And The Answers Are ...

Guess what TigerBlog isn't doing today.

He's not doing a podcast with Courtney Banghart, the head women's basketball coach. This week's "The Court Report" will have to wait until tomorrow, since Courtney is on the road recruiting today.

This ends their streak of doing their podcast every Tuesday for the basketball season. This included podcasts on Christmas and New Year's Day.

Oh well. Tomorrow will be fine.

For today, TigerBlog will be revisiting the "Who Am I" questions from last week. There were six of them, three alums and three current athletes:

The alums:

1) Who Am I?
I have the top two single-season point totals in Princeton women's basketball history, but I am not the all-time leading scorer in program history. I did score at least 32 points in game three times in my career.  I am also in the top 10 in program history in rebounds and free throws made and attempted, but not in three-pointers made.
2) Who Am I?
Excluding events that are no longer contested, nobody currently holds a Princeton men's track and field record longer than I have. That record, the one that has stood the longest, is actually in a different event than the one I competed in when I was in the Olympic Games.
3) Who Am I?
I am in the top five in Princeton men's hockey history in career goals, assists and points, and I had more than twice as many of each in my NHL career than I did at Princeton.

And the current athletes:

1) Who Am I?
My best single-game rushing performance this year was 104 yards better than the next best by any of my teammates this year - and the fifth-best single-game performance in program history.
2) Who Am I?
I'm a freshman on the No. 4-ranked team in the country and I'm tied for the team lead in goals right now.
3) Who Am I? I'm the only player on the men's lacrosse team who had at least one goal in every game last season.

And the answers?

For the alums, it's Meagan Cowher, Augie Wolf and Jeff Halpern. For the current athletes it's Collin Eaddy, Maggie Connors and Chris Brown.

That was a fun exercise for exam break.

TigerBlog didn't realize that Cowher had the two highest single-season point totals in program history until he looked it up. He would have guessed Niveen Rasheed had one of them, but it turns out she has the third, fifth and eighth.

The school record for career points is 1,683, held by Sandi Bittler, who graduated 29 years ago. Cower is second all-time, 12 points back at 1,671. Rasheed is fourth at 1,617, five points back of Claire Tomasiewicz, though TB figures Rasheed lost out on about 250-300 points or so with a torn ACL that caused her to miss the second half of her sophomore year.

If you're wondering about Bella Alarie, she has 913 career points. At her current pace of just short of 20 points per game, Alarie would get to 1,168 at the end of the regular season, not counting the Ivy League tournament or any postseason. That would leave her 515 points away from Bittler's record. Cower's single-season record is 532.

In other words, it'll probably end up being close as Alarie approaches Bittler's record. Like Rasheed, Alarie also missed significant time due an injury; in her case, the first nine games this season.

As for Wolf, he holds the school records for the discus and the shot put, but he set the discus record in 1982, one year earlier than he set the shot put record. He then went on to finish fourth in the shot at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games.

Lastly, Halpern had 60 goals, 82 assists and 142 points in his Princeton career. His NHL numbers were 152 goals, 221 assists and 373 points.

Then there are the current athletes.

Collin Eaddy ran for 75 yards on the first play of what became Princeton's 59-43 win over Yale. For the day, he'd finish with 266 yards on the ground with three touchdowns, the second of which came on his second carry of the day.

Eaddy's big day left him in fifth place on Princeton's single-game rushing list, behind only Keith Elias (299 versus Lafayette and 272 versus Lehigh, both in 1992), Jordan Culbreath (276 versus Dartmouth in 2008) and Homer Smith (273 versus Harvard in 1952).

By the way, TB went to look up the exact numbers that Eaddy had against Yale and first clicked on the schedule on the football page, and seeing that "10-0" on the top is still really cool. Also, TB forgot that Princeton had three players carry the ball against Yale and all three had at least 100 yards (Eaddy with 266, Ryan Quigley with 113 and John Lovett with 110). How often has that happened?

Maggie Connors has 14 goals for the fourth-ranked Princeton women's hockey team, tying her with Carly Bullock for the team lead. Connors' fellow freshman, Sarah Fillier, leads the team with 20 assists and, with her 12 goals, also has a team-high 32 points.

That's an incredible 1-2 combination of freshmen for Cara Morey's team.

Lastly, Chris Brown had a goal in every game for the men's lacrosse team last year, making him the only player to do so last year and only the second Princeton freshman ever to do so (Peter Trombino also did it back in 2004).