After sitting down with senior guard Doug Davis to reflect on his Princeton career, we count down his top five games with the Tigers:
After a desperately needed win over the Juniata Eagles (22-9) on Saturday, the men’s volleyball team heads into the biggest weekend of its season, when its playoff chances will be decided. While the game had no effect on its standing in the EIVA, it was a crucial indicator of how Princeton stood as a team after returning from spring break.
The baseball team finished up its pre-Ivy League schedule Sunday night with a doubleheader against Navy. The two games in Annapolis wrapped up the eight games the Tigers played over spring break. Princeton is 6-9 on the season heading into Ivy League play and went 4-4 over the break. The Tigers have been inconsistent so far this year but are playing well heading into their Ivy League schedule, in which they will try to defend their conference championship from last season.
The women’s lacrosse team played three games during its post-midterm hiatus, facing two teams ranked in the nation’s top 20 and another conference foe. Princeton (4-3 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) split two close non-league games around a resounding defeat of Columbia.
Finding the ideal leadoff hitter is no easy task for a softball team. This player must be fast and have the ability to get on base and score runs. When the team needs to start a rally, she is the player that the rest of the team counts on. For Princeton, this player is senior outfielder Nicole Ontiveros.
The crew season opened with a split finish this weekend for two of Princeton’s four teams. The women’s open crew’s first varsity eight opened its NCAA and Ivy League title defense with a loss to Michigan but a win over defending overall team NCAA titleholder Brown on Lake Carnegie on Saturday morning. Meanwhile, the men’s lightweight team bested Navy for the fourth straight year, while the second and third boats lost to the Midshipmen.
Sophomore Kelly Shon of the women’s golf team tied for first place at the Low Country Intercollegiate, a two-day tournament played on Sunday and Monday in Hilton Head, S.C. Senior teammate Wonji Choi finished in a tie for third as the team came in 11th of 15 competitors.
The men’s lacrosse team did not relax much on the final weekend of spring break — instead, it found itself battling through the longest game in school history. The contest lasted an unprecedented five overtime periods before senior attackman Alex Capretta broke the deadlock, leaving No. 12 Princeton (5-2 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) on top of Yale (2-4, 0-2) by a score of 10-9.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — In the end, a loss of momentum in the final minutes prevented the women’s basketball team from adding to the Ivy League history books by becoming only the second conference team to advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. But the team’s loss to Kansas State on March 17 illuminated the future prospects of the team as an inflection point for coming years.
This weekend, five Princeton swimmers traveled to Seattle to represent the men’s swimming and diving team at the NCAA Championships. The Tiger quintet left with multiple top-50 finishes, two All-America Honorable Mentions and one first-team All-America honor.
While their peers were busy sleeping off midterm blues or scrambling to work on junior papers and senior theses, members of the men’s basketball team saw their season come to a sobering close at Pittsburgh in the quarterfinal of the College Basketball Invitational last Monday. Princeton (20-12) lost 82-61 to mark the end of the debut season for head coach Mitch Henderson ’98, which featured lots of encouraging play after a rough start.
The men’s and women’s fencing teams entered the NCAA Championships in Columbus, Ohio, with very high expectations. The Tigers met those hopes with the best performance in program history, finishing second to host Ohio State in the team scoring, and on Sunday afternoon, junior epeeist Jonathan Yergler won the national title in men’s epee.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — The women's basketball team nearly earned its first NCAA Tournament victory in program history on Saturday, but the Tigers were not able to hold off Kansas State, which won 67-64. Relive the action with our live blog!
The women’s basketball team lost to No. 8-seed Kansas State 67-64 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday. The loss led to Princeton’s third consecutive first-round exit in their third straight appearance at the Big Dance.
This year marked senior Daniel Kolodzik’s first and last appearance in the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, and he’s determined to make it a memorable one. The senior won his first match yesterday afternoon, a 9-0 major decision over Maryland’s No. 21 Kyle John, and beat Northern Iowa's No. 18 David Bonin to reach the quarterfinals.
Last weekend the women’s lacrosse team routed Brown 18-8 to open up its conference season with a bang. On Saturday, the No. 14 Tigers (2-2 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) will resume non-conference play in what could be a great showdown between two nationally ranked squads, hosting No. 8 Virginia at 5 p.m.
After sweeping the Ivy League season and winning its games by an average margin of 31 points, the women’s basketball team is headed for something it has not experienced in a while: a tough matchup. On Saturday, the Tigers (24-4 overall, 14-0 Ivy League) will head to Bridgeport, Conn., to face Kansas State (19-13, 9-9 Big 12) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The game will tip off at 11:20 a.m. and will be broadcast on ESPN2 and ESPN3.
Sophomore Lisa Boyce of the women’s swimming and diving team qualified for three events at the NCAA Championships this weekend at Auburn University. In Thursday’s 50-yard freestyle, Boyce finished in 46th place with a time of 22.77 seconds.
If you had told a member of the men’s basketball team at this time last year that he would be facing Pitt in a postseason game in 2012, he would have assumed that meant the NCAA Tournament. After winning the Ivy League and taking Kentucky down to the wire in the NCAA Tournament last season, Princeton had high hopes heading into the year. Those hopes have not completely come to fruition, as the Tigers did not qualify for the Big Dance, but Princeton is getting set to face off against a traditional Big East powerhouse in the College Basketball Invitational.
The men’s lacrosse team is ready to open Ivy League play. Princeton is in a drastically different position heading into its conference kickoff against Penn on Saturday. In the early season, Princeton has averaged 11.0 goals per game, while last year it only reached that total in one of its 12 games.
