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Princeton University Athletics
Princeton Hosts Hobart In Regular Season Finale
May 03, 2001 | Men's Lacrosse
May 3, 2001
Princeton vs. Hobart
The site Class of 1952 Stadium * Princeton, N.J.
The date Saturday, May 5, 2001 * 1:00 p.m.
The records Princeton: 10-1 (6-0 Ivy League), Hobart: 5-6 (5-1 Patriot League)
The coaches Princeton: Bill Tierney (17th season, 190-60)
Hobart: B.J. O'Hara (16th season, 119-95)
The series Princeton leads 5-1
Last season Princeton defeated Hobart 12-6 * May 6, 2000
Just win, baby - Including this season, Princeton has averaged 11.1 wins per year under Bill Tierney. Prior to his arrival in 1988, Princeton averaged 5.2 wins per year.
More win - Princeton has won at least 10 games for the 11th time in the last 12 seeasons. Prior to that, Princeton had never won more than nine games in a season.
A league of their own - Princeton has won 37 straight Ivy League games and will enter next season two shy of the all-time league record of 39, set by Cornell from 1972-79.
More league - Princeton outscored its six Ivy opponents 88-21, including 49-5 at home. Tournament tested - Princeton will be appearing in its 12th straight NCAA tournament when the bids are announced Sunday night. Prior to the start of that streak in 1990, the Tigers had never appeared in an NCAA tournament.
More tournament - Princeton's 20-6 NCAA tournament record is the best of any team in Division I history.
Swish - Ryan Boyle has 16 goals on 28 shots (.571).
More swish - Ryan Boyle has a .571 shooting percentage (16 goals, 28 shots). The only player ever to play for Bill Tierney at Princeton and have a better than .500 shooting percentage while scoring at least 10 goals is B.J. Prager, who had 25 goals on 49 shots (.510) as a freshman in 1999.
Still more swish - B.J. Prager has 69 goals on 142 career shots, his .486 career shooting percentage is the highest of any player to play for Bill Tierney (minimum 25 career goals).
Veterans day - Princeton has started the same defense (goalie Trevor Tierney, longsticks Damien Davis, Scott Farrell, Ryan Mollett) every game for the last two years.
We're No. 1, We're No. 1 - Princeton is a unanimous No. 1 in the USILA poll.
Can you spare a dime? - Ryan Boyle ranks ninth in Division I in assists per game (25 in 11 games, 2.27 per game).
More dimes - Matt Striebel ranks ninth all-time at Princeton in assists with 67. He needs two to tie for seventh.
D plus - Princeton allowed 21 goals in six Ivy League games, the fewest since Cornell allowed 18 in 1971 and the second-fewest since teams began playing six league games in 1964.
More D - Princeton has allowed two second-half goals in its last four games.
Young gun - Ryan Boyle, a four-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week, leads Princeton in scoring with 41 points (16 goals, 25 assists). Boyle, who has a 12-point lead on Sean Hartofilis, would become the first Princeton freshman since Kevin Lowe in 1991 to lead the team in scoring.
Hart-stopping - Sean Hartofilis has scored at least three goals in each of his last five games.
Net gains - Trevor Tierney leads the nation in goals-against (4.90) and save percentage (.688).
Sweet 19 - Princeton has reached head coach Bill Tierney's 19-goal limit twice this season and 15 times since 1993.
More 19 - In fan voting on Princeton's www.goprincetontigers.com Web site, 89% (106 of 119, as of Thursday) agreed with head coach Bill Tierney's rule of stopping at 19 goals.
National security - Princeton leads the nation in scoring defense at 4.82 goals per game, 1.25 goals per game ahead of No. 2 Maryland.
More national - Princeton leads the nation in man-down defense and scoring margin.
Streaking - Princeton has won seven straight games, tied with Notre Dame for the longest streak in the country.
More streaking - B.J. Prager has scored at least one goal in 30 straight games, Sean Hartofilis has scored at least one goal in 15 straight games. The Princeton record is 46, held by Chris Massey '98.
History lesson - Chris Massey's 46-game goal-scoring streak was snapped by Hobart in his final career regular season game in 1998.
Face it - Matt Bailer has won 33 of his last 57 face-offs (.579).
More face - Drew Casino has won 38 of 59 face-offs (.644) for the season. He would be tied for fifth nationally had he taken 40% of Princeton's face-offs.
Passing fancy - B.J. Prager has scored 21 goals this season, Ryan Boyle has assisted on 12 of the 21.
Lowe bridge - Ryan Boyle has 25 assists and 41 points, both of which are the second-highest single-season totals by a Princeton freshman. Kevin Lowe holds both records with 43 assists and 55 points, set in 1991.
Three for all - Brendan Tierney had three goals last week against Dartmouth after having three for the first 10 games of the season.
Spread it around - Princeton has had 17 different players score at least one goal and 18 different players have at least one assist.
Lineup card - Damien Davis and Ryan Boyle are the only two current Princeton players to have started every game of their career.
Point, counterpoint - Sean Hartofilis, Matt Striebel and Ryan Boyle are the only three Princeton players with at least one point in each game this season.
Honor guard - B.J. Prager has been first-team All-Ivy League each of his first two seasons. There have been 19 three-time first-team All-Ivy League selections, but no player in league history has ever been a four-time first-team selection.
Be all that you can be - Princeton's Josh White spent two years between high school and college in the Army.
You gotta be a football hero - Twenty-four of the 43 players on Princeton's roster played high school football.
Inside information - Princeton All-America defenseman Ryan Mollett's brother Brandon covers Division I lacrosse for Inside Lacrosse.
Oh say can you see - Midfielder Matt Bailer has sung the national anthem before Princeton basketball and lacrosse games.
Tournament tested - Matt Striebel has won the Ivy League championship and played in the NCAA tournament in both soccer and lacrosse.
Swish - Princeton defenseman Rob Gifford played on the same high school basketball team as Wally Szcerbiak of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
USILA Poll For April 30 (first-place votes in parenthesis)
1 Princeton (11) 220
2 Syracuse 201
3 Georgetown 189
4 Notre Dame 186
5 Maryland 181
6 Johns Hopkins 174
7 Loyola 147
8 Massachusetts 141
9 Towson 140
10 Bucknell 110
11 Virginia 104
12 Hofstra 101
13 Duke 89 , Navy 89
15 Cornell 55
16 North Carolina 54
17 Penn State 49
18 UMBC 36
19 Rutgers 19
20 Army 8, Pennsylvania 8
Also receiving votes: Hobart (5), Delaware (3), Stony Brook (3), Yale (2), Brown (1)