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Playing just for pride, men's hoops sweeps weekend

Playing just for pride, men's hoops sweeps weekend

At the beginning of the weekend, there was hope. Though a long shot at best, the men's basketball team clung to the possibility of a share in the Ivy League regular season title.With three games left for both the Tigers and conference-leading Penn, and a three game spread in the standings, Princeton needed to win out its last three contests and pray that the Quakers would lose both games this weekend before the season finale at Jadwin Gym this Tuesday.Friday night, the Tigers (16-10 overall, 10-3 Ivy League) held up their end of the bargain with a gutsy 71-61 victory over visiting Cornell (9-18, 4-10).Penn did not cooperate with Princeton's hopes, beating winless Columbia 63-39, and mathematically eliminating the Tigers from the Ivy League race.The Quakers' triumph over Cornell the following night knocked Brown out of contention and, in the process, secured Penn's second straight NCAA Tournament appearance.On Friday, when Princeton was still fighting for its postseason life, the squad played hard and played well.

SPORTS | 03/09/2003

W. lacrosse hopes to extend streak far past 30

The women's lacrosse season is 16 games long. Princeton lacrosse fans will not have to wait that long to forecast their team's chances to repeat as national champions, however.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

Men's lacrosse satisfied only with return to title game

Six national championships in eleven seasons. Three straight championship game appearances. Thirteen returning seniors, seven of whom are starters.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

Looking for a miracle, m. basketball needs to sweep

The season is not over. Contrary to what many Princetonians have been saying, the men's basketball season is still going, and the Tigers will do battle against Cornell tonight and Columbia tomorrow night, both at home.Yes, an Ivy title and NCAA tournament berth are unlikely, but there is still a lot of basketball left to be played.In order for Princeton (13-10 overall, 8-3 Ivy League) to earn a share of the Ivy title, they need Penn (19-5, 11-0) to lose out and for Brown (15-11, 10-2) to lose at least one of their final two games.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

Christmas and co. set to take on Princeton

If you thought the road would get any easier for the men's lacrosse team after last week's painful 10-8 loss to Johns Hopkins, think again.Tomorrow, No.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

Several wrestlers have chance to secure NCAA bids at EIWAs

The wrestling team goes to the mat this weekend as part of the oldest and most revered wrestling tournament in the nation.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

ECAC tourney opens with w. hockey vs. Elis

A year ago, women's hockey captured home-ice advantage in the first round of the Eastern College Athletic Conference playoffs, only to lose the best-of-three series in a sweep to Harvard.This year, Princeton ? the third seed in the ECAC tournament ? is back at Baker Rink for round one, and the collapse against the Crimson is a distant memory.Sixth-seeded Yale visits campus for this year's best-of-three conference quarterfinal starting tonight, continuing Saturday and, if necessary, Sunday.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

No. 1 Tigers enter season with only high hopes

"I know the Syracuse men beat Princeton," George Bush told the 2002 Syracuse men's national championship team earlier this year, "it's lucky you didn't play the women."The president of the United States was not exaggerating.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

Cornell and Columbia host w. basketball in Ivy race for fifth

At this point in the season it is no longer make-or-break.Playing this weekend to hold on to fifth place in the Ivy League, the more appropriate term for the women's basketball team's situation is salvage-or-junk.The Tigers (9-16 overall, 4-7 Ivy League) will take on Cornell (9-16, 3-9) tonight in Ithaca, and then travel to Columbia to face the Lions (10-15, 3-9) Saturday night.Both Cornell and Columbia are currently locked in a three-way tie for sixth place with Yale, just a game and a half behind the Tigers.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

Men's head coach Tierney acts as teacher, coach

"The problem with the defense [in Saturday's loss to Johns Hopkins] was me," men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney said.It was an ironic statement, seeing as how it came from the mouth of a man who was recently inducted into the United States Lacrosse Hall of Fame as one of the greatest coaches the sport has ever known.On the surface, a lacrosse coach blaming himself for his team's ineffective defensive performance sounds self-deprecating, something only a coach without the foggiest idea about what he is doing would admit.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

Road to the championship an uphill one for men's lacrosse

For the past three seasons, there has been just one tough question in men's college lacrosse: would the National Championship fall into the hands of Syracuse or Princeton?This year, however, the questions abound and answers are impossible to decipher.Last weekend, in the first full week of lacrosse, No.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

After sluggish start, men's volleyball makes easy work of NYU in 3-1 win

"It ain't over till it's over." As the men's volleyball team learned last night, Yogi Berra knew what he was tallking about.The Tigers had good reason to be confident entering the match against NYU, having stomped the Violets in fifty-five minutes in their last meeting.

SPORTS | 03/05/2003

W. lacrosse shuts out Lafayette in first half, rolls to 15-6 victory

What can a team that finished last season on a 19-game winning streak, won the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship and paid a visit to President Bush in the offseason possibly do that could begin to match up to its former feats?Demolishing its first opponent to continue the nation's longest win streak is not a bad start.The women's lacrosse team (1-0) opened its 2003 season Wednesday by destroying Lafayette (0-1), 15-6, in a game that was nowhere near as close as the score suggests.With the win, head coach Chris Sailer earned her 200th career victory in just over 16 seasons.

SPORTS | 03/05/2003

The many complexities of men's basketball's offense

Think of the Princeton offense as nothing more than a big toolbox. If the right tools are used at the right times, open baskets will be as common as birdhouses in shop class.

SPORTS | 03/05/2003

Men's swimming looks to defend title at Easterns

A 9-0 regular season dual meet record ? outstanding. A victory at the H-Y-P meet ? thrilling.

SPORTS | 03/05/2003

One fan fed up with the business of pro sports

You know what is probably one of the worst ideas ever?The business of sports.I'm so fed up with professional sports these days, that I can't stand to watch them, let alone read about them.

SPORTS | 03/05/2003

Men's hockey to play Brown in first round of ECAC tourney

Providence, R.I. has not treated Princeton very kindly this year. The men's basketball team lost to Brown for the second time this season last weekend, while women's basketball and men's hockey have also left College Hill with an embarrassing "L" tattooed across their foreheads.But the men's hockey team is going back into the Bears' lair this weekend.

SPORTS | 03/05/2003

Frosh Kumar only Tiger to climb past first round at WISA tourney

Princeton squash already had one national champion. Could the women's team make it two? Freshman Ruchika Kumar qualified for the quarterfinals, but could not beat Yale's top player.

SPORTS | 03/04/2003

Absence of Uberoi dooms w. tennis against Terps

It is always difficult to take the stage following a flawless performance. On Sunday, women's tennis did not rise to the challenge after the men's consecutive 7-0, 7-0 victories the previous day against Army and Temple.

SPORTS | 03/04/2003

The frustrations of a Princeton die-hard

"Princeton sucks, Princeton sucks."Now let me preface this column by saying that I don't believe the above quote, but rather heard them this past weekend when sitting as a spectator at a number of Princeton athletic events.My ears, and those of the few Tiger fans around me, were rendered helpless by the onslaught of vulgar chants hurled at our innocent University by the blood-red Cornell hockey faithful and the ravenous Johns Hopkins lacrosse groupies.What specifically dismayed me was my observation of the dearth of Princeton students in attendance at these games.

SPORTS | 03/04/2003

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