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Rumble in the Jungle: Men's hoops to host Penn tonight in the latest installment of Ivy League basketball's best rivalry

Rumble in the Jungle: Men's hoops to host Penn tonight in the latest installment of Ivy League basketball's best rivalry

Only seven games into the Ivy League season, it is do-or-die time for Princeton.Men's basketball's loss to Yale gave Penn, which comes to Jadwin Gym tonight, a one-game lead in the conference.

SPORTS | 02/14/2000

Women's squash tops Harvard

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.

SPORTS | 02/14/2000

Tigers will give Penn fans another reason to whine

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.

SPORTS | 02/14/2000

Men's squash defeats Harvard for Ivy title

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.

SPORTS | 02/14/2000

Athlete of the Week: Peter Yik

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.

SPORTS | 02/14/2000

Men's swimming defeats Navy, looks ahead to Easterns

In the men's swimming team's final tune-up before the Eastern Championships, the Tigers sailed past visiting Navy with a dominating 186.5-112.5 victory Sunday at DeNunzio Pool.With the win, Princeton finished the regular season with a 10-1 record as head coach Rob Orr notched his 59th consecutive home meet win at DeNunzio.With strong performances up and down the roster, the Tigers surpassed Navy in 12 of 16 events.In the freestyle competition, sophomores Kevin Volz and Nathan Rebuck combined for three winning performances.

SPORTS | 02/14/2000

Young: Head to the mound — and stay there!

Chris Young, you must really love this time of the year ? baseball season is just around the corner.Just think, Chris.

SPORTS | 02/14/2000

Men's track triumphs at H-Y-Ps

Going into the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet Saturday in Cambridge, Mass., the men's indoor track team knew that it had more talent and depth than its rivals, event for event.

SPORTS | 02/14/2000

Men's hoops sweeps Ivy pair as fans prepare to welcome Quakers

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.

SPORTS | 02/13/2000

Four-point weekend moves w. hockey closer to playoffs

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.

SPORTS | 02/13/2000

W. hoops bus accident foreshadows weekend

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.

SPORTS | 02/13/2000

M. hockey bounces back with wins over RPI, Union

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.

SPORTS | 02/13/2000

Track prepares for H-Y-Ps

The men's track teams on campus ? cross country, indoor track and outdoor track ? have dominated the Heptagonal championships the last two years.

SPORTS | 02/10/2000

Men's hockey looks to end five-game losing streak

Two weekends ago, the men's hockey team stepped back onto the ice after a three-week hiatus from league play.

SPORTS | 02/10/2000

No rest for the weary: M. hoops hosts Dartmouth, Harvard

Members of the media spoke with Dartmouth men's basketball coach Dave Faucher Wednesday via telephone at a press conference in Jad-win Gym.

SPORTS | 02/10/2000

W. hoops forms strong relationship with fan club

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.

SPORTS | 02/09/2000

National Felons' League? Don't be so quick to judge

When athletes make the jump from college or high school to the professional ranks, their lives are bound to change.

SPORTS | 02/09/2000

M. volleyball sends NYU packing in four games

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.

SPORTS | 02/09/2000

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