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Men's basketball retakes first place in Ivy League with home wins over Yale, Brown

Men's basketball retakes first place in Ivy League with home wins over Yale, Brown

Offense wins games. Defense wins championships.Cliches can be annoying, but every now and then they illustrate a very important point.This last weekend, the Tigers held two of the strongest offenses in the Ivy League to 93 points in two games.On Saturday, Princeton dominated Brown (15-10 overall, 6-6 Ivy League) en route to a 73-47 victory.On Friday night against then-league leading Yale (17-8, 9-2), Princeton (13-9, 8-2) put forth possibly the best defensive performance of the season on the way to a 59-46 victory.

SPORTS | 02/24/2002

Ithaca bound: Men's, women's track teams seek glory at Heps

With the largest meet of the year starting tomorrow, someone might think that the men's and women's indoor track and field teams are getting nervous about their chances against the rest of the Ivy League and Navy at the Heptagonal Championships.

SPORTS | 02/21/2002

Men's hoops faced racial slurs from crowd in loss at Yale earlier this season

Ahmed El Nokali walked off the court at Lee Ampitheater in New Haven Feb. 9 while one pained thought raced through his mind, repeating itself again and again.

SPORTS | 02/21/2002

Men's hockey heads to Dartmouth and Vermont in ECAC stretch run

As the end of the men's hockey season approaches, Princeton's fate will very likely be controlled by two teams heading in opposite directions.Second-ranked Dartmouth and last place Vermont will take on Princeton, Yale and St.

SPORTS | 02/21/2002

Dartmouth and women's hockey meet at Baker Rink

In the world of sports, dynasties are not uncommon. The New York Islanders of the early 1980s, the Chicago Bulls of the 1990s and the New York Yankees from the beginning of time are all examples of teams that seemed to have one-way tickets to success and prosperity.

SPORTS | 02/21/2002

Men's hoops takes on Yale, Brown in games that may decide the Ivy title

This season, Princeton and Penn have not been the end-all of men's Ivy League basketball. An old program with a familiar name has shown up and taken the reins from the dominant "P's." That program, surprisingly, is Yale ? 9-1 in the Ivy League.Despite their two losses to Division III teams, the Elis are on top of the league and looking for the kill this evening against the Tigers.

SPORTS | 02/21/2002

Women's hoops looks to stop six-game slide in Ivies

The last time the women's basketball team faced Brown and Yale in one weekend was a test of resilience.After succumbing to Brown on Feb.

SPORTS | 02/21/2002

Anderson and women's hockey look for post-season victories

Contentment.About 350 years ago a few men settled a town in Massachusetts along the Charles River and gave it that comforting moniker.

SPORTS | 02/20/2002

'Do you believe in miracles?'

February 22, 1980.In the annals of U.S. Olympic performances, there is probably no more important date.

SPORTS | 02/20/2002

Women's swimming sweeps Ivy League regular season, looks to duplicate success

Even the best athletes understand that you can't win all the time. Sports wisdom is full of affirmations of the inherent value of the game, the joy of competition, and the irrelevance of the final score: "It's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play the game."But for women's swimming and diving, Vince Lombardi's maxim that "winning isn't everything ? it's the only thing," probably rings more true.

SPORTS | 02/20/2002

With wit, talent, Schaeffer keeps women's basketball team upbeat during tough stretch

"Kelly Schaeffer has given us more leadership than anybody on the team as a sophomore," head coach Richard Barron said after Schaeffer's 15-point performance in 31 minutes in women's basketball's game against Dartmouth this weekend.Schaeffer, a 5 foot 11 inch center from Walt Whitman High School in Long Island, New York, has indeed developed into a vital leader of the Tiger squad after less than two years of experience.

SPORTS | 02/20/2002

Men's tennis starts off season 1-1, doubles teams look solid

Back-to-back matches are always a difficult war to wage, and when the levels of the teams involved differ greatly, it can be even tougher to predict the outcome.The men's tennis team recently encountered both ups and downs early in their spring season as they took an easy victory over Old Dominion only to have it followed by some tough obstacles in a match against Virginia Common-wealth.The Tigers won against Old Dominion 5-2 early in this month when they traveled to Virginia during Intersession.

SPORTS | 02/19/2002

Wrestling battles two strong foes, virus in weekend losses

If Central Michigan and Rutgers were not enough of a challenge for the Princeton wrestling team, the vicious stomach flu became the team's biggest challenge last weekend, with three of the Tigers' top wrestlers feeling the effects of the painful virus.Already disappointed with their dual meet record, the team hoped to get some momentum last weekend leading into their upcoming final Ivy League match against Penn.

SPORTS | 02/19/2002

Men's volleyball struggles in first game, wins match in three

After struggling to win the first game, the Princeton men's volleyball team caught fire and went on to beat the New Jersey Institute of Technology with solid second and third sets, 30-23, 30-18, 30-15.The victory moves Princeton (5-6 overall, 4-3 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Associa-tion) to above .500 in the EIVA.The Tigers came out sluggish in the opening game.

SPORTS | 02/19/2002

Women's tennis defeats Penn State handily, falls to No. 42 UVA, 4-3

After being ranked at No. 60 last year in Division I and finishing 4-3 among the Ancient Eight, the Princeton women's tennis team has not yet established a pattern for the rest of the season.

SPORTS | 02/19/2002

Men's hockey executes well; splits weekend with conference foes

Maybe the men's hockey team has finally turned the proverbial corner. For several weeks, talk about solid team intensity, great effort and a high level of play has filled the locker room.

SPORTS | 02/18/2002

Women's squash loses to Trinity in semifinals of Howe Cup

On the same day that the men's team was facing Trinity in Jadwin for the NCAA National Championship, the women's squash team was playing Trinity in the Howe Cup semifinals.Princeton (7-4 overall, 6-3 Ivy League) finished fourth at the Howe Cup, the three day tournament that determines the national champion in squash.

SPORTS | 02/18/2002

Men's volleyball wins over Harvard, goes 2-2 on the weekend

To say that the men's volleyball team had a busy week would be a gross understatement. Princeton had its home-opener against Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association rival Concordia last Thursday and then hosted George Mason and St.

SPORTS | 02/18/2002

Women's water polo starts out undefeated after solid weekend

The visiting team scored another goal with five minutes 18 seconds to go in the fourth quarter. The faces of the orange and black reflected imminent defeat; the crowd was ready to leave the stadium.

SPORTS | 02/18/2002

Women's basketball drops two more; streak rises to eight straight losses

This weekend the women's basketball team extended its losing streak to eight with defeats at the hands of Dartmouth and Harvard.At halftime of both games, the Tigers looked like they could snap their skid, but they came up short in the second half.Friday night, the Tigers built a quick lead on Dartmouth with a barrage of three-pointers, but the Big Green was able to keep it close, converting seven free throws in the first half.Princeton led 34-23 at the break, but surrendered an astonishing 53 points in the second half, while Princeton scored only 57 points in the entire contest.The Big Green shot 19-27 - over 70 percent - in the second period, while the Tigers only made two more baskets than that in the whole game, shooting 21-60."For a ten-minute stretch against Dartmouth, despite calling timeouts, we could not stop the bleeding," head coach Richard Barron said.

SPORTS | 02/18/2002

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