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Princeton Heads To Yale In Regular-Season Finale With Ivy Title On The Line
November 12, 2014 | Men's Soccer
| Game 17: Princeton at Yale |
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| Game Time | Saturday, Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. l Reese Stadium |
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| Twitter: @PUTigers_Live l @YaleAthletics | |
| Series Info | Yale Leads 43-35-22 (began 1910) |
| Last meeting: Princeton defeated Yale 3-2 • 11/16/13 (recap/box) | |
| Records | Princeton (10-3, 4-1-1 Ivy/t1st), Yale (1-12-3, 2-1-2 Ivy/7th) |
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The Princeton men's soccer team heads to New Haven for the regular-season finale against Yale. The trip back to Princeton? Well, the mood on the bus could shift dramatically one way or another - or even a third way and fourth way - depending on what happens in that game, and in two others that will going on while the Tigers are driving.
Princeton enters the final Saturday of the season tied with Dartmouth for first place in the Ivy League at 4-1-1 (13 points). Harvard, at 3-1-2 (11 points), is the only other team mathematically alive for the championship.
Dartmouth will play home against Brown (2-2-2) Saturday at 5. Harvard, for its part, is at Penn (2-2-2) Saturday at 7.
So what are the possibilities? Glad you asked:
* Princeton earns no worse than a share of the league championship with a win over Yale. Should Princeton beat Yale and Dartmouth beat Brown, then Princeton and Dartmouth would co-champions. Dartmouth would get the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament by virtue of its 2-1 overtime win over Princeton on Oct. 4.
* Princeton wins the outright title with a win and Dartmouth loss. Princeton would also get the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament with the outright title.
* Princeton would be eliminated from any share of the title with a loss and Dartmouth tie or win or a tie and Dartmouth win.
* Harvard can get involved as well. The Crimson would be outright champion with a win and losses by both Princeton and Dartmouth. There would be a three-way tie with a Harvard win and ties by Princeton and Dartmouth and a two-way tie with a Harvard win and a tie by either Princeton or Dartmouth and loss by the other. Princeton wins the NCAA bid in a head-to-head finish with Harvard; Dartmouth wins the bid in any scenario where it gets a share of the title, whether two-way or three-way.
Exhale. And there you have it.
First, of course, there is the matter of a Yale team that is 1-12-3, 0-5-1 in the league - numbers that are very misleading. If you want the important number, go with 14. That's the number of one-goal or tie games that Yale has played this year.
In fact, of the five league losses, four have been by one goal.
Yale's biggest issue has been scoring goals. The Bulldogs have three in six Ivy games and seven total for the year.
Princeton, on the other hand, has the top offense in the league with 33 goals for the year, of which 22 have come from Cameron Porter (14) and Thomas Sanner (eight), who rank 1-2 in the league in scoring. Porter, in fact, leads Division I in goals per game and points per game and is second in total goals.
Between the two of them, they've won the last three Ivy League Player of the Week awards, including the most recent one for Porter, who also won three weeks ago.
Porter scored twice and Brendan McSherry scored once last year in a 3-2 Princeton win over the Bulldogs on Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium.
Yale has a 43-35-22 lead in a series that dates to 1910.