Princeton University
NCAA Championships
Tigers Set for NCAA Championships, Opening Thursday
March 14, 2023 | Wrestling
Princeton qualified three - Patrick Glory (125), Quincy Monday (165) and Luke Stout (197) - through their finishes at the EIWA Championships and added a fourth, Travis Stefanik (285), through an at-large bid. Nate Dugan (184) is the first alternate and would compete if one of the 33 wrestlers who qualified at 184 is unable to compete ahead of the first round.
The event will be streamed and televised on the ESPN networks, with whiparound coverage of the day sessions on ESPNU, night sessions on ESPN, and all matches on ESPN+.
Live results will be available via TrackWrestling here.
Thursday morning's session (11 a.m. local/12 p.m. ET) will include the 32-vs.-33 pigtail matches for each weight, plus the round of 32. The round of 16 and the pigtail and first full round of consolation matches will be Thursday night (6 p.m. local/7 p.m. ET).
Friday's day session (11 a.m. local/12 p.m. ET) will see the quarterfinals and two rounds of consolation, and Friday night (7 p.m. local/8 p.m. ET) is the semis and two more rounds of consolation .
Saturday's day session (10 a.m. local/11 a.m. ET) includes the consolation semis, third-place, fifth-place and seventh-place matches, and Saturday night (6 p.m. local/7 p.m. ET) will have the first-place matches at each of the 10 weights.
Princeton's 2023 NCAA Championships Notes
Princeton at the NCAAs: Princeton has qualified a wrestler to the NCAA Championships every year the program has competed since 2014. The longest such stretch of having an NCAA qualifier in program history is 22 years, from 1967-88. The active streak is the second longest. In the Chris Ayres era (since 2006-07), Princeton wrestlers have earned 48 NCAA Championship bids across 11 tournaments, from 2010 through '23 except 2013 (and 2021, when Princeton did not compete). In 2022, Patrick Glory (125) and Quincy Monday (then 157) became Princeton's first NCAA finalists since 2002 and gave Princeton its first two-finalist NCAAs ever. Princeton has had one NCAA individual wrestling title, from Bradley Glass '53 in 1951 (unlimited weight class).
All-Americans: Princeton wrestlers have won 12 All-American honors during the Ayres era, all since 2016 and almost half of the 25 All-American honors Princeton wrestlers have earned all-time. Patrick Glory is looking to become the second four-time All-American in program history, along with former teammate Matthew Kolodzik '21, and Quincy Monday is looking to become the third three-time All-American in program history, along with Kolodzik and Glory.
Talented coaches: Head coach Chris Ayres set the career (120) and school (39) records for wins in a season at Lehigh while also earning All-America at 157 in 1999, finishing sixth to cap a career that saw him qualify for four NCAA Championships (1996-99). Associate Head Coach Joe Dubuque won the 2005 and 2006 NCAA title at 125 at Indiana and added those to an eighth-place finish in 2004 for a three-time All-American career. Fellow AHC Sean Gray was an All-American at 141 at Virginia Tech in 2000 (seventh) and 2001 (sixth) while qualifying for four NCAA Championships.
Against the 2023 NCAA field: Patrick Glory has a 14-2 record against fellow wrestlers in the 125 bracket while wrestling for Princeton. The two losses are to top-seeded Spencer Lee of Iowa, but the wrestlers have not faced each other since Glory's freshman year in 2018-19. Quincy Monday is 13-2 against the other wrestlers at 165 while wrestling in Princeton-counted matches, with the two losses coming earlier this season to Cornell's Julian Ramirez, in the teams' dual and in the EIWA final.
Tulsa born: Quincy Monday has strong connections to this year's NCAA Championships site, having been born in Tulsa in 1999 before moving to the Dallas area as a young child and later to North Carolina during high school. Both of Monday's parents, Kenny and Sabrina, are alums of Tulsa's Booker T. Washington high school, just a few miles northeast of the BOK Center downtown, and Kenny Monday was a three-time All-American and 150-pound NCAA champion in 1984 at Oklahoma State, just an hour west of Tulsa.
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