Could it happen again?Last year, the men's swimming team eked out an 83-80 upset over Harvard in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton Invitational to earn the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League dual-meet title and an undefeated season.
If at some point this spring you walk by 1895 Field and see an Elvis impersonator prancing around in front of the Princeton dugout, do not be alarmed.
"Overrated! Overrated!"The chants rained down on the men's basketball team during Tuesday's defeat of Penn at the Palestra.And in last Saturday's win at Cornell.
For three years the softball team owned the Ivy League Championship. And now the Tigers want it back.In 1994, 1995 and 1996, Princeton won the Ivy League Championship.
"To sum up Harvard ? it was just another successful drive-by. The Crimson bled profusely," said men's volleyball's sharpshooter, senior opposite Scott Birdwell.The scene at Dillon Gym Saturday was brutal, as Princeton (8-5) spared no one, not even Harvard opposite David Olson, a high school teammate of Birdwell and senior outside Jeff Cooper.Princeton cruised to a 3-0 victory, downing the Crimson by three identical scores of 15-6."We rocked them ? Ivy League style," sophomore outside Pablo Clarke said.
It would have been a disaster in most other circumstances.As the men's tennis team's game against Rutgers drew to a close yesterday afternoon, the Scarlet Knights' Scott McGrath was down 5-4, 30-0 in the third set of his match against Princeton's No.
While some looked to add to an already successful season, others looked for a measure of vindication as the men's and women's squash teams competed this weekend at the United States Intercollegiate Squash and Racquets Association individual championships held at Amherst, Mass.Two weeks removed from a national title, the women's contingent, headed by freshman Julia Beaver, the top seed in the 64-player draw, came away with mixed results in the season-ending tournament.Beaver, who was undefeated on the season and the favorite to win the individual title, dropped a close semifinal match to eventual tournament champion Ivy Pachoda of Harvard, 3-2.
PHILADELPHIA ? Over the years, the Ivy League men's basketball race has almost always come down to two teams: Princeton and Penn.
The Palestra was certainly rocking last night ? way before fans had even begun to arrive for the men's basketball game.In the first of two nailbiting Princeton wins, the women's basketball team topped Penn, 73-67, in its season finale.The win gave Princeton (16-10 overall, 10-4 Ivy League) its best record since 1991 and a dramatic turnaround from last year's finish of 7-19, 6-8 in the Ivy League."It was a game of desire," Thirolf said, "and we wanted it most.
Last season, the men's tennis team was at a distinct disadvantage in the league. Princeton had lost four out of its top six players in 1996 to graduation.
The first game of the season always inspires raw nerves and maybe even fear. Friday night at the Princeton Invitational, the women's water polo team (2-2) played its first game in the 1998 season and its first-ever game as a varsity team.Matched up against the University of Indiana, the No.
Usually when a team earns a playoff berth from its last regular season game, the match is a victory.
Although a victory by first-place Harvard Friday evening led to women's basketball's inevitable elimination from Ivy League title contention, Princeton continued to make a spirited push towards second place.Led by senior guard Zakiya Pres-sley, the Tigers cruised past Columbia (4-22 overall, 0-14 Ivy League) and Cornell (5-21, 2-12) over the weekend at Jad-win Gym, keeping alive their hopes of winning 10 games in conference play for the first time since 1991.While the Tigers were certainly not at their best this weekend, they were never in any serious danger of losing to either Ivy League doormat.
Although the men's basketball team has already clinched the Ivy League title and another trip to the NCAA tournament, tonight's regular-season finale against Penn at the Palestra is not without meaning.Tonight's game not only offers the Tigers the opportunity to beat Penn, it also gives the team another chance to add to its legitimate claim as one the best teams in school and Ivy League history.For one thing, the No.
When a team loses only one senior to graduation, it usually means that next year's group will be a veteran squad.
Epee had done it. Foil had done it. In the 73-year history of fencing at Princeton, only the men's sabre squad lacked a team title at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championship.
For the last few weeks men's hockey has played like a team that cannot decide whether or not it wants to make the playoffs.
NEW YORK ? Some nights, Bill Carmody walks off the court looking like a man on his way to a job interview ? head up, hair in place, necktie neatly knotted.But there are other nights when it seems Carmody, the head coach of the men's basketball team, has just suffered through a horrible day at the office ? voice hoarse, hair disheveled, necktie loosened.Following Friday night's game against Columbia in New York, it was the haggard Carmody that talked his way through the post-game press conference, his voice barely audible as he fielded questions about Princeton's hard-fought 51-37 win over the Lions.
As Yogi Berra once mused, it was "d
BALTIMORE ? When the top-ranked men's lacrosse team faced off against No. 4 Johns Hopkins Saturday, it was supposed to be a close game.After all, last year's game between Princeton and Hopkins was close ? the Tigers pulled out a dramatic 7-6 win in overtime.
