Lady Tigers Really, Really Good at Basketball

Well, after all the excitement around the Princeton men's basketball team possibly going undefeated in the Ivy League, we lost to Cornell and Brown in a span of three short games. There are still a few games left in the season, but Princeton has been all but eliminated from winning the Ivy League title.But lost in our otherwise obsessive coverage of Princeton basketball has been this year's real story: the women's team is good.Like, really, really, really good.How good, you ask? Hold on to your socks:How about a 21-2 overall record, including an undefeated 9-0 in the Ivy League?How about their 21 wins being the most ever by the women's basketball team. And they still have 5 games left on the schedule!How about the only two losses on the year coming to perennial national powerhouses UCLA and Rutgers?How about all of this coming from a team that went 14-14 last year?But if you want to know if a team's really good, listen to the way its coach talks after a blowout win. Following Saturday's 64-38 drubbing of Brown in Providence, head coach Courtney Banghart said, "That wasn't our best game, but it was a win. We will regroup and be ready for Cornell and Columbia next weekend."God help Cornell and Columbia.In other words, this is our mea culpa basketball blog post. Yes, it was fun and exciting to write about a team that Pat Forde talked about on ESPN. But at the end of the day, only one Princeton basketball team has played this season in a way that's truly transcendent, and that's the Lady Tigers. Sorry it took us 23 games to figure that out.(image and statistics from goprincetontigers.com)