If the Tigers play like they did in the first half, we will be seeing both the men’s and women’s teams fighting for a tournament title on Sunday.
The Ivy League Conference Tournament Title and auto bid to the NCAA Tournament will come down to a battle between the last two regular season champions. In the third of 4 games Saturday afternoon, the Yale Bulldogs defeated the Harvard Crimson 73 - 71 to advance to the Tournament final tomorrow.
Princeton currently trails Penn 33-30 in the first semifinal matchup of the inaugural Ivy League Men’s Basketball Tournament at the Palestra. In what can only be described as a fiery and emotional environment, Princeton was faced with a hostile crowd in an arena filled with local Penn fans.
On Wednesday, hundreds of Princeton students mobbed the Frist ticket office to get their seats at the Palestra this weekend. With music, endless T-shirts, and an overall mood that can only be described as “hype,” it became clear that Ivy Madness had officially begun.
A team that faced more questions than answers at the start of this season is firmly in the hunt for a spot in the NCAA tournament.
An estimated 200 students waited in line to buy tickets at Frist Campus Center for the Ivy League Basketball Tournament to be held March 11-12 at the Palestra in Philadelphia.
The men’s squash team concluded its season this past weekend at the College Squash Association Individual Championships at Dartmouth College, sending four athletes to compete for individual titles and All-America honors.
The Princeton women’s ice hockey team suffered a 4-0 defeat in the ECAC semifinals last weekend when they faced Clarkson.
The Princeton men’s ice hockey season this year can be viewed as one long comeback. Situated in the cellar of the ECAC for much of the beginning of the season, the team clawed back to earn a No. 7 seed and home ice for the first round of the conference tournament. However, this pales in comparison to the comeback pulled by the team in this weekend’s three-game playoff series against Colgate. Literally a second from elimination, Princeton fought back to win the series and advance in the tournament.
Coming into this weekend, the Tigers knew that they would be invited to the inaugural Ivy League tournament. What they didn’t know, however, was if they would be there defending a regular season title or just looking to turn a second or third place finish into a spot in the Big Dance this March.
The men’s volleyball team claimed the top spot in the EIVA with two wins this Friday, Mar. 3, and Saturday, Mar. 4, in their doubleheader against Charleston.
The women’s squash team just concluded its 2016-17 season at the College Squash Association Individual Championships at Dartmouth College this past weekend, Mar. 3-5. Princeton sent nine athletes to participate in one of the five draws of the tournament: Holleran North, Holleran South, Holleran East, Holleran West, and the Ramsay Cup.
With time winding down and the game tied at 69 each, Princeton needed someone to step up and score the decisive basket. Enter junior guard Amir Bell. Bell’s drive to the basket and floater with 1.1 seconds left put everyone in Jadwin Gymnasium on the edge of their seat. When the ball came through the hoop, the arena erupted.
The 2016-17 men’s basketball team has joined an elite group with their perfect 14-0 Ivy League record.
In the most important game of the season, the Princeton Tigers showed last night why they are the best team in the Ivy League.
The men and women’s track and field teams concluded their seasons at the Indoor Track and Field Heptagonal Championships held at the Armory Track in New York City on Feb. 25 and 26. Saying that the meet was exciting would be an understatement. Many Princeton alumni came to cheer on the teams alongside families and friends of the competitors.
It hasn’t always been smooth sailing for the Princeton wrestling team. Competing in an Ivy League dominated for decades by Cornell, as well as competing within the fiercely competitive EIWA, the Tigers have often struggled to find their place in a sport traditionally dominated by large, storied Midwestern programs. Head coach Chris Ayres, however, has turned Princeton from an insignificant contender in college wrestling to a consistent placer in the NCAA national championships, one of the most dangerous squads in the EIWA.
For four years, women's basketball seniors Taylor Brown, Vanessa Smith, and Jackie Reyneke have made Jadwin Gymnasium their home. On Saturday, they walked off the court for their final time at Jadwin, capping a wild and record-setting four years for the Class of 2017.
With two games remaining in the regular season, there is little more the Princeton men’s basketball team could be doing.
After falling in the first game in a three-test series against Quinnipiac, the women’s ice hockey team came back to win the next two games of the weekend. They are now heading to the ECAC semi-finals next weekend.
