After his debut as the head coach of the men's basketball team, Sydney Johnson '97 could find little about which to complain.
Nobody said it was going to be easy. The women's basketball team (0-1 overall) opened its season with a 76-52 loss to national powerhouse Maryland (1-0) in College Park, Md., on Friday, hanging tough with the No.
The women's volleyball train kept on rolling over the weekend, boosting its two-month-long win streak to 19 games in historic fashion.On Friday night, Princeton (21-3 overall, 13-0 Ivy League) beat Brown (7-16, 5-8), 3-0, in Providence, R.I., clinching a berth in the NCAA tournament along with the Ivy League title.
The 13,408 fans who attended the football team's homecoming game against Yale on Saturday were greeted with surprises from beginning to end.
When the women's soccer team's seniors walked off the pitch after yesterday's Senior Day game, they did not let the fresh loss tarnish what have been great careers."I have cherished all four years that I have been here and have learned so much from each team I was on," co-captain and goalkeeper Maren Dale said.
With a non-conference schedule that includes No. 4 Maryland and No. 3 Rutgers, the women's basketball team has no choice but to toughen up before the first Ivy League game bounces into Jadwin Gym in January.
The men's basketball team has made 23 NCAA Tournament appearances in its history, but its opponent Sunday has a slightly more recent memory of the Big Dance.
After hosting Central Connecticut and Iona at Jadwin Gym, the men's basketball team will jet to Maui to compete in the EA Sports Maui Invitational for the first time in the program's history.
Last season the women's soccer team fell to Yale, 2-1, in its Ivy League opener, a defeat that started a stretch of four-straight conference losses.
The women's basketball team will hit the ground running Friday night, opening its season against Maryland in the Preseason Women's National Invitational Tournament (WNIT). The Terrapins open the season ranked fourth in both the AP and ESPN/USA Today coaches polls.The matchup against Maryland will pose several challenges for the Tigers.
The struggles of last season's men's basketball team and its embattled coach's departure were well-documented, but time, a new coach and hours in the gym shooting jump-shots have healed March's wounds.
"I can tell why this guy's got a lot of steals: He's got really long arms," senior basketball team captain Noah Savage said, reminiscing on his first impression of Sydney Johnson '97, the first-year head men's basketball coach.
For the women's basketball team, the pre-conference season will be anything but a warm up. It'll be a trial by fire.
Senior forwards Kyle Koncz and Noah Savage have been around long enough to have known three coaches ? a testament to the trying times that Princeton basketball has endured in recent years.
Opponents be warned: The 2007-08 edition of senior forward Meagan Cowher promises to be better than ever.
First-year women's basketball coach Courtney Banghart may be new to Princeton, but she's right at home in the Ivy League.
For the first time in nearly two years, the Princeton football team will take the field on Saturday against a league opponent without any chance of capturing the Ivy League title.
One day after Yale and Princeton face off in their annual football extravaganza, the men's soccer team (5-8-2 overall, 3-2-0 Ivy League) will take on the Bulldogs (3-7-5, 1-2-2) in its final appearance Sunday at 4 p.m.
