NEW YORK — The men's basketball team tries to rebound from Friday's loss at Cornell, likely playing to keep its hopes for a repeat title alive at Columbia. Follow the action from Levien Gymnasium at 7 p.m.!
Every kid grows up pretending to do what senior guard Doug Davis of the men’s basketball team did last March. With almost no time left on the clock and facing defeat at the hands of a bitter rival, Davis fought to find an open space on the floor and reached out to grab his prize: The last piece of Frist pizza.
In an announcement that shocked the college basketball world, Fairfield head coach Sydney Johnson ’97 said Thursday that he would leave his current position at the end of the season to coach the men’s basketball team at the University of Phoenix eCampus.“I love, love, love University of Phoenix basketball,” Johnson said at a press conference yesterday morning.
According to numerous industry sources, the Harvard men's basketball team's recuriting efforts have taken a strange turn in recent weeks. The Crimson's top targets, including a 6-foot-8 forward named JaBron Lames, mysteriously disappeared around the time the NBA lockout ended.
One month after former Yale football head coach Tom Williams admitted he lied about being a Rhodes Scholarship candidate on his resume, Princeton’s coach has found himself in the same trouble. Sources close to The Daily Princetonian have called into question claims head coach Bob Surace ’90 made on his resume that he “watched, played and coached” football “all the time” before coming to Princeton.
The college conference realignment carousel took a shocking turn this week when the University announced that the football team will play in the Big East starting in the 2012 season.
In several weekend matchups that were as hard and physical as a fan could solicit, Princeton dominated its opponents inside and out.
And so the title defense begins. In a non-conference schedule that has had its highs and lows, the men’s basketball team has bounced back from a 1-5 start to win eight of its last 10 games as it enters Ivy League play this weekend. The Tigers (9-7) open their slate on the road, taking on Cornell (5-9) on Friday followed by Columbia (11-5) on Saturday.
Coming off a resounding win at Penn on Saturday that extended its winning streak to four games, the women’s basketball team is looking to keep its momentum as it comes time to defend last year’s Ivy League championship.
Junior Will MacDonald, a mechanical and aerospace engineer hailing from Georgia, is a forward on the men’s ice hockey team. After learning about his singing talents last year from former teammate Matt Arhontas ’11, the ‘Prince’ decided to sit down with MacDonald to hear about how his singing career is shaping up, his mechanical engineering feats and his rare fights on the ice.
A week and a half after Hans Brase, a senior at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., sent in his application to Princeton, he received a phone call from the admission office letting him know he was likely to be admitted.It is not uncommon for recruited athletes like Brase, who will be joining the men’s basketball team next fall, to receive so-called “likely letters” from the admission office before official decisions are sent out. But unlike in previous years, Brase and many other recruits of the Class of 2016 received their official admission decisions in mid-December, very shortly after being told that such an outcome was likely.
For junior defenseman Michael Sdao, his passion started early. The Colorado native has been playing hockey since he was four years old.
Playing its first game at Jadwin Gymnasium since November, the men’s basketball team rolled to one of its easiest wins of the season against The College of New Jersey. The 79-68 victory followed another comfortable win against Florida A&M last week. Princeton (9-7) has won eight of its last 10 games after a poor start and will try to extend its good run into the Ivy League conference matches.
The men’s squash team started the 2012 portion of its schedule with a critical victory over No. 4 Rochester on Sunday. The No. 3 Tigers had to play without senior All-America Kelly Shannon and key senior David Pena, who are both injured, but still managed to win soundly in their toughest match to date.
Princeton’s wrestlers kept busy over the break with impressive performances at the Midlands Championships tournament at Northwestern at the end of December and a quad meet at Pittsburgh on Saturday. Sophomore 141-pounder Adam Krop earned himself a top-15 national ranking after a third-place finish at Midlands. The team went 2-1 at this weekend’s meet, clobbering Davidson 48-0 and beating Virginia Military Institute 26-10 before succumbing 23-13 to No. 10 Pittsburgh.
The women’s basketball team has gone on a tear the last several weeks, winning four consecutive games, including an 83-48 victory at Penn in Saturday’s Ivy League opener.
Just like last year, the women’s ice hockey team did not allow the three-week winter break to cause a slump. Competing in four tough games, the Tigers recorded three ties and one win. A 3-0 victory over the No. 10 Crimson and a 2-2 tie against the Big Green propelled Princeton into third place in the league’s standings.
While many students slept comfortably in their own beds for hours on end during this winter break, the men’s hockey team was in action all across the country. In the Mariucci Classic in Minneapolis, the Tigers tied Northeastern in an exciting 3-3 battle but lost a wild eight-round shootout. Princeton’s third-place game against Niagara ended in another 3-3 tie. After an overtime 3-2 win at Brown on Friday snapped Princeton’s five-game winless streak, the Tigers traveled to No. 20 Yale on Saturday, where they suffered their only loss of the winter vacation, 6-2.
The men’s basketball team has saved its best play for its biggest opponents. In November, the Tigers battled North Carolina State for 40 minutes, eventually losing on a last-minute jumper. In December, Princeton beat Rutgers on junior forward Ian Hummer’s game-winning shot. And last night, against their toughest opponent yet, the Tigers played their most thrilling game. Princeton held a 27-10 lead at halftime against Florida State but gave it all away in the second period, and both teams had chances to win the game in regulation and two extra frames. It wasn’t until a third overtime – when senior guard Doug Davis hit two huge three-pointers and the visitors made their free throws – that the Tigers finally pulled out a dramatic 75-73 victory.
ALBANY, N.Y. – The men’s basketball team made shots from seemingly every spot along the three-point arc on Thursday night, hitting 13 of 31 attempts for the game. But the Tigers added only eight two-point field goals and four free throws. Despite a career-best game from sophomore point guard T.J. Bray and seven triples from senior guard Doug Davis, Princeton lost at Siena, 63-59, falling to 6-7 entering a short holiday break.
