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.
This weekend offered a glimpse into the future of the women’s hockey team, as the freshmen stole the show on Friday and Saturday.On Friday, Princeton (10-9-4 overall, 8-4-4 ECAC Hockey) skated to a decisive 3-0 win at Union (5-22-1, 1-14-1) with the aid of two goals and an assist from freshman forward Corey Stearns. To continue the trend, freshman forward Alex Kinney scored the lone goal in a 1-1 tie at Rensselaer (11-10-6, 8-4-4) on Saturday afternoon. The tie locked both teams at an 8-4-4 conference mark, putting them in a three-way tie for third in the ECAC Hockey standings.
Coming back from a short hiatus proved to be a mixed blessing for the Princeton wrestling team. The Tigers dominated their first day back against Duquesne but couldn’t keep up the momentum for their next two opponents, Virginia and Clarion. Friday’s meet against Duquesne was a rousing success that saw the Tigers post a dominant 29-9 victory in Dillon Gym.
After a three-week layoff, normal basketball teams need some time to get back in a rhythm for their first game back. When their leading scorer gets shut out, normal teams struggle to score points. And when their starting point guard suffers an injury early in the second half, normal teams have trouble closing out games.But, as it has proven so many times this season, the women’s basketball team is anything but normal. The Tigers (15-2 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) came out firing in their first game since Jan. 9, cruising to a 75-44 victory over Brown (5-13, 2-2). Princeton capped off its first full weekend of league play by hosting Yale (7-11, 2-2) in the annual “Pink Zone” game, downing the Bulldogs 69-48 and extending its winning streak to 10 games.
