Princeton University Athletics
Saturday, April 22
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Princeton University
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Harvard
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April 21, 2017 | Men's Lacrosse
PRINCETON VS. HARVARD
Sherrerd Field • Princeton, N.J. • Saturday, April 22, 2017 • 1 p.m.
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There are two weeks remaining in the Ivy League lacrosse regular season, with three games in each weekend.
That leaves six games, with 64 possible outcomes. Of those 64 scenarios, all but three would have Princeton with a spot in the tournament.
Of the three that don't get Princeton in, all involve having the Tigers lose their final two games, against Harvard and then next week at Cornell. One win, and the Tigers are in.
There are also 13 different scenarios in which Princeton can lose both its remaining games and get into the league tournament. Princeton obviously doesn't want to leave it to that.
It's a big contrast to least year, when Princeton went to Harvard knowing that a loss would eliminate the Tigers from getting into the Ivy tournament. Harvard then defeated Princeton 16-12, taking the lead eight seconds into the game and never trailing, though the Tigers would tie it several times, the last at 7-7 just before the half. This year, a Princeton win over Harvard would eliminate the Crimson.
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Yale has clinched at least a tie for the Ivy League championship. The Bulldogs would win the outright title with a win next week over Harvard, or with a Princeton loss in either of its last two games.
Princeton can still get a share of the league championship by winning its last two and having Harvard defeat Yale.
Regardless of what happens, Yale will be the host for the Ivy League tournament, which will be May 5 and 7. Yale becomes the fifth school in the league to host the men's tournament in its eight years of existence - Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, Brown and now Yale have all hosted.
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Former Princeton men's basketball coach Bill Carmody used to refer to any sort of note that stated a fact that could be accomplished but hadn't yet not as a "jinx" but instead as "the whammy." Here is an example of that:
Princeton, who did not reach the field of four a year ago, has never failed to reach the Ivy League tournament in consecutive seasons.
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Princeton ranks second in Division I in shooting percentage at .368, .002 behind Penn State. The Tigers have been ranked No. 1 for much of the season.
Princeton shot 16 for 52 against Dartmouth: 3 for 25 in the first half and 13 for 27 in the second.
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Princeton also ranks second in Division I in scoring offense at 14.67, trailing only Albany (15.91).
Princeton has scored 176 goals for the season, and at its current pace, it would become the fifth team in program history to reach the 200-goal mark for a season. The four who have done it - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998 - all won NCAA championships.
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Harvard defeated Princeton 3-1 in the first game between the two, back in 1882.
Princeton leads the all-time series 58-23-1, which makes this the 83rd meeting between the two.
Of the last six meetings between the teams, three have been decided by one goal.
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Gavin McBride enters his final home game 19th all-time at Princeton with 89 goals. With one more goal, he'd tie the Princeton record for goals in a career by a player whose last name is McBride, as Jack McBride scored 90.
After that is a three-way tie for 15th at 94 career goals.
McBride also is 25th all-time at Princeton with 124, two away from tying Kip Orban and four away from reaching 21st place.
Keep in mind that McBride had no points and no assists as a freshman, though he has had at least one point in every game since (a total of 40 straight games, ranking 10th in Division I) and at least one goal in 21 straight games (a streak that ranks fourth in Division I).
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Matt Madalon has been the Princeton head coach for 17 games, and Gavin McBride has at least three goals in 13 of them.
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Gavin McBride is second in Division I in goals per game (3.25), trailing only Albany's Connor Fields (3.76).
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Austin Sims returned from injury after missing four games and had two goals and an assist against Dartmouth.
Sims has played in only seven of Princeton's 12 games, but he is still fourth on the team in goal scored, with 19.
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Princeton has two of the top 15 players in the Inside Lacrosse Division I freshmen rankings: No. 1 Michael Sowers and No. 15 Arman Medghalchi.
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The Princeton-Harvard game will feature five of the top nine leaders in the Ivy League in points per game: Michael Sowers (second), Harvard's Morgan Cheek (third), Gavin McBride (sixth), Zach Currier (seventh), Austin Sims (ninth).
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Zach Currier had two goals and three assists against Dartmouth. He now has 50 goals and 60 assists for his career; he is only the 13th player in program history to have done so.
Currier leads all Division I midfielder with 27 assists this season. He is also one of 18 players in Division I with at least 20 goals and 20 assists this season.
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And now it's time for the Michael Sowers portion of things. Consider this list of accomplishments for the freshman:
* Sowers is one of three players in Division I with at least 30 goals and 30 assists, along with Albany's Connor Fields and Duke's Justin Guterding.
* Sowers is the third Princeton player ever with a 30/30 season (David Tickner in 1976, Mike MacDonald in 2015).
* Sowers has 65 points for the season, which is 10 more than the next-best total by a Princeton freshman (Kevin Lowe in 1991). Sosers also needs two points to tie Rob Pannell's Ivy League record for points by a freshman (67 in 2009 for Cornell).
* Sowers holds the Princeton record for goals in a season by a freshman with 31. He is also third all-time among Ivy freshmen (tied with Yale's Brendan Gibson in 2007)in goals by a freshman, trailing only Cornell's Sean Greenhalgh (39 in 2002) and Harvard's Jeff Cohen (34 in 2009).
* Sowers leads the Ivy League in assists per game and is second in points per game. He is fourth in Division I in both categories.
* Sowers has 65 points, the ninth-best single-season total in program history. At his current pace, he would finish the regular season with 11 more points, leaving him at 76, which would be second-best all-time at Princeton behind Mike MacDonald's 78 in 2015.
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Prineton will honor the 1967 team (50th anniversary of its Ivy League title), 1992 team (25th anniversary of the first of Princeton's six NCAA champions) and 1997 team (20th anniversary of the perfect 15-0 season) at halftime of the game.
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Sherrerd Field • Princeton, N.J. • Saturday, April 22, 2017 • 1 p.m.
Live Video
Listen Live
Live Stats
@tigerlacrosse In-game Twitter updates
Harvard Website
Princeton Probable Starters
Career Highs
Career Scoring/Pronunciations
There are two weeks remaining in the Ivy League lacrosse regular season, with three games in each weekend.
That leaves six games, with 64 possible outcomes. Of those 64 scenarios, all but three would have Princeton with a spot in the tournament.
Of the three that don't get Princeton in, all involve having the Tigers lose their final two games, against Harvard and then next week at Cornell. One win, and the Tigers are in.
There are also 13 different scenarios in which Princeton can lose both its remaining games and get into the league tournament. Princeton obviously doesn't want to leave it to that.
It's a big contrast to least year, when Princeton went to Harvard knowing that a loss would eliminate the Tigers from getting into the Ivy tournament. Harvard then defeated Princeton 16-12, taking the lead eight seconds into the game and never trailing, though the Tigers would tie it several times, the last at 7-7 just before the half. This year, a Princeton win over Harvard would eliminate the Crimson.
* * *
Yale has clinched at least a tie for the Ivy League championship. The Bulldogs would win the outright title with a win next week over Harvard, or with a Princeton loss in either of its last two games.
Princeton can still get a share of the league championship by winning its last two and having Harvard defeat Yale.
Regardless of what happens, Yale will be the host for the Ivy League tournament, which will be May 5 and 7. Yale becomes the fifth school in the league to host the men's tournament in its eight years of existence - Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, Brown and now Yale have all hosted.
* * *
Former Princeton men's basketball coach Bill Carmody used to refer to any sort of note that stated a fact that could be accomplished but hadn't yet not as a "jinx" but instead as "the whammy." Here is an example of that:
Princeton, who did not reach the field of four a year ago, has never failed to reach the Ivy League tournament in consecutive seasons.
* * *
Princeton ranks second in Division I in shooting percentage at .368, .002 behind Penn State. The Tigers have been ranked No. 1 for much of the season.
Princeton shot 16 for 52 against Dartmouth: 3 for 25 in the first half and 13 for 27 in the second.
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Princeton also ranks second in Division I in scoring offense at 14.67, trailing only Albany (15.91).
Princeton has scored 176 goals for the season, and at its current pace, it would become the fifth team in program history to reach the 200-goal mark for a season. The four who have done it - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998 - all won NCAA championships.
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Harvard defeated Princeton 3-1 in the first game between the two, back in 1882.
Princeton leads the all-time series 58-23-1, which makes this the 83rd meeting between the two.
Of the last six meetings between the teams, three have been decided by one goal.
* * *
Gavin McBride enters his final home game 19th all-time at Princeton with 89 goals. With one more goal, he'd tie the Princeton record for goals in a career by a player whose last name is McBride, as Jack McBride scored 90.
After that is a three-way tie for 15th at 94 career goals.
McBride also is 25th all-time at Princeton with 124, two away from tying Kip Orban and four away from reaching 21st place.
Keep in mind that McBride had no points and no assists as a freshman, though he has had at least one point in every game since (a total of 40 straight games, ranking 10th in Division I) and at least one goal in 21 straight games (a streak that ranks fourth in Division I).
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Matt Madalon has been the Princeton head coach for 17 games, and Gavin McBride has at least three goals in 13 of them.
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Gavin McBride is second in Division I in goals per game (3.25), trailing only Albany's Connor Fields (3.76).
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Austin Sims returned from injury after missing four games and had two goals and an assist against Dartmouth.
Sims has played in only seven of Princeton's 12 games, but he is still fourth on the team in goal scored, with 19.
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Princeton has two of the top 15 players in the Inside Lacrosse Division I freshmen rankings: No. 1 Michael Sowers and No. 15 Arman Medghalchi.
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The Princeton-Harvard game will feature five of the top nine leaders in the Ivy League in points per game: Michael Sowers (second), Harvard's Morgan Cheek (third), Gavin McBride (sixth), Zach Currier (seventh), Austin Sims (ninth).
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Zach Currier had two goals and three assists against Dartmouth. He now has 50 goals and 60 assists for his career; he is only the 13th player in program history to have done so.
Currier leads all Division I midfielder with 27 assists this season. He is also one of 18 players in Division I with at least 20 goals and 20 assists this season.
* * *
And now it's time for the Michael Sowers portion of things. Consider this list of accomplishments for the freshman:
* Sowers is one of three players in Division I with at least 30 goals and 30 assists, along with Albany's Connor Fields and Duke's Justin Guterding.
* Sowers is the third Princeton player ever with a 30/30 season (David Tickner in 1976, Mike MacDonald in 2015).
* Sowers has 65 points for the season, which is 10 more than the next-best total by a Princeton freshman (Kevin Lowe in 1991). Sosers also needs two points to tie Rob Pannell's Ivy League record for points by a freshman (67 in 2009 for Cornell).
* Sowers holds the Princeton record for goals in a season by a freshman with 31. He is also third all-time among Ivy freshmen (tied with Yale's Brendan Gibson in 2007)in goals by a freshman, trailing only Cornell's Sean Greenhalgh (39 in 2002) and Harvard's Jeff Cohen (34 in 2009).
* Sowers leads the Ivy League in assists per game and is second in points per game. He is fourth in Division I in both categories.
* Sowers has 65 points, the ninth-best single-season total in program history. At his current pace, he would finish the regular season with 11 more points, leaving him at 76, which would be second-best all-time at Princeton behind Mike MacDonald's 78 in 2015.
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Prineton will honor the 1967 team (50th anniversary of its Ivy League title), 1992 team (25th anniversary of the first of Princeton's six NCAA champions) and 1997 team (20th anniversary of the perfect 15-0 season) at halftime of the game.
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