Princeton University Athletics
Princeton Travels To Brown As Ivy Stretch Drive Begins
April 11, 2024 | Men's Lacrosse
PRINCETON (7-3, 3-1 Ivy League; No. 13 Inside Lacrosse, No. 13 USILA, No. 14 USA Lacrosse Magazine)
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BROWN (1-9, 0-3 Ivy League)
Saturday, April 13 • 3:30 pm
Stevenson-Pincince Field • Providence, R.I.
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A – Aidan
Aidan McLane scored five of Brown’s 12 goals against Princeton last year and took 19 of his team’s 61 shots in the game. McLane leads the Ivy League with 115 shots this season, which is 19 more than the next highest total and 21 more than Princeton’s leader, Coulter Mackesy.
B – Brown
Princeton and Brown meet for the 62nd time, and the Tigers lead the all-time series 34-27, including a 16-12 win a year ago in Princeton. The Tigers had nine of their goals scored by players who are still on the team: Coulter Mackesy (three), Jack Ringhofer and Lukas Stanat (two each), Tommy Barnds and John Dunphey (one each).
C – Charlie Durbin
Chad Palumbo had two goals last year as a freshman and now has 14 as a sophomore. The most goals a sophomore has scored after having two or fewer as a freshman is 18, done by Charlie Durbin (two in 2016, 18 in 2017). Honorable mention goes to Brendan Tierney, who had one goal as a freshman in 1999 and then 14 a year later (including the game-winner in the NCAA semifinals) and Matt Striebel, who had one goal and four assists as a freshman in 1998 and then 11 goals and 24 assists a year later.
D – Defense
Princeton has two of the top five players in the league in caused turnovers: Michael Bath (first, 1.80 per game) and Pace Billings (tied for fourth, 1.40 per game).
E – Eleven
When Princeton plays at Brown, it will have been 11 days since the Tigers’ last game. Princeton defeated Lehigh 12-10 on April 2 and has been off since.
F – First
Princeton leads the Ivy League in scoring defense (9.90 per game).
G – Goals Plus Assists
Coulter Mackesy led the team in goals and assists a year ago and leads the team in goals and assists this year. Should he lead the team in both stats at the end of the season, he’d join Michael Sowers (who did it three times) as the only Princeton players this century to do so more than once. Michael MacDonald, Tom Schreiber and Peter Trombino all did it once since 2000.
H – History Lesson
Brown won the 1994 Ivy League championship, defeating Princeton 7-6 to hand the Tigers their first loss. Princeton did not lose again, winning its final eight, including a rematch with Brown 10-7 in the NCAA semifinals and then Virginia 9-8 in the championship game. Brian McNally scored the game-winning goal to snap a 6-6 tie with five seconds left in the third quarter of the regular season game, which featured a scoreless fourth (and no shot clock). Princeton was led by four goals from Scott Reinhardt and three from Brian Tomeo in the semifinal win.
I – Ivy Race
The current Ivy League standings:
Yale/Cornell/Penn 3-1
Princeton 2-1
Harvard 1-2
Brown/Dartmouth 0-3
This weekend’s schedule:
Princeton at Brown
Harvard at Penn
Yale at Dartmouth
Cornell vs. Notre Dame (Sunday, Old Westbury, N.Y.)
J – John Krasinski
If you watch the game, yes, that is actor John Krasinski who narrates the Brown institutional spot. Krasinski graduated from Brown in 2001. His “The Office” castmate Ellie Kemper attended Princeton and graduated in 2002.
K – Kabiri
Nate Kabiri has six games with at least three goals and four games with two or fewer. He is one away from moving into a three-way tie for second place all-time at Princeton in goals by a freshman.
41 Michael Sowers (2017)
28 Coulter Mackesy (2022)/Michael Chanenchuk (2010)
27 Nate Kabiri (2024)
L – Lowe(s)
Kevin Lowe is second on Princeton’s career scoring list with 247 points, and he was the Tiger record-holder for 25 years before Michael Sowers broke his record and then pushed it to 302. Darren Lowe, Kevin’s older brother, had 316 career points at Brown, which was the program record for 25 years as well, before Dylan Molloy broke it with 318.
M – Mackesy
Junior Coulter Mackesy has scored four goals in each of his last two games as he moves up the career charts at Princeton.
Career points
10. Chris Brown (2018-22) 179
11. Wick Sollers (1975-77) 174
12. Justin Tortolani (1989-92) 164
13. Dave Tickner (1975-77) 163
14. Coulter Mackesy (2022-present) 158
Career goals
1. Jesse Hubbard (1995-98) 163
2. Chris Massey (1995-98) 146
3. Michael MacDonald (2012-15) 132
4. Sean Hartofilis (2000-03) 126
5. Michael Sowers (2017-20) 121
6. Justin Tortolani 1989-92) 120
7. B.J. Prager (1999-2002) 118
8. Wick Sollers (1975-77) 114
9. Coulter Mackesy (2022-present) 108
N – National Rankings
Princeton is ranked 13th this week in the USILA coaches’ poll and the Inside Lacrosse media poll and 14th in the USA Lacrosse poll.
O – Offense
Princeton goal scoring by class:
Freshmen 52
Sophomores 31
Juniors 38
Seniors 8
P – Providence
Princeton’s men and women will both play Brown in Providence Saturday. The women’s game begins at noon, followed by the men at 3:30.
Q – Quickly
All five of Andrew McMeekin’s goals have come within seven seconds of the previous goal. He has scored three of the five goals in five seconds, which ties the school record for fastest time between two goals. He has had three goals after Princeton goals, for two-goal runs, and two after opponent goals, stopping a potential run.
R – Rookie
Nate Kabiri currently leads Princeton in goals with 27. The only freshman ever to lead Princeton in goals for a full season was Tom Schreiber, in 2011.
S – Scenarios
If Princeton, Penn and Yale all win this weekend, then all three will clinch Ivy tournament spots. If Penn or Yale wins, they would clinch tournament spots regardless of what happened in any other game. Princeton can only clinch this weekend with those three results.
T – Turnovers
Nate Kabiri has 27 goals and nine turnovers on the season. In the 15 years that turnovers have been kept as an official stat, only three Princeton players have ever finished a season with at least 27 goals and a ratio of three goals per turnover or better: Philip Robertston, Gavin McBride twice and Kip Orban.
U – Underclassmen
Princeton’s lineup includes two freshmen and a junior on attack, a freshman, sophomore and junior in the first midfield, two sophomores and a senior in the second midfield, a sophomore and two juniors on close defense, a senior and sophomore as the top LSMs, a freshman, two juniors and senior as the top SSDMs, a sophomore face-off specialist and a senior goalie. That’s four freshmen, six sophomores, six juniors and four seniors in the top 20 in the rotation.
V – Visitors
Princeton defeated Brown in Providence two years ago. Prior to that, the last time Princeton won at Brown was in 2012.
W – Wade
Freshman midfielder Tucker Wade had no goals in the first five games and now has eight in the last five.
X – The X
There are four players in Division I who have won at least 50 percent of their face-offs and scored at least five goals: Will Coletti (Army) and Mason Kohn (Syracuse) have six goals each; Princeton’s Andrew McMeekin and Towson’s Matt Constantinides have five each. McMeekin has scored a goal in five straight games after not having any goals in his career prior.
Y – Youth Movement
Freshmen Nate Kabiri (27) and Colin Burns (17) are already in double figures in goals, and classmate Tucker Wade has eight. The last time Princeton had three freshmen in double figures was in 2006 (Tommy Davis, Mark Kovler, Josh Lesko), and the only other times it’s happened were in 2004 (Whitney Hayes, Scott Sowanick, Peter Trombino) and 1995 (Jon Hess, Jesse Hubbard, Chris Massey). Only once has Princeton had two freshmen reach 20 goals, and that was Hubbard (23) and Massey (21) in 1995.
Z – Zip
Princeton went from leading Brown 7-5 to leading Brown 13-5 in a 9:08 stretch of the third quarter two years ago in Providence. Princeton went from being tied 7-7 to 13-7 lead in a 9:03 stretch of the third quarter last year in Princeton.
