And That's 500 Wins

The nightmares that TigerBlog will have because of the commercials during the Super Bowl of the people born with cowboy hat heads should end somewhere around the time ... well ... they'll never end. 

The worst part? He cannot for the life of him tell you what the product in the advertisement was. That's the absolute worst kind of commercial — nightmare inducing and for no real payoff. 

There were very few completely awful commercials, which is an improvement from most years. There were a handful that TB would say were great, but the majority were simply "nice," as opposed to the standard of the last decade or so, which was defined by Super Bowl commercials that were simply trying wayyyyy toooooo hard to be funny and cutting edge — and failed miserably doing so.

There were three commercials from Sunday that stood out to TB. First, there was the Liquid Death drink. TB will actually seek it out to see how it tastes. 

Then there was the breast cancer commercial. It took a very difficult subject and handled it in a way that was just perfect. 

The best commercial? That was the Harrison Ford one for Jeep. The last line was also perfect, and the entire message evoked only feelings of warmth. 

Oh, and TB's prediction of Philadelphia 28, Kansas City 17? That was a pretty good one. The Eagles were just the better team, playing against a team with a great mystique — but not a great offensive line. 

Booger McFarland, speaking on Friday's "Pardon the Interruption," basically said that if the Eagles were to win, then Saquon Barkley wouldn't be the MVP, because the Chiefs were simply not going to let the star running back beat them. That's pretty much how it turned out. 

And one last Super Bowl note, and that would be Jalen Hurts and his combined stats in his two Super Bowl appearances: 44 for 60 for 525 yards and three touchdowns, with 143 rushing yards and four rushing touchdowns (he ranks first and second for rushing yards in a Super Bowl game by a quarterback with 72 and 71).

Okay, back to Princeton Athletics and round numbers. 

Princeton's women's basketball team defeated Penn 74-60 Saturday afternoon at Jadwin and in the process earned Tiger head coach Carla Berube her 500th career win. Now that's a big clean round number everyone can appreciate it.

Berube spent 17 years at Tufts before coming to Princeton, and she won 384 of those 500 games with the Jumbos. She is 116-22 at Princeton, for a total of 500-118 and a winning percentage of .809.

Can you imagine winning eight of every 10 games and having your career percentage go down? 

Berube's record in many ways speaks for itself. In many ways, it doesn't.

For instance, you can make a case that the current Princeton season may be her best coaching job yet. Keep in mind who is not on this team from a year ago — Kaitlyn Chen, Ellie Mitchell, Chet Nweke — and who is on this team but unable to play after a knee injury back in November — Madison St. Rose. 

Think about how much firepower was on the team last year that isn't there now. Having St. Rose back was going to go a long way to overcoming those losses, and she lasted less than seven games. 

Was the season over the? Nope. Berbube's teams don't work that way. 

With a new emerging group of stars (Ashley Chea, for instance, had 25 against Penn), Berube's team is 16-5 overall and 7-1 in the Ivy League, one game back of Columbia, who comes to Jadwin Gym Feb. 22. Those two, plus Harvard, seem to be complete locks for the upcoming Ivy tournament, with the Crimson at 5-2. 

Brown is 4-4, while every other team has at least six losses in the league. Princeton, Columbia and Harvard are 15-0 against the rest of the league. 

If you look at the NET rankings, the top three Ivy teams are all in the top 45. It's very likely that there will be at least two of them in the NCAA tournament. 

Harvard is ranked 35th. Columbia is ranked 42nd. Princeton is ranked 45th.

Congratulations to Carla Berube on her big round number. 

If you're a Princeton fan, make sure you appreciate what you've been seeing from her teams since Day 1 for her.