Wednesday, January 18, 2023

That's The Picture

TigerBlog starts today by giving credit to Stuart Schulman, a big-time Princeton fan and loyal reader, who did both ends of the Princeton-Penn doubleheader Monday.

Stuart was in Jadwin Gym for the women's game, and he then made the drive to Philly for the men's game. If you forgot, both of them were Tiger wins.

Stuart's tweet mentions the members of the women's team who were in attendance. That's also really good to see.

How many others went to both games? There were just over 1,000 fans in Jadwin for the women's game. How many of them went to Philadelphia? 

TB enjoyed Stuart's tweet yesterday. Shortly after that one was posted, TB saw another one that caught his interest.

The NCAA has a regular social media contest that allows fans to vote for the best picture of the week in a variety of sports.

Basically, each school is asked for nominations. The top four are chosen and put out on the NCAA's social media channels for that particular sport. It's not that complicated.

This week, the Princeton wrestling team was one of the finalists for Picture of the Week. It's a pretty amazing picture actually, one that almost looks choreographed.

You can see it for yourself:

Actually, the top three pictures in the voting were all really good, and a huge jump up from the other one.

The Princeton picture came from the Tigers' 24-12 win at eight-ranked Arizona State from this past Sunday. Specifically, it came at 184 pounds, where Princeton's Nate Duggan defeated Arizona State's 21st-ranked Anthony Montalvo 3-2. 

Seriously, it almost looks choreographed, right? Duggan's win made it 12-0 Tigers, who would win the first six bouts to lead 21-0. 

It started with Quincy Monday in the 165-pound match, which was the first of the day. It didn't last long. If Duggan's bout looked like a ballet, Monday's looked more like a nature video where the majestic jungle cat (TB will go with a Tiger on this one) pounces on its flailing prey and devours it almost immediately (or in this case, a 54-second pin). 

You can see that in today's third embedded tweet:

Princeton is currently ranked 17th by InterMat in the tournament rankings but is unranked in the dual rankings. What's the difference? The tournament rankings attempt to speak to how a team will do come NCAA time, whereas the dual rankings are a consideration of how teams would do going head to head.

Whatever the rankings say, the Ivy season is about to start for the Tigers, who are at Columbia Friday to start the sprint through the league. In fact, Princeton will wrestle all five of its Ivy opponents in basically a three-week run, starting with Columbia and ending Feb. 10 at Penn. 

In between are next weekend's home matches against Harvard and Brown and then a trip to Cornell, a top 10 team in both polls. Penn is also ranked in both.

Princeton also has a home match Saturday at 6 against Rider. There's a men's basketball game at 2, so seeing both of these events will be much easier than the two basketball games from Monday. 

Also, the voting for wrestling picture of the week ended yesterday afternoon, and the Wyoming one was the winner. Princeton came in second.

Of course, it's better for your picture to come in second after a win than your picture to win after a loss. 

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