The men's squash team broke Trinity's 13-year streak of national championships with a thrilling, come-from-behind 5-4 victory. Replay our live blog to see the action!
It has been three years since the men’s squash team made it to the finals of the national championship. In 2009 — the last time the national championship was held at Jadwin Gymnasium — this year’s current seniors were freshmen. After defeating Rochester in the semifinals, the Tigers ultimately fell 5-4 to Trinity in one of the most thrilling squash championships in history.
Entering the penultimate weekend of regular-season play, the men’s hockey team remains much in the hunt for a top-eight seed and resulting home-ice advantage in the first round of the ECAC Hockey Tournament.
The men's basketball team plays a second straight game in front of the ESPNU cameras tonight, trying to move back into the top half of the Ivy League standings against Columbia. Follow the action, starting at 7 p.m., with our live blog!
The women’s basketball team came into this season with high expectations, having won the Ivy League two years in a row. The Tigers have more than met those expectations this season, posting 17-4 overall and 7-0 Ivy League records at the halfway point in the conference season. After winning 10 straight games, including last Saturday’s 84-56 demolition of Harvard, the Tigers will look to build on their recent success as they visit conference foes Columbia and Cornell.
Only one Ivy League men’s basketball team in the last nine seasons has won the league despite copping three losses. Cornell managed the somewhat dubious feat in a strange, feisty 2008-09 season, which saw second-placed Princeton beat the 0.500 mark by a single win. To emulate Cornell, the Tigers will have to win every remaining game and hope other results go their way.
The men’s basketball team extended its win streak to three games, dropping Columbia 77-66 in front of a national audience and the ESPNU cameras on Friday night. Just as in three of their first four Ivy League victories, the Tigers broke open a tight game in the second half, scoring 50 points after the break.
The women’s hockey team will close out the regular season this weekend on its home ice as it hosts conference rivals Rensselaer and Union. The Tigers’ senior weekend schedule includes a 7 p.m. start against RPI on Friday followed by a 4 p.m. faceoff with Union on Saturday.
For the past 15 years the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams have played on the turf field at the Class of 1952 Stadium. During their tenure, along with the field hockey team, the Tigers have amassed six NCAA championships and taken home 34 Ivy League titles.
In the last Ivy League game of Jeremy Lin’s career, the Harvard graduate and now-NBA star faced a one-point deficit with under a minute to go against the men’s basketball team. Lin had just failed on the defensive end and fouled guard Marcus Schroeder ’11, who netted two free throws to give Princeton a 52-51 lead.
Check out our revamped Around the Ivies design as we take a look at the women's basketball teams around the Ancient Eight.
Both competing on the ice and coaching from the sidelines, Bob Prier is very familiar with the world of ECAC hockey. Currently in his first year as head coach of the men’s hockey team, he joined the Tigers staff with the mission of helping Princeton remain among the elite teams in the ECAC. Former head coach Guy Gadowsky, who retired last year to lead the charge at Penn State, developed and improved the Princeton hockey program that entered this season with the best five-year run in team history.
Freshman guard Blake Dietrick of the women’s basketball team is known by her teammates for her energy, contagious enthusiasm and kindheartedness. A native of Wellesley, Mass., she went to all of Wellesley College’s basketball games and quickly fell in love with the sport.
Jeremy Lin was discussed on CNN last Saturday morning. As an analyst in a blazer and jeans gave a 45-second reprise of the Jeremy Lin story, the network rolled Lin highlights from Friday night’s game against the Lakers in Madison Square Garden. As Lin put a devastating spin move on Derek Fisher and finished at the rim, the text below him read A NEW STAR IN SPORTS. A few moments later, as Lin drove past a backpedaling Matt Barnes and went reverse off glass around the outstretched hand of Pau Gasol, the headline had switched to LIN-SANITY IN NEW YORK.
The women’s tennis team posted big results this weekend at home, taking down No. 41 Maryland 5-2 on Saturday and sweeping Rutgers 7-0 on Sunday. Meanwhile, the men’s team traveled to North Carolina, falling to No. 46 UNC Wilmington on Saturday but taking down Elon on Sunday. Both teams have a big weekend ahead, as they are playing in the ECAC Indoor Tennis Championship.
During senior guard and co-captain Lauren Edwards’ junior year of high school, the Princeton women’s basketball team tied for fourth in the Ivy League, amassing a mediocre 7-7 League record and going 13-15 overall.Now, in the midst of the Tigers’ second-leading scorer’s final year on the court, the team is the two-time defending Ivy League champion and appears poised for a three-peat.
The women’s hockey team came out on the losing side of two defensive duels this weekend. Despite strong play by senior goalie Rachel Weber and the rest of the defensive squad, the Tigers fell to Clarkson 2-1 and St. Lawrence 1-0.
The men’s hockey team hit a roadblock this weekend in its games at Clarkson and St. Lawrence as it fell to the conference opponents 3-2 and 4-1, respectively. Going into the matchups, the Tigers had gone undefeated over the span of their last four games, all of which they played at Baker Rink. Sophomore netminder Sean Bonar made more saves than his counterparts on Friday and Saturday night, but Princeton’s offense failed to deliver on several of its shooting opportunities.
The No. 24-ranked men’s swimming and diving team defeated Columbia on Friday at DeNunzio Pool to complete an undefeated Ivy League season, while the women’s team fell short against the Lions to finish the season with a 5-2 record.
The men’s volleyball team split a pair of games on the road to open conference play in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association, winning the league opener at Sacred Heart before falling in three sets at Harvard.
