HARTFORD, Conn. ? With eight minutes, 52 seconds to go in the first half of the men's basketball team's 69-57 victory over UNLV last night, the No.
It is a problem that most nationally prominent Princeton teams face: weak, but mandatory Ivy League schedules.
With all the excitement focused on men's basketball, and with a dismal record in the second half of its season, the men's hockey team has fallen into relative obscurity.
It is true that big surprises come in small packages.The women's hockey team's victory last week was a surprise.But don't call the Tigers a small package.
So what if you've been spending all of the men's basketball team's regular season locked in a Firestone carrel doing integral calculus?
In recent weeks, Mitch Henderson has been something of a walking advertisement for Blue Cross. His nose was broken in the men's basketball team's victory over Yale Feb.
Sure, the men's basketball team is the No. 5 seed in the East and UNLV is the No. 12 seed, but what about the other 14 teams in the Tigers' bracket?
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.
