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Column: Playing spoiler shows excellence of Tigers’ program

Column: Playing spoiler shows excellence of Tigers’ program

Playing the spoiler role is a bizarre and beautiful concept. In all of sports, there are few matchups more fascinating than the one between a team with nothing to lose and a team that stands to lose everything. For the latter, the motivation is self-evident. For the former, the game is a test of commitment to something more basic and universal than a trophy or banner.

SPORTS | 03/07/2012

Men's Basketball: 2013 power rankings

Check out our early power rankings for the 2012-13 men's basketball Ivy League season.

SPORTS | 03/07/2012

Women's Basketball: Princeton dominates Quakers, completes 14-0 season

The women’s basketball team finished off a perfect Ivy League season with a 79-42 trouncing of the Penn Quakers on Tuesday night. The Tigers (24-4 overall, 14-0 Ivy League) will head to the NCAA Tournament having won 17 consecutive games to close the regular season.This game was defined by a tremendous surge from Princeton at the end of the first half and beginning of the second, when the hosts went on a 36-8 run, securing their 14th conference victory.

SPORTS | 03/06/2012

Men's Basketball: Tigers spoil Penn's title hopes

Though other rivalries have surfaced in recent years, the Princeton-Penn feud still carries a special aura. And for seniors Doug Davis and Pat Saunders, the possibility of ending their final game at Jadwin with Penn celebrating an Ivy League title was more than enough motivation. The Tigers took control with a 23-6 opening run and held on through the second half, crushing the Quakers' dreams with a 62-52 win.

SPORTS | 03/06/2012

Women's Water Polo: Rigler receives CWPA honors as squad goes 3-1 at Harvard

The women’s water polo team headed into last weekend without having tasted defeat through the first 13 games of the season. However, that all changed at the Harvard Invitational, when the Tigers played their first nationally ranked opponent, No. 12 San Jose State.The No. 18 Tigers (16-1 overall, 4-0 CWPA South) started off the weekend with a tense comeback win against host Harvard (8-5, 1-1).

SPORTS | 03/06/2012

On Tap with ... Augie Bloom

Sophomore Augie Bloom is on the men's tennis team, playing at No. 2 or No. 3 for the Tigers. He has been key for Princeton this season after a solid freshman year when he was awarded second-team All-Ivy. Bloom spoke with the 'Prince' about golf, his teammates' catchphrases and how no one can touch his rackets pre-match.Q: What was your “welcome to college” moment? A: Last year I streaked McCosh 50.

SPORTS | 03/06/2012

Column: One year later, a familiar story

One year ago, the annual Princeton-Penn men’s basketball finale carried even more meaning than usual. The visiting team, 11-2 in the Ivy League, needed to win in a hostile gym to earn a share of the Ivy League championship and force a playoff against Harvard for an NCAA Tournament bid. Those visitors were led by a beloved group of seniors, who finished their career without the coach who had recruited them and who stuck with the program through its worst season ever, eventually bringing it back to the top of the league.

SPORTS | 03/05/2012

Men's Swimming: Class of 2012 finalizes 4th straight title

Expectations were high for the men’s swimming and diving team coming into the Ivy League Championship weekend, especially for the seniors. The swimmers in the Class of 2012 had never lost an Ivy Championship in their collegiate careers. The Tigers were ready to fight to keep the streak going. They succeeded. It marks the first time since 1992 that a Princeton class has won all four championship titles.

SPORTS | 03/05/2012

Softball: Rain puts a damper on team’s first games

For the second year in a row, rain was a disrupting factor at the UMBC Invitational, as the softball team played only one of its two scheduled games against Canisius and faced Iona instead of James Madison on Saturday afternoon. Princeton finished 1-3 in its season-opening tournament.

SPORTS | 03/05/2012

Women's Basketball: Undefeated conference mark in sight

Senior center Devona Allgood was named the Ivy League co-Player of the Week with Penn guard Alyssa Baron after scoring 34 points in 44 minutes of playing time between the two games. Allgood, who broke the 1,000-point scoring mark earlier this season, shot 71 percent from the floor as she dropped 21 points on the Bears, helping the Tigers dispatch the team which gave them their closest game of conference play.

SPORTS | 03/05/2012

Men's Volleyball: Crimson comeback spoils 3-game streak

For the past week, the men’s volleyball team was unstoppable. The Tigers (6-5 overall, 5-3 EIVA) had embarked on a three-match winning streak and became the sole possessor of second place in the EIVA standings after beating Sacred Heart 3-1 on Friday. Freshman outside hitter Cody Kessel captured the title of Off The Block Fan Choice Player of the Month for February. However, the Tigers’ luck ended in Saturday’s five-set thriller against Harvard (11-2, 5-2).

SPORTS | 03/05/2012

Baseball: Tigers open season with Florida split

The baseball team opened its campaign to defend its 2011 Ivy League title by splitting a four-game series with Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla. The two wins are an encouraging sign for the Tigers, as they came up against an Owls team two weeks removed from a three-game sweep of Alabama, which plays in the powerful Southeastern Conference.

SPORTS | 03/05/2012

Live Blog: Men's Basketball vs. Penn

Bring your trash talk for our first joint live blog with The Daily Pennsylvanian sports writers for the final game of the Ivy League men's basketball season! Princeton is looking to spoil Penn's hopes of a conference title and a playoff with Harvard. The action starts at 7:30 p.m.

SPORTS | 03/05/2012

Squash: Harrity and Cerullo fall in individual semifinals

Over the weekend, five members from both the women’s and men’s squash teams competed in the CSA Individual Championships at Amherst. Both the women’s and men’s squash teams' No. 1 players — junior Julie Cerullo, who entered the tournament ranked No. 5, and junior Todd Harrity, the returning individual champion from last year — fell in the semifinals round, ending the squash season outright.

SPORTS | 03/05/2012

Women's Lacrosse: Duke’s 4-goal run too much for hosts

Despite late comeback surges at the end of both halves, the women’s lacrosse team was never able to even the score against Duke on Saturday afternoon. The No. 7 Tigers (1-2) scored first, but the third-ranked Blue Devils (5-2) answered with three goals in less than five minutes to take the lead, which they held for the remainder of the game.

SPORTS | 03/04/2012

Men's Lacrosse: No. 2 Blue Jays solve Princeton’s defense

Longtime rival No. 2 Johns Hopkins overtook the men’s lacrosse team 10-8 on a chilly Friday night in a game that coupled few Tiger offensive opportunities with big-time goal capitalization by the Blue Jays (4-0). The loss gives Princeton (2-1) its first loss of the season as it tries to reestablish the strength of the program after a lackluster past year.

SPORTS | 03/04/2012

Men's Hockey: Bulldogs too much to handle in playoffs

With a game-winning goal 33 seconds into overtime of game two, sophomore forward Andrew Calof brought the men’s hockey team off of the brink of elimination and into a third game of its first-round series. But the Tigers’ reprieve lasted only 24 hours, as Yale led start to finish for a 7-3 victory in Sunday’s deciding game. Princeton was eliminated in the first round of the ECAC Tournament for a third straight year.

SPORTS | 03/04/2012

Wrestling: Frey reaches EIWA finals at Jadwin

It was an exciting weekend for the wrestling team. Princeton hosted the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships in Jadwin Gymnasium for the first time since 1987. And two grapplers, senior captain Daniel Kolodzik and junior captain Garrett Frey, performed well enough to qualify for the NCAA Tournament, which will take place in St. Louis on March 15-17.

SPORTS | 03/04/2012

Men's Basketball: Tigers sweep, set up Penn showdown on Tuesday

One can only wonder what could have been if the men’s basketball team had been playing as well as it has recently from the beginning of the Ivy League season. Princeton (18-11 overall, 9-4 Ivy League) continued to roll over its opposition this weekend, as it dashed Yale’s slim hopes of a title and sent Brown scurrying back to Providence.

SPORTS | 03/04/2012

Quick Hits: Jays top Tigers; cagers roll

In ‘Quick Hits,’ we give our immediate thoughts after the biggest games on campus. Today: the men’s lacrosse team’s showdown with Johns Hopkins and the men’s basketball team’s victory over Yale.

SPORTS | 03/01/2012

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