Princeton University

For other Princetons, see Princeton. Most of them are named after the University.

Athletics

Princeton is frequently among the best athletics programs in the Ivy League. The Princeton Review declared the university the 10th strongest "jock school" in the nation. It has also consistently been ranked at the top of the Time Magazine's Strongest College Sports Teams lists. Most recently, Princeton was ranked as a top 10 school for athletics by Sports Illustrated. Princeton is best known for its men and women's lacrosse teams, winning several NCAA titles in the past number of years. And though other varsity teams may not have won the NCAA title, five teams in 1996-1997 came home as national runners-up.

Related Topics:
Ivy League - Princeton Review - Time Magazine - Sports Illustrated - Lacrosse - NCAA

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Princeton has dominated the Ivy league, winning a record 21 conference titles from 2000-2001. At the culmination of 2004, Princeton had garnered a total of 36 Ivy League conference titles from 2001-2004 sports seasons. Most recently in 2005, the Tigers' women's soccer team made the NCAA Final Four, the first Ivy League team to do so. The Tigers have completely dominated field hockey, taking every conference title since 1994.

Related Topics:
Soccer - Field hockey

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Princeton's basketball team is perhaps the best known team within the Ivy League, nicknamed the "perennial giant killer". From 1992-2001, a nine year span, Princeton's men's basketball team had entered the NCAA tournament 6 times. The basketball team has also dominated the Ivy League, with its first losing season (2005) in 50 years of Ivy League Basketball.

Related Topics:
Basketball - NCAA tournament

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Princeton's historical place in American Sports along with that of Rutgers is sealed in the first Intercollegiate Football game ever played on the Rutgers campus on November 6, 1869. Rutgers and Princeton today do not compete in Football as Rutgers plays in Division 1-A while Princeton plays in Division 1-AA. However, the two schools compete in nearly every other sport that both offer and remain rivals.

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