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Ivy League Champion Princeton Volleyball Team Returns To NCAAs, Heads To BYU Friday
November 27, 2016 | Women's Volleyball
Seventeen years ago, a feisty Princeton volleyball team — led by Ivy League Player of the Year Sabrina King — traveled to Provo, Utah, to compete in the NCAA tournament. King, now the Ivy League Head Coach of the Year, will return to Provo this week, and she'll bring an upset-minded Tiger squad that once again has the Ivy League Player of the Year.
Princeton (19-4, 13-1 Ivy), which leads all Ivy League programs with 16 Ivy titles, will compete in the NCAA tournament for the sixth time in program history, and the first time since 2007, when it takes on 13th-seeded BYU Friday at 9 pm. Utah and UNLV will be the other two teams in competition at BYU, and they will play the opening match Friday.
The Tigers are 0-5 all-time in the NCAA postseason, and they won their only set against Delaware in a 3-1 loss during the 2007 postseason.
The Tigers will return to the NCAA tournament for the first time in nine seasons because of a dominant run through the Ivy League. Princeton, which won back-to-back Ivy titles for the first time since 1999-2000, won the league by two matches, and 10 of its 13 victories came by 3-0 scores. Princeton clinched the outright title in dramatic fashion; the Tigers rallied from a 5-0 deficit in the fifth set against Cornell for a 3-2 win, and then found out minutes later that Yale had lost to Harvard to secure the NCAA tournament berth.
Princeton, which won 14 straight matches during the season, earned the Ivy League Player of the Year (Cara Mattaliano), Ivy League Rookie of the Year (Maggie O'Connell), Ivy League Head Coach of the Year (Sabrina King), and five All-Ivy honors (first team: Mattalian, O'Connell, Brittany Ptak; second team: Jessie Harris, Devon Peterkin).
You can read the full All-Ivy League release here.
Princeton's five NCAA tournament opponents have been: UC-Santa Barbara (1994), Maryland (1997), BYU (1999), Nebraska (2000), and Delaware (2007). King has been part of four of those trips; she played for Princeton against Maryland, BYU, and Nebraska, and she was an assistant coach against Delaware.
Princeton (19-4, 13-1 Ivy), which leads all Ivy League programs with 16 Ivy titles, will compete in the NCAA tournament for the sixth time in program history, and the first time since 2007, when it takes on 13th-seeded BYU Friday at 9 pm. Utah and UNLV will be the other two teams in competition at BYU, and they will play the opening match Friday.
The Tigers are 0-5 all-time in the NCAA postseason, and they won their only set against Delaware in a 3-1 loss during the 2007 postseason.
The Tigers will return to the NCAA tournament for the first time in nine seasons because of a dominant run through the Ivy League. Princeton, which won back-to-back Ivy titles for the first time since 1999-2000, won the league by two matches, and 10 of its 13 victories came by 3-0 scores. Princeton clinched the outright title in dramatic fashion; the Tigers rallied from a 5-0 deficit in the fifth set against Cornell for a 3-2 win, and then found out minutes later that Yale had lost to Harvard to secure the NCAA tournament berth.
Princeton, which won 14 straight matches during the season, earned the Ivy League Player of the Year (Cara Mattaliano), Ivy League Rookie of the Year (Maggie O'Connell), Ivy League Head Coach of the Year (Sabrina King), and five All-Ivy honors (first team: Mattalian, O'Connell, Brittany Ptak; second team: Jessie Harris, Devon Peterkin).
You can read the full All-Ivy League release here.
Princeton's five NCAA tournament opponents have been: UC-Santa Barbara (1994), Maryland (1997), BYU (1999), Nebraska (2000), and Delaware (2007). King has been part of four of those trips; she played for Princeton against Maryland, BYU, and Nebraska, and she was an assistant coach against Delaware.
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