Considering Princeton's 13-17 record last year with a defense ranked seventh in the Ivy League, new head coach Courtney Banghart knew it would take hard work and a couple lucky breaks to reshape the women's basketball squad.
Two second-half defensive plays from senior guard Matt Sargeant and a clutch three-pointer from sophomore guard Lincoln Gunn with one minute, 10 seconds to play helped the men's basketball team hold on to a 66-58 victory against Iona last night at Jadwin Gym.Princeton (2-0 overall) saw a 13-point halftime lead dwindle to one, but as Iona (0-2) guard Rashon Dwight drove to take the lead with 8:05 remaining, Sargeant seemed to come from nowhere to swat the layup.
Traveling will be a major theme for the No. 2 ranked men's squash team this season, a trend that began before the team ever squared off against a collegiate opponent.
As a result of Princeton football's 27-6 loss to Yale last Saturday, this weekend's game between Yale and Harvard is the closest thing Ivy League football has to a conference championship game: two teams with 6-0 records going into their final game of the season.Since both teams are undefeated, the winner will win the Ivy League title and become the first Ivy League team to go 7-0 since Harvard in 2004.
Fresh off its exciting 59-57 season-opening victory against Central Connecticut State, the men's basketball team will strive to ride its momentum into a match-up against Iona tonight at Jadwin Gym.While Iona (0-1 overall), which finished 2-28 last year, might not represent as fierce competition as last year's Northeast Conference champion Central Connecticut State, Princeton (1-0, 0-0 Ivy League) has plenty of areas to concentrate on tonight.
With 22 Ivy League Championships, 21 NCAA Tournament appearances, one Final Four showing and an NIT title to its name, Princeton's men's basketball team holds high standards for itself.As part of the programming for alumni on campus this past weekend, the Alumni Association hosted a Saturday morning lecture titled "The Challenge of Adding to the Legacy of Princeton Basketball." New head coach Sydney Johnson '97 gave the lecture in anticipation of the season opener against Central Connecticut on Sunday.Johnson structured the lecture around the interests of his mostly middle-aged audience, focusing on the "good ol' days" of Tiger basketball.
When the New England Patriots defeated the Indianapolis Colts a week and a half ago, many fans and experts ruminated about the possibility of the Patriots having the first undefeated season since the 1972 Miami Dolphins, and the first since the NFL adopted the 16-game format.But while blue-and-red-clad University students gushed about Tom Brady, they may have missed the on-campus equivalent: the women's volleyball team.No, the Tigers aren't the New England Patriots, but they have clinched the Ivy League title and are riding a 19-game winning streak into their finals regular season contest at Penn.In 1987, the first year of Ivy League volleyball round-robin play, Penn finished 7-0.
This is probably not the way the women's tennis team envisioned ending their fall season. A week ago the Tigers returned from North Carolina having won 30 of 39 matches at the Duke Invitational Tournament.This week the Tigers, with the top four players in their lineup absent, went back to North Carolina to participate in the Kitty Harrison Invitational Tournament held at UNC, and the results were not as inspiring.At the tournament, the Tigers played in a round robin format against teams from Virginia, Kentucky, UNC, Marshall and Miami.
The average starting football player rarely takes the field for more than 30 minutes a game. Over a 10 game season, even the best players won't be in action for more than a few hours.Those hours, however, are just a fraction of the time put in by the team, and nobody knows that better than Princeton strength and conditioning coach Jason Gallucci.He witnesses every morning workout and afternoon practice ? and not just for the football team.
As one team's season came to an end, another's quest for greatness began. Last Saturday, the men's and women's cross country teams traveled to Lehigh for the 69th Mid-Atlantic Regional cross country race.
With an impressive display of depth and talent, the men's and women's swimming and diving teams clinched their season openers Friday night, defeating Oakland University at DeNunzio Pool.The spotlight was definitely on the men's team, as it risked its first-ever home loss to a talented Oakland (2-1 overall) men's team.
One play.According to men's soccer coach Jim Barlow '91, that's the difference between a win and a loss in almost any game ? and the soccer team's 2-0 loss to Yale on Sunday was one of those games.On a chilly Senior Night in Princeton Stadium, the Tigers dominated play for 89 minutes but were unable to capitalize on their chances.
On Sunday, the freshmen women's open crew braved the Belly of the Carnegie and emerged victorious.The A boat finished first in the open division, defeating Dartmouth and Cornell.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall, and this weekend the women's hockey team (3-3-2 overall, 1-3-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League) toppled goliath New Hampshire (9-2-0) with a colossal crash.The Wildcats entered the game with an eight-game winning streak and the confidence of a 20-0-1 record against the Tigers over the last 21 seasons.
With the bitter taste of last year cleansed by the start of a new season, the Princeton wrestling team took its first step towards redemption this past Sunday with a successful showing against The College of New Jersey.
It's generally safe to assume that the team that dominates the statistics sheet will also win the game.
Last week the teams of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League (ECACHL) watched as Princeton jumped out in front of them during the season's opening games.
