Three days of squash on Dean?s Date weekend has the potential to be slightly anti-climactic given that the players? minds may be focused on academics.
Q: What was your welcome-to-college moment? A: After a bad play [former head] coach [Joe] Scott [?87] said, ?STRITTMATTER!
A year and a day after suffering a 68-49 loss to Lehigh ? the 11th consecutive defeat in a 2-11 start to Sydney Johnson ?97?s tenure as head coach ? the men?s basketball team looked completely changed.Its roster still has the same players, and the team faced the same opponent.
We have an elephant in the room, and it isn?t even the slain carcass of Alabama football. After a 31-17 drubbing at the hands of Utah ? the Utes, in case you didn?t know, play in the lowly Mountain West Conference ? that began with the Crimson Tide ceding three seemingly effortless touchdown drives, the old BCS debate has almost reached its flashpoint.We need a playoff because it has become harder than ever to separate the contenders from the pretenders in college football.
Being a hockey goaltender is one of the most high-pressure positions in sports: the goaltender alone determines whether an opposing players? shot makes it into the net.
This article is the first in a two-part series about the history of the Princeton basketball program.
Snapping a six-game losing streak with its first home win of the season, the men?s basketball team started the new year on the right foot Saturday against University of North Carolina-Greensboro.The Tigers (3-8 overall) played three games over winter break, and while the first two against Central Connecticut State (5-5) and Lafayette (4-8) didn?t end in Princeton?s favor, the Tigers have left the losses in 2008 thanks to a win against the Spartans.The Tigers traveled to New Britain, Conn., on Dec.
After putting together a four-game win streak, the No. 7 men?s hockey team faltered over the weekend with a 4-0 loss to No.
The last time the women?s hockey team faced Harvard and Dartmouth in the same weekend, the results were less than spectacular.
The women?s basketball team defeated local rival Rider, 68-54, behind a strong team effort Tuesday night, halting a five-game losing streak before Ivy League play begins.
The Princeton wrestling team (2-8 overall, 1-4 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association) finished off 2008 with some highlights and some lowlights.
Going into its game against Sacred Heart on Dec. 14, the women?s basketball team held an undefeated record at home, coming off a recent home victory over Monmouth on Dec.
The athletics department announced Monday that the basketball court at Jadwin Gymnasium will be named Carril Court to honor Pete Carril, the Hall-of-Fame coach who led the men's basketball team for 29 years.
Sometimes it doesn?t matter how you play the game as long as you end up with one more W. The women?s basketball team?s 52-41 victory over Monmouth (4-5) last night was a perfect example.The game started slowly for both teams, with neither getting on the board until sophomore guard Addie Micir put up a jumper two minutes, 31 seconds into the matchup.
What a difference a year can make. At this time last year, the men?s hockey team was reeling, having lost seven of its previous nine games, including its most recent series against Notre Dame by a combined score of 11-2.This season, it?s a different story for Princeton (10-2-0 overall, 7-1-0 ECAC Hockey). The Tigers enter the break atop the ECAC Hockey standings along with conference rivals Cornell (7-1-2, 6-0-2). With 14 points apiece, Princeton and Cornell have opened up a substantial first-half lead over their nearest competitors: Harvard and Dartmouth have each tallied 10 points.Junior netminder Zane Kalemba?s play has been the key to the Tigers? early-season success.
For the women?s hockey team, winter break holds a chance to prove something to the world of college hockey.Princeton (6-7-1 overall, 4-5-0 ECAC Hockey) already showed it could hang with the class of the East, tying then-No.
There?s no place like home. At least, the women?s basketball team hopes the old aphorism is true as it dons its home jerseys for the first time since before Thanksgiving.
In the first of three consecutive away games, the men?s basketball team will look to break its streak of close games and disappointing losses this Saturday against Manhattan.
With the wrestling team?s dual meet victory last weekend, a nearly three-year-old weight was lifted from the Tigers? minds.?It was definitely good to get the first one out of the way,? senior 157-pounder and captain Marty Everin said.
With Rutgers leading 45-44, guard Mike Coburn stood at the top of the three-point line, running down the clock.
