North Carolina vs. Duke. Indiana vs. Purdue. Tennessee Tech vs. Middle Tennessee State.Rivalries are the blood that flows through college basketball's veins.
At this point, it's all about Heps and the post-season. As the indoor track season winds down, the chances to qualify for either the IC4A or NCAA championships grow fewer and fewer, adding a sense of immediacy to the last couple of meets of the year.
'The Game' is tonight at 7:30. Penn and Princeton. Always the biggest game of the season. The rival schools have been the end-all of Ivy League men's basketball for decades.
The sellout crowd of 3,100 invaded the court as the team's star finished the visiting team with an emphatic dunk at the buzzer.
With eight seconds left in regulation and the Tigers trailing, 67-64, junior Allison Cahill threw up a desperate shot from the three-point line.
In life, love and hockey, it's the little things that count.The Princeton men's hockey team has made huge strides on both ends of the ice since the beginning of the season.
The Princeton women's hockey team (13-6-2 overall, 9-3-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference ? North) beat the teams it was supposed to this weekend, as it disposed of Cornell (5-15-1, 4-7-1) and Colgate (11-11-2, 1-7-2).Although the Big Red and the Raiders both sit near the bottom of the ECAC-North, they are very different teams.
In its first Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association action of the year, the men's volleyball team knocked off rival Juniata College before losing to national powerhouse Penn State.The five-set (28-30, 30-27, 36-38, 30-24, 15-10) win was the Tigers' first win over Juniata in their last four matches."Juniata's a team that's on the same level as us but for some reason we've always lost to them," senior captain Scott Dore said.
Only at Princeton could the senior captain of the wrestling team be both a mechanical engineering major and an experienced weatherman.
With a militant flourish, Princeton women's hockey marched through New York two months ago and conquered Ithaca and Hamilton.
The fans began to scream. It was late in the second half of the men's basketball team's methodical deconstruction of Cornell Saturday night, en route to a 60-38 victory, but the roaring of the crowd had nothing to do with any Princeton basket.
The women's basketball team leapt into Ivy League competition this year with surprising back-to-back victories.First, on Jan.
When most people think of volleyball, they think of people relaxing on the beach, taking in the sun and gently hitting a ball around.Scott Dore thinks of returning an 80-mph serve and digging the ball off the gym floor while it is 30 degrees outside.Even when growing up in California, the senior co-captain didn't play much beach volleyball."Usually, at the beach I would just hang out and go in the water," the Newport Beach native said.Like many high school kids, Dore stuck with football and basketball.
Tuesday's game with Penn will be the biggest of the season. Before the taunts break out on the Quakers, though, Princeton fans need to become a little more acquainted with their own players.
Men's volleyball has three returning starters from last season's 6-13(4-11 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) squad in senior middle hitter Scott Dore, junior opposite Dennis Alshuler, and sophomore setter Jason Liljestrom.With the departure of seniors Blair Anderson, Ryan Black, Steve Cooper and Kevin Roche, Princeton will look to freshmen outside hitters Blake Robinson and Ryn Burns to fill the void.
Senior forward Brad Parsons is glad to be back on the ice.Parsons, who strained his knee in the first game of the men's hockey team's season against Niagra, made his return to the team in early December.
Coming out of Intersession, the women's basketball team is sitting in a three-way tie for fifth in the Ivy League with Dartmouth and Penn.
In a sport where individual success does not always correlate with team hegemony, a competitive event is often concluded with mixed feelings and a range of emotions across the diverse spectrum that is the track and field team.
As defending Ivy League champions, the women's fencing team went into the first Ivy meet of the season feeling the pressure.
While most of the Princeton campus was taking it easy and just relaxing over Intersession, the women's indoor track and field team was practicing hard every day, and its committed efforts really shone through at meets on Jan.
