own chances for the Ivy League title.

SPORTS | 11/02/2012

Football: Princeton 21, Penn 14, end 3rd quarter

After three quarters at Princeton Stadium, Princeton leads Penn 21-14 in a battle of Ivy League leaders. The Tigers took the lead early in the period on a five-minute scoring drive, which culminated in a 21-yard touchdown pass from sophomore quarterback Connor Michelsen to junior receiver Roman Wilson.

SPORTS | 11/02/2012

Cross Country: Bendtsen leads men to 3rd straight title

At last Saturday’s Ivy League cross country championships, the Princeton men had something to prove. The Tigers were two-time defending champions, but this year they were not the favorites. No. 10 Columbia was the team to beat, and many picked the fit and fast Lions to decisively hand the Tigers only their second loss in seven years.But when the gun went off for the 8K championship race at West Windsor Fields, it was all business for the Tigers, and they did not lose on their home course. Dominating the race from the start, the men had their best day of the season, as they easily ran away with the conference crown.

SPORTS | 10/30/2012

Football: Princeton falls on the road to Cornell, 37-35

The football team saw its hopes for an undefeated season of Ivy League play come to an end on Saturday after a 37-35 shootout loss at Cornell. The Tigers appeared a lot more like the team that started the season off 0-2 rather than the team that had won its past four games, as they played well but fell just short of what they had to do to win. The loss dropped Princeton to 3-1 in the Ivy League and made achieving lone possession of the Ivy League title very unlikely. Star Big Red quarterback Jeff Mathews, who leads the league in passing yardage, had 525 yards through the air on the day while leading Cornell to the close victory.

SPORTS | 10/26/2012

Weekend Sports: Princeton clinches 3 Ivy titles

The men's cross country team won the Ivy League Heptagonal championship at West Windsor Fields on Saturday afternoon, while the field hockey team clinched at least a share of its conference title with a 5-0 victory at Cornell. Later in the evening, the women's soccer team clinched at least a share of the league championship with a 5-1 rout of the Big Red.

SPORTS | 10/26/2012

Cross Country: Competitive Heps features nationally ranked Ivy League teams

Drenching sleet and snow, ankle-deep slush, subfreezing temperatures and gusting winds made the 2011 Heptagonal Cross Country Championships one of the most challenging races in Ivy League history. This year’s weather promises to be more forgiving, forecasting a dry Saturday with a temperature in the upper 60s. Nevertheless, the battle for the team title will be fiercer and more charged than the league has seen in recent years.

SPORTS | 10/25/2012

Women's Hockey: Junior-led women seek playoff return

After opening the season with two road wins, the women’s ice hockey team will kick off conference play this weekend. Ranked seventh in the preseason coaches’ poll, the Tigers will face their first ECAC competition this weekend when they host Dartmouth on Friday night and Harvard the following afternoon for their home openers. With goals of a more successful postseason than last year’s, Princeton will need to have strong performances in conference play to set up a deep playoff run.

SPORTS | 10/25/2012

Men's Hockey: Fully healthy, men look to bounce back

For the men’s hockey team, its chance to regain dominance on the ice after an exasperating 2011-12 crusade that ended 9-16-7 hinges on the Tigers’ greater familiarity with one another and their health. The reformed Princeton will have its first regular-season test this weekend against Brown and either Dartmouth or Yale in the Ivy League Shootout. The Tigers will return home after fall break to face a pair of their biggest rivals, Cornell and Colgate, to kick off ECAC play.

SPORTS | 10/25/2012

Women's Soccer: Princeton 2 games shy of NCAA bid

Just one year ago, the Princeton women’s soccer team had an Ivy League record of 1-4 and was headed toward a sixth-place finish in the conference. Its 10 overall losses that year were the second most in program history. This year, however, has been a different story. With two games remaining in the regular season, the Tigers sit alone atop the Ivy League standings and are in control of their own destiny.

SPORTS | 10/25/2012

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