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Men's Basketball: Princeton looks to rebound in Philadelphia

Men's Basketball: Princeton looks to rebound in Philadelphia

An old rivalry will be renewed when the men’s basketball team travels to the Palestra to face Penn tonight. While the rivalry has been dormant in the past few years as both teams have gone through a rare period of struggle, Princeton’s recent successes this year appear to have infused it once again. Despite the Quakers’ poor record, it may not be as easy to bounce back from Saturday’s tough loss to Ivy-League-leading Cornell as the Tigers would like.

SPORTS | 02/15/2010

Squash: Trinity too much for men

Eleven straight national titles, a 221-match win streak and the top national ranking: The Trinity Bantams are nothing short of dominant in men’s college squash. The men’s squash team has played second fiddle to the Bantams recently, losing the national title match to Trinity each of the last five years. Last year, Princeton was within points of beating them both during the season and in the national championship but came up short both times. The result was the same last weekend.

SPORTS | 02/15/2010

Men's Basketball: What can Red and Blue can do for you

For a one-hour span on Saturday night, I was unsure how I would write this column. The Princeton men’s basketball team had just suffered a painful 48-45 loss to Cornell. The previous night, your Penn Quakers handed the Big Red a 79-64 loss — its first in the Ivy League. Hard to talk trash in that situation.

SPORTS | 02/15/2010

Tennis: Both teams win first of three

According to senior tennis captain Charlie Brosens, the Eastern College Athletic Conference is the place to make a statement.

SPORTS | 02/15/2010

Men's Basketball: Tigers will falter at Palestra in tonight’s game

If the Tigers win tonight, we’re blaming it on the snow. After all, when Penn beats Cornell and the Tigers are sitting in second place in the Ivy League, Hell must be freezing over.

SPORTS | 02/15/2010

Men's Volleyball: Weekend split highlighted by win at Harvard

The men’s volleyball team (3-4 overall, 0-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) proved its resilience on the road this weekend, coming back with a vengeance after a 3-0 loss to Springfield (5-4, 1-2) on Friday night to down Harvard (0-5) 3-0.

SPORTS | 02/15/2010

Fencing: Seven Tigers return from productive Junior Olympics trip

For the men’s and women’s fencing teams, the games in Vancouver, Canada, weren’t the only type of Olympic competition occurring this weekend. Seven fencers traveled to Memphis, Tenn., to participate in a four-day competition in the Junior Olympics.

SPORTS | 02/15/2010

Princeton falls in heartbreaker to first-place Cornell

With seven seconds remaining in the game and with the men’s basketball team trailing by three points, sophomore guard Doug Davis shook his defender and brought the ball up the court, looking for a clean shot that could force overtime. He passed the ball off to senior center Pawel Buczak, who dropped it back off to Davis. The shot went up as time expired, but it was long.

SPORTS | 02/14/2010

Grapplers clinch winning Ivy season

The wrestling team guaranteed its first Ivy League winning season in the past 23 years with a 28-13 victory over Columbia on Saturday. Despite a tough 46-3 loss to No. 6 Cornell later in the day, Princeton (9-9-0 overall, 3-1-0 Ivy League) is still looking like one of the best the University has seen this decade.

SPORTS | 02/14/2010

Rasheed & Co. extend unbeaten streak to 14

The women’s basketball team made its annual trip to the Empire State last weekend, taking on Ivy League foes Columbia and Cornell on back-to-back days. Though it was their first full weekend on the road, the Tigers (19-2 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) suffered no ill effects from the travel, cruising to a pair of 20-point victories. At the halfway point of league play, Princeton has now defeated every opponent by a double-digit margin and is the clear favorite to win the conference championship.

SPORTS | 02/14/2010

Princeton continues unbeaten streak at DeNunzio

Since DeNunzio Pool's construction over 20 years ago, the men’s swimming and diving team has never lost one of its 107 home dual meets. And with “the streak” on the line for the last time this season, the stakes were high. But the stakes were also invisible. Princeton surmounted the pressure to win 15 of 16 events, crushing Columbia 174-117.

SPORTS | 02/14/2010

DiCesare’s OT goal tops No. 4 Clarkson

The women’s hockey team approached the close of its season with two consecutive shutout victories, raising the team’s conference rank as the postseason draws near.

SPORTS | 02/14/2010

Ruggiero sets school record in weight throw as Harvard and Yale easily depatched

Despite the fierce rivalry between Harvard, Yale and Princeton, both the men’s and women’s track and field teams walked away from Jadwin Gymnasium on Saturday with another victory on their records. The Princeton men totaled 105 points, easily outpacing Harvard’s 48 and Yale’s 27, while the women topped their meet with 90.5 points, followed by Harvard’s 47.5 and Yale’s 21.

SPORTS | 02/14/2010

Tigers stunned by bottom-place Golden Knights

The men’s hockey team returned from this weekend’s road trip to upstate New York with little to show after falling to Clarkson 4-3 on Friday night and drawing with St. Lawrence 2-2 on Saturday afternoon. Princeton (10-12-3 overall, 6-10-2 ECAC Hockey) entered the weekend having won four of its past five games — including victories over Harvard, Dartmouth and No. 8 Cornell — but was unable to continue this strong form against its New York opponents.

SPORTS | 02/14/2010

Squash: Non-league foes await Princeton

In last year’s national championship, with the overall score tied at 4-4 and his match tied at two games, the men’s squash team’s Mauricio Sanchez ’09 took a 5-0 lead in the deciding game against Trinity’s Baset Chaudhry. The home crowd at Jadwin Gymnasium could hardly contain its excitement. The two highest-ranked players in college squash were competing in the deciding match, and Sanchez needed just four more points to clinch Princeton’s first national championship since 1982 and end Trinity’s streak of 10 national titles and 201 wins.

SPORTS | 02/11/2010

Men's Hockey: Skaters to face Empire state foes

The men’s hockey team’s three-game hot streak was brought to an end last Friday evening when Colgate defeated Princeton 3-1 at Baker Rink. But hopefully for the Tigers, the momentum they regained the following afternoon from a 5-3 win over fifth-ranked Cornell won’t cool off before they make the trek to frigid North Country this weekend to play the first two matches of a four-game road stretch. Princeton (10-11-2 overall, 6-9-1 ECAC Hockey) will face Clarkson (5-20-3, 1-13-2) tonight and St. Lawrence (14-10-5, 8-5-3) on Saturday afternoon.

SPORTS | 02/11/2010

Men's Basketball: Tigers to battle Columbia, No. 22 Cornell for Ivy lead

So here it is: the headliner, the matchup we’ve all been waiting for, the game against the nationally ranked defending Ivy League champion that will pit the league’s last two undefeated teams against each other. Just don’t tell that to head coach Sydney Johnson ’97, because the men’s basketball team plays not one but two games this weekend. Princeton (13-5 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) hosts Columbia tonight (8-12, 2-4) and No. 22 Cornell (20-3, 6-0) on Saturday night.

SPORTS | 02/11/2010

Women's Basketball: Run toward Ivy League supremacy continues on road

Not one, but two Ivy League basketball programs are recognized in national polls. Considering that an Ancient Eight team has not won a game in the NCAA March Madness tournament since the Princeton men and the Harvard women in 1998, this is big news.

SPORTS | 02/11/2010

Women's Hockey: Clarkson, St. Lawrence provide shot at redemption after down weekend

The women’s hockey team knows this will be a challenging weekend, yet it remains optimistic about its ability against two top-ranked teams.

SPORTS | 02/11/2010

Column: Father the culprit in odd USC football situation

When you were 13 and in seventh grade, what was on your mind? You were probably thinking about your next homework assignment, or, more likely, how to talk to your middle school crush. You most certainly were not thinking about where you were going to college. That is, unless you are David Sills.

SPORTS | 02/10/2010

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