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Women's Basketball: Tigers aim to stay unbeaten Saturday

Women's Basketball: Tigers aim to stay unbeaten Saturday

The women’s basketball team (2-0 overall) enters the weekend on a roll, having handled both of its early-season opponents so far and tallying sizable victories. Yet the Tigers will face a potent and formidable foe when they compete against Delaware (1-0) this Saturday.

SPORTS | 11/19/2009

Football: Tigers to wrap up season in Hanover

Just one month ago, the football team’s season was looking bleak. After losing two of their co-captains to injury and coming up short in four straight games, the Tigers (3-6 overall, 2-4 Ivy League) were mentally preparing themselves for a potential one-win season and the team’s first last-place finish in Ivy League play since 1973.

SPORTS | 11/19/2009

Field Hockey: Princeton reaches Final Four, will face Maryland

For the first time in eight years, the field hockey team is headed to the Final Four of the NCAA tournament. The feat comes after an impressive season, highlighted by the capturing of the Ivy League title for the 14th time in 15 seasons.

SPORTS | 11/19/2009

Men's Hockey: Cornell and Colgate provide next test

The men’s hockey team has an opportunity to make a statement to the rest of the country this weekend.

SPORTS | 11/19/2009

Women's Squash: Four in a row? Princeton set for run at Howe Cup

With three national championships in the last three years and a couple of Ivy League titles, the women?s squash team could be forgiven for a lack of motivation for the 2009-10 season.

SPORTS | 11/18/2009

Women's Volleyball: Season finishes with loss against Penn

On paper, Princeton?s loss to Penn last night, by a score of 25-17, 25-23, 16-25, 25-21, may look similar to the first match it played against the Quakers this season to open league play.

SPORTS | 11/18/2009

Men's Squash: Title hopes remain without ‘Amigos’

Not many Princeton teams can say that they made it to the finals of the national championships for the past four years.

SPORTS | 11/18/2009

Men's Soccer: Bison come calling in NCAAs

A month ago, the men?s soccer team was on a seven-game winless streak and wallowing at the bottom of the Ivy League.

SPORTS | 11/18/2009

Men's Basketball: Big men shine in comeback

The men?s basketball team lit up Central Michigan for the first game of its season. Against Manhattan?

SPORTS | 11/18/2009

Wrestling: Team’s potential lies in talented freshmen

Coming off a season that saw it post its first victories in more than two years, the wrestling team will look to continue its progress in the 2009-10 campaign.

SPORTS | 11/17/2009

Wrestling: What a wrestling workout feels like

"Am I a masochist or just plain dumb?” I was about to attempt what would undoubtedly be the most physically demanding activity I’d undertaken during my time at Princeton: try to complete one of the wrestling team’s workouts.

SPORTS | 11/17/2009

Fencing: Veteran corps enhanced by rookie class

The men?s and women?s fencing teams may be two of Princeton?s best kept secrets. With head coach Zoltan Dudas in his fourth season at Princeton, the teams have the potential to exceed their notable finishes last year.

SPORTS | 11/17/2009

Football: Princeton’s ‘O’-Line Ironman

A common room with two TVs and Xboxes that are constantly running could be in any guys’ college suite. The difference is that the guys playing Call of Duty and Halo all weigh around 270 pounds and are more than six feet tall.

SPORTS | 11/17/2009

Column: Rankings belie USC’s steep fall from glory

Pete Carroll?s USC Trojans will stumble into their game against rival UCLA on Nov. 28 having lost two of their previous three games to Pac-10 opponents.

SPORTS | 11/17/2009

Men's Basketball: Tigers grab win in opener

Last year, the men’s basketball team came close to toppling Central Michigan, though only one Tiger — now-sophomore guard Doug Davis — had a double-digit scoring night.

SPORTS | 11/16/2009

Wrestling: Freshman Frey earns win at 125

If the first meet of the season was any indication, the wrestling team could be primed for a breakthrough performance this winter. Princeton opened its wrestling season at the Binghamton Open in upstate New York. The tournament featured a packed field with wrestlers from every Ivy League school in attendance.

SPORTS | 11/16/2009

Women's Basketball: Princeton relentless in home blowout

The women’s basketball team dominated its first two games of the season, first beating Stony Brook, 68-43, and then thrashing American, 77-45, last night in Jadwin Gymnasium.

SPORTS | 11/16/2009

Women's Volleyball: Strong finish falls short of Ivy title

As the women’s volleyball team prepared to receive on match point, everybody on the court knew who was going to get the game’s final set. But that didn’t stop Sheena Donohue: The senior outside hitter drilled the ball off the block and onto the floor, clinching the victory and ending her final match at Dillon Gymnasium.

SPORTS | 11/16/2009

On The Prowl ... November 17 2009

Writers discuss last weekend's events, including the field hockey team's success in the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament, the football team's impressive victory over Yale and the men's soccer team's blowout of the Bulldogs and upcoming NCAA showdown with Bucknell. The program closes with a preview of the men's basketball team's season.

SPORTS | 11/16/2009

Women's Hockey: Landry tallies pair in victory

After fighting hard but falling to Dartmouth, 4-1, on Friday night in Hanover, N.H., the women’s hockey team redeemed itself in impressive fashion Saturday, earning a 2-1 overtime win against Harvard in Cambridge, Mass.

SPORTS | 11/16/2009

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