Not Yet

So here it is, the day that TigerBlog said there'd be some big changes, and there is ... nothing.

As it turns out, he might have been off by a day or two. He promises you that change is coming. 

If you're one of the people who reached out yesterday to find out what it is, or even if you're not, it's just a redesign of how the content here is presented every day. Nothing is going to change in terms of the content itself. 

And because he doesn't have to talk about the new presentation, he can bring up a few things:

* After its sweep of Dartmouth this past weekend, the Princeton baseball team is the lone 3-0 team in the Ivy League. In doing so, Princeton equaled its Ivy League win total of a year ago.

Yes, that's true. Princeton is 3-0 to start this year one year after going 3-18 while finishing eighth. The Tigers gave a sign early on this year that things were different with some of their out-of-conference performances, and they were definitely ready to go against the Big Green.

It's a small sample size, but Princeton leads the league in pitching and hitting in Ivy games. That's a great combination. It's not surprising that Princeton had the Ivy Player of the Week (Kyle Vinci, who hit three home runs, drove in seven runs and had a 1.077 slugging percentage in the three games) and Pitcher of the Week (Justin Kim, who got the win in Game 1, striking out six in five innings of relief, and then pitching the final inning of the third game).

Princeton is at Harvard this weekend to take on a Crimson team that took two of three against Penn last weekend.

The big change in Ivy League baseball and softball this year is that instead of a best-of-three championship series among the top two teams in the league, there will be a four-team double elimination tournament to determine the league's NCAA bid.

* By the way, Kyle Vinci's high school team at Delbarton in North Jersey was the No. 1 team in the state his junior year. Guess who the team's shortstop was? TB will have the answer for you below. 

* TigerBlog had four favorite athletes as a little kid: Tom Seaver, Joe Namath, Walt Frazier and Willis Reed. Does that sort of give away the general area in which he grew up?

Reed passed away last week at the age of 80. Reed was "The Captain" before anyone else came along, and he was the leader of the Knicks' last two NBA championship teams, earning MVP honors in the 1973 Finals and doing something even better in the 1970 finals (you already know what he did). 

Of course, Reed was a teammate on those Knicks' teams with Princeton's own Bill Bradley. The team actually played an exhibition game in Jadwin Gym, and here is one of TB's favorite photos:

* The women's lacrosse team is at Maryland tonight in a game that can be seen on the Big Ten Network starting at 8. The Tigers come into the game having defeated Cornell 15-11 Saturday in Ithaca behind six goals from Nina Montes, who earned Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week honors. 

Princeton is ranked 17th in this week's IWLCA poll. Maryland is 10th.

Maryland features a familiar name on its defense. Marge Donovan, the Ivy League Defender of the Year lat year with the Tigers, is now playing for the Terps as a grad transfer. Donovan, by the way, was a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering major at Princeton.

The Tigers do not have a game this weekend and do not play again until Wednesday at St. Joe's.

* Speaking of Princeton grads at Maryland, Abby Meyers and the Terps' women's basketball team lost to South Carolina in the regional final Monday night by a score of 86-75.

Did that score look familiar? It was also the score by which Princeton lost to Creighton in the Sweet 16 Friday night in Loiusville.

As for Meyers, she had 14 points and five rebounds, but she was limited to 26 minutes by foul trouble before eventually fouling out early in the fourth quarter. By the way, the fourth and fifth fouls called on her were awful calls.

*  Meanwhile, back at weekly awards, Princeton softball's Alexis Laudenslager was the Ivy Pitcher of the Week after a no-hitter against Brown to start the Tigers' weekend off on the right foot. Princeton would take two of three in Providence. 

Laudenslager struck out 10 in her no-hitter, which Princeton won 1-0. It was the fourth career no-hitter for Laudenslager, who also no-hit Yale one week earlier.

Most of Ivy softball is a week ahead of baseball, and so Princeton now finds itself 5-1 in the league after sweeping Yale on the first weekend. Princeton is at Penn this weekend. 

Dartmouth is currently 3-0 in the league, as the Big Green and Cornell started a week after everyone else. Princeton, the defending Ivy champion, finishes its regular season against the Big Green in Hanover at the end of April, but Dartmouth will have one more weekend to go after that. Cornell is now 2-1, while Harvard is 4-2. Everyone else has at least four losses.

* Ben Harrington has won his fourth EIVA Offensive Player of the Week award after Princeton defeated George Mason in the league and No. 9 Loyola (Chicago) outside of it.

Harrington currently leads the EIVA in per-set averages in kills (3.57), aces (0.73) and points (4.48). He also ranks third nationally in aces per set and 12th in points per set.

The Tigers host George Mason Saturday at 5 in the only match this weekend. 

* The shortstop? Anthony Volpe, who is now the New York Yankees starting shortstop.

* Yes, the change will be here. Probably tomorrow.