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Tuesday TigerBlog - Education From WBB And The Emmy Winner Strikes Again
December 23, 2025 | Tiger Blog
Well, apparently TigerBlog isn't the only one who was amazed by the women's basketball team's comeback win Saturday at George Mason.
At least judging by the number of responses he got,. There were quite a few people who reached out with a graphic of the win percentages for the two teams with less than 30 seconds left.
It was, if TB read it right, 99.9 percent for Mason and 0.1 percent for Princeton. And why not? How many times does a team come back from seven down in 23 seconds?
Which was the more impressive comeback win, the women's basketball team from down seven with 23 seconds left or the epic 1999 men's basketball comeback from 27 down at Penn with 15 minutes to go? Maybe the same people who emailed TB can answer that question.
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The women didn't need nearly as much drama in yesterday's 87-77 win over Temple in front a huge Jadwin crowd on Education Day.
Given the theme of the game, Princeton provided a great math lesson for the kids. If you shoot 50 percent from the field and take 60 shots, you're going to probably win that game.
And that's exactly how it went for the Tigers.
Princeton was a monstrous 30 for 60 from the field and another 18 for 20 at the foul line. Once again, the team that has five players who average at least 11 points per game used balance, including a career-high 15 from Toby Nweke, who isn't even one of the ones averaging at least 11.
Nweke, as you recall, did make a huge play in the comeback Saturday, with an offensive rebound, put back with an and-one mixed in to tie it with seven seconds left in regulation.
Madison St. Rose led the Tigers with 22, and Skye Belker had 19.
Next up for Princeton? The Ivy opener at Penn on Jan. 3. Princeton will bring a 12-1 record into that one.
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What's next for today? How about golf?
TigerBlog's colleague Drew Miller released his 25 minute documentary on the recent trip that the men's and women's golf teams made to the historic St. Andrews course in Scotland. It's definitely worth the investment of your time.
Miller was working on the piece while he traveled with the field hockey team, first to the Ivy League tournament and then to the NCAA Final Four. What you can't see from watching the video is the meticulous way that Miller pieced together what had to be hours and hours of footage that he had taken on the trip.
Perhaps that would make a good documentary.
Miller, you might remember, won a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award in the "Editor-Content" category for his featured look at Olympic gold medalist Maia Weintraub from Princeton's "Beyond The Stripes" series. That award, by the way, completed a trifecta: Drew won his Emmy, TigerBlog's feature on Weintraub was the national athlete feature story of the year in the College Sports Communicators Fred Stabley Writing Contest and Weintraub won ... what was it she won?
Oh yeah, an Olympic gold medal.
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Miller's golf documentary is probably the longest piece Princeton Athletics has produced since John Bullis did his movie on Chuck Dibilio, the Princeton running back who went over 1,000 rushing yards as a freshman and never played again after suffering a stroke.
This one is 35 minutes and again, if you've never seen it, you definitely should watch.
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Speaking of Emmy Awards, TigerBlog's cousin Jill showed him her own Emmy, which she won as a producer at Dateline. When TB picked it up he almost dropped it, which led him to say "Noooo. That would have been terrible."
And what did Jill respond?
"It's okay. I have three others."
