Championship Weekend: Princeton, Maryland Meet In NCAA Semifinals

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Championship Weekend: Princeton, Maryland Meet In NCAA Semifinals

May 26, 2022 | Men's Lacrosse

PRINCETON (11-4) vs. MARYLAND (16-0)
NCAA TOURNAMENT SEMIFINALS
Saturday, May 28, 2022 • 2:30 pm
Rentschler Field • East Hartford, Conn.
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It is 172 miles from Princeton University's Sherrerd Field to Capital One Field at the University of Maryland. It's 168 miles from Sherrerd Field to Rentschler Field in West Hartford.

The Princeton men's lacrosse team that makes the trip this weekend will be traveling a fairly similar distance as it did back on the last weekend of February, though this time it is figuratively and literally a much different direction. Back then, it was early in a regular season whose only guarantee was a brutal schedule. Now it's for the biggest stage in college lacrosse.

Princeton navigated that tough regular season and has since tacked on two NCAA tournament wins to reach West Hartford and Championship Weekend. The prize is a semifinal game that puts the Tigers against the Terrapins once again. Maryland was unbeaten in that game in February, and Maryland is unbeaten heading into the Final Four.

Fifth-seeded Princeton and top-seeded Maryland will play the second semifinal in Hartford, at approximately 2:30, after the first game matches the No. 6 seed (Rutgers) and the No. 7 seed (Cornell). The winners will meet Monday at 1 for the national championship.

Princeton is making its 11^th appearance in the Final Four. The other 10 all came between 1992 and 2004, when Princeton won six NCAA championships and reached the final two other times. The Tigers are back in the semifinals for the first time in 18 years.

Princeton does owe Maryland a thank you. The Terps win over Virginia last week means that Princeton is still the most recent program to win three straight NCAA championships (1996, 1997, 1998).

Princeton vs. Maryland
Five Storylines

Game 2
For the third time in three NCAA games, Princeton will be playing a game against a team it played during the regular season. The Tigers beat Boston University in the regular season and again in the opening round and then beat Yale 14-10 in last Saturday's quarterfinals after losing 14-12 in the regular season. This will be the 19^th time in Princeton's NCAA history that it will play team in the tournament that it played in the regular season, and the team that lost the first game is 10-8 in the rematch.

As for the first Maryland game, the Terps won that won 15-10 after scoring twice in the first minute and never trailing. Princeton trailed by only three in the fourth quarter but could get no closer.

Maryland was the top-ranked team in the country when the two teams met the first time. Princeton, who began the season unranked, had just moved into the rankings at No. 20.

Maryland outshot Princeton 50-23 and out ground-balled Princeton 42-22, helped by a 20-9 edge in face-off wins. Tyler Sandoval, Princeton's top face-off man, and Koby Ginder, Princeton's No. 2 face-off man, were both out for that game (Sandoval with Covid, Ginder with an injury), and No. 3 face-off man Jack-Henry Vara was cleared from the Covid protocol on the morning of the game and had to travel down separately, arriving only minutes before the game began.

Erik Peters made 19 saves for Princeton, who also did a good job on clears (21 for 23). Sam English led Princeton with four goals.

Princeton has made some significant position changes since that game, most notably 1) Coulter Mackesy moved into a starting spot on attack one week later against Georgetown; he has scored 25 of his 27 goals since then and 2) Pace Billings moved from starting on close defense to being a longstick midfielder prior to the Brown game and has 11 of his 15 caused turnovers since, as well as a goal and assist in this NCAA tournament.

Strength of schedule
One week after playing Maryland, Princeton defeated Georgetown 10-8 in Washington, D.C., for the Hoyas' only loss of the regular season. Princeton would go on to play a schedule that saw the Tigers play all seven of the other teams that would be seeded in this year's tournament, defeating five of them (No. 2 Georgetown, No. 3 Penn, No. 5 Yale in the NCAA tournament, No. 6 Rutgers and No. 8 Brown) while falling to three (No. 1 Maryland, No. 4 Yale in the regular season and No. 7 Cornell).

In its last 13 games, starting with the Maryland game in February, Princeton has played 11 games against teams that reached the NCAA tournament and only two who did not.

National leaders
Princeton has scored 229 goals this season. The record for goals in a season at Princeton is 235, set in 1996.

Princeton ranks fifth in Division I in scoring offense at 15.37 goals per game. Maryland is the No. 1 scoring offense team in the country at 18.50 goals per game, which makes that one of six categories in which the Terps rank No. 1, including shooting percentage, scoring margin and assists per game.

Princeton ranks No. 1 in one category, and it's a big one — ground balls. The Tigers average 38.53 per game, or nearly two better than the Terps, who led the Big Ten and are fourth nationally.

Princeton is also third in the country in caused turnovers per game (10.27); Maryland ranks 18^th (8.94).

Shoot it
Princeton was held to a season-low 23 shots in the first game against Maryland. The Tigers next-lowest total was 39 the following week against Georgetown. Princeton averages 46.7 shots per game (essentially twice as many as it took against Maryland, which means Princeton with its shooting percentage in that game and its average amount of shots would be at 20 goals). Princeton has taken at least 50 shots in a game seven times this year.

Princeton shot 10 for 23 against Maryland (.435), for its second-best shooting percentage of the year, behind only a 22 for 50 (.440) day against Monmouth.

Upgrade season
Princeton was 9-2 overall and 3-1 in the Ivy League, as well as up 9-4 in the second quarter at Harvard, when everything changed quickly. The Tigers lost that game 19-16 and then fell behind 13-5 against Cornell in the regular season finale before cutting it to one and ultimately losing 18-15. That was 37 goals allowed in the last two Ivy games, of which 28 of them came in a 66-minute span, or little more than one complete game.

As a result, Princeton finished 3-3 in the Ivy League and tied for fourth, missing out on the league tournament by going pretty far down the tiebreaker list. With a week off but with the certainty of being an NCAA team, the Princeton coaching staff had something of a mini-training camp, which the Tigers called "Upgrade Season."

So what's happened the last two weeks? Princeton has upgraded, especially on defense.

Princeton has allowed just 15 goals in its two NCAA tournament games combined. BU and Yale are a combined 15 for 76, or .197, shooting in those two games, after Harvard and Cornell were a combined 37 for 96 (.385). That's reducing the opponents' shooting percentage by 50 percent.

Erik Peters went from a .383 save percentage in the last two regular season games to a .681 save percentage in the two NCAA games.

In two NCAA tournament games, Princeton has allowed the two opposing attacks a total of three goals and three assists. Those two attacks had 419 points between the six players other than their NCAA games against the Tigers.

Other Notes

* Maryland had six players selected in the recent Premier Lacrosse League draft. Princeton did not have any.

Maryland has four first-team USILA All-Americans. Princeton has none. Maryland has one second-team USILA All-American. Princeton has none. Each team has one third-team selection (Princeton's is SSDM Beau Pederson). Maryland has six honorable mention selections. Princeton has four (A Chris Brown, M Sam English, M Jake Stevens, D George Baughan).

Added all together, and Maryland has 12 All-Americans and Princeton has five.

* Princeton is 32-14 all-time in NCAA tournament games after its win over Yale last week. More than half of those games, 24 of them, have been one-goal games, and the Tigers are 19-5 in those games. Four of Princeton's six NCAA titles were won in overtime.

In its 10 previous NCAA semifinal games, Princeton has had five one-goal games and three other two-goal games.

Princeton did not play in any NCAA tournament from its inception in 1971 until making its first appearance in 1990. From that point, Princeton appeared in every NCAA tournament through 2004, winning the championship in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 2001, reaching the final in 2000 and 2002 and reaching the Final Four in 1993 and 2004.

Since then, Princeton has been in the tournament in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2022 reaching the quarterfinal in 2006 and 2009 and now back to Championship Weekend this year.

* No current Princeton player has ever played in an Ivy League tournament game. Prior to the last two weeks, no current player had ever played in an NCAA tournament game either.

* Princeton has seven players with at least 20 goals. Before this year, Princeton had never had a season with as many as six players who reached 20 goals, let alone seven. The seven players are: Alex Slusher (45), Chris Brown (30), Sam English (30), Coulter Mackesy (27), Alexander Vardaro (24), and Jake Stevens (22) and Christian Ronda (20).

* Princeton has three 30-goal scorers (Alex Slusher with 45 and Chris Brown and Sam English with 30 each). There have been only two other times in the last 25 years where Princeton has had three 30-goal scorers, in 1998 (Jesse Hubbard 46, Chris Massey 34, Josh Sims 32) and 2019 (Michael Sowers 37, Chris Brown 34, Emmet Cordrey 30).

* Maryland leads the all-time series 32-12-1. Prior to the game on Feb. 26, the last two meetings had been in 2015 and 2016, both Maryland wins. Before that, Princeton and Maryland last met in the 2006 NCAA quarterfinals, also a win by the Terps.

Princeton defeated Maryland in both the 1997 and 1998 NCAA championship games, with the 1997 game played at what is now Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium (and then was called Byrd Stadium). Princeton also won the 1994 and 1996 NCAA titles at Maryland Stadium, both times against Virginia.

Princeton in fact has more wins on Maryland's campus against teams other than Maryland (six) than it does against Maryland (four). Princeton has defeated Brown, Virginia three times, Syracuse and Duke in NCAA Final Four games at Maryland Stadium.

* Chris Brown has 30 goals and 41 assists, making him and Michael Sowers the only two players in program history to have a season with at least 30 goals and 40 assists (something Sowers did twice). Brown also has 100 career goals, making him the 14^th player in program history to reach that milestone.

* Alex Slusher is the only Princeton player with at least one goal in every game this season. He also has at least one goal in 19 of his 20 career games.

* Erik Peters has made 15 saves and 17 saves in two NCAA games. The only other Princeton goalies with multiple NCAA games of at least 15 saves are Scott Bacigalupo (five of them) and Patrick Cairns (three of them).

* Princeton set a program record with 18 caused turnovers in the win over Dartmouth. It was the fourth time this year Princeton has had at least 15 in a game; the program single-game record prior to this year was 15. The Tigers rank

* Princeton averages 46.7 shots per game. The last time Princeton had at least that many per game for a full season was 1982, when the Tigers averaged 47.3.

* Princeton goalie Erik Peters was named as one of 25 nominees for the Tewaaraton Award. The senior was one of three goalies on the list, along with Owen McElroy of Georgetown and C.J. Kirst of Rutgers.

* Princeton is 16-4 in its last 20 games and 20-5 in its last 25 games.

What can you say about …

Jamie Atkinson • Sr., M, No. 25
* one of five senior captains (also George Baughan, Chris Brown, Erik Peters, Andrew Song)
* had a career-high three goals against Marist
* missed the first four games due to injury before returning to play against Rutgers

Tommy Barnds • So., A, No. 21
* has five goals and three assists
* had a huge assist against Yale in the quarterfinal on Princeton's second goal, when it had been 3-1 Bulldogs
* had a goal during Princeton's 6-0 run to take control against Brown in the third quarter
* had a goal against Penn
* had a goal against Maryland
* made his first three career starts after having moved from middie to attack and has now moved back to middie

Michael Bath • Fr., LSM, No. 88
* has played LSM and on the face-off wings
* had first career goal in the Binghamton game
* has two caused turnovers and seven ground balls

George Baughan • Sr., D, No. 17
* 2022 first-team All-Ivy League selection
* 2022 Inside Lacrosse third-team All-American
* 2022 USILA honorable mention All-American
* 2022 Academic All-Ivy League and Senior Class Award finalist
* 2020 Inside Lacrosse first-team All-American
* unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection and honorable mention All-American in 2019
* Tewaaraton Award watchlist
* has at least one caused turnover in every game he's played this season and in 17 straight dating to the 2020 season
* held Yale's Matt Brandau to one goal and one assist in NCAA quarterfinal
* held BU's Louis Perfetto without a point in both of the games between the teams this year; Perfetto has at least one point in every other game of his career
* named to USILA Team of the Week after having four caused turnovers and 11 ground balls in wins over Marist and Boston University; also shut out BU's Louis Perfetto, who had a point in all 27 games of his career prior to that
* has 18 caused turnovers, tying for the team lead
* leads the Ivy League with 1.5 caused turnovers per game
* had a goal and two caused turnovers against Harvard
* had an assist, a caused turnover and four ground balls against Yale
* missed the Georgetown and Rutgers games due to injury
* returned to play against Penn and had two caused turnovers

Pace Billings • So., D/LSM, No. 3
* started on close defense for first seven games after being an LSM through the fall; moved back to LSM against Brown
* has 15 caused turnovers
* has 11 caused turnovers in the last seven games after having four in the first eight
* had his first career goal, with two caused turnovers, in the NCAA win over BU
* had an assist in NCAA quarterfinal win over Yale
* had first career assist against Georgetown
* held Georgetown's Conor Morin without a goal or assist
* missed the Rutgers game due to injury
* returned from injury with a CT against Penn
* had two caused turnovers against Harvard, Dartmouth and Marist

Chris Brown • Sr., A, No. 6
* 2022 Inside Lacrosse and USILA honorable mention All-American
* has at least one point in all 47 games in his career
* is one of four Princeton players to play at least 47 career games and have at least one point in every career game (Kevin Lowe, Ryan Boyle, Michael Sowers are the others)
* had a 35-game streak with at least one goal to start his career, which was the longest streak to start a career and second longest overall in program history (next longest streak to start a career was 14 games)
* has 30 goals (second on the team) and 41 assists and 71 points (both leading the team)
* is the second player (along with Michael Sowers) to ever have at least 30 goals and 40 assists in a season at Princeton
* tied the program record for assists in an NCAA game with five against Boston University (Kevin Lowe, Jon Hess also had five)
* has 100 career goals, the 14^th player in program history to do so
* has at least five points in nine of 15 games this season
* had six goals and three assists, including the game-winning goal, in a 21-20 overtime win over Penn; six goals and nine points were career highs
* named USA Lacrosse Magazine Division I Player of the Week and to the USILA Team of the Week after the Penn game
* had seven assists against Boston University in the regular season
* is one of two players in program history (Michael Sowers is the other) with one career game with at least six goals and another career game with at least seven assists
* had two goals and three assists against Brown
* had back-to-back seven-point games to start the season, with 3G, 4A against Monmouth and 4G, 3A against Binghamton
* had two goals and three assists against Harvard
* had 2G, 3A against Dartmouth; both goals came in the fourth quarter when Princeton turned a 10-9 deficit into a 12-10 win
* had 3G, 1A against Rutgers
* had 2G, 1A against Maryland
* had two goals and four assists against Marist

Career points
8. Chris Massey (192)
9. Dave Heubeck (182)
10. Chris Brown (178)

Career goals

11. Gavin McBride (104)
12. Josh Sims (103)
13. Kip Orban (101)
14. Chris Brown (100)

Career assists
10. Charlie Stillwell (89)
11. Bo Willis (84)
12. Chris Brown (78)

Sean Cameron • Fr., M, No. 11
* second-line midfielder
* scored during Princeton's seven-goal first half run against Yale in quarterfinals
* had a goal against Penn
* had first career two-goal game against Marist
* had his first career goal in win over Binghamton

Luke Crimmins • Sr., SSDM, No. 31
* converted to SSDM just two weeks before season started
* had a goal in the NCAA win over Yale
* has eight caused turnovers and 26 ground balls
* had three caused turnovers in NCAA win over BU
* had a goal, two caused turnovers and five ground balls against Georgetown
* had a goal against Boston University in regular season
* had three ground balls against Rutgers and Brown
* had two goals on two shots against Binghamton

Sam English • Jr., M, No. 15
* 2022 second-team All-Ivy League selection
* 2022 Inside Lacrosse and USILA honorable mention All-American
* has 30 goals and 17 assists after moving from SSDM to a first-line midfielder
* had three goals in both of the team's NCAA games and 11 in the last three games, including career-high five against Cornell
* with three more assists, he would become the fourth Princeton middie in the last 30 years to reach at least 20 of each in a season (Zach Currier, Tom Schreiber three times and Rich Sgalardi are the other three)
* third on the team in goals and points and second in assists
* scored Princeton's first goal of a game seven different times
* had career highs of five goals and six points against Cornell
* had three goals and an assist against Georgetown
* had four goals against Maryland
* had three goals and two assists against Dartmouth
* had two goals and two assists against Penn
* had a goal and three assists against Harvard
* had two goals and an assist against Marist
* had five points (2G, 3A) against Binghamton

Ben Finlay • Jr., D, No. 10
* has started every game of his career
* has 16 caused turnovers, third on the team
* had two caused turnovers in the NCAA win over BU
* had a caused turnover and four ground balls against Maryland
* had four caused turnovers against Georgetown
* had two caused turnovers against Yale

Koby Ginder • Fr., FO, No. 99
* has won 12 of 30 face-offs, with nine ground balls
* won 6 of 9 with six ground balls in NCAA quarterfinal win over Yale
* won 6 of 21 face-offs with three ground balls prior to the Yale game
* missed nine weeks with a dislocated elbow

Joseph Juengerkes • So., SSDM, No. 13
* has seen time as an SSDM
* has a caused turnover and two ground balls

Luca Lazzaretto • Jr., LSM, No. 7
* can play LSM and on the man-down unit
* has five caused turnovers and eight ground balls

Coulter Mackesy • Fr., M, No. 91
* began the year as a middie and made first career start on attack against Georgetown
* has 27 goals and 15 assists; he and Michael Sowers are the only two Princeton freshmen ever to reach at least 25G/15A
* is fourth in points by a Princeton freshman
* had two goals and two assists in the first four games; has 25 goals and 13 assists in the last nine
* had two goals and an assist in NCAA win over Yale
* had a career-high five goals and six points against Cornell
* had four goals and two assists in second career start, against Rutgers, to earn Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors
* had four goals against Harvard
* had three goals and an assist against Boston University
* had three assists against Marist

Freshman point scorers
1. Michael Sowers (82)
2. Kevin Lowe (55)
3. Ryan Boyle (53)
4. Coulter Mackesy (42)

Colin Mulshine • Fr., D, No. 43
* has started nine games
* has seven caused turnovers and 14 ground balls
* helped hold the Hoya attack to two goals on 13 shots
* had two caused turnovers against Rutgers and Brown

Beau Pederson • Jr., SSDM, No. 23
* 2022 USILA third-team All-American
* 2022 second-team All-Ivy League
* Inside Lacrosse honorable mention All-American
* Princeton's top shortstick D middie
* has eight caused turnovers and 27 ground balls
* had three caused turnovers and four ground balls in the win over Dartmouth to earn USILA Team of the Week honors
* had a goal against Boston University in the regular season
* had five ground balls against BU in NCAA win
* had a goal against Binghamton
* had an assist against Maryland and Penn
* had a caused turnover and three ground balls against Georgetown
* had an assist, caused turnover and two ground balls against Yale
* converted O middie who had 10 goals as a freshman

Erik Peters • Sr., G, No. 9
* 2022 Inside Lacrosse mid-season honorable mention All-American
* has a 11.29 goals-against average and .559 save percentage
* one of 25 nominees for the Tewaaraton Award
* has at least 14 saves in seven of 15 games
* had 15 saves with five goals against (.750 save percentage) in the NCAA win over BU; also had an assist
* made 17 saves in 14-10 win over Yale in quarterfinals
* has made 32 saves while allowing 15 goals in two NCAA games (.681 save percentage) after allowing 37 goals and making 23 saves (.383 save percentage) in the last two regular season games (against Harvard and Cornell)
* made 19 saves in the regular season against Maryland
* has 204 saves on the season, which ranks sixth in a season by a Princeton goalie, one away from fifth and seven away from third
* made 57 saves in a three-game stretch against Maryland, Georgetown, Rutgers
* had a career-high 21 saves against Rutgers to earn Ivy Player of the Week award for second straight week; also named to the USILA Team of the Week after the Rutgers game
* had 17 saves while allowing eight goals against Georgetown to earn Ivy Player of the Week honors; made 10 saves in the second half and six in the fourth quarter
* made 15 saves in 12-10 win over Dartmouth
* had 14 saves and seven goals-against in regular season win over Boston University
* Princeton's starting goalie since midway through the 2019 season

Saves in a season
1. William Cronin (277 in 1973)
2. Kevin Gray (231 in 1975)
3. Kevin Gray (211 in 1976), Peter Cordrey (211 in 1981(
5. Christopher Corcoran (205 in 1985)
6. Erik Peters (204 in 2022)

Cathal Roberts • Jr., D, No. 26
* can play close D or LSM
* has played considerably in the two NCAA games in a greatly expanded role
* caused turnover at midfield led to key second-quarter goal against Georgetown
* has four caused turnovers and five ground balls

Christian Ronda • Jr, M, No. 12
* has 22 goals and two assists as a starting middie
* played in one career game prior to this season without taking a shot
* had three goals in NCAA win over BU
* had two goals in the quarterfinal win over Yale
* has five NCAA goals after having two goals in the last four regular season games
* had two goals against Penn
* had two goals against Rutgers
* had four goals against Marist
* had five goals against Monmouth in his first start

Tyler Sandoval • So., FO, No. 35
* has won 191 of 357 face-offs (.535)
* leads team with 87 ground balls
* won 15 of 18 face-offs with six ground balls in the NCAA win over BU
* won 19 of 31 face-offs against Rutgers
* was 18 for 28 with 11 ground balls against Yale
* was 17 for 32 with 10 ground balls against Cornell
* won three straight fourth-quarter face-offs against Dartmouth; all three led to Princeton goals as the Tigers went from down 10-9 to up 12-10
* scored a goal against Brown five seconds after a Bears' goal; it's the fastest a Princeton player has ever scored a goal following an opponent's goal
* was 17 for 36 against Penn but won the face-off to start the overtime
* had an assist against Binghamton
* missed the Maryland game in the Covid protocol

Alex Slusher • Jr., A, No. 5
* 2022 honorable mention All-Ivy League selection
* leads team with 45 goals and is second with 55 points
* was the third Princeton player ever to reach 40 career goals in 15 or fewer games (Bill Chaires did so in 14 in 1973 and Michael Sowers did it in 15 in 2017)
* has at least two goals in 11 games and at least three goals in seven
* had three goals and an assist in the NCAA win over BU
* had a career-high six goals against Brown to earn Ivy League Player of the Week honors
* had five of Princeton's 10 goals against Georgetown
* had four goals and two assists against Rutgers
* had four goals against Harvard
* had three goals against Penn and Dartmouth
* also had five goals against Monmouth
* has moved to attack from being a starting midfielder in 2020
* member of the U.S. U-21 team for the upcoming World Championships in Ireland

Goals in a season
1. Gavin McBride (54 in 2017)
2. Jesse Hubbard (53 in 1996)
3. Wick Sollers (49 in 1979)
4. Mike MacDonald (48 in 2015)
5. Chris Massey (46 in 1996)
6. Alex Slusher (45 in 2022); Chris Massey (45 in 1997), Scott Conklin (45 in 1994), Kip Orban (45 in 2015)

Andrew Song • Sr., LSM, No. 32
* 2022 second-team All-Ivy League selection
* 2022 Inside Lacrosse honorable mention All-American
* fourth-year starting LSM
* also plays on face-off wings
* named to USILA Team of the Week after a four-caused turnover, three-ground ball performance against Georgetown
* has 18 caused turnovers, tied for the team lead, and 30 ground balls, tied for the most by a Princeton longstick
* had three caused turnovers and three ground balls against Dartmouth
* had two caused turnovers and five ground balls against Penn, including a ground ball on the overtime face-off
* played for China in the 2018 World Championships

Jake Stevens • Jr., M, No. 14
* 2022 second-team All-Ivy League
* 2022 Inside Lacrosse third-team All-American
* 2022 USILA honorable mention All-American
* do-it-all midfielder who plays offense, defense and face-off wings
* has 22 goals and one assist
* second on team with 64 ground balls
* leads all Ivy League non-face-off specialists in ground balls
* one of two Princeton players since 1996 with at least 22 goals and 64 ground balls in a season (Zach Currier in 2017 was the other)
* had two goals against Yale, the third-straight game with two goals
* had two goals, one assist and seven ground balls against Penn
* had two goals and three ground balls against Rutgers
* had two goals and with five ground balls against both Boston University and Brown
* had a goal and five ground balls against Georgetown
* had three goals against Monmouth and four goals against Binghamton
* had seven ground balls against Marist
* had five ground balls against BU in NCAA win

Jacob Stoebner • Jr., D, No. 28
* veteran defender who has been either a starter or key reserve
* has played considerably in the two NCAA games in a greatly expanded role
* started against Rutgers and had a caused turnover and three ground balls
* had three ground balls against Georgetown
* has two caused turnovers and six ground balls
* had two ground balls in NCAA win over BU

Alexander Vardaro • Jr., M, No. 19
* 2022 honorable mention All-Ivy League selection
* only starting midfielder from 2020 who is starting in midfield this year
* has 24 goals and 15 assists
* had two goals in NCAA quarterfinal win over Yale
* tied career high with four goals against Yale and also had two assists for career-high six points in the regular season game
* had three goals and two assists against Brown
* had three goals and two assists against Penn
* had two goals and two assists against Cornell
* had two goals against Maryland
* had a goal and two assists against Harvard
* had two assists against Georgetown

Jack-Henry Vara • Sr., FO, No. 47
* returned from the Covid protocol to take all 29 face-offs against Maryland

Marquez White • So., SSDM, No. 24
* running as an SSDM
* had first career goal against Harvard
* had caused turnover against Georgetown