This yearly column is getting tougher and tougher to write. This whole thing is based on Penn making fun of Princeton and vice-versa.
For 15 years, only one letter has mattered in the Ivy League ? 'P.'Princeton and Penn have combined to win every men's basketball championship since 1989.
The women's fencing squad regained traction within the Ivy League over the weekend, fighting their way to a sweeping victory over Cornell, 24-3, and James Madison, 25-2, in the Stifel Fencing Salle.Princeton was led by the undefeated foil and sabre squads, who swept their respective matches against both Cornell and James Madison.
An upset of Brown and a win over Yale last weekend put women's basketball (5-13 overall, 2-3 Ivy League) in excellent position in the scramble for the Ivy crown leading into this weekend's games against Dartmouth and Harvard.
"Make Hobey Proud!" proclaims the huge banner hanging at one end of Baker Memorial Rink, and the quality of play in Friday night's contest between Princeton (5-10-1 ECAC, 5-17-1 overall) and Brown (12-3-1, 14-5-4) surely must have had Hobey smiling.Although the Bears finished the evening with a 5-2 victory, the level of intensity and parity between the teams, particularly in the first two periods, was exemplary of competition at its best.The Tigers, currently ranked 11th in the ECAC, surprised both their fans and their opponents in the early stages of the game by abandoning their slow-starting habits and beginning strong.
The wrestling team journeyed to Cambridge, Mass. and Providence, RI this weekend to face off against Harvard, East Stroudsburg and Brown.
With the race for the men's basketball Ivy League championship in full gallop, I started thinking about the importance of a championship.Obviously, it's a monumental team accomplishment, but what does it mean for how players are viewed, especially professionals?
DeNunzio Pool was abuzz this weekend as the men's swimming and diving team hosted its final home dual meets of the 2003-2004 season against Kenyon College on Friday evening and the US Naval Academy on Saturday afternoon, sending both visiting teams home winless.Princeton towered over the Kenyon Lords with a 157-107 win.
Wrapping up an impressive season of dual meet competition, women's swimming traveled to New York last Friday to take on Columbia in their last regularly scheduled dual meet of year.Having beaten a very talented and highly-ranked Harvard team just a week beforehand, this weekend's meet against a weaker Lions squad seemed at first to be a bit of an anticlimax."From the numbers, Harvard was expected to beat us, but we really stepped up and won by a considerable amount," senior captain Katie Kuga said.
Princeton men's basketball now owns bragging rights as the only Ivy team undefeated in league play.
Following last weekend's match-ups against Cornell and Columbia, the wrestling team (2-7 overall, 0-2 Ivy League) finds itself up against East Stroudsburg, Harvard (0-8, 0-0) and Brown (3-7, 0-0) this weekend as it travels to Massachusetts and Rhode Island.Last weekend's results proved disappointing for the Tigers as they entered into the real meat of the season, beginning their Ivy League competition and starting to gear up for the approaching the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association meet at the end of the season.A pair of pins enabled Columbia to gain a quick advantage over the Tigers, including a pin of senior co-captain Brian Kirschbaum in the 133-lb.
Junior guard Will Venable's three-point play in the last seconds of Saturday's game against Yale, which gave Princeton a 49-47 win, was a dramatic finish to a close contest.That finish may have given the Tigers huge confidence in their ability to come through in close games.
In the words of legendary baseball manager Tommy Lasorda, "the difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."The challenge facing the men's hockey team this weekend requires just such extreme resolution and dogged team-wide willpower.
After an invigorating win last weekend at the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton competition, the men's swimming and diving team (6-1 overall, 6-0 EISL) will stay home for the weekend while Kenyon and Navy make appearances at DeNunzio Pool.Starting Friday night, the Tigers take on the Kenyon Lords.
Mason Cooley once said, "Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge." This weekend, in what has turned out to be one of the biggest ironies of the year, women's basketball, after suffering a more than rocky start, will face the tremendous challenge of both Dartmouth and Harvard with a chance to propel themselves into first place in the Ivy League.In a season that has proven to be anything but simple, the Tigers (5-11 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) will take on the biggest test of their time, first playing league-leading Dartmouth (10-6, 3-0) and then facing a veteran Harvard (8-8, 1-2) team.
I am a cursed traveler. Odysseus, the S.S. Minnow, none of them have it quite as rough as I do. In the past two-and-a-half years of flights, I have suffered more delays than I care to remember, two canceled flights, five lost bags, a power outage on a train, and a midair attack from a giant wasp creature.
With fewer than half of their regular season matches left, the men's (4-1 overall, 3-1 Ivy League) and women's (3-1, 3-1) squash teams are looking to tighten their loosening grip on the Ivy League race this weekend as they travel to take on Dartmouth and Harvard.
The Daily Princetonian received the following letter from recently departed men's basketball player Konrad Wysocki.In response to questions, comments and concerns I have received in the past few days I feel obligated to say a few words of my own.For Princeton basketball the trip to Brown and Yale was a successful Ivy League weekend with very important wins.
While the men's fencing team takes a weekend break from competition, women's fencing will make the long and laborious trek to Ithaca, N.Y., this weekend, facing Cornell in the Stifel Fencing Salle.
The No. 9 women's hockey team will look to start another winning streak this weekend, as they travel to New York for back-to-back games against Union.The team previously had a five-game winning streak, stretching back to before Winter Break, that included a surprise victory over No.
