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Monday TigerBlog - Snow Ball
January 26, 2026 | Tiger Blog
Of course, like most huge storms, the buildup for this one was way longer than the event itself. How many times did you hear someone say: "Milk? Bread? Eggs? Are people worried that they won't be able to make French toast?"
When storms like this are forecast, there are only two questions TB has: 1) how much snow and 2) when will it start. He doesn't need to know about the low pressure and the fact that driving may be treacherous. He assumes some weather system caused it and that the roads will be slick.
TB remembers the two biggest blizzards he's experienced — the one in 1978 and the one in 1996. Both of those topped 30 inches of snow, and yet how long was anyone really trapped?
TigerBlog is not a winter guy. He supposes there are those people who prefer the cold exist, though he can't understand why.
What percentage of people, would you imagine, would list winter as their favorite season? According to one poll TB saw, only 10 percent of Americans chose winter as the favorite.
Oh, and according to that same poll, guess which states ranked 1-2-3 in terms of how many would say winter is their favorite? That would be: Florida, Hawaii, Arizona. That makes sense.
The forecast for this storm was for anywhere from six to 24 inches, with some ice possibly mixed in. Whatever the final totals, it wasn't as good as, say, walking on a warm beach with your feet in the water.
The snow didn't start here until early yesterday, which was about 24 hours later than it was supposed to. TB supposes the snow moved at its own pace, maybe just to spite the forecasters.
Either way, the storm fortunately didn't disrupt any of the weekend's Ivy League basketball games (snow ball?), with each team for the men and women with just one game on the schedule. For Princeton, this meant a women's game at Brown and a men's game at home against Brown, and both Tiger teams came away with victories.
The women knocked off Brown 58-49, running their winning streak to 15 straight. That's impressive.
You want to know something that might be more impressive? It's the fourth time a Carla Berube-coached Princeton team has won at least 15 straight games.
That's ridiculous, considering she's in her sixth season as the Tiger head coach.
Next up for Princeton will be the renewal of what has quickly become a great rivalry as Columbia comes to Jadwin Friday at 6, followed by Cornell Saturday. Princeton is now 5-0 and atop the Ivy standings; the Lions are the only team 4-1, followed by 3-2 Harvard and Brown.
Will those four be the four teams who reach Ithaca for Ivy Madness? Penn and Cornell are both 2-3 and will have something to say about that.
On the men's side, it's way too early to start to figure out who the four will be. Yale is in first at 4-1. Brown, after its 63-53 loss to Princeton Saturday, is 1-4. Would you write the Bears off? They've been written off before and made a big run to reach the Ivy tournament.
Everyone else in the league is now either 3-2 (Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth) or 2-3 (Cornell, Columbia, Penn). This is the most wide-open the race for Ivy Madness spots has been.
The game Saturday at Jadwin saw Jackson Hicke score 19 more points while adding 13 rebounds as he continues to vault himself into solid first-team All-Ivy range. Dalen Davis put up 22 more as he has returned from the injury that cost him nine games.
Just as with the winning streaks for Berube teams, the men's team also has an astonishing one as well. Princeton was 22 for 22 from the foul line against Brown, after going 11 for 11 against Dartmouth in the previous game.
Go back to the end of the game before that (at Harvard), and you'll see Princeton made its final five free throw attempts in that one. Add that all together, and that's 38 straight made foul shots by the team.
As an aside, Princeton was shooting 72 percent for the year from the foul line. Are the 38 straight makes a record of some sort?
