Princeton Owes Its March Madness Run to…Yale?

Princeton is on an unlikely NCAA tournament run to the Sweet 16. Even more improbably, it can thank Yale.

Princeton guard Blake Peters stewed alone outside the Dinky Bar & Kitchen last month while his father waited 20 minutes for a table.

He was miserable and it was hard to blame him: Princeton had just suffered one of the most statistically improbable defeats of the entire college basketball season.Continue reading your article with

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