Princeton University Athletics
Princeton Wrestling Announces 2008-09 Schedule
September 12, 2008 | Wrestling
The 2008-09 Princeton wrestling team will face a trio of teams ranked nationally in the preseason Wrestling International Newsmagazine (W.I.N.) Top 25 and will make stops in Greensboro, N.C., and Palo Alto, Calif., during the upcoming season. Third year head coach Chris Ayres announced his 2008-09 schedule, which will also include seven matches inside Dillon Gym.
The Princeton season will open Nov. 15 at the Bearcat Open in Binghamton, but the team will get into EIWA and Ivy League competition earlier than usual. Princeton heads to The Palestra on Nov. 22 for a noon showdown with No. 21 Penn. The next day, Ayres will head to his alma mater when he leads Princeton against Lehigh at 1 p.m.
Princeton opens its home schedule on Saturday, Dec. 13, when it takes on the Merchant Marine Academy (1 p.m.), Delaware State (2:30 p.m.) and Bingamton (4 p.m.). If you can't make it to campus that day, you can catch the Tigers at home on either Feb. 7, when they take on Brown (5:30 p.m.) and Harvard (7:30 p.m.), or Feb. 21, when they take on Boston University (1 p.m.) and Sacred Heart (4:30 p.m.).
Two of Princeton's longer trips will come on before and after the finals break. The Tigers will head to Greensboro for the Southern Scuffle Dec. 29-30 and then travel to Palo Alto for a Jan. 30 competition with Portland State, Stanford and Oregon.
Princeton's other ranked opponents are No. 4 Cornell (Feb. 14, 1 p.m.) and No. 17 Maryland (Dec. 14, 1 p.m.)
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