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Women's Basketball: No. 23 DePaul shoots past Princeton, 78-67

Women's Basketball: No. 23 DePaul shoots past Princeton, 78-67

Randolph Brown

On Tuesday night, the women’s basketball team allowed small mistakes to be compounded against No. 23 DePaul, falling 78-67 for its second home loss of the season. “It’s a tough loss, but you want to play teams like this,” said junior forward Niveen Rasheed, who finished with 23 points and a career-high 18 rebounds. “We asked for this schedule, and it makes you a better team.”

SPORTS | 12/13/2011

Track & Field: Princeton vaults into new indoor season with style

Adam Fisch

Typically, in track and field, the first meet of the season is an opportunity to acclimate to competition and work the kinks out. Such rust-busters come before the bulk of event-specific training and preparation. In general, season openers are viewed more as a way to gauge basic fitness than as an occasion to break records.

SPORTS | 12/12/2011

Women's Basketball: Tough schedule tests Tigers’ new defense

Luc Cohen

As the two-time defending Ivy League champions, the women’s basketball team entered the 2011-12 basketball season with a different set of expectations. Simply making the NCAA Tournament would not be quite as satisfying an end goal for a talented team that dominates within its league and increasingly threatens outside teams.

SPORTS | 12/12/2011

Wrestling: No. 17 Rutgers too strong for hosts

Ben Koons

After upsetting Old Dominion last weekend, the wrestling team fell to No. 17 Rutgers this weekend. Only junior Garrett Frey, wrestling at 125 pounds, and senior Daniel Kolodzik, wrestling at 157, won their matches in a 29-7 loss. Still, it was a big improvement from last year’s match, in which Rutgers shut out Princeton 42-0.

SPORTS | 12/12/2011

Squash: Squads close 2011 with perfect weekend

So far this season has been distinguished by considerable success for the men’s and women’s squash teams, and this weekend was no exception. The Tigers concluded their last matches of 2011 at home at Jadwin Gymnasium, coming through with sweeps against Williams on Friday and George Washington on Saturday.

SPORTS | 12/12/2011

Men's Basketball: Crouching Tigers, winning Dragons

Vijit Kapoor

The men’s basketball team took its first loss in four games as Drexel won 64-60 at the Daskalakis Athletic Center on Saturday. The Tigers (4-6) had traveled to Philadelphia optimistic that their recent wins were indicative of improved performance, but a strong Drexel team held on for the win despite not scoring a field goal in the final four minutes and 45 seconds.

SPORTS | 12/11/2011

Sports Shorts: Columbia finds coach; Harvard takes 1st loss

Pete Mangurian was named as the new head coach of Columbia’s football program in a press conference on Friday afternoon. A coach with former Ivy League experience, Mangurian headed Cornell’s program from 1998-2000, taking a team that finished last in his first season to second place in 2000. He will try to perform a similar turnaround with the Lions, who finished 1-9 in 2011, tied with Princeton for last in the Ivy League with a 1-6 conference record.

SPORTS | 12/11/2011

Women's Basketball: No help for Rasheed in 65-52 defeat

Luc Cohen

Despite a strong effort from junior forward Niveen Rasheed against Navy on Friday night, the women’s basketball team could not recreate the full team effort that has carried Princeton so far this season. Rasheed scored 16 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, but no other player came close to either of these figures and the Tigers allowed the Midshipmen to break out of a close battle with a 12-2 run in the final three minutes to claim a 65-52 victory.

SPORTS | 12/11/2011

Women's Hockey: Offense comes up empty in shutout losses

Tory Roberts

The women’s hockey team came out on the losing side of two shutouts against the league leaders this weekend, falling to Quinnipiac at Baker Rink on Friday night and again on the road on Saturday afternoon. With the pair of losses, the Tigers dropped back below .500 in conference play but remain tied for sixth in the standings.

SPORTS | 12/11/2011

Men's Hockey: Princeton can’t pull final trigger in crunch time

Ali Goedecke

The men’s hockey team stayed close to its opponent for most of Saturday’s matchup at Baker Rink, but Harvard held onto its lead and overcame the Tigers 4-3. The Tigers had won the first game of the season series in Cambridge, Mass., by the same score on Nov. 4. On Sunday, a frustrating weekend continued with a 3-2 loss at Quinnipiac.

SPORTS | 12/11/2011

Cricket: Bowled over by a foreign sport

Kevin Henneck

I was only in Dillon Gymnasium, but at the time, it sort of felt like I had gone to a faraway place. In my mind, it was a parallel universe, where baseball had different rules and artifacts had conspicuously British-sounding names. Of course, the sport I was learning was cricket, and instead of being played in a parallel universe, it’s just not played on this side of the globe.

SPORTS | 12/08/2011

Women's Basketball: Rasheed, Edwards hope to continue Tigers’ strong start at Navy

Tobias Citron

The women’s basketball team has had a successful season so far, accumulating seven wins in eight games and claiming the best record in the Ivy League. The Tigers lead the conference in points allowed and scoring margin, an indication of the team’s tremendous defensive play so far. Princeton also features junior forward Niveen Rasheed, one of the best players in the league. Rasheed leads the league in rebounds per game with 7.6 and is third in scoring with 16.9 points per game.

SPORTS | 12/08/2011

Men's Basketball: 7-game road swing continues at Drexel

Vijit Kapoor

The men’s basketball team will travel to Philadelphia this weekend as it faces Drexel in the second match of a sequence of seven away games. The Tigers will look to make it four wins in a row after triumphing in the dying seconds in the annual match against Rutgers on Wednesday. Drexel needs to regroup after a difficult start to the season that has seen four losses in its last five games.

SPORTS | 12/08/2011

Women's Hockey: Mahoney, Weber net midweek accolades

Damir Golac

The women’s hockey team will get a chance to extend its current two-game win streak when it plays Quinnipiac twice this weekend in a home-and-home series.

SPORTS | 12/08/2011

Men's Hockey: High-powered offenses await Princeton

Jeff Epstein

The men’s hockey team looks to keep the momentum from their best weekend of the season going as it faces ECAC Hockey rivals Harvard (3-3-3 overall, 2-3-2 ECAC Hockey) and Quinnipiac (9-6-3, 2-4-3) this weekend. Princeton (4-7-2, 3-5-1) is riding a three-game unbeaten streak, highlighted by its most recent game, a 3-3 tie against No. 10 Union.

SPORTS | 12/08/2011

Column: If you can’t stand family, enjoy an NBA Christmas

Alex Moss

It’s the home stretch, people — another week and change until winter break, and for most of us that means a trip home. Go ahead — sleep in your own bed until two in the afternoon, enjoy regular access to a car, forget everything you’ve learned in the last 12 weeks — no one is going to stop you. The holidays are about family, and ... oh man, family. Listen: I have no doubt there are those among us who are grateful, loving children. Good for you. But as for the rest of us?

SPORTS | 12/07/2011

Around the Ivies: Top challengers to Princeton’s three-peat bid

Ben Koons

The women’s basketball team came sprinting out of the gate this season, preparing to claim a third-consecutive Ivy League title. Princeton (7-1 overall) won its first six games before succumbing 81-70 to unbeaten No. 22 Delaware on Dec. 1. Junior forward Niveen Rasheed has led the team in points, averaging 16.9 per game. Princeton’s defense has led the conference, holding its opponents to only 52.8 points per game and totaling 94 steals. The Tigers have excelled in their non-conference games, leading the Ivy League as they look forward to the start of conference play on Jan. 7.

SPORTS | 12/07/2011

Track & Field: Quest to repeat indoor sweep begins Saturday

Adam Fisch

Last year the men’s and women’s track teams achieved the height of conference domination, winning every single Ivy League championship title from cross country to outdoor track. The 2010-11 squad was arguably one of the best groups of track and field athletes that Princeton has ever produced. Nevertheless, this year’s pack of runners, throwers and jumpers is striving to be even better. Though the women missed a win at the Heptagonal Championships in cross country, coming into the indoor season the men are still in the hunt for a second straight triple crown.

SPORTS | 12/07/2011

Men's Basketball: Hummer hits winner as Tigers survive scare

Shayan Rakhit

Entering Wednesday night, the men’s basketball team had not won at Rutgers since 1999. After Princeton blew a 17-point lead late in the second half, it seemed that the streak would continue. But despite a strong push from the Scarlet Knights, the Tigers held off the hosts when junior forward Ian Hummer floated in a game-winning layup with 2.7 seconds left to go, giving Princeton a 59-57 victory.

SPORTS | 12/07/2011

Basketball: Tigers' threads: History of the orange and black

Luc Cohen

When junior forward Ian Hummer went for a layup or pulled up for a jumper during the 2010-11 season, he did so in a No. 34 jersey very similar to the one his father, Ed Hummer ’67, wore over four decades ago.The straps over Ed’s shoulders, however, are much thinner than those over Ian’s. On Ed’s jersey, black outlines enclose orange lettering; on Ian’s, it’s the opposite. Ed’s shorts are much shorter, and his jersey lacks the iconic Nike swoosh that his son sports.These subtle nuances — plus the fact that this year’s Tigers already have completely different jerseys, much as last year’s were completely different from the ones the 2009-10 team wore — show that the design of the Princeton basketball jersey is, in fact, anything but static.

SPORTS | 12/06/2011

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