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Friday TigerBlog - Crossover Chaos
November 07, 2025 | Tiger Blog
If you were looking for chaos yesterday around 5 in the afternoon, then perhaps a good place to look would have been the lobby of the Newton Marriott hotel.
Everywhere you looked, you had a different college team. Army-West Point men's hockey. Lafayette women's soccer. The Citadel men's basketball. Cornell men's hockey. There were so many teams at the hotel that the little welcome message board needed multiple screens.
Who else?
Ah yes. Princeton field hockey. Yale field hockey. They play each other today at 2:30 in the Ivy League tournament semifinal No. 2, after host Harvard and Brown at 11:30. Yesterday afternoon? Their coaches were all smiles and hugs.
TigerBlog found that out when he walked up to him to see what his story was.
"Well, I was trying to listen to my book on tape before my ride got here, but that wasn't happening," he said.
Yeah, no.
Oh well. As TB has been saying all week, it's full-on Crossover Season, bringing with it the requisite chaos that it always does. At Princeton, and all over college sports. The Marriott lobby was all the proof you needed for that.
The Tiger field hockey team knows that it season will continue on beyond the Ivy tournament, win or lose. Princeton is in great shape with its 13-3 record, No. 3 RPI and eight wins over fellow Top 20 RPI teams.
Still, the ILT affords a chance to build on the current nine-game winning streak and solidify a spot as a top four seed and therefore host for the NCAA tournament. Yale, for its part, is ranked 10th in the RPI and is playing for its own NCAA spot.
For the winner, there could be a matchup with Harvard, who enters the tournament as the lone unbeaten team in Division I.
The Ivy women's soccer semifinals were played yesterday on Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium, where Dartmouth defeated Columbia 1-0 in the first game and Princeton then defeated Brown 3-0 in the second.
The first two Princeton goals came courtesy of Kayla Wong, who, in addition to being a mainstay of the Tigers, is that rare Princeton athlete who is from the same hometown as TigerBlog. Isabella Garces added the third goal for Princeton, who defeated Brown for the second time in five days and stretched its overall winning streak to six games. The Tigers have outscored their opponents 16-2 in those six games.
The championship game will be Sunday at 1. The winner gets an automatic NCAA tournament bid.
Speaking of Princeton-Dartmouth, those two will also meet in football tomorrow in Hanover. Kickoff is at 1.
Princeton had a tough 20-17 loss at Cornell last Saturday, falling below .500 at 3-4 on the year. Both the Tigers and Big Green are 2-2 in the league.
Dartmouth has the league's second-leading rusher in D.J. Crowther. Princeton has the third-leading rusher in Ethan Clark. Dartmouth quarterback Grayson Saunier and Princeton's Kai Colon are almost even in passing efficiency.
And of course what would a weekend of Crossover Chaos be without two basketball openers?
The men are at Akron to take on the Zips, with tip-off tomorrow at noon. Remember the game the two played a year ago in Jadwin Gym?
Dalen Davis won that one for Princeton 76-75 on a three-pointer with 1.6 seconds left, after the Tigers had been down by 15 in the second half. If you recall, Davis' winner was originally called a two before a video review changed it to a three.
Akron, by the way, finished last year at 28-7 and won the MAC tournament before falling to Arizona in the opening round of the NCAA tournament.
The women will be in Atlanta to take on Georgia Tech Sunday at 2. The Yellow Jackets have already played their season opener, having defeated Radford 82-36 yesterday.
Georgia Tech went 22-11 a year ago and also reached the NCAA tournament, losing to Richmond in the opening round. The win yesterday was the first for new head coach Karen Blair, who most recently was the associate head coach at Maryland.
Princeton's head coach is Carla Berube, who is already in Year 7 with the Tigers. Her record entering this season? How about 121-25? Not bad.
For the whole Crossover Chaos weekend schedule featuring 16 Princeton teams, click HERE.
