Silver Times Two

It'll be just past noon today Eastern time when the 56th anniversary of the moment that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin returned to the Command Module Columbia after becoming the first two people to walk on the moon. 

And who was waiting for them there? That would be Michael Collins, the third member of the crew who never considered himself the third member, even if the other two were the ones who actually stepped out onto the lunar surface. 

While they did that, Collins spent a little more than 24 hours all by himself in the Command Module, orbiting the moon 30 times in the process. TigerBlog has read quite a bit about Collins (who passed away four years ago at the age of 90), including the fact that during his time alone in space he had to prepare for the contingency that Armstrong and Aldrin might not have made it off the moon alive and that he'd have to return home by himself. 

Can you imagine what that experience was like? Collins was alone in the space capsule and even more alone every time he passed to the far side of the moon, where he was completely out of radio contact. 

TB can't help but wonder what the two returnees said to Collins after they were reunited. You should have been there? Anything new? We brought you a present?

What did Collins say to them? Can you guys drive this thing while I go take a few steps down there as well?  

For everything that's ever happened in the history of everything, it's hard to imagine that anything has ever surpassed the idea that flight originated in 1903 with the Wright Brothers and then a mere 66 years later ended up on the moon. Each year on the anniversary, TB once again marvels at what all of those people accomplished. 

And that's today's edition of "This Day In History." 

As for current events, Princeton earned its first two medals — both silver — of the current World University Games this past weekend. 

The first came in men's 3x3 basketball, where rising junior Jackson Hicke and his all-Ivy League team of four players reached the final by defeating Chile, Italy, Poland in the quarterfinals and then Czechia in the semifinals. 

The championship game featured the Ivy Leaguers against Lithuania, where the Americans fell 21-16. Still, silver at the World University Games, along with the experience that has come with it, is an amazing accomplishment.

Why has Princeton men's basketball had so much success in 3x3? Kareem Maddox played on the U.S. team a year ago in the Olympic Games. There has been an army of former Tigers who excelled in the game long before it was in the Olympics. 

The answer is that the 3x3 game requires players who can dribble, pass, shoot, play defense and move without the ball. Those are the cornerstones of what Princeton has always espoused.  

The other players on the U.S. team were, by the way, Avery Brown (Columbia), Chandler Piggé (Harvard) and Nick Townsend (Yale). 

The other silver medal came in the pool, where Mitchell Schott came in second in the men's 200 individual medley. Schott won his heat and then his semifinal before finishing a second behind Japan's Takumi Mori, whose 1:57.24 was a meet record. 

TigerBlog went to the stats from the most recent NCAA championships to see how those times compared, only to learn that the American collegiate races are in yards and the World University Games are in meters. As such, TB will say that he's simply impressed with Schott's finish. 

Princeton's Patrick Dinu will swim today in the final of the men's 100 freestyle after also having the fastest times in his heat and semifinal as well. 

Dakota Tucker will swim in the women's 200 IM heats today, while Casey Helm will compete in the men's discus today as well. 

For the complete schedule and results of Princeton's athletes at the event in Germany, click HERE. 

When Is Next Week?

It's a Friday in July. 

Where does the blog content come from on such a day? Well, sometimes you just have to look at the side of the road. 

Last week, it was the shoe at the end of the road, which, by the way, is still there, though the heavy rains of the week actually washed it from one side to the other. This week? It's a street sign about which you could write a philosophy thesis. 

Here is the sign that TigerBlog drives past on a regular basis:

What does this mean? First of all, TB has been driving on this road for more than a week and nothing has changed. It's still open. 

The philosophy part asks the question of whether or not the street will ever be closed. Will it ever be next week? Is it next week now? It can't be. The road is still open. 

And with that:

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Jackson Hicke's start at the World University Games 3x3 event yesterday went perfectly fine, with the emphasis on the "perfectly."

Hicke, playing on the all-Ivy League USA entry, went 2-0 yesterday in Group A, defeating Chile 21-9 and Italy 19-12. As a result, the U.S. team earned a bye into tomorrow's quarterfinal round, bypassing the play-in round. 

A rising junior on the Princeton men's basketball team, Hicke had six points and eight rebounds between the two games.  

Princeton will have three swimmers in the pool today, with Mitchell Schott in the 200 free, Patrick Dinu in the 200 IM and Dakota Tucker in the 400 IM (an event in which she earned second-team All-American honors at the NCAA championships last winter). 

Schott was named the High Point Swimmer of the Meet after winning the 200 IM, 200 butterfly and 200 freestyle and being on the winning 800 freestyle relay to lead Princeton to the Ivy League title this past season. Dinu was also on that winning relay while also taking the 100 freestyle. 

Tucker was the 200 breaststroke champ as the women also won the 2025 Ivy title. 

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The 2025-26 men's hockey schedule was released earlier this week (much more tangible than the hypothetical "next week"), and opening day for the Tigers will be Halloween. 

If you want to come dressed as the mascot of the opponent for that night (and the next night), you'll have to come as a Nanook. In Intuit mythology, a "nanook" is considered "the master of bears." 

These Nanooks will come all the way from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks to Baker Rink. It'll be the first time the Nanooks play in Princeton and the first time the teams play since 1985, when they met in Alaska. 

Of course, there is a connection between Alaska-Fairbanks and Princeton men's hockey: Guy Gadowsky coached the Nanooks from 1999-2004 before he took over the Tigers.

By the way, it is 4,246 miles from the campus of Alaska-Fairbanks to the campus of Princeton and, according to google maps, a 68-hour drive. Be forewarned though: the directions say the route does have tolls. 

For the full Princeton schedule, click HERE. Season tickets go on sale Monday. 

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Much, much closer to this area is Fairfield, Conn., which is the host this weekend for the Premier Lacrosse League. 

There are four games this weekend, and all four have Princeton alums. Here's your schedule:

* tonight at 6:30 — New York Atlas (Jake Stevens) vs. California Redwoods (Sam English)
* tonight at 9 — Utah Archers (Ryan Ambler, Beau Pederson, Tom Schreiber) vs. Carolina Chaos
* tomorrow at 3 — Boston Cannons (Coulter Mackesy, Alexander Vardaro) vs. Denver Outlaws
* tomorrow at 8 — Maryland Whipsnakes vs. Philadelphia Waterdogs (Zach Currier, Michael Sowers)

Sowers continues to lead the league in points (28) and assists (19). 

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The first athletic event of the 2025-26 athletic year is now only five weeks away, with opening night for the women's soccer team against Rutgers on Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium set for August 22 at 5 pm.

In the meantime, have a great weekend. TigerBlog will be back next week — whatever that means.  

 

 

Princeton At The World University Games

The Opening Ceremonies and first events of the 2028 Summer Olympic Games will begin three years from this week in Los Angeles. 

Did you hear the big news about Los Angeles ’28? No, it's not that the track and field competition will be held the first week of the Games and the swimming competition will be held the second.

The swimming events, by the way, will be held in a pool that will be constructed in SoFi Stadium, the home of the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers. This is similar to the 2024 Olympic Trials, which were held inside Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

The biggest story is, of course, the return of lacrosse to the Games as a medal sport. This will be the first time ever for women and the first time for men since 1908.

It won't be the full-field lacrosse that you see in college. This will be the Sixes version, which is pretty much what it sounds like — smaller sides, smaller field, faster pace, higher scoring. 

The final will be July 29, 2028. It will match the United States and Canada (there are few predictions of which TigerBlog is more certain). 

Will there be Princeton representation? TB isn't as sure about that as he is about the teams who will be in the final, but he'll go with "yes" on that one.  

Squash will also be a medal sport in 2028. Princeton alum Olivia Fiechter Weaver (who is married to former Tiger men's lacrosse player Bobby Weaver) is currently the No. 4 ranked player in the world. 

If you have a great memory, you might remember back to Oct. 19, 2012. What were you doing that day? If you were reading TigerBlog, you saw a guest entry from Julie Cerullo, then a senior on the Princeton women's squash team. 

What did she write about? You guessed — that squash should be an Olympic sport. You can read it HERE. This is part of her story:

On paper, squash meets all the criteria required of an Olympic sport in terms of its history, universality and popularity. It’s good for athletes’ health and would be relatively cheap to integrate. But squash will be competing against five other sports for one open berth in the 2020 games. The other aspirant sports are Karate, wushu (a martial art), roller sports, sport climbing and wake boarding, and it won’t get any easier beyond 2020 as lacrosse and mixed martial arts have announced their plans to seek Olympic status in the future. A possible bid by softball and baseball for reinstatement in 2020 further complicates the decision. 

Princeton figures to be well-represented in Los Angeles, as it seems to be in every Summer Olympic Games. If you recall a year ago from Paris, Princeton athletes won three gold medals (Hannah Scott in rowing, Maia Weintraub in fencing, Nice Mead in rowing) and had 16 competitors in all. 

The World University Games aren't quite the Olympics, but they do provide some pretty diverse competition. They have been contested every other year since 1959 (the winter version began in 1960 and continues to the present), or pretty much every other year since 1959. For some reason, they were held in 1967, 1970 and then 1973 but have been back on the every-other-year schedule since, though the 2023 edition was cancelled after the host country, Russia, invaded Ukraine. 

The Games were held in Moscow in the Soviet Union in 1973. Princeton women's athletic pioneer Cathy Corcione won a gold and a silver there. 

The 2029 version will be held in North Carolina, after a stop in South Korea in 2027. The only time to date that the United States has been the host nation for the summer Games was in 1993, when they were held in Buffalo.  

The current World University Games began yesterday with 12 Tigers from five countries and four sports who are currently competing.

You can see the schedule for the Tigers HERE. 

The first Princetonians to kick things off will probably have already done so by the time you read this. They would be Chloe Fox-Gitomer in women's team saber fencing and Jackson Hicke in men's 3x3 basketball.

Hicke is part of an all-Ivy League team, as Hicke will be joined by Avery Brown (Columbia), Chandler Piggé (Harvard) and Nick Townsend (Yale).

Now That's A Database

It's possible, though unlikely, that the good people who run the ncaa.com website sat around and said "how can we keep TigerBlog busy for a few hours?"

It is one explanation for the genesis of a new feature from the national office of intercollegiate athletics in Indianapolis. What feature? 

It's a database of all-time NCAA champions. You can access it by clicking HERE and scrolling down.

TB already has it bookmarked.  

As you probably know, TigerBlog is fascinated by historical information, especially as it relates to Princeton Athletics. It's in his title, after all — historian. 

This from the introduction: "This interactive database provides a visual overview of high-level information on every NCAA team and individual since 1921. Users can explore details including winners, runners-up, game and event scores, head coaches, season records and site/host information."

How cool is that? 

What's the first thing TB did? He looked up Princeton's NCAA champions, of course. 

You do need to keep in mind that this database only covers officially NCAA-recognized sports and events since 1921. Among the sports where Princeton has won many national championships are men's and women's squash, men's heavyweight and lightweight rowing and women's lightweight rowing, as well as football in the pre-FCS era.

Also, the NCAA list only recognizes men's golf champions from 1939 on. Princeton won national titles in men's golf in 11 times prior to that (and in 1940). 

To that end, Princeton has won 13 NCAA team championships and produced 54 individual NCAA champions. Interestingly, Princeton has four NCAA women's rowing championships, all for winning gold in specific races, and they're all counted under the individual wins. That's one championship per boat, not one for every individual in the boat.

Can you name Princeton's 13 NCAA team titles? TB will give you a few paragraphs to think about it. 

Princeton's 13 team titles ranks second in the Ivy League. First? That would be Columbia with 16 — all in fencing, half of which were from 1951-1971.

The 54 individual champions come from eight different sports. The breakdown is: men's swimming and diving (22), mixed fencing (11), men's indoor track and field (6), men's outdoor track and field (4), women's rowing (4), men's fencing (4), wrestling (2), women's outdoor track and field (1).

Which schools have won the most NCAA titles? How about the top five? It's likely that you will get four of them easily. 

In first place? Stanford, with 136. The next two? UCLA with 123 and USC (the one in Southern California) with 114. TB's colleague Andrew Borders, a UCLA grad, would not be okay if USC was ahead of his Bruins. 

The fifth-place team is Texas, with 60. What school has 62 and is in fourth place? 

Hint — There is a current Princeton head coach who contributed to the total. Hint 2 — That school also has the record for individual champions. Hint 3 — It's a bit of a trick question.

TB will get back to that shortly. First, there's the matter of Princeton's 13 NCAA team championships: 

* six men's lacrosse (1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001)
* three women's lacrosse (1994, 2002, 2003)
* one field hockey (2012)
* two fencing (1964, when it was men only, and 2013, when it was mixed)
* men's golf (1940) 

The answer to the other question? That would be Kenyon College. 

The Division III Owls have produced 597 individual NCAA champs. The breakdown by sport? It's one in women's tennis, two in women's track and field, three in men's tennis — and 593 in swimming and diving. 

Princeton head women's swimming and diving coach Abby Brethauer was on three of Kenyon's NCAA championship teams before graduating in 2002. She was also a 13-time All-American. 

Anyway, TigerBlog would like to thank whoever it was who did all the work to put this all together. If there's a way for the NCAA office to monitor who is spending the most time on this site, it's likely that someone there will, in a few weeks, say something like "hey, it's that guy from Princeton again."  

Episcope To The Brewers

As a follow-up to yesterday's chat about Wimbledon, TigerBlog wants to make one more point about tennis. 

If you're the 10th-20th best player in the world in pretty much any other sport, then you have quite likely been an indispensable part of a championship — or several. In tennis? You have almost no chance of ever reaching past, say, the quarterfinals of a major tournament. If you're lucky and things break your way, maybe you get a little further. 

The current 15th-ranked men's player in the world is Arthur Fils. He has never made it past the fourth round of a major. The current 15th-ranked women's player in the world is Diana Schnaider. She, too, has never made it past the fourth round at a major.

The NFL Network annually polls the league's players and then comes out with its top 100 each year. This year's countdown has just started, but would you like to guess who was the No. 15 player in last year's top 100? 

That would be Jalen Hurts, who when last seen was winning the MVP award at the most recent Super Bowl as quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles. 

Want to try another individual sport? How about men's golf? Who's the current World No. 15? That would be Bryson DeChambeau, a two-time U.S. Open champion and a two-time PGA Championship runner-up. 

What does this all mean? Nothing. It's just interesting. 

As another follow-up to yesterday, TigerBlog mentioned that women's runner-up Amanda Aminosova was born in Freehold and had a sister Maria who played at Penn. TB's Office of Athletic Communications colleague Chas Dorman pointed out that Maria Aminosova was a former student worker of his when he worked at Penn. 

She also is married to former Penn basketball player Kevin Egee.  

Shifting from tennis to baseball, the Major League draft is ongoing. If you paid attention to the first round, you saw that 12 of the first 26 picks were high school infielders, including 10 shortstops. 

Of the remaining 14 of those picks, there were six college pitchers who went. Of that group, there were two that TB followed closely in the recent Men's College World Series — Kade Anderson of the champion LSU Tigers, who went No. 3 to the Mariners, and Gage Wood of Arkansas, who went No. 26 to the Phillies. 

Wood, you may recall, was the pitcher who threw a no-hitter against Murray State in the MCWS, losing a perfect game when he hit a batter in the eighth inning. TB watched that entire game and is of the belief that Wood still would not have allowed a hit if the game continued to today. 

Speaking of college pitchers who were drafted, Princeton's Sean Episcope was chosen in the fifth round by the Milwaukee Brewers. The 6-0, 210-pounder Chicago native was the 155th overall selection. 

Episcope was a two-time Ivy Pitcher of the Week this past season. In his two seasons as a Tiger, he has struck out 70 batters in 66 innings, and he allowed just seven hits in 20 innings this season, with 26 strikeouts. 

He allowed only two runs on three hits with no walks and six strikeouts in five innings against Miami and one run each in five-inning starts against both Wake Forest and Liberty, with a combined 14 strikeouts and two walks in those two outings. 

Episcope becomes the 54th Princeton baseball player to be chosen in the Major League draft and the highest chosen Princeton player since Ross Ohlendorf went in the fourth round in 2004. Ohlendorf went on to pitch for 10 seasons in the Majors.

It'll be interesting to see how long it takes any of the players drafted this week to make the Majors. that's especially true of pitchers, where you're torn between rushing them and having them throw too many innings and pitches in the minors.  

Staying healthy is a big part of it. Episcope has battled injuries, but hopefully he can get (and stay) healthy and reach his fullest potential. 

The Brewers certainly think he will. 

Congratulations to Sean Episcope. That's quite an accomplishment.  

 

Getting To Know Hilary Bartlett

Well, Wimbledon is over. 

None of TigerBlog's favorite players — Aryna Sabalenka, Ben Shelton, Frances Tiafoe, Novak Djokovic — reached the final. Oh well. There's always the U.S. Open. 

John McEnroe, by the way, should announce the biggest events in every sport. It would make listening to anything more enjoyable. 

On the men's side, Jannik Sinner won in four sets over Carlos Alacaraz, winning his first Wimbledon title and in doing so disproving TB's theory that he would be racked with guilt over the way he won his Round of 16 match after being down 2-0 in sets only to have his opponent get hurt. 

Also, the end of the men's match saw Alcaraz thank the King of Spain for attending. When the camera found the King, who was behind him? Margie Gengler, the 1973 von Kienbusch Award winner, and her husband, tennis Hall-of-Famer Stan Smith.  

On the women's side, Iga Swiatek defeated Amanda Anisomova 6-0, 6-0 in the final. It was Anisomova who outlasted No. 1 seed Sabalenka in the semifinls, and she clearly had zero left in the tank for the final. It was like a team that had a big upset in the opening round of an NCAA basketball tournament and then couldn't pump the balloon back up two days later in the next round. 

TB wonders if Sabalenka watched the match and if so what she was thinking. For that matter, what did Swiatek think when she saw that she'd be playing Anisomova and not Sabalenka. 

Here are two fun facts about Anisomova: 1) she was born in Freehold, which is about 20 minutes east of Princeton and 2) her sister Maria played at Penn before graduating in 2010.  

Maria went 1-1 in singles matches in her career against Princeton. Hilary Bartlett defeated her 6-4, 6-4 in the No. 2 match in 2009, Bartlett's freshman year. 

Bartlett went on to the be the Ivy League Player of the Year. If you click on her bio on the women's tennis roster from those years, you'll see the following in the "Getting To Know Hilary Bartlett" section: 

Place I’d most like to play tennis: Wherever the NCAA team championship is!
My ultimate doubles partner would be: Marat Safin
Favorite spot on campus; Murray-Dodge Hall
Place I’d most like to visit: Vietnam
Most enjoyable class at Princeton: Freshman Seminar 135 “Good to Be Shifty:
American Swindlers and Imposters”
An adjective often used to describe me: Happy
Favorite activity, other than tennis: Skiing
How do I describe my hometown?: Bustling
If I could have any job, it would be: Something in science or public policy 

TigerBlog reached out to Bartlett yesterday via email to ask her if she'd ever been to Vietnam and if she worked in science of public policy. He wasn't quite expecting a quick reply, but that's what he got. 

As it turns out, Bartlett is married to Kiel Zsitvay, and they are the parents of identical twin boys Arthur and Henry, who are two years and three months old. 

She also had some pretty interesting things to say. For instance, there was this about having played Anisomova's sister: 

I did watch the final and somehow didn’t put two and two together… thank you for alerting me to this - I’m proud to know this fact. 

And this:

I actually made it to Vietnam the summer after my freshman year, and am now Chief Product Officer at Carrot Fertility, a small B2B startup when I joined that’s now a 500+ person company, focused on administering family forming benefits (including egg preservation and IVF) for employers and health plans.  I could argue it’s tangentially science and tangentially public policy! 

TigerBlog couldn't let all this go at that, so he responded and asked if she'd change anything from her "getting to know" list and if she'd also let him know how her Princeton Athletics experience continues to impact her. 

Here is what she said on those subjects:

Other than Kiel, I’d probably say Jannik Sinner is my ultimate doubles partner among current players.

And in terms of how my experience as a Princeton athlete continues to impact my life —my time at Princeton taught me how to strike the right balance between tennis and everything else that life as a student at Princeton has to offer.  Finding success in that juggle as a young person has given me immense confidence as an adult, as I try to manage a new mix of competing priorities across career and motherhood.

That last sentence says a lot. 

"Finding success in that juggle as a young person has given me immense confidence as an adult, as I try to manage a new mix of competing priorities across career and motherhood."

If you're Princeton Athletics, you can't really ask for a better answer.  

The Shoe At The End Of The Road

Where to start on a Friday in July? 

Well, how about the shoe at the end of the road? 

If you turn left out of TigerBlog's driveway and follow his street for about a quarter mile, it reaches a T intersection with something of a main road. Right where the two streets come together has sat a shoe, one single solitary shoe. 

It appears to be a flip-flop. How did one shoe get there? And more importantly, how long will it be there? 

You can't really stop your car on the main road to get it. You possibly could walk from the end of TB's road onto the main one, though there is a bit of a blind corner not far from that spot, so it would be risky.

The big storms of this past week haven't blown the shoe one inch in any direction. TigerBlog is officially fascinated by "The Shoe At The End Of The Road." 

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Tosan Evbuomwan made his NBA 2K26 Summer League debut yesterday with the Brooklyn Nets against Oklahoma City. If you're in Las Vegas, you can go the games. If you're not, you can see them on an ESPN network or the NBA Network.

Brooklyn lost the game 90-81, but Evbuomwan did what he always does: fill the stat sheet. In fact, he finished with 13 points, four rebounds, three assists, one steal and one blocked shot in his 24 minutes. Given that it was Game 1 of the summer league, you can't really ask for much more than those numbers. 

Evbuomwan was the 2022 Ivy League Player of the Year and then a first-team All-Ivy League selection a year later, when he led the Tigers to the NCAA Sweet 16. His NBA career started with Detroit and Memphis before he played in 28 games for the Nets a year ago, averaging 9.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game. 

Your next chance to see him this summer is Sunday at 8 Eastern against the Washington Wizards. That game will be on ESPN2. 

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Whenever an athlete is officially added to a Princeton Athletics roster, an email is sent out from the compliance office to all of the various offices that need to have that information. Communications, obviously, is one of them. 

This week saw a flood of emails as members of the Class of 2029 have been steadily added onto rosters. They're all just names in an email now, albeit names with their own backstories on how they have come to this moment in their lives. 

Each email that comes in lists the newcomers name and sport. It gets TB wondering, as he often does, about how these athletes end up in the sport they'll compete in at Princeton. 

He's certainly talked to enough athletes to find out that there is a certain amount of randomness to how. Some of it is location. Some of it is what their parents played. Some of it is what they saw on TV when they were just starting out. 

And is athletic ability transferable? What skills transfer from sport to sport and what skills don't? 

Can somebody do a thesis on this? Hey, maybe one of the names on one of this week's emails will end up doing just that in 2029.

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The picture that accompanied yesterday's entry is one of TB's favorite Princeton photos ever. If you don't remember, here it is again:

That's Pete Carril and Kit Mueller, from a press conference prior to an NCAA tournament game. If TB had to guess, it would be the 1990 game against Arkansas at the University of Texas. 

TB also wishes he could remember the context of the moment. Oh well.  

Who would have guessed at the time that Mueller would have two kids who would go on to play lacrosse at Princeton (Ellie, Class of 2024, with the women, and Cooper, a rising junior with the men)? 

And to those who reached out yesterday to ask for another Coach Carril quote, there is this one:

Princeton was in an airport getting ready to fly back from one of those December tournaments, one in which the Tigers had, in Carril's words, "given a good account of ourselves." As the team waited at the gate, a fan of the home team came up to him, shook his hand and said "Coach, it was a real honor to have you here and to see how your team plays the game. But you must hear that everywhere you go."

Carril then said this to the man: "I get that everywhere I go — except for Princeton."  

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The Premier Lacrosse League is back this weekend after last weekend's All-Star Game. This week's stop is in Chicago, with two games tonight and two games tomorrow. 

It's a Princeton-heavy Friday night in the PLL. It starts with Boston (Coulter Mackesy, Alexander Vardaro) against New York (Jake Stevens) at 7, followed by Utah (Ryan Ambler, Beau Pederson, Tom Schreiber) against Philadelphia (Zach Currier, Michael Sowers) at 9:30. That second game is also a matchup of former Princeton head coaches Chris Bates and Bill Tierney.  

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There are six weeks remaining until the first athletic event of 2025-26, which will be a women's soccer game at home against Rutgers on Friday, Aug. 22. 

Will The Shoe At The End Of The Road still be there?  

In the meantime, have a great summer weekend.  

Happy 95th

Tom McCarthy, one of the top sportscasters in the business, celebrated a birthday a few days ago. 

He's also a new grandfather, by the way. His son Patrick, also a sportscaster, recently became a dad. 

In fact, everybody say hello to Quinley Grace McCarthy:

The names "Tom McCarthy" and "Patrick McCarthy" should be quite familiar to any Princeton fan. Tom is the longtime television play-by-play man for the Philadelphia Phillies, as well as a mainstay on the NFL and college basketball. 

Patrick is behind the mic for the New York Mets. He's also, for some reason, a huge Winnipeg Jets fan, and he actually got TigerBlog to root for the team in the NHL playoffs this past spring. It didn't quite work out well. 

Both father and son can trace their current successes back to Jadwin Gym and Powers Field at Princeton Stadium, where they both spent time on the radio for Princeton football and men's basketball. If you ask either of them, they will tell you that they cherish their time at Princeton. 

When TB spoke to Tom on his birthday, he asked him if he had any idea how many baseball games he's broadcasted in his life, going all the way back to his time with the then-brand new Trenton Thunder. His estimate? 

It would be between five and six thousand. That's a lot of baseball games. And that doesn't count any other broadcasting.

TigerBlog asked him if he still gets excited for gamedays, which of course he does. 

As TB said those words, it reminded him of this quote: 

"The hardest thing in the world to do is to do one thing particularly well for a long period of time at whatever standards you establish. Take the doctor who delivers his first baby. That's a huge thrill. Does he, 30 years later, get the same thrill. Or did Rex Harrison after 1,000 performances of My Fair Lady?" 

That's a pretty good one, no? 

You probably, without much difficulty, guessed whose quote that is.  

Of course. The answer is obviously Pete Carril. It was one of many great quotes that Princeton's former men's basketball coach uttered in his 29 years on the Tiger bench, before he was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.  

If you want to hear something really wild, Carril spent 29 years at Princeton — and it's now been 29 years since he left. Wild, right? 

Pete Carril passed away in 2022, shortly after his 92nd birthday. He would have turned 95 today, July 10. 

There has never been anyone else like Pete Carril at Princeton, and there never will be anyone else like him. His personality, his backstory, his humor, his competitiveness, his appearance — they were all unique. 

He wore a pained expression on his face almost all the time, except for when he showed that wide grin that could take over his face. His voice was low and gravelly. He gave it to you straight, no matter who "you" were. When he wanted your attention, he certainly got it. 

His public speaking ability was off the charts. TB once collected the 21 best quotes from Pete Carril. That list didn't include the away-from-the-public ones that he couldn't repeat, the ones that are etched in TB's memory, most of which he has never mentioned publicly.  

Here's one that TB has shared before. After one of the in-season tournaments that Princeton played, a reporter asked Carril his thoughts on one of his players who had made the all-tournament team. Without flinching — almost as it he had it scripted — he simply said "so did the guy he was guarding." 

Pete almost never prepared any remarks. He simply took the microphone and said what was on his mind and what was in his heart. He was intimidating and engaging at the same time, in a way that TigerBlog means as positively as he can. 

If you were in his orbit, you didn't want to let him down. You wanted him to respect your contributions, and you knew it when he did.  

TigerBlog had a front row seat for most of the last seven years Carril spent at Princeton. He was also the last men's basketball sports information director to work with Carril, something that earned TB a lot of free soup on Fridays. 

His style wasn't for everyone, and he recognized that too, which is why he left Princeton after the 1996 season, which ended famously with the Ivy League playoff win over Penn and then NCAA tournament win over UCLA. It's not easy for TB to keep in mind that the number of people at Princeton who knew Carril well has dwindled down to a very small number. 

Ah, but those people cherish that they had the chance know him. TigerBlog certainly does. 

Happy 95th Coach.  

That's The Ticket

Well that's a big fish. 

To be exact, it's a 40-pound yellowtail amberjack. He's the only one in the picture who isn't smiling, as you might have noticed. 

The fisherman would be Matthew Anderson, who definitely is smiling. Matthew and TigerBlog Jr. grew up together, they both spent quite a few years working together as ballboys for Princeton basketball. 

Oh, those were the days. When there was a home game during the week, TB would leave Princeton in the afternoon, drive about 30 minutes to pick them up, drive them back to Princeton and then drive them home after the game.  

Matthew went on to play lacrosse at Chestnut Hill College, and he's also helped coach the junior varsity team at his old high school, Pennsbury, whose colors just happen to be orange and black and who gets a lot of use out of an orange "P" as a logo. 

If you're wondering, that fish was caught somewhere off the California coast the other day. For his part, TB can take no credit for helping, as he was 3,000 miles away at the time, though he did give Matthew that "Princeton Lacrosse" pullover. 

TigerBlog has never caught a fish anywhere near that large. He has caught a bunch of small ones, mostly shad in the Delaware River with John McPhee. 

In fact, the first time he caught a shad, he fought it all the way onto the boat and figured it had to weigh at least 40 pounds. Actually, it was two pounds, but hey, fish tails, right? That's the ticket.

And speaking of tickets (how's that for a segue)?

If you've been on goprincetontigers.com in the last two days, you might have noticed that there has been a story about Princeton (the University as a whole, including Athletics) and its new ticketing system. It's called "vivenu," and you can read about it HERE.

This is from the story:

Princeton University and Princeton Athletics have announced a partnership with vivenu, a leading technology provider in global event ticketing, to further modernize and create a simplified ticket purchasing process for Tiger fans and supporters. Through new technological advancements including a fully-refreshed ticketing website and purchase flow at goprincetotigers.com/tickets, streamlined mobile ticket downloads with season ticket passes, and easier venue entry, vivenu will assist Princeton fans in experiencing a more intuitive and efficient process during their customer journey with the Tigers. 

If you have an account on file, you're going to need to follow the steps to create a new one in the new system. It's very easy to do. 

Right now, football season tickets are available. Opening day? That would be Sept. 20, when San Diego will be at Powers Field at Princeton Stadium for the first of five home games, along with Columbia (Oct. 3), Mercer (Oct. 11),  Harvard (Oct. 25) and Yale (Nov. 15).

If you're planning ahead, Princeton is also at Lafayette (Sept. 27), Brown (Oct. 18), Cornell (Nov. 1), Dartmouth (Nov. 8) and Penn (Nov. 15).  

Next up will be men's and women's hockey season tickets, which go on sale July 21. Beyond that will be tickets for men's and women's basketball and wrestling, with men's lacrosse tickets still to come beyond that. 

The new ticketing system makes it easy to transfer tickets from one person to another or to donate tickets to non-profit groups. If you're ticket is saved to your device will automatically update if the start time changes.

There was a time when collecting ticket stubs was something pretty much everyone did, especially for big games and concerts. When TB first started working at Princeton, designing Princeton's tickets was a big thing, with an emphasis on making them look as artistic as possible. 

Those days are gone. Now it's about convenience and the ability to simply download them to your device. 

Princeton's new "vivenu" system does all of that and more. 

 

Thanks Allen

TigerBlog has been watching a great deal of the Wimbledon tennis tournament. 

His favorite player now is Ben Shelton, who plays with an unmistakable joy that makes him impossible to root against, at least for TB. His post-match on-court interviews have been pure gold, like the one the other day about how he needs someone at Goldman Sachs to give his sister Emma an additional week off so she could stay and watch him.

Emma was still there yesterday as her brother rolled into the quarterfinals. His opponent will be the top seed, Jannik Sinner, who advanced despite being down two sets to none and tied 2-2 in the third when his opponent, Grigor Sinner, couldn't continue due to a pectoral injury. Sinner showed great sportsmanship in the moment and in his on-court interview, and it was clearly not the way the No. 1 seed wanted to move on. 

Also, it was over the weekend that Chris Evert said that the women's No. 1 seed, Aryna Sabalenka, plays better when she's "pissed off."

TigerBlog took that as a validation of something he said on the radio during a Princeton men's basketball game many years ago, like 35 or so years ago. He's told you this before, but here goes again: 

Back in the early 1990s, TB was often part of a three-man radio crew with David Brody and Rich Simkus. One night, as halftime came, TigerBlog said that Pete Carril looked "pissed off" as he left the court.

Brody and Simkus then looked at him without speaking, at which TB said "what, you can't say 'pissed off' on the radio?"

At that point, Brody said: "I guess you can, because you just did. Twice." 

If it's good enough for Chris Evert, it's good enough for TigerBlog, no? 

Meanwhile, Wimbledon sits about an hour down the M25 from Henley-on-Thames, which is where the recently concluded regatta for 2025 took place. If you recall, TB yesterday wrote about the representatives of the Princeton heavyweight men's program who had competed there this past week so successfully. 

And thanks to a heads up from loyal reader Allen Scheuch, Class of 1976, TB has learned there is more to be told from Henley. 

Claire Collins, the 2019 von Kienbusch Award winner as the top Princeton female senior athlete, has had quite a post-Princeton career in rowing. She was especially impressive at this year's Henley.

First of all, she is a two-time U.S. Olympian, having finished seventh in the women's fours in Tokyo in 2021 and then fifth in the women's eights in Paris last summer. She also won a bronze medal at the 2022 World Rowing Championships in women's pairs. 

She has also been rowing at Cambridge University and was part of this year's winning crew in the famed Boat Race between Cambridge and Oxford. 

This past week at Henley she rowed in not one but two separate events. 

First, she was with the Cambridge boat that lost to Oxford Brookes in the semifinals of the highly competitive Island Challenge Cup. As TB learned when he was at Henley a few years ago, "Oxford University" and "Oxford Brookes" are not the same institutions. 

Collins also teamed with Wisconsin alum Maddie Wanamaker, a fellow 2024 Olympian, to win the Hambleden Pairs Challenge Cup. The two Americans covered the 2,112 meters in 7:53, winning the final by more than four lengths. 

Rowing in one event at Henley is tough. Rowing in two? The physical drain has to be ridiculous. 

Each day brings another race. If you win, you advance. If you don't, you're done. Collins put in a lot of effort at this year's Henley.  

In addition to Collins, the Princeton women's lightweight boat also rowed in the Island Challenge Cup, getting a first-round bye, winning its second race against Bristol and then falling to Durham. 

There are no separate divisions for lightweights, so the Tigers were racing against the open weight boats of both of the English powerhouses.   

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Forget fireworks.

For TigerBlog, no Fourth of July is complete without a rewatch of one of the greatest movies ever made: "Yankee Doodle Dandy." As a caveat, you probably have to be at least 50 or so — or maybe even 60 or so — to agree with TB. 

If you are, then the mere thought of how James Cagney dances and sings his way through the movie makes you smile. It certainly does for TigerBlog. 

How can you not love this:

Right? Of course. 

That scene is the best in the movie, though there is one song after another that is classic Americana. And so even though today is July 7, TB will stick with "Yankee Doodle Dandy" for today.

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GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY

The movie, from 1942, tells the story of the life of George M. Cohan, who was born on July ... 3rd, in 1878. Cohan was from a vaudeville family who went on to become one of the biggest stars in Broadway history, as well as one of the most patriotic Americans who has ever lived. 

During the course of the movie, Cagney, who won the Academy Award for playing Cohan, sings and dances to that incredibly famous song, one that you've probably heard even if you're younger than 60. 

Yankee Stadium sits not far from Broadway. In addition to being the home of the New York Yankees, it is also the place where New York City FC of Major League Soccer hangs its collective hat. 

This past weekend, NYCFC defeated Toronto 3-1 at Yankee Stadium. The home team was up 2-0 before a goal by Toronto in the 64th minute turned the momentum around. Would this one get away? No, it wouldn't. 

And why? Because in the 74th minute, Kevin O'Toole finished a pretty play to put NYCFC up 3-1, which would be the final.  O'Toole, of course, was a two-time Ivy League men's soccer Player of the Year and the 2022 Roper Trophy winner as the top male athlete at Princeton. 

You can see his goal HERE (at the six minute mark of the video). 

This was a quote from his Princeton head coach Jim Barlow from a feature story that TB wrote about O'Toole after the Tigers clinched the Ivy League title his senior year:

“He’s so easy going and calm. He’s so calm under pressure. He doesn’t get rattled. He embraces the moment, and he never forces anything. It’s clear how much fun he’s having when he plays. He just makes really big plays in really huge moments.” 

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YOU'RE A GRAND OLD FLAG

The patriotism theme is all over the movie, beginning with when Cohan is summoned to the White House to meet with FDR and running all the way through to the very end, when Cohan — having shared his life story with the President in flashbacks — leaves the White House, dancing down the stairs and out into the street, where a military parade is passing by while everyone sings "Over There." 

Cohan, who wrote the song, is asked if he knows the words, to which he responds: "Yes, I believe I do," which are the final words of the movie. 

Beth Yeager, a rising senior on the Princeton field hockey team and a three-time first-team All-American, played two games this weekend for the USA national team against New Zealand. The Americans won Saturday 3-0 and then again yesterday 3-0, and Yeager scored two of the three goals in the game yesterday. 

Both of her goals came on drag flicks on penalty corners. If you've been following Princeton field hockey at all, you've seen that before from Yeager. 

Both of her goals can be seen HERE.

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YANKEE DOODLE BOY

The scene that TB shared above shows jockey Johnny Jones as he heads to England for the big race. It's the show-stopper. 

If you haven't watched the clip yet, check out how Cagney dances. He studied Cohan's actual dancing and imitated it, twice suffering from an ankle sprain during filming. 

The big races this weekend in England were at the Henley Royal Regatta, an event TB has attended in the past. If you've never been, it's definitely worth a trip. 

Princeton's heavyweight rowing program produced two winners this weekend. Tristan Wenger, a rising sophomore, was part of the winning team in the Visitors' Challenge Cup with the powerhouse Leander Club and Tideway Scullers School. 

Incoming freshman Joe Wellington was in the winning boat in the Fawley Cup with the Windsor Boys' School.

Princeton also had a runner-up boat in the Silver Goblets doubles, with Theo Bell and Marcus Chute. 

All of those Princetonians, by the way, are British, so they probably weren't too upset with the fact that Johnny Jones lost his big race.  

 

"Red Panda We Love You"

TigerBlog remembers way back in the day when there was a student slam-dunk contest at halftime of a men's basketball game in Jadwin Gym.

He doesn't remember names. He just remembers an unbelievable series of dunks from three students, some or all of whom were on the track and field team at the time. Now that was a halftime show. 

Oh, and there was the guy in 1996 who participated in a halftime contest at Jadwin. When TB wrote his top 40 events in Jadwin history on the building's 40th anniversary in 2009, he ranked this one sixth. Here's what he wrote about it:

A fan, Dave Ulrich of Mount Laurel, N.J., comes out of the stands to participate in a halftime contest during the Princeton-Dartmouth women's basketball game. The contestant has three opportunities to shoot from halfcourt, once each from the where the midcourt line and sidelines meet and once from center court. If he can make two of the three shots, he will win a car. To this point, only one contestant has made even one shot, which earned $100. On this night, this particular contestant makes the first shot and then makes the second, winning the car (a Saturn). Unaware that he has already won the car, he thinks he must make the third one as well — which he then does. The highlight is played nationally and is the “Play of the Day” on ESPN's SportsCenter. 

TB wonders if Dave is still driving around in his Saturn.

Since then, TB would say his favorite halftime show at Jadwin has been "Drums of Thunder," the percussion group of fourth graders from Montclair who pretty much blow the roof off of the building each time they play. 

Then there is Red Panda. She's the woman who balances the plates and bowls on her head and feet while riding a unicycle. How in the world do you do that the first time? 

Anyway, she's long been a Jadwin favorite, and a favorite all over the country. She was doing her act at halftime of the Indiana-Minnesota WNBA game Tuesday night when she fell and had to be taken to the hospital with what apparently was a wrist injury. 

Caitlin Clark even sent her a message after the game: "Red Panda, we love you."

Everyone does. 

By the way, TB was trying to find a photo of Red Panda from her act and as such did a search. And what came up? Lots of actual red pandas. Cute.  

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Here's a fun headline: "Entire Men's Hockey Team Named To ECAC All-Academic Team."

That's right. Princeton went 27 for 27, with every single player's having achieved at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA or 3.0 for the last three semesters. 

That's a lot of smart guys in one locker room. You can read more about it HERE.

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The Premier Lacrosse League will hold its annual all-star weekend in Kansas City, beginning tomorrow with the skills competition and women's game and then continuing Saturday with the East vs. West men's game. 

Princeton will have one starter on both sides of the men's game. Not shockingly, Michael Sowers and Tom Schreiber are once again all-stars.

In fact, Schreiber has been an all-star 11 times now between Major League Lacrosse and the PLL. Sowers is now a PLL all-star for the fourth time. They've both been all-stars on the pro level every year they've been healthy. 

You can watch the all-star game Saturday at 1 on ESPN and ESPN+.

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Speaking of men's lacrosse, TigerBlog found a picture of Coulter Mackesy, a rookie on the Boston Cannons, after a game last weekend in San Diego. Mackesy is posing with three of his former Tiger teammates: Jim Williams, Jameson Moore and Jackson Kane. 

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Hey, it's always good to have a little fun.
 

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This is the Fourth of July weekend, of course. Ah, but lingering the not-so-distant future? 

Well, the first athletic event of the 2025-26 season is lingering a mere seven weeks away, as it'll be the women's soccer team against Rutgers on Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium on Aug. 22. The team released its schedule for the season, which you can see HERE.

Seven weeks. That's not that far away. 

Still, have a safe and fun Fourth of July.  

More Hoops

And for the second straight day, TigerBlog starts off with something of a correction. 

Before he gets to that, he'll share a story from the 1980s, when he was still covering high schools at the Trenton Times. 

There had been a call into the paper asking for a correction to be issued regarding one of the local teams, the reason long since lost to history. TB's then-colleague Harry Chaykun said this: "How about just writing 'The Times regrets the coverage.'"

That still makes TB laugh, 40 years later. Ah, Harry. TB definitely learned a great deal about the newspaper business — and the effective use of sarcasm — from Harry. 

Today's correction — and TigerBlog does not regret the coverage — comes from Jason Merims, a loyal reader. When TB said yesterday that he'd come up with five instances where an NBA team had Ivy Leaguers as teammates, Jason came back with one more. 

And how could TB have missed this one? 

It was on the 1976-77 New York Knicks, where Jim McMillian of Columbia was a teammate of TB's classmate Bill Bradley.  

Those Knicks missed the playoffs, going 40-42 in the regular season. That would be Bradley's last season in the NBA. A year later he was elected as a United States Senator from New Jersey for the first of three times.

McMillian's sophomore year at Columbia was the 1967-68 season, which was also the first for Pete Carril at Princeton. The Lions and Tigers tied for the regular season championship, setting up a playoff game at St. John's for the NCAA tournament bid. 

Columbia won that game 92-74 as McMillian poured in 37 points. 

Here was a quote from Carril after the game from the Daily Princetonian:

"Nobody helped out on defense at all—they let the guards drive right by us." And how did the writer attribute the quote? Did it say "Carril said?" Did it say "Carril responded?" 

No. It said "Carril grimaced." Who can't close their eyes and see Carril's face at that? 

That was the only time between 1963 and 1988 when the Ivy League representative in the NCAA tournament was someone other than Princeton or Penn. 

McMillian, for his part, went on to be part of the great 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers team, which won 33 straight games and then ultimately the NBA title by beating the Knicks (and Bradley) in five games in the finals. The Knicks returned the favor a year later, winning their second title in four years (a streak that is now two titles in 55 years).

So a thank you goes to Jason for pointing out the missed teammates. 

Another thank you goes TB's longtime friend and local sportswriter Rich Fisher, who emailed yesterday with another basketball note. 

If you knew Carril, you knew "grimaced" was perfect. If you know Fish, then you know he would write this: 

"Well this hoop item may or may not interest you as a little Blog Blurb, but I'm sending just in case. 

 Fred Falchi has gotten the head coaching job at Pennington, and he's bringing back his former player Richmond Aririguzoh as a volunteer assistant his first year. He said Richmond is finishing up his masters' degree so this may be a one-year deal but I'm letting you know. If you don't use it, I'll throw myself off a cliff ... but it will be a very low cliff, so I'll live."

Yeah, that had to be Fish. 

Falchi was the longtime coach at Trenton Catholic, which used to be McCorristin and then before that St. Anthony's.

Aririguzoh played for Falchi during the final years at Trenton Catholic, which has since closed. Aririguzoh also played at Princeton, where he was a two-time All-Ivy selection, including a first-team selection as a senior in 2019-20.

If you look in the Princeton men's basketball record book, you'll see Aririguzoh's name under the field goal percentage section. His career number of .636 ranks second all-time at Princeton (who is first?), and he holds the No. 2 and No. 9 best single-season numbers. 

Who is first on the single-season list? 

The career record is held by Howard Levy (.647). The single-season record is held by Alan Williams (.703).  

July Hoops

Hey, it's July 1.

What else is there to talk about other than basketball, right? 

Oh, there is one thing. TigerBlog wrote yesterday that Princeton has led the Ivy League in the Learfield Sports Directors' Cup standings every year except for five since it began in 1994. As it turns out, that's actually all but three times. 

And with that, now the conversation can turn to basketball. There are, in fact, four Princeton Basketball-related updates. 

The first is a story by Elliott Carr on goprincetontigers.com about recent alum Blake Peters and his "Journey to Jadwin." You can read it HERE.

When it comes to the basketball career Peters had, there will always be two highlights for anyone who has been paying attention. The first came when he was a freshman at Evanston High School outside of Chicago. 

It came in a January game against Maine South. His team was down two with 2.6 seconds to go. Peters rebounded a Maine South missed free throw and proceeded to toss in the game-winner from about 80 feet away, with one hand, no less. 

The shot earned him the top play of the day on SportsCenter and a trip to the ESPY Awards. 

Then there was the more recent one, the one that came in a Princeton uniform. This was in the 2023 NCAA tournament, when Peters made 10 three-pointers in wins over Arizona and Missouri, helping Princeton to the Sweet 16. 

Read the story. Watch the video of his high school shot. Remember his postgame interview on CBS after the Tigers beat Missouri in the NCAA tournament. 

Next up? A current Tiger, Jackson Hicke, a rising junior. 

Now that it's July, it's accurate to say that later this month Hicke will be competing at the World University Games in Germany in 3X3. It'll be an all-Ivy League team, as Hicke will be joined by Avery Brown (Columbia), Chandler Piggé (Harvard) and Nick Townsend (Yale).

Then there is Parker Hill, another recent graduate. Hill just signed to play professionally in Switzerland with a team called Hellios, who plays in the highest level of Swiss pro women's basketball. 

Hill will be the sixth women's basketball alum to be playing professionally this year, joining Blake Dietrick '15 (3XBA), Carlie Littlefield '21 (3XBA), Abby Meyers '22 (Maccabi Bnot Ashdod), Grace Stone '23 (Perry Lakes Hawks) and Kaitlyn Chen '24 (Golden State Valkyries). 

It's the last one that TB would like to talk about now. 

Here's a highlight from the Valkyries' 84-57 win over Seattle Sunday night:

Chen vision -> @TemiFagbenle -> team vibes high. @ampm | Assist of the Game pic.twitter.com/SxXEwFLN3U

— Golden State Valkyries (@valkyries) June 30, 2025

That was an Ivy-to-Ivy assist, from Chen to Harvard alum Temi Fagbenle (who also was a teammate of Abby Meyers' with the London Lions team that won the European championship a year ago). Elliott (he of the Blake Peters story) had asked TB last week if he knew of any Ivy League teammates in the NBA, what with Princeton alum Tosan Evbuomwan as a returnee for the Brooklyn Nets and former Michigan and Yale player Danny Wolf's having been drafted by the Nets. 

It's possible that there are more, but TB found five of those examples. The first was in 1949-50, when the Boston Celtics had Yale's Tony Lavelli and Dartmouth's Ed Leede (the Big Green arena is named for him). 

There was also Matt Maloney and Ira Bowman on the 2000-01 Atlanta Hawks. The other three all involved Princetonians: 

* Butch van Breda Kolff and Bud Palmer were teammates for three years on the Knicks in the 40s 
* Brian Taylor and Penn’s Tony Price were teammates on the 1980-81 Clippers
* Geoff Petrie and Penn's Dave Wohl were on the 1972-73 Trailblazers

As for Chen, she's off to a really good start in Golden State, who is also off to a good start in its first season. 

More than the points and the rebounds and the assists, you can see the absolute joy that Chen plays with, in that highlight or in any other.  

It's the same look you saw when she was playing at Princeton, and when she won an NCAA title at UConn as a grad student last season. 

And that's your Princeton Basketball update for July 1. 

Now go enjoy your summer day.