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Men's hoops faces Brown, surging Yale in crucial Ivy weekend

Men's hoops faces Brown, surging Yale in crucial Ivy weekend

Yale only tallied 31 points. That's it. The number put them in dead last, just behind Brown.But the Elis have surprised everyone in and out of the league ever since they received those 31 votes to finish in eighth place by the pre-season Ivy League Media Poll.

SPORTS | 03/01/2001

Men's swimming heads to Easterns, where Harvard again looms as favorite

Swimming upsets are not very common. The underdog never overcomes the Goliath by some divinely-inspired Herculean effort; the favorite team never has an 'off' day.

SPORTS | 02/28/2001

Men's volleyball falls to George Mason in three

After its loss to Concordia Feb. 13, the men's volleyball team was certain that it would right itself to reel off a string of league victories over the next few weeks.After winning their next two games, the Tigers seemed headed in that direction just a week ago.

SPORTS | 02/28/2001

Wrestling set for EIWA championships

It's not exactly what head coach Mike New and the rest of the wrestling team had in mind at the beginning of the season ? 12-9 overall, 2-3 in the Ivies, and a fourth place finish in the league.

SPORTS | 02/28/2001

Hillary Reser

Hillary Reser is a junior guard for the women's basketball team. She recently sat down with 'Prince' staff writer Shani Moore.Prince: What do you like most about playing basketball at Princeton?Hillary Reser: Definitely the team.

SPORTS | 02/28/2001

Dale Earnhardt: What Princeton can never have

This column is about the late Dale Earnhardt.Most people in this country, NASCAR fans or not, sports fans or not, saw replays of the man's death two weekends ago.

SPORTS | 02/28/2001

Princeton, Penn, Yale and Brown to battle for Ivy men's hoops title

Currently, there is a lack of certainty within the Ivy League. There is not one overall leader in the men's basketball race ? but two.

SPORTS | 02/27/2001

Men's volleyball loses road games to league rivals Juniata and Penn State

The old Pennsylvania license plate boasts the motto, "You've got a friend in Pennsylvania." Apparently "you" does not include the men's volleyball team, which received anything but a friendly welcome as it traveled to the Quaker State and lost back-to-back matches this past weekend.The Tigers' first opponent was league rival Juniata.

SPORTS | 02/27/2001

Wrestling loses early lead, meet to Cornell in final Ivy match

Fighting for a tie, Cornell was more interested in a tie for first place than for third.The Princeton wrestling team (12-9, 2-3) drove up to Ithaca, NY, on Friday hoping to finish its Ivy League schedule with a strong win.

SPORTS | 02/27/2001

Women's water polo suffers close losses in CA tourney

Of the women's water polo team's four games this weekend at the UC-Santa Barbara Gaucho Tournament, not one was decided by more than a goal.

SPORTS | 02/27/2001

Men's, women's fencing earn Ivy titles

The Tigers were tied 9-9 after two rounds of fencing with Yale. The next four bouts went by quickly ? Princeton lost all of them.The Tigers were down 13-9 with Yale threatening to destroy all the women's fencing team's dreams of Ivy glory.One bout from defeat, the Tigers rallied.

SPORTS | 02/26/2001

Matthew Maglione — Men's Ice Hockey

Defensemen aren't supposed to be the leading offensive weapons on an ice hockey team.Neither are freshmen.But when freshman defenseman Matthew Maglione drove to the net two minutes, 54 seconds into overtime and scored on the rebound of senior forward Chris Corrinet's shot, the freshman had taken the spotlight on senior night.But merely scoring the game-winning goal that gave the Tigers their first three-point weekend of the season was not enough.

SPORTS | 02/26/2001

Men's squash falls to Harvard in semis of NISRA Championship

Two weeks ago, the men's squash match against Harvard came down to the final match.Sophomore No.

SPORTS | 02/26/2001

Women's hockey still sits on playoff bubble with weekend split

U2. Steeley Dan. The women's hockey team.Last week was certainly a week of comebacks. The Tigers may not have won a Grammy, but they turned in their own comeback performance this weekend.The Tigers had a solid effort, going 1-1 on the weekend.

SPORTS | 02/26/2001

Women's hoops drops games to Harvard and Dartmouth

It was the calm before the storm. While the women's basketball team had compiled a not-so-impressive 1-21 overall and 1-8 Ivy League record, Princeton was encouraged.

SPORTS | 02/26/2001

Weekend wrap-up

FencingIt was a tremendous Saturday for both the men's and women's fencing teams at Jadwin Gym.

SPORTS | 02/25/2001

Men's basketball wins two, easily dispatching Dartmouth and Harvard to stay atop the Ivy League with three games remaining

Considering who was sitting in the stands Saturday night, all the backdoor cuts, the fluid passes and the three-point baskets were especially appropriate in the men's basketball team's home victory over Dartmouth.In front of 74 former Princeton basketball players and coaches, the Tigers (13-10 overall, 8-3 Ivy League) completed a weekend sweep, finishing off the Big Green (7-18, 2-10), 68-52, Saturday and putting away Harvard (12-12, 5-7), 62-48, Friday.

SPORTS | 02/25/2001

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