For the men's squash team, this season has been as much about developing young players and gaining experience as it has been about competing for victories. The rebuilding year will culminate tomorrow through Sunday at the National Team Championships at Princeton University — only this time, the Jumbos expect to win.
The men's track and field team enters the Div. III New England Championships this weekend with a vengeance. Last year, they had a disappointing sixth−place finish. But after a solid regular season the Jumbos believe that this year's meet, which will be held tomorrow and Saturday at Springfield College, will be different.
For the athletes in the NESCAC, yesterday didn't just feel like spring — it was the first day
So far this season, the women's track and field team has cleared every hurdle. At invitational meets, the Jumbos have earned two first−place and two second−place finishes. They have broken several school records. And at last weekend's non−scoring events at the Gantcher Center and Boston University, they achieved numerous personal bests.
3 - Ranking of the men's lacrosse team in the preseason United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Associaton rankings. The team will be looking to live up to the standards of the last two seasons, which included 38 combined wins, two runs to the National Championship game and one national title. The first official day of practice is today, as the squad will begin preparing for its first preseason scrimmage of the year on Saturday against Yale and Quinnipiac. The regular season schedule will start on March 10 with a conference battle at Hamilton.
The No. 26 ranked men's squash team could not have picked a better time to get hot. It has been a bumpy ride this year for the Jumbos, who entered Thursday's match at Northeastern having lost seven in a row. But with nationals now less than a week away, the team rediscovered its stroke, pulling off a dramatic 5-4 win on Thursday and an 8-1 thrashing of Boston College on Saturday.
The ice hockey team traveled across Massachusetts and then into upstate New York this weekend in search of two NESCAC wins and four key points that would bring them closer to their goal of locking up a home berth in the upcoming conference tournament.
The women's track and field team notched several impressive individual performances this weekend at both Boston University and the Gantcher Center while preparing for the New England Championships.
With the squad split on Saturday between the Valentine Invitational at Boston University and the Tufts Last Chance Invitational in the Gantcher Center, the men's track and field team notched several impressive marks in its final weekend before championship season.
Many expected the New York Knicks to eventually pick up their level of play after a devastating 8-15 start to the lockout-shortened NBA season. Yet no one believed the Knicks' guardian angel would come in the form of an undrafted, gawky, Asian-American Harvard grad with an atypical jump shot.
One week after a tough loss to undefeated Amherst, the women's basketball team reasserted its NESCAC supremacy Saturday night, jumping ahead early en route to a 52-37 bashing of Hamilton College. With the win, the Jumbos clinched the No. 2 seed in the upcoming NESCAC playoffs and capped off an extremely successful regular season in which they went 8-2 in the league and 19-5 overall.
Due to the lockout-shortened NBA season, the overall competition of the league has been in a frenzy, and — save for the Bulls and the Thunder — no team in either conference has emerged as a dominant force. The Rookie of the Year race, however, has two runaway frontrunners: Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Ricky Rubio of the Minnesota Timberwolves. The rest of the league's first-year players? Not even close.
This weekend, the men's hockey team will wrap up its regular season road schedule with two NESCAC games at Amherst and Hamilton on Saturday and Sunday. The Jumbos are currently tied with Middlebury for third place in the conference — a position that would guarantee them a first-round home game in the conference tournament just a year after they missed the postseason altogether.
Anyone watching a National Hockey League game has around a 50 percent chance of watching a bare?knuckle fight break out, with the referees looking on and thousands of screaming fans giving a standing ovation.
This weekend, the men's hockey team will wrap up its regular−season road schedule with two NESCAC games at Amherst and Hamilton on Saturday and Sunday. The Jumbos are currently tied with Middlebury for third place in the conference — a position that would guarantee them a first−round home game in the conference tournament just a year after they missed the postseason altogether.
Coming off a New England Big 4 Challenge title over the weekend, the men's basketball team was looking to maintain that momentum in its penultimate game before Winter Break. But the Plymouth State Panthers had other ideas, handing the Jumbos their second overtime loss of the year and downing Tufts for the third consecutive season.
With the unseasonably warm winter continuing in the Boston area, the minds of most Tufts students are probably far from snow sports and more focused on the possibility of June weather in March. But for the dozens of students on the ski team, alpine ski racing is a weekly obsession, consuming every weekend from the end of winter break until late February.
Heading into their match against Brown on Tuesday night, the Jumbos, losers of 10 of their last 11, knew they would have their hands full with an Ivy League opponent which had yet to lose to a NESCAC team. The contest ensued accordingly, with the Jumbos falling 9−0 in Providence, R.I.
Now that the Super Bowl is over and the offseason has officially begun, the focus shifts from one Manning to the other. Until a conclusion is reached on Peyton Manning's future with the Indianapolis Colts, or a Vick/Roethlisbergian-type incident occurs, the narrative of the football world will not change. The facts in the case are abundantly clear: Manning is due a 28 million roster bonus on March 8, the Colts have the No. 1 pick in the draft, and they will most likely select Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck.
