Since the beginning of the season, the women’s basketball team had this past weekend circled on their calendar.
Prior to this weekend’s contests, senior goalie Zane Kalemba said that the men’s hockey team had to accept its injuries and not use them as a crutch.
Dominating defense and strong contributions from the bench earned the men’s basketball team two more Ivy League wins on the road this past weekend when it beat Harvard on Friday and Dartmouth on Saturday. After these hard-fought victories, the Tigers remain one of two undefeated teams in Ivy League play.
The women’s basketball team has more on the line than its 10-game winning streak when Princeton faces off against Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend in Jadwin Gymnasium.
Heading into their final weekend of Ivy League play, the men’s and women’s squash teams are in unfamiliar territory. Neither team controls its own destiny in the Ivy League title race. Both teams play at Dartmouth on Saturday and at Harvard on Sunday.
A three-game winning streak, the ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Week and the league’s leading goal-scorer. Sounds like the men's hockey team is back on track.
The Princeton women’s hockey team goes on the road this weekend for two key ECAC showdowns against Colgate and No. 10 Cornell, in a repeat of a double-header from earlier in the season.
Off to a hot start at the beginning of league play, the men’s basketball team (11-5 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) will head to Cambridge on Friday to face Harvard (14-4, 3-1). And on Saturday night, Princeton will take on Dartmouth (4-14, 0-4) in Hanover, N.H. In the Crimson, the Tigers will face a formidable opponent — led by point guard Jeremy Lin, Harvard has garnered considerable national recognition for its performance early in the season.
??I hate the colts. I am a diehard fan of another AFC South team, and watching Peyton Manning get eaten by Saints defensive end Will Smith would be like Christmas in February. Unfortunately, I’ve been down this road enough times to know the simple truth: The Colts are too good to lose on Sunday. The passing game is too precise, the blocking is too efficient and the defense is simply too good when it counts.
Sophomore forward Paula Romanchuk is better known as “Chukie.” Though this nickname may sound cute, when Romanchuk takes the ice she transforms into a player to be feared.
The men’s basketball team has gotten off to one of its best starts in recent history. Behind the tutelage of third-year coach Sydney Johnson ‘97, Princeton (11-5 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) has staked out an early spot atop the Ivy League standings. The Tigers are led in scoring by sophomore Doug Davis, who averages 14.1 points per game, and junior Dan Mavraides, who averages 11.5 points.
Who dat gonna beat dem Saints? Saints fans have been asking that all year and have yet to receive an answer in the playoffs. I know: When I write about Saints fans, you probably think of those crazy rednecks in that Youtube video that shoot up a big-screen TV, but bear with me for a minute. The common wisdom regarding Super Bowl XLIV is that the Colts are by far the superior team. This assumption has been reflected in the current Vegas spread of Colts -5 or -6. But, as is often said, on any given Sunday, any team can win. The Saints have been underrated all season, especially during the playoffs, and will prove their naysayers wrong on the grandest stage of all.
After dominating the first half of its schedule, the women’s basketball team (15-2 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) is ready to tear through its Ivy competition. The Tigers lead the league in most statistical categories, from scoring offense to scoring defense, and their average margin of victory is an incredible 19.3 points per game.
While most sprinters face a slow start to the indoor track season after a six-month hiatus from racing, sophomore Austin Hollimon has enjoyed a strong opening month. He has already set an indoor school record in the 300m, held the second-fastest time in the nation in the 400m, reached NCAA provisional standards in the 400m (47.65 seconds on Saturday at the New York Road Runners Meet) and helped the 4x400m relay team reach NCAA provisional standards.
Take a look at the best collegiate men’s squash players in America, and you’ll see a lot of experienced faces. The top players for No. 1 Trinity, No. 3 Rochester and No. 5 Harvard are all seniors with plenty of matches under their belts. But in this selective group is a younger face, Princeton freshman Todd Harrity. And up to this point in the season, nobody has defeated him yet.
After last weekend, there’s no doubt about it — the men’s and women’s fencing teams can fight with the biggest and the best of them, and prevail. Collectively, Princeton’s fencing teams racked up 23 wins, including four over other top-10 teams, at the Northwestern Duals.
The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams traveled to Hanover, N.H., over Intersession for a meet against Dartmouth that they hoped would tune them up for the prestigious Harvard-Yale-Princeton (HYP) meet the following weekend. This was a successful strategy, as both the men’s and women’s teams won both competitions.
The men’s and women’s tennis teams kicked off their spring seasons this past week.
Most Princeton students look forward to Intersession as a tranquil time before the rigors of the spring semester begin. For the men’s volleyball team, however, the weeklong break was anything but relaxing. As part of their annual training trip to California, Princeton (0-3) faced off against some of the best schools in the country in three matches. The trip out west proved a tough test for the Tigers, who now head into the heart of the season.
After over a month without a match, the men’s and women’s squash teams returned to the court last week with important matches against Penn and Yale. Both squads also played Middlebury on Sunday. The teams had hoped to maintain their unbeaten records in the Ivy League, but neither team escaped without a loss.
