Welcome to March.
It's supposed to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb. Whether that's true or not, TigerBlog is just happy to see January and February go into the rearview mirror after the winter it's been around here.
Hey, just a week ago there was a blizzard of 25 inches of snow that actually resulted in all of Princeton University being shut down. That was seven days ago.
And now? Almost all of that snow is gone. And if you're looking ahead for the forecast, you're seeing 60s and yikes even 70s around here in the next week. That's certainly something to look forward to, right?
Looking back into the near past, do you know how many highlights were there this weekend in Princeton Athletics?
There were so many that the men's lacrosse team's sweep of No. 6 Syracuse and No. 1 North Carolina isn't the starting point. Neither is hockey, men's or women's, even though they both had huge accomplishments of their own.
The women's basketball team had itself a dominating sweep at Dartmouth and Harvard to close in on another Ivy League championship. That also isn't at the top of the Monday Morning Leaderboard.
On this Monday, you needed an Ivy League championship over the weekend to earn that spot. And also on this Monday, there's a three-way tie up there.
Yes, Princeton had itself a three-Ivy-title weekend, as there were championship celebrations in men's swimming and diving, men's indoor track and field and women's indoor track and field. Did you see the front page of goprincetontigers.com yesterday? This isn't too bad, huh:
TigerBlog will mention the three championships this weekend chronologically.
The men's swimming and diving team rolled through four days and night of the Ivy League championships before closing out a 200-point win over second-place Yale. Princeton has now won 33 Ivy titles in men's swimming and diving (including two straight). That's a lot of winning.
Once again, Princeton had the High Point Diver of the Meet (Aidan Wang) and the High Point Swimmer of the Meet (Mitchell Schott). That's three of those for Wang and two for Schott.
The meet was filled with NCAA qualifiers, records and individual and relay winners. You can read more about it HERE.
By the time the men were celebrating their title at DeNunzio Pool, the two track and field teams were already looking like they were on their ways to repeats. As it turned out, they were.
For the women, this is two straight. For the men, it's an amazing 11 straight.
The women scored 188.5 points, outdistancing second-place Penn by 20.5. The men won by a huge margin, with 187 points, which was 51 better than second-place Cornell.
Those three run the total for the academic year to 10, before a spring championship is even contested.
The complete list to date is: men's soccer, women's soccer, women's volleyball, men's cross country, women's cross country, women's squash, women's swimming and diving and the three this weekend.
Has it ever happened that Princeton has gotten to double figures in Ivy titles by the end of the winter? Hmmm, well, this is from exactly 52 weeks ago today:
If you're keeping score, this was a three-Ivy League Championship weekend for Princeton Athletics. Further scorekeeping reveals that the Ivy titles for the 2024-25 academic year has reached 10 — by the end of the winter season. That might be unprecedented
That number could reach 11 with either a women's basketball win against Yale or a Columbia loss to Harvard next weekend.
Congratulations to the three teams that won their Ivy titles the last few days, and to the individuals who also won their events.
Given everything else that happened around here this past weekend, being the lead story is really saying something.
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