A new coach, a new philosophy?The answer is yes and no as Scott Bradley takes over as head coach of the baseball team following the retirement of 16-year head coach Tom O'Connell after last season.
Jeff DinskiNone of Philadelphia's Big Five qualified for the tournament this year, continuing a general trend of horrible Philadelphia sports teams.
Women's water polo has yet to gain the recognition of women's swimming or basketball in America. Many of us may remember Olympic swimmer Amy Van Dyken's "Got Milk" commercial or WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes' eponymous shoes.
With wins over No. 5 Utah and No. 19 New Mexico last week, Nevada-Las Vegas was probably the last school the men's basketball team wanted to play in the first round of the NCAA tournament.Nevertheless, Princeton (26-1 overall, 14-0 Ivy League) will take on UNLV (20-12, 7-7 Western Athletic Conference) tonight in Hartford, Conn.
In his final season for the Tigers, and in possibly his final year playing baseball, senior Michael Hazen looks back among his many baseball memories, and without hesitation recalls his greatest moment ? winning the Ivy League championship at Clarke Field two years ago."I don't have any stories of winning a game in the ninth inning with a home run or anything," Hazen says.
Every year the Ivy League sends a representative to the NCAA basketball tournament. The presence of of an Ivy League team in the Final Four, however, comes along about as often as Haley's Comet.
When the softball team traveled to College Park, Md., last weekend to play both Maryland and Mary-land-Baltimore County, it didn't expect to have much of a home-field advantage.But after coin tosses determined that Princeton would play as the home team in both games, the Tigers capitalized on the technical home-field advantage by using their final at-bats to defeat both Maryland squads.The Terrapins (9-4 overall) and Princeton (2-0) battled for eight innings, before back-to-back run-scoring doubles by sophomore second baseman Kamilah Briscoe and senior center fielder Bevin Keenen gave the Tigers an encouraging 3-2 come-from-behind win.Princeton was forced into a must-score situation after Maryland scored a two-out run in the top of the eighth.
In the first game of Friday's men's volleyball match in Fairfax, Va., George Mason reeled off the first five points of the game and fired a sharp blow to the head that sent the men's volleyball team reeling.Princeton staggered through the remainder of the match, eventually succumbing in three straight games, 15-13, 15-11, 15-7.
Two years ago, Everyone's Favorite Underdog traveled to Indianapolis for a first-round game in the NCAA tournament.
Sunday night was miserable.Maybe you remember looking out your window at the cold, hard rain as you watched the NCAA Tournament selection show.
When Harvard and Princeton entered the water for their final game in this weekend's Ivy Invitational, the Crimson seemed ready to avenge its loss to the Tigers the weekend before.Earlier this season the two teams met at the Princeton Invitational where Princeton's powerful offense led the Tigers to a 7-5 victory.
Riding high from their respective Heptagonal victories, the women's and men's track teams competed for individual glory at the Eastern College Athletic Conference and IC4A Championships, respectively.As two-time defending champion, Nicole Harrison had little to prove about her dominance in the east of the 55-meter hurdles.
You would expect students at our nation's military academies to be well-trained in shooting guns.
During the NCAA tournament back in 1991, UNLV poured in 99 points in its first-round victory over Montana in Tucson, Ariz.
After taking two contests last week in Jadwin Gym, the men's tennis team (2-1 overall) was on a roll, looking ready to defeat Penn State Saturday.Crushing both Rutgers one week ago and St.
Offense wins games, but defense wins championships.The women's hockey team learned the truth to that sports adage when the underdog Tigers (12-15-2 overall, 9-13-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference) upset defending ECAC champion Northeastern (25-5-4, 17-3-3) Saturday in Boston in the first round of the ECAC tournament."We knew that it was the most important game of the season and that it was going to be rough," sophomore forward Danya Marshman said.
The dream of an undefeated season died Saturday afternoon. It was officially laid to rest in Charlottesville, Va.
Entering this weekend's matches against Rensselaer and Union, the men's hockey team had already clinched a spot in the Eastern College Athletic Conference playoff tournament.
Just after 6:30 p.m. yesterday, the men's basketball team got the news it had been waiting for. Princeton will take on the University of Nevada-Las Vegas Thursday in Hartford, Conn., in the first round of the NCAA tournament.The Tigers (26-1 overall, 14-0 Ivy League) were rewarded for their dominating season with the fifth seed in the East regional.
Had the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association tournament taken place a weekend later, the wrestling team would have had a reasonable explanation for its terrible luck.Unfortunately for the Tigers, however, not even a Friday the 13th curse could have positioned them in a more dubious situation at Lehigh University Friday.Perhaps emulating the NCAA basketball selection committee, officials at the tournament paired half of Princeton's team members with the No.
