Game Day

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Welcome to December. 

Tomorrow, Dec. 2, will be Game Day for all 38 Princeton teams.  How is that possible? 

It'll be the 12th annual Tiger Athletics Give Day, the 24-hour fundraising competition that has brought out the Tiger in so many through the years. This year's theme is "Game Day," which, if you've been following, you've seen on each team's social media. 

Remember — only gifts made during the 24 hours of TAGD will count towards each team's total. TigerBlog has included the link to get you ready.

TB will have much more on TAGD tomorrow. For today, he offers a preliminary "thank you" to everyone who will be generously supporting Tiger Athletics. 

Meanwhile, how was your Thanksgiving? Did you miss TigerBlog? This weekend marks the only time all year that TB takes a four-day break. How'd you get along? 

TB watched a lot of football this past weekend. Here are two observations: 1) does everyone who makes a first down have to pose and point and 2) does every member of every defense need to run however far it is from the end zone after a turnover? 

Where's the originality? 

This weekend had the first snow games that TB has seen this season, at least. There's always some more fun about games in the snow, especially when you're home on your couch and not sitting out there. 

To that end, he chose to watch Northwestern-Illinois in the snow rather than Alabama-Auburn, which was presumably a much better game. Hey, snow is snow. 

The best game of the day, of course, had to be Yale's 43-42 comeback win over Youngstown State in the first round of the FCS playoffs. This was the first first round for the Ivy League, as you know. 

Yale trailed 35-7 at the half and 42-14 late in the third. And then in a blink, the Bulldogs were on their way to Montana for the second round. 

Comebacks like that require two things: 1) a complete reversal of momentum for the team that's coming back and 2) enough "what's going on here" from the team that was ahead. The game Saturday had both. 

It reminded TB of something former men's basketball coach Bill Carmody used to say: Play hard, and good things will happen.  

Keep in mind, just two weeks earlier, Yale defeated Princeton by three — final score of 13-10.  The Yale win was a victory for the entire Ivy League, who for a long while Saturday seemed to be heading to double blowouts (Harvard lost 52-7 to Villanova).

Moving indoors, yesterday was Game Day for the two Princeton basketball teams. The men played in the Jersey Jam at the arena in Trenton, falling to St. Joe's 60-58.

Princeton is a work in progress, but there is time for that work to be done. The Ivy League season doesn't begin until after the New Year, and there are still five December games to be played, including Wednesday at 8 at Monmouth. 

Jackson Hicke, by the way, now has three straight 20-point games after having no 20-point nights in his first 53 career games. 

The Princeton women took down DePaul 71-41 in Jadwin Gym. Ashley Chea had 22 points in the win, while Skye Belker had 15 of her own. 

The Tiger defense held DePaul to 23.1 percent shooting from the field and 20 percent from three. Princeton scored six seconds into the game, and there was never a tie or lead change after that. 

Princeton also had 13 blocked shots in the game. That's one off the program single-game record, set against Yale in 2011. 

Next up will be another Game Day tomorrow night against Seton Hall in Jadwin Gym. 

And, remember, it's also going to be Game Day for every Princeton team. 

TAGD is 24 hours away.