ALBANY, N.Y. — Our live blog takes on a holiday theme as we cover the men's basketball team's game at Siena from the Times Union Center. Follow the action here starting at 7 p.m.!
The men’s basketball team will travel to Boston this weekend, taking on Northeastern in what will be the team’s fourth straight away game. The Tigers (5-6) are coming off of a dramatic come-from-behind overtime victory over Rider.“It was more a sense of relief than anything else,” junior forward Mack Darrow said of his game-winning three-pointer against Rider. “It got [junior forward] Ian Hummer to notice me, though, which has always been a dream of mine.”
Coming off of a tough 29-7 home loss to No. 17 Rutgers last weekend, the wrestling team will begin a seven-match road trip in Lewisburg, Pa., on Saturday against Bucknell, No. 19 Central Michigan and Sacred Heart. The Tigers (1-4) currently boast three nationally ranked wrestlers in the Wrestling Report College Rankings: No. 24 junior 125-pounder Garrett Frey, No. 27 sophomore 141-pounder Adam Krop and No. 27 senior 157-pounder Daniel Kolodzik.
Keene Fitzpatrick was one of six people officially inducted into the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame on Wednesday. Fitzpatrick coached Princeton’s track and field team from 1911-1932 — leading the Tigers to four national second-place finishes — and served as the kicking coach for the football team and the trainer for several sports.
As the fall semester comes to a close with our last issue of 2011, we take a look back at the most memorable quotes from Princeton athletes that we put “on tap” the past four months.
The women’s basketball team will look to get back on track as it faces the fourth-best team in the country: the Stanford Cardinal. Stanford’s only loss came to No. 2 Connecticut early in the season. The Cardinal (6-1) will present a difficult test for the Tigers (7-3), as a top-ranked team that features some of the best players in college basketball and has not lost at home since the 2006-07 season.
One is a little bit quiet. One is small in stature, and the third has a sharp wit. But put the three leading scorers on the women’s hockey team on skates, and they can all be described similarly.Fast. Aggressive. Good.Sophomores Sally Butler, Denna Laing and Olivia Mucha lead the team first-second-third in points and assists this season. They combine for 17 of the team’s 33 goals and 20 of the 55 assists. As freshmen, the trio tallied 26 goals last season, and Mucha tied for the team lead in points.
Professional athletes from Ivy League schools — like the Jaguars' Colin Cloherty, who scored a touchdown last week — have their academic background brought up whenever they make headlines. But do their brains really help them on the field?
For the first time in college rugby history, there will be a collegiate national sevens championship sponsored by USA Rugby this weekend. The Princeton women’s team was one of 11 teams chosen by a selection committee to travel to Texas A&M University to compete for the championship.
With eight seconds left in overtime and the the men's basketball team trailing Rider 71-69 on Wednesday night, the Tigers were forced to foul forward Daniel Stewart, who missed consecutive free throws. Junior forward Ian Hummer brought down the defensive rebound and passed to senior guard Doug Davis, who drove into the lane and kicked out to junior forward Mack Darrow. With time expiring, Darrow calmly buried a three-pointer, giving Princeton a thrilling 72-71 victory.
It’s cold outside, evergreens are missing from down campus and Rockefeller College has more colored lights than sub-Saharan Africa. As time passes and late December steadily approaches, it’s getting hard to overlook that the holiday season is finally here. I believe several Princeton sports teams would benefit from writing letters to Santa Claus.
Fresh from an organic chemistry exam, sophomore forward Jack Berger of the men’s hockey team was relieved to hear that the interview questions would be much easier than the ones he had just tackled on his test. Enthusiastic about everything from his experiences growing up in a hockey-loving family with four younger brothers to his academic goals, it became clear that Jack embodies the “total package,” as head coach Bob Prier used to describe him.
Sophomore men’s squash players Ash Egan and Dylan Ward met each other as 10-year-olds at the Princeton squash camp and are still up to their old habits. Off the court, Ward is the straight main to Egan’s comic foil as the pair trade jokes, barbs and the occasional insult. On the court, the two Philadelphia natives are part of the reason why the team enters winter break undefeated.
The women's basketball team hosts its second ranked opponent this month, facing No. 23 DePaul at Jadwin Gymnasium at 7 p.m. tonight. Follow the action with our live blog!
On Tuesday night, the women’s basketball team allowed small mistakes to be compounded against No. 23 DePaul, falling 78-67 for its second home loss of the season. “It’s a tough loss, but you want to play teams like this,” said junior forward Niveen Rasheed, who finished with 23 points and a career-high 18 rebounds. “We asked for this schedule, and it makes you a better team.”
Typically, in track and field, the first meet of the season is an opportunity to acclimate to competition and work the kinks out. Such rust-busters come before the bulk of event-specific training and preparation. In general, season openers are viewed more as a way to gauge basic fitness than as an occasion to break records.
As the two-time defending Ivy League champions, the women’s basketball team entered the 2011-12 basketball season with a different set of expectations. Simply making the NCAA Tournament would not be quite as satisfying an end goal for a talented team that dominates within its league and increasingly threatens outside teams.
After upsetting Old Dominion last weekend, the wrestling team fell to No. 17 Rutgers this weekend. Only junior Garrett Frey, wrestling at 125 pounds, and senior Daniel Kolodzik, wrestling at 157, won their matches in a 29-7 loss. Still, it was a big improvement from last year’s match, in which Rutgers shut out Princeton 42-0.
So far this season has been distinguished by considerable success for the men’s and women’s squash teams, and this weekend was no exception. The Tigers concluded their last matches of 2011 at home at Jadwin Gymnasium, coming through with sweeps against Williams on Friday and George Washington on Saturday.
The men’s basketball team took its first loss in four games as Drexel won 64-60 at the Daskalakis Athletic Center on Saturday. The Tigers (4-6) had traveled to Philadelphia optimistic that their recent wins were indicative of improved performance, but a strong Drexel team held on for the win despite not scoring a field goal in the final four minutes and 45 seconds.
