From a look at the box score, it would appear that Elena Delle Donne dominated. Delaware’s star forward lit up the women’s basketball team for 35 points and grabbed a game-high nine rebounds.
The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams had an eerily similar weekend.
Associate Editors for Sports Eben Novy-Williams and Rachel Orland sit down with senior writers Mary Reid Munford and Vikram Rao to discuss this weekend's actions. The men's soccer team lost to Bucknell in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the field hockey team lost to Maryland in the Final Four and the football team finished its season with a win over Dartmouth. The quartet of writers also discuss the sudden firing of head coach Roger Hughes.
The Princeton women followed a second-place finish at NCAA Regionals with a fifth-place finish in the year-end race.
The Princeton men’s and women’s squash teams traveled to Ithaca, N.Y., for a weekend double header to open the season. The men defeated the Western Ontario Mustangs on Saturday, but the women lost to the Stanford Cardinal. Both squads defeated Cornell on Sunday in an important match for the Ivy League title race.
Football head coach Roger Hughes was fired Sunday afternoon, less than 24 hours after the football team finished its third consecutive season with a 4-6 overall record.
A topsy-turvy season came full circle for the football team, as the Tigers defeated Dartmouth, 23-11, on Saturday to round out their third consecutive 4-6 season.
No. 18 Princeton defeated No. 12 Navy, 5-4, to win their third title and gain a berth in the NCAA Championship.
On Friday night, the Tigers (6-3-1 overall, 5-2-1 ECAC Hockey) fell 1-0 to No. 7 Cornell (6-3-1, 6-1-1) before rebounding with a 3-2 win Saturday afternoon over Colgate (2-9-3, 1-4-3).
For the second time in as many games, the men’s basketball team dug itself into a huge hole.
The Tigers lost by a 7-5 margin, ending Princeton’s dreams of bringing home an NCAA title.
In a season marked by early frustration, the men’s hockey team dropped its first two road games of the year over the weekend.
On Saturday, the men’s basketball team will look to do something it hasn’t done since the 2003-04 campaign: get off to a 3-0 start. To accomplish that, Princeton (2-0 overall) will have to take care of a veteran Army (1-1) team on Saturday afternoon on Carril Court.
On a rainy night at Roberts Stadium, the men’s soccer team ended its 2009 campaign with a 1-0 loss to Bucknell in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
There’s no question that the field hockey team left it all out on the field today, but in the end, Maryland’s high-powered offense proved to be the difference. In a semifinal played at Wake Forest, fourth-seeded Princeton lost by a 7-5 margin to the top-seeded Terrapins, ending the Tigers’ run at an NCAA title.
It’s been five years since Princeton’s last trip to the NCAA Championships, and that season was highlighted by a spectacular 13-game winning streak. Since 2006, the No. 17 men’s water polo team (12-11 overall) fell one win short of an Eastern Championship title twice, finishing second to Navy both times.
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.
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.
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.
The men’s hockey team has an opportunity to make a statement to the rest of the country this weekend.
