Around the Ivies: Men’s basketball
The Ivies are off to a great start this basketball season, and most of the teams look like they will be boasting excellent records when they start Ivy play. Here’s how the Ancient Eight breaks down...
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Streaking Tigers to host struggling Knights
Men’s basketball hosts Fairleigh Dickinson Saturday at 7 p.m. in Jadwin Gymnasium. The Tigers (5-1) are off to their best start in 16 years and look to continue a four game win streak against the...
View ArticlePrinceton wins 5th straight
The men’s basketball team stormed past Fairleigh Dickinson Saturday, continuing its best start since the 1997-98 season. The Tigers (6-1) have not lost since they fell to Butler by three on Nov. 16....
View ArticleLife after Hummer
The men’s basketball team is doing better now that Ian Hummer ’13 is gone. The first thing that comes to mind when you hear something like that is probably “correlation does not imply causation,” a...
View ArticleTigers, Nittany Lions set for throwback matchup
The men’s basketball team squares off against Penn State Saturday in what should be one of the toughest games of the season for the Tigers. And as if that wasn’t exciting enough, the game will also be...
View ArticleTigers shock Nittany Lions with huge comeback
The halftime score was 35-23, and the men’s basketball team was being outshot, outrebounded and outplayed. When the Tigers (8-1) came out of the gates slowly in the second half to go down 41-23 with a...
View ArticleWith victory over Liberty, Tigers are 11-2 entering Ivy play
The men’s basketball team faced their final opponent before beginning Ivy League play on Saturday, traveling to Lynchburg, Va., to defeat Liberty 80-74. It was the last of the Tigers’ (11-2) five games...
View ArticleThe Daily Princetonian: The Penn is not mightier than… well, anything
It is a time-honored tradition that, before the first men’s basketball game of the season between Princeton and Penn, the Sports Editors of the Daily Princetonian and Daily Pennsylvanian exchange...
View ArticleLiveblog: Princeton vs. Penn
The men’s basketball team begins the “Fourteen-Game Tournament” that is the Ivy League season tonight with a trip to the Palestra to face rival Penn. The teams have had opposite seasons so far, with...
View ArticleUpdated: Quakers outlast Tigers to pull off upset
PHILADELPHIA, PA - Princeton’s hopes of an Ivy League title took a huge hit Saturday with a shocking 77-74 loss to Penn at the Palestra. The men’s basketball team (11-3, 0-1 Ivy League) was expected...
View ArticleTigers’ title hopes diminished with two road losses
The men’s basketball team suffered two Ivy League defeats over the weekend, effectively eliminating the already-small chance they had at winning the conference. Friday night saw Princeton (12-5...
View ArticleTiger throwback: 1997-8 men’s “dream team” set records, ended in tournament...
This is the first in a series of articles recounting the feats of great Princeton teams from a variety of sports. Third Eye Blind’s November 1997 hit asked the question, “How’s it Going to Be?” which...
View ArticleMen’s Basketball Hosts Ivy Rivals at Home
Men’s basketball will try to turn its season around this weekend in match-ups against Columbia and Cornell at Jadwin Gymnasium. Princeton (12-5 overall, 0-3 Ivy League) is winless through three...
View ArticleMen’s basketball splits a pair of league matchups at Jadwin
The men’s basketball team suffered another crushing defeat Friday night against Columbia before rebounding to smother Cornell Saturday in the first pair of conference matchups at home. Princeton (13-6...
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Trying to build off victory, Tigers face stiff competition
Coming off a rough homestand, the Tigers head out for what looks to be their toughest weekend of the season. After going 1-1 against two of the weaker teams in the Ivy League, Princeton (13-6 overall,...
View ArticleMen’s basketball edges Brown, loses overtime thriller at Yale
Senior guard and captain T.J. Bray got the ball with 4.4 seconds left near midcourt and made one final drive to the basket to try and lift the Tigers over the Bulldogs. In a play symbolic of...
View ArticleAround the Ivies: Harvard and Yale emerge on top of men’s table
Halfway through the gauntlet that is Ivy League regular season men’s basketball, Harvard and Yale stand at the top of a competitive table. As teams start to find their identity — for better or for...
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Men’s basketball hosts league leading Harvard, struggling Dartmouth
The men’s basketball team will not win the Ivy League. But Princeton (14-7 overall, 2-5 Ivy League) still has plenty of reasons to fight. A big one is the continuation of the 24 year home win streak...
View ArticleMen’s basketball beats Dartmouth, falls to Harvard at home for first time in...
In a play symbolic of Princeton’s season, sophomore forward Hans Brase missed a dunk with eight minutes left and the Tigers (15-8 overall, 3-6 Ivy League) trailing Harvard by one. The Crimson (22-4,...
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