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Princeton Meets Johns Hopkins In Men's Lacrosse Final Four
May 21, 2002 | Men's Lacrosse
May 21, 2002
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Princeton vs. Johns Hopkins
The site Rutgers Stadium * Piscataway, N.J.
The date Saturday, May 25, 2002 * 11:30 a.m.
Radio/TV WHWH 1350 AM, www.goprincetontigers.com/ESPN2
The records Princeton: 9-4 (5-1 Ivy League); Johns Hopkins: 12-1
Seeds Princeton: No. 4; Johns Hopkins: No. 1
The coaches Princeton: Bill Tierney (18th season, 203-59); Johns Hopkins: Dave Pietramala (fifth season, 43-22)
The series Johns Hopkins leads 49-22
Last meeting Johns Hopkins defeated Princeton 8-5 * March 2, 2002
History lesson - Princeton enters the Final Four with four losses; only one team (Virginia in 1972) has won the NCAA tournament with as many as four losses.
More history - Princeton has lost to each of the other three Final Four teams this season. Only twice in the history of the NCAA tournament (Virginia in 1999, North Carolina in 1986) has a team won the championship by defeating two teams in the Final Four after losing to those teams in the regular season.
Semi-tough - Princeton is 7-1 all-time in NCAA semifinal games.
More semi-tough - Each of Princeton's last four NCAA semifinal wins have been by one goal.
In case you missed it - Johns Hopkins defeated Princeton 8-5 in the season-opener for both on March 2 at Homewood Field.
Role reversal - Princeton is 10-4 against Johns Hopkins in its last 14 games. Princeton was 0-24 against Hopkins in the 24 games prior to that. Old friends - Princeton head coach Bill Tierney recruited and coached Johns Hopkins coach Dave Pietramala as a Blue Jay assistant coach in the mid-'80s.
A house divided - Princeton attackman Jason Doneger, who is taking this year off from school, is the brother of Johns Hopkins' Adam Doneger, who scored the game-winning goal in overtime against UMass.
More divided - Princeton assistant coach Sean Nadelen was a second-team All-America defenseman for Johns Hopkins before graduating a year ago.
Back in the day - Bill Tierney once coached the Johns Hopkins soccer team to the NCAA Final Four.
One for the money - Princeton has played 14 NCAA tournament games that have been decided by one goal and is 13-1 in those games.
More one - Princeton has won each of its last 12 NCAA tournament games that have been decided by one goal.
Another one - Princeton's last five NCAA tournament wins have all been by one goal.
Tournament tested - Princeton's NCAA tournament winning percentage (24-6, .800) is the best in Division I history.
More tournament - Princeton has played 30 NCAA tournament games in its history. Princeton is 5-4 in games decided by four goals or more and 19-2 in games decided by three goals or less.
We're No. 1 - Princeton has won six NCAA tournaments in the last 10 years.
On the banks of the ol' Raritan - Princeton has won 11 straight games on the Rutgers campus (six in the NCAA tournament; five against Rutgers). Princeton's last loss at Rutgers was a 1993 game against North Carolina that was part of a doubleheader played.
The Syracuse factor - Princeton is 4-4 against Syracuse and 19-0 against all other teams in NCAA tournament games since 1992.
More Syracuse - Princeton and Syracuse have combined to win 12 of the last 14 NCAA championships.
What'd ya' tell 'em in the locker room, coach? - Princeton has won 19 NCAA tournament games since 1994; the Tigers have trailed or been tied at the half in 10 of those 19 wins.
Just in case - Princeton is 5-1 all-time in NCAA tournament games that have gone to overtime and has won four NCAA championship games in overtime, including last year's.
More in case - B.J. Prager is the only current Tiger with an overtime goal. Prager has scored two, against Syracuse in last year's NCAA championship game and this year against Duke, both on assists from Ryan Boyle.
A league of their own - Princeton won its eighth straight Ivy League championship and earned the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
More league - Princeton defeated Brown 12-10 in Providence May 4 to win the Ivy League championship. The teams had entered the game tied for the league lead, setting up a winner-take-all game for the league title and the NCAA tournament bid.
Still more league - Princeton is 68-4 in Ivy League games since the start of the 1991 season.
Last league - Princeton had won 37 straight Ivy League games before it lost its Ivy opener to Yale this season. The league record for consecutive wins is 39, set by Cornell from 1972-79.
Coach speak - Princeton coach Bill Tierney has won more NCAA championships (six) than every other active Division I coach combined (five).
More coach - Bill Tierney is tied with Roy Simmons Jr. of Syracuse for the most NCAA Division I tournament championships won by a coach (six each).
Last coach - Princeton's 12-7 win over Cornell on April 20 was the 200th of Bill Tierney's college head coaching career.
Poll position - Princeton has been ranked as high as No. 1 and as low as No. 12 in the USILA poll this season. The Tigers have been ranked, at various times, No. 1, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, No. 8, No. 9, No. 11 and No. 12.
Strength of schedule - According to the laxpower.com rankings, Princeton had the second-toughest schedule in Division I (behind Johns Hopkins).
Bye-bye - Princeton has never advanced to the NCAA Final Four when it hasn't received a first-round bye, as it did this year.
Seed-lings - Princeton has won six NCAA championships; none of them have come when the Tigers were lower than a third seed. Princeton is the fourth seed in this year's tournament.
Streaking - Princeton has won seven straight games.
Face it - Princeton has won 53.5% of its face-offs this season after winning 48.4% last season.
Reruns - In each of its last three NCAA tournament games, Princeton has had a four-goal lead late in the third quarter, allowed the other team to tie the score and then won the game in either the final minutes or in overtime.
Mr. May - Sean Hartofilis has 18 goals in seven career NCAA tournament games.
Hart-stopping - Sean Hartofilis has scored nine goals in two career NCAA semifinal games.
More Hart - Sean Hartofilis has three four-goal NCAA tournament games in his career.
On the attack - Each of Princeton's three starting attackmen (Ryan Boyle, B.J. Prager, Sean Hartofilis) has a game-winning goal in the NCAA tournament in either the final minutes or in overtime.
Welcome Matt - Matt Trevenen has scored three goals this season, all three of which came in the Syracuse game.
No Josh-ing - Josh White has at least one goal in each of his last eight games; prior to that, he had never had goals in consecutive games in his career.
More Josh-ing - Josh White has 14 goals in his last seven games; he had 10 goals for his career prior to that.
D plus - Damien Davis held Georgetown's Steve Dusseau, the nation's leading goal-scorer, to one goal and one assist in the quarterfinal last weekend.
Good as Gould - Julian Gould led the Ivy League in goals-against and save percentage in all games and in league games only.
Veteran's day - Ryan Boyle and Damien Davis have started every game of their careers.
More veteran's - Scott Farrell has started each of the last 50 games.
Aw, shoot - B.J. Prager has 28 goals on 56 shots (50%).
More shoot - Ryan Boyle has 19 goals on 39 shots (49%).
I'm honored - Princeton sophomore Ryan Boyle is the 2002 Ivy League Player of the Year.
More honored - Ryan Boyle is the second player in league history to be Ivy Rookie of the Year as a freshman and Player of the Year as a sophomore (Princeton's Jesse Hubbard was the other).
Still more honored - Princeton had four first-team All-Ivy League selections: A Ryan Boyle, A B.J. Prager, M Brad Dumont and D Damien Davis. Boyle and Davis were unanimous selections.
Last honored - Princeton had three second-team All-Ivy selections: A Sean Hartofilis, M Kyle Baugher and D Scott Farrell. Josh White, a midfielder, was an honorable mention selection.
Moving up the charts - B.J. Prager has 112 career goals, three away from tying Wick Sollers '75 for fourth all-time at Princeton.
More charts - Ryan Boyle, in less than two seasons, has moved into 10th place all-time in assists at Princeton with 67. He needs two to move into a three-way tie for eighth.
Boyle-ing point - Ryan Boyle has at least one point in every game of his career.