The men's volleyball team traveled to Newark tuesday night looking to open the league play portion of their schedule with a bang.
The No. 8 women's hockey team hosts a pair of games this weekend, as they face Cornell on Friday and Colgate on Saturday.Princeton is coming off a spectacular weekend of hockey, in which they defeated Union twice by a combined score of 15-1, raising their record to 14-6-0, with an Easterm College Athletic Conference record of 7-4-0.Cornell (4-15-1 overall, 1-11-0 ECAC) and Colgate (15-10-2, 6-6-0) both promise to pose stiff challenges for the Tigers.
The men's hockey team can empathize with the labors of Sisyphus. One weekend after facing the top team in the Eastern College Athletic Conference, Princeton has the unenviable task of traveling to hostile rinks and challenging second-place Cornell (10-7-6 overall, 8-5-3 ECAC) and third-place Colgate (15-8-5, 10-4-2).Although the Tigers (5-17-1, 5-10-1) are languishing in 11th place in a 12-team conference, only three points divide the team from an opportunity to garner the final home-ice playoff seed in the first round of the ECAC playoffs.
"He's not scared of any of his opponents," sophomore Tim Prugar said of wrestling's senior co-captain Brian Kirschbaum.
I started writing for the Daily Princetonian Sports section my sophomore year. Having just been thrown off the crew team, I was pretty sure that I wouldn't be doing that beat.
As the impressive 2003-2004 regular season comes to a close for the swimming and diving teams, the Tigers are beginning to set their sights on several postseason accolades that are now within their grasp.
Women's squash now sits at No. 3 in the country, up from its No. 6 ranking last week, and everyone wants to know why.A big part of it is the recent and unexpected win over Harvard.
Needless to say, committing 15 turnovers was not part of the game plan drawn up by men's basketball head coach John Thompson '88.
Saturday's near loss to league-last Harvard had some people questioning whether men's basketball deserved its status at the top of the Ivy League.Tonight's contest gave everyone further reasons for doubt.The Tigers (11-7 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) could not find their rhythm against Penn (10-8 overall, 3-2 Ivy League) when they hosted the Quakers last night at Jadwin.
Let's get it out of the way right up front.I know that Penn lost to Yale and Brown. I am also fully aware of the fact that Princeton has yet to lose an Ivy League game.But the last time the Quakers headed to Princeton with their backs against the wall, 2000-01, they went on to demolish the Tigers, 62-38, en route to an Ancient Eight title.With that out of the way, let the glorious bashing of Princeton begin.Princeton has a lot going for it.
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.
This yearly column is getting tougher and tougher to write. This whole thing is based on Penn making fun of Princeton and vice-versa.
The men's track team had a strong showing in a tri-meet against Penn State and Connecticut. Although the Tigers placed third with 112 points, compared to 112.5 for Penn St.
Aren't hat tricks in hockey supposed to be rare?Apparently, but not for senior forward Gretchen Anderson of the women's hockey team.
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.
Princeton men's basketball now owns bragging rights as the only Ivy team undefeated in league play.
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.
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.
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?
The wrestling team journeyed to Cambridge, Mass. and Providence, RI this weekend to face off against Harvard, East Stroudsburg and Brown.
