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Women's Basketball: Tigers test perfect Ivy League record in N.Y.

Women's Basketball: Tigers test perfect Ivy League record in N.Y.

The women’s basketball team came into this season with high expectations, having won the Ivy League two years in a row. The Tigers have more than met those expectations this season, posting 17-4 overall and 7-0 Ivy League records at the halfway point in the conference season. After winning 10 straight games, including last Saturday’s 84-56 demolition of Harvard, the Tigers will look to build on their recent success as they visit conference foes Columbia and Cornell.

SPORTS | 02/16/2012

Men's Basketball: Cagers take momentum into 1st rematches

Only one Ivy League men’s basketball team in the last nine seasons has won the league despite copping three losses. Cornell managed the somewhat dubious feat in a strange, feisty 2008-09 season, which saw second-placed Princeton beat the 0.500 mark by a single win. To emulate Cornell, the Tigers will have to win every remaining game and hope other results go their way.

SPORTS | 02/16/2012

Men's Basketball: Darrow leads hosts to 3rd straight victory

The men’s basketball team extended its win streak to three games, dropping Columbia 77-66 in front of a national audience and the ESPNU cameras on Friday night. Just as in three of their first four Ivy League victories, the Tigers broke open a tight game in the second half, scoring 50 points after the break.

SPORTS | 02/16/2012

Women's Hockey: Seniors honored in final games

The women’s hockey team will close out the regular season this weekend on its home ice as it hosts conference rivals Rensselaer and Union. The Tigers’ senior weekend schedule includes a 7 p.m. start against RPI on Friday followed by a 4 p.m. faceoff with Union on Saturday.

SPORTS | 02/16/2012

Lacrosse: New FieldTurf marks renamed Sherrerd Field

For the past 15 years the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams have played on the turf field at the Class of 1952 Stadium. During their tenure, along with the field hockey team, the Tigers have amassed six NCAA championships and taken home 34 Ivy League titles.

SPORTS | 02/15/2012

Men's Basketball: Princeton immune to ‘Linsanity’

In the last Ivy League game of Jeremy Lin’s career, the Harvard graduate and now-NBA star faced a one-point deficit with under a minute to go against the men’s basketball team. Lin had just failed on the defensive end and fouled guard Marcus Schroeder ’11, who netted two free throws to give Princeton a 52-51 lead.

SPORTS | 02/15/2012

Around the Ivies: Women's Basketball

Check out our revamped Around the Ivies design as we take a look at the women's basketball teams around the Ancient Eight.

SPORTS | 02/15/2012

Men's Hockey: Climbing the coaching ladder

Both competing on the ice and coaching from the sidelines, Bob Prier is very familiar with the world of ECAC hockey. Currently in his first year as head coach of the men’s hockey team, he joined the Tigers staff with the mission of helping Princeton remain among the elite teams in the ECAC. Former head coach Guy Gadowsky, who retired last year to lead the charge at Penn State, developed and improved the Princeton hockey program that entered this season with the best five-year run in team history.

SPORTS | 02/15/2012

On Tap with ... Blake Dietrick

Freshman guard Blake Dietrick of the women’s basketball team is known by her teammates for her energy, contagious enthusiasm and kindheartedness. A native of Wellesley, Mass., she went to all of Wellesley College’s basketball games and quickly fell in love with the sport.

SPORTS | 02/14/2012

Column: ‘Linsanity’ goes mainstream

Jeremy Lin was discussed on CNN last Saturday morning. As an analyst in a blazer and jeans gave a 45-second reprise of the Jeremy Lin story, the network rolled Lin highlights from Friday night’s game against the Lakers in Madison Square Garden. As Lin put a devastating spin move on Derek Fisher and finished at the rim, the text below him read A NEW STAR IN SPORTS. A few moments later, as Lin drove past a backpedaling Matt Barnes and went reverse off glass around the outstretched hand of Pau Gasol, the headline had switched to LIN-SANITY IN NEW YORK.

SPORTS | 02/14/2012

Tennis: Women defeat No. 41 Maryland; teams prepare for ECACs

The women’s tennis team posted big results this weekend at home, taking down No. 41 Maryland 5-2 on Saturday and sweeping Rutgers 7-0 on Sunday. Meanwhile, the men’s team traveled to North Carolina, falling to No. 46 UNC Wilmington on Saturday but taking down Elon on Sunday. Both teams have a big weekend ahead, as they are playing in the ECAC Indoor Tennis Championship.

SPORTS | 02/14/2012

Feature: Turning down spotlight to rebuild a program

During senior guard and co-captain Lauren Edwards’ junior year of high school, the Princeton women’s basketball team tied for fourth in the Ivy League, amassing a mediocre 7-7 League record and going 13-15 overall.Now, in the midst of the Tigers’ second-leading scorer’s final year on the court, the team is the two-time defending Ivy League champion and appears poised for a three-peat.

SPORTS | 02/14/2012

Women's Hockey: Momentum, offense stall as hosts fall twice at Baker Rink

The women’s hockey team came out on the losing side of two defensive duels this weekend. Despite strong play by senior goalie Rachel Weber and the rest of the defensive squad, the Tigers fell to Clarkson 2-1 and St. Lawrence 1-0.

SPORTS | 02/13/2012

Men's Hockey: Tigers swept in New York road series

The men’s hockey team hit a roadblock this weekend in its games at Clarkson and St. Lawrence as it fell to the conference opponents 3-2 and 4-1, respectively. Going into the matchups, the Tigers had gone undefeated over the span of their last four games, all of which they played at Baker Rink. Sophomore netminder Sean Bonar made more saves than his counterparts on Friday and Saturday night, but Princeton’s offense failed to deliver on several of its shooting opportunities.

SPORTS | 02/13/2012

Swimming & Diving: Men’s team completes perfect Ivy schedule

The No. 24-ranked men’s swimming and diving team defeated Columbia on Friday at DeNunzio Pool to complete an undefeated Ivy League season, while the women’s team fell short against the Lions to finish the season with a 5-2 record.

SPORTS | 02/13/2012

Sports Shorts: Spikers earn EIVA split

The men’s volleyball team split a pair of games on the road to open conference play in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association, winning the league opener at Sacred Heart before falling in three sets at Harvard.

SPORTS | 02/13/2012

Women's Water Polo: No. 20 Princeton opens season 4-0

The women’s water polo team invaded DeNunzio Pool this past weekend as it opened its season with four consecutive wins. The No. 20 Tigers topped Harvard 9-6 and Mercyhurst 10-2 on Saturday, and followed those with a comeback 6-5 win over Colorado State and a demolition of Villanova 11-2 on Sunday.

SPORTS | 02/13/2012

Wrestling: Lions dominate decimated grapplers

Plagued by illness and injuries, the wrestling team stumbled through yet another weekend filled with ups and downs. After stirring up hope and enthusiasm last weekend with a 25-14 victory over a nationally-ranked Harvard squad, the Tigers dropped a disappointing match to Columbia on Friday night, largely due to the absence of four key starters, including team captains senior Daniel Kolodzik and junior Garrett Frey. With a day of rest and a bit of experience under their belts, the youthful Tigers bounced back on Sunday, making up for a 36-9 loss to the Clarion Golden Eagles by winning handily over Franklin & Marshall by a score of 24-12.

SPORTS | 02/13/2012

Track & Field: Athletes shatter trio of conference records

Something is going right in Princeton. If the rest of the Ivy League had forgotten about the men’s and women’s track teams’ triple crowns from 2011, the Tigers clearly made their power known this weekend. Competing on both sides of the country over the course of two days, Princeton athletes set three school records, three Ivy League records and several conference-leading marks.

SPORTS | 02/12/2012

Fencing: Men, women sweep Ivy championships

Just a day after students stormed the court at Jadwin Gymnasium after men’s basketball’s upset against Harvard, Princeton’s fencing teams were storming the strip at Coxe Cage in New Haven, Conn., in celebration of their new titles: undefeated Ivy League champions.

SPORTS | 02/12/2012

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