After a week-long tour of Europe during the second half of Winter Break, the women's hockey team (11-5-0 overall, 4-3-0 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference) was finally back in action with two games this weekend.
For a team picked last in the league in a media poll, the women's basketball team (3-10 overall, 0-1 Ivy League) exceeded expectations by staying close with Penn until the final minutes in both team's Ivy League opener Friday night.
While all Princeton students have to deal with what Shakespeare calls "barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold," the impending deadline of Dean's Date and the specter of semester exams, the members of the men's hockey team faced additional tests this weekend: St.
With two and a half minutes left in Saturday night's game at Minnesota (8-5 overall), the men's basketball team (6-6) found itself in a familiar position: on the road against a team from a major conference and in position to pull off an upset.But, yet again, the close calls and lucky bounces that so often determine a tight game would not go the Tigers' way, as they fell 57-53.
Men's squashOver a successful break, men's squash routed each of its first four opponents, going 34-2 against Cornell, Brown, Franklin & Marshall and Western Ontario.The best news for the Tigers after their early-season dominance was the play of their rookies.
It would be nearly as joyous a celebration as landing on Mars if the men's basketball team were 11-0 right now, after playing two national powerhouses as part of its pre-Ivy League schedule.Princeton finally played a team within its own galaxy of the basketball universe Wednesday night, when the Tigers (6-5) beat Monmouth (7-4), 67-52.The game was won early in the second half, when the Tigers started hitting every shot they threw into the atmosphere.
As Emily Dickinson once said, "Fame is a bee. It has a song, it has a sting."On Monday, women's swimming, a program that has enjoyed the sweet song of fame for so long, finally felt its sting as the team suffered its first true defeat, falling to Pittsburgh.
The wrestling team faced some of the top individuals and teams in the country over Break, traveling as far as Texas to continue its season.After failing to win its first four dual meets and finishing in 17th place in the Beast of the East Tournament, the team finally seemed to find its footing in its final match of Winter Break against Bacone College in the Lone Star Duals in Grand Prairie, Texas.
Before Winter Break even started, everyone knew that the men's basketball team would not be able to judge its five-game performance on record alone.
The women's hockey team just can't get enough of each other.The Princeton icesters headed into Winter Break 9-5-0 after a two-game sweep of Findlay in Ohio, then spent only 12 days apart before hopping on a plane for Europe for an eight-day tour of Germany and Prague that ended up being more about culture than hockey.The Tigers left on a jet plane and touched down in Munich on Dec.
The holiday schedule for the Princeton men's hockey team could best be described as one memorable, hard-earned, gilt-wrapped present bracketed by a number of sacks of coal.
Men's basketball played five games over break, going 1-4, but that includes losses to two of the best teams in the country and only one loss by more than three points. RutgersPrinceton (5-5) took to the road Dec.
For the women's basketball team, Winter Break was a busy ? and often frustrating ? three weeks.With seven games over three weeks, Princeton (3-9 overall) approached its break schedule as a chance to find its rhythm before the begining of league play this Friday.
Stop studying. Don't read or write. For the next 23 days, sit on the couch and watch TV. You'll more than likely be able to catch the men's basketball team playing some of the nation's best if you stick to that plan.Three of Princeton's five games over Winter Break will be televised ? two of them nationally. RutgersTomorrow night, the Tigers (4-1) make the short trip up the road to Piscataway, N.J.
With the first half of its season winding to a close, the Renaissance era of Princeton swimming ? characterized by the diversified talent, constantly improving skill and ever loftier goals for the team ? still appears to have the wind in its sails as it heads into the new year with enthusiasm and uncertainty.
As any diehard fan will tell you, winter is not about bitter cold, snowmen and hot chocolate. It is all about basketball.For the Princeton women's basketball team (1-4), that maxim rings true.First on the Tigers' agenda this upcoming Winter Break is Hofstra (2-4 overall), a team coming off a 66-61 upset victory against Rhode Island on Tuesday.To kick off their season, the Pride challenged nationally-ranked North Carolina.
Judson Wallace had another big weekend for the men's basketball team. On Friday, the Georgia native netted 16 points, while grabbing five rebounds and dishing out four assists in the Tigers' 57-55 loss to UC-Irvine.On Saturday, Princeton came back with some fire after its first loss of the season, and so did Wallace.
"I'll be home for Christmas, you can count on me."In addition to well-loved crooner Bing Crosby, members of the women's hockey team can probably claim the above lyric to be true of themselves.
Compared to most students, whose holiday break means a return to home cooking and, for lucky ones, mistletoe, the members of the men's hockey team get Harvard and Minnesota.
The other day, I had the privilege of catching one of Reebok's "Terry Tate: Office Linebacker" episodes, and it got me thinking.
