Friday, February 18, 2022

Yawn

TigerBlog was tired all day yesterday.

Why? It's because he stayed up to watch the gold medal Olympic women's hockey game obviously.

TB was always a "stay up really late, sleep really late" guy during college and his 11 years in the newspaper business. All that flipped when 1) he started to work at Princeton and had to be at work in the morning and 2) when he had kids, who messed up his ability to sleep late forever.

If you've had kids, you can understand this. Even though it's closing in on 25 years, TB has never been able to sleep late again once they came along. 

Ever since then, he's been a "early to bed, early to rise" guy. Has that made him healthy, wealthy and wise?

That's why it was so tough for him to stay up until close to 2 Tuesday night to watch the game, because he knew he wouldn't be able to sleep late yesterday morning. As it turned out, he was right.

But so what if he was dragging a bit. It was worth it to see the two Princeton women win their gold medals. 

Speaking of the Olympics, Charlie Volker had this to say about his first Olympic event, and the next one coming up: 

The four-man competition begins tomorrow evening Eastern time. It would be great to see Volker in contention for a medal.

This will be the end of the Olympics until the 2024 Paris Games, which, by the way, BrotherBlog is hoping to attend. If he does, TB will have him file updates. 

Ah, but that's getting ahead of things, and why do that when there are so many great Princeton events about to happen. HERE is the composite schedule.

This weekend will see an Ivy League champion crowned in women's swimming and diving. It won't see Ivy champions in basketball, but there continue to be huge games that lead up to the Ivy tournaments, which are three weeks away. 

This is an old-fashioned travel-partner weekend. The Princeton women are home against Brown tonight (7) and Yale tomorrow (6), while the men are at opposite sites (7 both nights). The women are unbeaten in the league at 9-0, one game up on Columbia, whom the Tigers play Wednesday at 5 in New York City.

Yale, on the other hand, is 6-4, tied with Harvard for third place. Penn is 4-5, still hoping to get a spot in the four-team Ivy tournament. Yale and Princeton played a tight game in New Haven on Jan. 28 for three quarters until Princeton pulled away in the fourth quarter to win 61-49.

On the men's side, Yale is in first place at 8-1, one game ahead of Penn (8-2) and Princeton (7-2) in terms of losses. Cornell (five losses) is in the mix with Harvard and Brown (six losses each) for the fourth tournament spot, so clearly every game is huge now.

The men's hockey team is at Dartmouth and Harvard as the Tigers continue to chase home ice in the upcoming ECAC playoffs (currently in seventh, two points ahead of Union and Brown with one extra game still to play). 

The women are home this weekend (tonight at 6 against Brown, tomorrow at 3 against Yale). Princeton will almost surely be at Yale in the ECAC quarterfinals in two weeks, though that's not 100 percent set mathematically.

Of course, this weekend is also the first weekend of lacrosse season. The men are home tomorrow at 1 against Monmouth, followed Tuesday at home at 5 against Binghamton.

After that, it's a five-week stretch against teams with these rankings in this week's USILA poll: No. 1, No. 3, No. 8, No. 10 and No. 7. It starts next Saturday at No. 1 Maryland. 

The women are at Virginia Sunday at noon and then have their home opener against Temple next Saturday. This is, as you know, the final season of the Hall of Fame career of Tiger head coach Chris Sailer.

If you're interested in lacrosse, you can see season previews for both teams and an A to Z look at the season HERE. 

Also, TB has been doing a series of features each Thursday this month for Black History Month. This week's feature was on women's lacrosse freshman Nina Montes. You can read it HERE.

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