Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Extraordinary

So it's already Wednesday and TigerBlog has some catching up from the weekend to do.

First, there is Sondre Guttormsen. 

It seems like any time Guttormsen competes it's big news. This past weekend at the HYP meet in Harvard was no different.

For a little perspective, that's extraordinary stuff. A vault of six meters would equate to 19 feet, 8 inches. Should Guttormsen be able to add half a foot to his vault, he would become only the 16th person ever to reach that height. That's all time — and that includes outdoor vaults.

Guttormsen already has two NCAA titles, one indoors and one outdoors, both accomplished a year ago. He's already been an Olympian, in the summer of 2021 for his native Norway.

Princeton's men and women both were the winners in the HYP meets in Cambridge. There were other big performances besides just Guttormsen, including this from Lilly Paris in the hurdles:

For the complete HYP results click HERE and HERE.

What Guttormsen's in the pole vault is extraordinary. While TB is on the subject of extraordinary, there was the women's basketball performance from the other day.

As you remember from yesterday, TB was in Dayton over the weekend. The game he went to see between Dayton and Richmond tipped at 4, and he remembered right around then that the Princeton-Yale women had started at 2, so he checked the score.

He's pretty sure he said "wow" when he saw it. The final was Princeton 79, Yale 30. 

Also from yesterday, TB mentioned the amazing three-point shooting by Dayton and Yale. The opposite of that was true in the women's game.

Princeton held Yale to 2 for 17 three-point shooting. Overall, Yale shot 11 for 45, or 24.4 percent. Those are winning numbers every time.

Princeton put the game away with a 22-4 second quarter, building its lead to 36-13 at the break. 

Once again, the Tigers were led by the red-hot Madison St. Rose, who had 17 more points on 5 for 10 shooting, including 3 for 6 from three-point range. The numbers TB gave you a week ago can be updated once again to this:

Last six games:
* 14.5 points per game, five games with at least 15 points, 34 for 68 shooting (50 percent), 10 for 28 from three-point range (36 percent), team is 6-0 (5-0 Ivy)

Season prior to that:
* 5.7 points per game, zero games with at least 15 points, 27 for 102 shooting (26.5 percent), 6 for 41 from three-point range (14.6 percent), team was 8-5 (0-2 Ivy)

St. Rose saw her streak of consecutive weeks as Ivy Rookie of the Week end at two, but she did have a different recognition this time around, as she was named the USBWA's National Freshman of the Week. 

Julia Cunningham had nine points in the game, giving her 976 for her career. Should she get another 24 points, she'd become the 27th player in Princeton women's basketball history to get to 1,000.

Cunningham was a big scorer when she came to Princeton out of Watchung Hills High. She'll be the first to tell you that the offensive numbers are great, but what she's most proud of are 1) how well the team has done since she's been here and 2) how far she's come defensively. Those two, by the way, are quite related.

Besides this is no time for individual honors, though, as impressive as getting to 1,000 points is.

Princeton is now 5-2 after its 0-2 start. Columbia is 6-1, followed by three 5-2 teams, with Penn and Harvard also one game back and Yale now two back at 4-3.

Princeton is on the road next weekend, heading to Cornell Friday and then Columbia Saturday. The race is very tight in the league for the four Ivy League tournament spots and the league championship.

The tournament, as you know, will be held in Princeton the second weekend of March.

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