It was a bittersweet road trip for the women’s hockey team, as Princeton beat No. 10 Harvard in a close battle only to be shut out 7-0 by Dartmouth in its worst loss of the year.
The men’s hockey team yielded nine straight goals over a three-period span as they dropped both of their games over the weekend. On Friday night, No. 11 Union (20-7-3 overall, 12-3-1 ECAC Hockey) battled back from a deficit to win 7-4. In a tightly contested game on Friday night, No. 8 Rensselaer (18-6-4, 10-5-1) hung onto their own lead to win 5-2. No. 19 Princeton (14-8-1, 9-6-1) is now sixth in the conference, trailing first-place No. 2 Yale (19-4, 13-3) by seven points.
Executive Editors for Sports Kevin Whitaker '13 and Kiran Gollakota '13 discuss the weekend in sports during the Season Three premiere of On the Prowl.
The last time the Harvard men’s basketball team won at Jadwin Gymnasium, Princeton head coach Sydney Johnson ’97 was a high school freshman in Towson, Md., seniors Dan Mavraides and Bobby Foley were two months old and no other player on either team’s current roster had been born. 21 times since then, the Crimson traveled south to New Jersey, and 21 times it left with a loss. Six minutes into Friday’s game, it seemed as if the streak would come to an end.
The men’s swimming and diving team won its first 92 meets at DeNunzio Pool, its record spanning for more than two decades. But the streak came to an end this weekend when Princeton (8-4, 4-1) fell to Navy (11-1) in a heartbreaking 167-133 defeat.
The women’s hockey team will face Harvard (12-7-3 overall, 11-3-2 ECAC Hockey) and Dartmouth (14-8, 10-6) on the road today in Cambridge, Mass., and Saturday in Hanover, N.H., respectively.
With victories in its first two Ivy League games, the men’s basketball team enters this weekend anticipating a huge contest with NCAA tournament implications.
While Princetonians are slowly beginning to return to the routine of classes, the men’s and women’s squash teams are also be hard at work preparing for tough matches this weekend. Both teams will be competing at home; the men will be facing Dartmouth and Harvard while the women will be facing Stanford as well as the Crimson and the Big Green.
Baker Rink will see three of the top 20 teams in the nation in action over the weekend. The men’s hockey team, ranked 19th, will first face off against No. 11 Union (18-7-3 overall, 10-3-1 ECAC Hockey) on Friday at 7 p.m. before battling No. 9 Rensselaer (17-6-3, 9-5) on Saturday at 4 p.m. Princeton (14-6-1, 9-4-1) will later visit both teams on the very last weekend of the season.
After a long break from competition, the men’s and women’s fencing teams are ready to take on 13 teams at the Northwestern Duals this weekend in Evanston, Ill.
The men's basketball team defeated Harvard, 65-61, to remain undefeated in the Ivy League. Relive the game with our live blog transcript.
This weekend, the women’s basketball team will travel to Harvard and Dartmouth to take on the Crimson and Big Green on their courts. Princeton (14-3 overall, 3-0 Ivy League), riding momentum from last week’s victories over Penn and Brown, will be looking to continue a six-game winning streak.
While the rest of their senior soccer teammates have already called time on their competitive careers, forward Josh Walburn and defender Teddy Schneider are getting a chance to play after college. Walburn and Schneider were drafted in the second round of the MLS Supplemental Draft on Jan. 18 by the Philadelphia Union and New York Red Bulls, respectively. Walburn was taken as the 23rd pick while Schneider was selected 30th overall.
It lacks the enclosed, arena-like feel of Penn’s Palestra or Yale’s Amphitheater. Its large size precludes the kind of intimacy found at Dartmouth and Cornell. Even on the day of a big game, a packed row of side bleachers cannot conceal the indoor track in the background, a subtle reminder that basketball is only a small part of its function. But it is home, and the members of the men’s and women’s basketball teams would not prefer to play anywhere but Jadwin Gymnasium.
Superman has been dethroned. For the past few years, Dwight Howard was the most spectacular dunker in the NBA, but anyone paying attention to the league this year realizes that his Lex Luthor is Blake Griffin. After being forced to sit out an entire season due to injury, Griffin came back better than ever and went to town on the league. His greatest dunk this year, literally right over the New York Knicks’ 7-foot-1-inch center, Timofey Mozgov, might be the most iconic moment of this season.
Women’s ice hockey head coach Jeff Kampersal calls standout junior goalie Rachel Weber “a threat.” This description stems not only from Weber’s impressive run in the goal this season, but also from her demeanor and her talents.
Junior fencer Susie Scanlan loves to fight. In fact, the fencer is taking two years off so that she can do just that. Scanlan, an epeeist, will be competing around the world for the next two years, hoping to make the U.S. national team and compete in the 2012 Olympics in London.
I was going to write a column about how nobody pays attention to the Pro Bowl, but then I realized that nobody would pay attention to the column. They might as well just get rid of the Pro Bowl. I don’t think anybody would miss it. But would people miss the NFL and the NBA if they had no seasons next year? Yeah, I’d say that’d be a problem.
The 2007-08 season was a tough one for the men’s basketball team. With a new head coach, Sydney Johnson ’97, the Tigers finished the year 6-23 and at the bottom of the Ivy League. A freshman at the time, Kareem Maddox was a year young for his grade and frustrated in his attempts to help the team.
Sophomore Kila Pickering is probably the only swimmer whose full name, Beau Perkins Kukilakila Pickering, contains more than 10 syllables. Pickering is also the only athlete on the men’s swimming team from Hawaii, where he was the 2009 state champion. As a Junior National Qualifier in high school, he was also an All-America and Scholastic All-American. Pickering and the swim team will face off against nationally acclaimed Navy to defend their perfect all-time record at home this weekend.
