Princeton University Athletics
Princeton Hosts Brown, Looks For Share Of Ivy Title
May 01, 2003 | Men's Lacrosse
May 1, 2003
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Princeton vs. Brown
The site Class of 1952 Stadium * Princeton, N.J.
The date Saturday, May 3, 2003 * noon
Radio WBUD 1260 AM/www.goprincetontigers.com
The records Princeton: 9-3 (4-1 Ivy League); Brown: 4-9 (1-4 Ivy League)
USILA rankings Princeton: No. 6; Brown: unranked
The coaches Princeton: Bill Tierney (19th season, 213-63); Brown: Scott Nelson (fifth season, 194-64)
The series Tied 20-20
Last meeting Princeton defeated Brown 12-10 * May 4, 2002
Three for all - With two Ivy League games remaining (Harvard at Dartmouth Friday night; Brown at Princeton Saturday afternoon), there are three possible outcomes for the league race: * a Dartmouth win over Harvard and a Princeton win over Brown would mean a three-way tie for the league title between Cornell, Dartmouth and Princeton * a Dartmouth win over Harvard and a Princeton loss to Brown would mean a co-championship between Dartmouth and Cornell * a Dartmouth loss to Harvard and a Princeton win over Brown would mean a co-championship between Princeton and Cornell
We are the champions, and so are they - In the event of a co-championship or tri-championship, the teams involved will all be considered Ivy champions. The league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament will be determined by the following tiebreakers: * in the event of a two-way tie, the team that won the regular season game will get the automatic bid; Cornell has defeated Dartmouth and lost to Princeton * in the event of a three-way tie, to determine the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, consider: 1) results of head-to-head competition between the teams tied for first place; 2) if a tie persists, the tie will be broken by comparing each team's record against the team occupying the next position in the standings until one team gains the advantage; and 3) if a tie still persists, the tie will be broken by a drawing conducted by the Executive Director Draw control - In the event of a three-way tie for the league championship, the league's tiebreakers will not break the tie, so a random draw will be held by Ivy League excecutive director Jeff Orleans to deterine who gets the automatic bid. This draw would be held on a conference call between the Executive Director and the three schools at 7 p.m. Saturday night.
Gender equity - It is possible that Princeton, Dartmouth and Yale could all finish in a three-way tie on the women's side and also require a random draw to determine their automatic bid.
History lesson - Ivy League rules state that a random draw will be used to determine automatic bids to the NCAA tournament in several sports as a last resort. Jeff Orleans has been the Ivy League executive director since 1984 and has never had to do so before; he may now have to have two random draws on the same day.
Three for the money - Princeton, Dartmouth and Cornell could finish in a three-way tie for the Ivy League championship; the last three-way championship in Ivy men's lacrosse was with Brown, Cornell and Yale in 1969.
In case you forgot - Princeton and Brown played last year for the Ivy League championship. The Tigers defeated the Bears 12-10 in Providence.
Bouncing back - Princeton has lost four Ivy League games since 1991. The Tigers are 3-0 in that time in the game following an Ivy loss and have won the three games by 10, 12 and 14 goals.
The whammy - Princeton has not lost consecutive Ivy games since losing to Penn and Brown in 1989, a span of 86 games.
W's and L's - Princeton is 71-4 in its last 75 ivy games.
Can you spare a dime? - Ryan Boyle has 27 assists in five Ivy League games. He broke the old league record for assists in a six-game league season, set by Cornell's Pat Gallagher with 26 in 1972 and equalled by Cornell's Tim Goldstein in 1987, with two in last week's Dartmouth game.
Strength of schedule - Princeton, ranked sixth this week in the USILA poll, has wins over the teams ranked seventh (Hofstra), eighth (Rutgers), ninth (Cornell) and 10th (Syracuse). Princeton has lost to No. 1 Johns Hopkins, No. 2 Virginia and No. 15 Dartmouth.
Goal oriented - Jason Doneger has 32 goals in 12 games, an average of 2.67 per game. B .J. Prager, the All-America aattackman whom Doneger replaced this season, had 34 goals in 15 games a year ago, an average of 2.27 per game.
Sibling rivalry - Jason Doneger has 32 goals; his brother Adam of top-ranked Johns Hopkins, a first-team All-America midfielder a year ago, has 18 goals.
Get to the point - Ryan Boyle has at least one point in every game of his career.
Injury update - Princeton starting defenseman Ricky Schultz has missed the last two games with an ankle sprain. His status for the Dartmouth game is uncertain.
Oliver's twist - After playing shortstick defensive midfield for the first nine games of the season, Oliver Barry has moved to longstick close defense the last three games.
Face it - Princeton ranks last in the Ivy League in face-off percentage.
Net results - Jason Doneger is the only Princeton player with at least one goal in all 12 games.
History lesson - Princeton and Syracuse have met in each of the last three NCAA championship games. Only once in the history of Division I team tournaments have two teams met in more than three consecutive championship games (USC-UCLA in men's tennis from 1960-64).
Veterans day - Damien Davis is the only current Tiger who has started every game his career.
All that you can be - Senior midfielder Josh White spent two years in the Army out of high school and still is an active member of the reserves.
Old friends - Seniors Owen Daly, Brad Dumont and Joe Rosenbaum are in their fourth season together at Princeton after playing four years together at McDonogh School in Baltimore.
The write stuff - Longstick midfielder Joe Rosenbaum won the 2002 Ward Prize for Fiction from Princeton's creative writing department.
What's your source? - Defenseman Brian Lieberman is doing his senior psychology thesis on coaching and motivation.
Trophy case - Princeton head coach Bill Tierney has won eight NCAA championships in the last 18 seasons (two as an assistant coach at Johns Hopkins in the 1980s, six as Princeton's head coach).
U-S-A, U-S-A - Ryan Boyle was a member of the U.S. team that finished first at last summer's World Championships in Australia.