Princeton University Athletics
Tuesday TigerBlog: 12-0
April 14, 2026 | Tiger Blog
So TigerBlog got home way past midnight the other night after traveling with the women's tennis team to Cornell.
He walked into his house and went to toss his empty Snapple bottle into the recycling bin — only to notice it wasn't there. That was quite the shock.
The TV was there. Every other item of value was there. The only thing missing was the recycling bin.
Did someone break into his house and steal it and nothing else? It was quite the mystery.
Hmmm. He did remember that before he left on the trip he had taken the recycling out. Also, his next-door neighbor is away on vacation, and she asked TB to pick up her mail. As he pieced it together, he surmised that he had left the bin outside after putting her mail into the box she left in her shed and that it had blown away.
He looked around for it and saw no trace. Maybe one of the many deer or wild turkeys who stroll by all day walked away with it? Is recycling big in the deer/turkey community?
Then his neighbor's daughter showed up. She lives about a mile away, and she was coming by to get something from her mom's house. Maybe she knew something?
And she did. She had seen it out and assumed it was her mother's, and so she put it into her house. Now TB has it back where it belongs.
It's not the most fascinating of stories, TB supposes. Still, the feeling he had when he realized he had a missing recycling bin and nothing else? That was bizarre.
Oh, and he'll have more on women's tennis tomorrow.
For the rest of today, there's the matter of a team that is 12-0 in the Ivy League right now. TB speaks, of course, of Princeton's softball team.
It's not easy to be perfect this long into a season for any sport. It might be hardest in baseball and softball. There are just those games where everything you hit finds a glove and everything they hit finds the grass.
Princeton stayed unbeaten by sweeping Penn this weekend to reach that gaudy 12-0. By contrast, no Ivy League baseball team has fewer than three league losses after the same number of games.
Like TB said, it's not easy.
In fact, it got TigerBlog wondering how many teams there are among the 31 Division I softball conferences who have a team that is currently unbeaten. The answer? Three.
There's Princeton. There's also Washington, in the Big Ten. So that's TigerBlog's employer and BrotherBlog's employer.
Unfortunately, there are only two of them If only there'd been a third sibling who worked at Southeastern Louisiana. Then they could have had all three covered.
Once again, TB borrows from his friend and colleague Andrew Borders for more information on Tiger softball:
It's the third 12-0 Ivy start in program history for Princeton, which also started, and finished, 12-0 in 1995, the first year the Ivy played 12 league games, as well as in 2008, when the team started 14-0 on the way to an 18-2 record, setting an Ivy wins record that Harvard (2011) and Dartmouth (2013) later matched. The Tigers' current run is the best start for any team since the league went to seven three-game series ahead of the 2018 season.
That's impressive stuff. It gets more impressive when you dig deeper.
In those 12 Ivy games, Princeton has committed exactly six errors. The rest of the league averages 17 errors between them. Princeton leads the league in ERA by more than run per game. It leads the league in batting average as well.
None of this is surprising, given that whole 12-0 thing.
What's left on the schedule? There are three more Ivy weekends, which for Princeton means three at Yale, three at Harvard and three home against Dartmouth. There's also a home doubleheader tomorrow against Monmouth, starting at 4:30.
Harvard is in second, at 8-4. Dartmouth and Yale both have four wins at this point.
What does it all mean? The Tigers certainly look to be in great shape for a fifth-straight Ivy championship. The path to the NCAA tournament, of course, runs through the Ivy League tournament, which will be at the home of the league champion.
Getting to 12-0 is great. There is still a long way to go.
