With the score tied, 4-4, in the men's squash team's match against Harvard Saturday, there were two men left playing ? senior No.
Peter Yik crouched on the court with the sound pounding behind him. The Harvard stands were packed for the men's squash meet that would decide the Ivy championship, a title that Harvard had hoarded for nine straight years.
Okay Penn fans, you're probably expecting the usual list of cheap shots and insults that so often grace our pre-game columns whenever your basketball team is involved.
While the women's squash team's weekend performance in Cambridge, Mass., was not quite as dramatic as that of the Tigers' male counterparts, it was nonetheless a win.
After months of turmoil, all is finally well in Carmodyville. For the first time this season, the entire roster was medically cleared to play, and the men's basketball team turned in two dominating performances.The entire 15-player roster got involved in a 72-47 thrashing of Dartmouth Friday, and rode on the back of sophomore center Chris Young for a 73-55 win over Harvard Saturday.
Finally.All season, the women's hockey team has been working towards a victory over one of the nation's elite teams, only to fall short every time.A last-minute goal by No.
After last weekend, the women's basketball team thought it was on the right track. It had won its first Ivy League game, 55-52 over Brown, bringing its season total for wins to four.Princeton (4-17 overall, 1-6 Ivy League) has run into lots of problems over the first part of its season, but on Thursday night the Tigers took that to a new level.As the team bus traveled through southern Connecticut, a car and an 18-wheeler bumped yards ahead of Princeton's bus.
Men's hockey head coach Don Cahoon has tried many things this season to turn his team around.This weekend, it was not the new power play scheme or any tweak in the lineup that boosted Princeton.
The men's track teams on campus ? cross country, indoor track and outdoor track ? have dominated the Heptagonal championships the last two years.
Two weekends ago, the men's hockey team stepped back onto the ice after a three-week hiatus from league play.
Members of the media spoke with Dartmouth men's basketball coach Dave Faucher Wednesday via telephone at a press conference in Jad-win Gym.
When athletes make the jump from college or high school to the professional ranks, their lives are bound to change.
Reeling from a surprising loss to George Mason Friday to open its Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association season, the men's volleyball team reinvented itself for last night's matchup against NYU.A new lineup and a more aggressive attitude produced the change head coach Glenn Nelson and the Tigers were looking for as they rebounded with a 3-1 victory over the Violets.Princeton (2-3 overall, 1-1 EIVA) dominated visiting NYU (2-4, 2-3) early in the match, winning the first three points on its way to a quick 3-0 lead.
Sometimes when one is watching the women's basketball team effortlessly sink a perfect basket or sneak a sly pass past the opposition, it is hard to imagine that the Tigers have not been playing basketball forever.
It was not a big problem for most Princeton student-athletes. No one was ever prevented from playing.
If you look at the score sheet after the game you probably won't see his name.Actually, if you look at all the score sheets for the entire season, you still won't see his name.
There's an interesting fact about Ivy League men's basketball ? one that only the conference's closest followers are aware of: Since 1992, the league's representative in the NCAA Tournament has never lost a league game to a team whose name does not begin with 'P.'Either Princeton or Penn has advanced to the NCAAs every year.
The theme to this year's men's basketball season thus far has been injuries. The almost plague-like spread through the team has gutted the starting lineup, and head coach Bill Carmody has been forced to look for help from an unfamiliar place: the bench.And maybe somewhat surprisingly, the reserves have demonstrated that they can not only contribute minutes on the court, but points on the scoreboard as well."Everyone is working hard, and we're trying to just forget about the injuries because, like I told my players, 'I recruited you because I thought you could play, and now you're playing,' " Carmody said last week.Sophomore forward Ray Robins is one of the players making those injuries a little easier for the Tigers to deal with.Robins, a six-foot, seven inch forward from Paso Robles, California, literally erupted on the Princeton basketball scene Jan.
Punxsutawney Phil may have recently seen his shadow, indicating six more weeks of dark winter days.
As the wrestling team prepares to compete in Pittsburgh for the first time, Pennsylvania pride is showing itself in full force.
