Quick question - which Princeton women's team has won the most Ivy League championships?
TigerBlog will get to that in a little while.
First, TB continues to hold to his position that the best thing about Twitter is the immediate availability of in-game highlights.
When Dartmouth defeated Harvard 9-6 on that epic Hail Mary Saturday, TigerBlog was able to see it from multiple angles within seconds. It wasn't just any normal Hail Mary either. Dartmouth quarterback Derek Kyler did an incredible job to stay on his feet and avoid multiple Harvard rushers just to get the pass away in the first place.
That win, by the way, moved Dartmouth to 7-0, matching Princeton after its win Friday night at Cornell and giving the teams a second-straight unbeaten vs. unbeaten matchup in Week 8.
This time, Week 8 will be at Yankee Stadium, as part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of college football and the 250th anniversary of Dartmouth College. Kickoff Saturday is at 3:30.
Here's a note for you about that game: Since the start of last year, Princeton and Dartmouth have combined to outscore their opponents 1,340-417. If you take out the 14-9 Princeton win last year, that goes to 1,303-394, or an average of 40.7-12.3.
Meanwhile, back at Twitter, TigerBlog is also fascinated by the number of views that certain things get on there. For instance, his short 15-30 second video postgame interviews with football players have been getting between 3,000 and 5,000 views, or two or three times what actual game highlights get.
It's an interesting dynamic. Perhaps it's saying that there's more interest in seeing who the guys under the helmets really are rather than seeing the actual highlights.
The actual anniversary of the first college football game is tomorrow. As you know, that game was between Princeton and Rutgers, in New Brunswick, a game won by Rutgers 6-4. Princeton then defeated Rutgers 8-0 the following week in Princeton.
This means, of course, that 150 years ago today was the day before the first game. TB wonders what the Princeton players were thinking back on Nov. 5, 1869, as they knew they'd have to get on a train early the next morning to go to Rutgers.
Could they have had any sense at all of what they were getting started? No chance, right? To them, was it just something fun to do for an afternoon?
TigerBlog will have much more on the 150th tomorrow and the big game the rest of the week.
That football game, though, is hardly the only big deal at Princeton Athletics this week.
For starters, tonight is Game 1 for Carla Berube as the head coach of the women's basketball team, as Princeton hosts Rider at Jadwin Gym. Tip-off is at 7.
The big storyline around Princeton women's basketball obviously is the start of Bella Alarie's senior year. On the other hand, this team is so much more than just Alarie, who figures to be a very high WNBA draft choice after the season.
Alarie, by the way, enters her senior year 382 points away from Sandi Bittler Leland's 30-year-old school record. With 27 regular season games, she'd need to average slightly more than 14 per game to get the record.
Rider was a WNIT team a year ago as part of a 19-14 season.
The men open their season today as well, at Duquesne.
This is of course major crossover season. The men's hockey team had a big weekend, going 1-0-1 at No. 16 St. Cloud. The Tigers have their ECAC opener this week, at Harvard and Dartmouth.
And did you think TB forgot about the trivia question again? He didn't.
The field hockey team locked up its 26th Ivy League championship this weekend, courtesy of a 3-0 win over Cornell Sunday. The Tigers are headed back to the NCAA tournament as well, after the regular season ends Saturday at Penn.
The 26 Ivy titles are the most by any Princeton women's team.
The women's volleyball team is at 17, and the Tigers took a huge step towards an 18th this weekend, though there is still a long way to go.
Princeton was at Cornell Friday at the same time as the football game. TigerBlog was watching football from the press box and following women's volleyball on Live Stats.
Princeton entered the weekend in a three-way tie for first with Cornell and Yale, so clearly this was big. The Tigers fell behind 2-0, but slowly it started to turn as TB kept checking in. Princeton won the third set. Then the fourth. And then finished the comeback, taking the last set as well.
It also helped Princeton's cause that Yale lost to Harvard, leaving Princeton 9-1 at the end of the weekend, one game ahead of both Yale and Cornell, who play each other this weekend. Princeton still has a match at Yale to go, so a lot can happen.
Still, Princeton would get no worse than a share of the Ivy title by winning three of four (Dartmouth/Harvard home this weekend before going to Brown and Yale the following weekend). The automatic bid to the NCAA tournament is also out there as well.
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