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No. 4 Princeton Heads North To Face No. 18 Dartmouth
March 27, 2025 | Men's Lacrosse
PRINCETON (5-2, 1-1 Ivy League); No. 4 Inside Lacrosse/USILA/USA Lacrosse Magazine
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DARTMOUTH (7-1, 1-0 Ivy League); No. 18 Inside Lacrosse; USILA
Saturday, March 29 • noon
Scully-Fahey Field • Hanover, N.H.
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A – Assists
Chad Palumbo and Nate Kabiri are tied for the team lead in assists. Should Palumbo end the season as Princeton’s assists leader, he would be the fifth midfielder this century to have led Princeton in assists for a full season — Alexander Vardaro (tied in 2022), Rich Sgalardi (2009), Tom Schreiber (2011, 2012, 2013) and Matt Striebel (2000).
B – Burns
Colin Burns is one of two current Princeton players to have started every game of his career (Nate Kabiri, his high school teammate, is the other). Burns has at least one point in 20 of 23 career games, including the last 10 straight going back to last season.
C – Coulter
Coulter Mackesy is third all-time in goals scored at Princeton and tied for fourth for points in a career.
Career goals at Princeton1. Jesse Hubbard 163
2. Chris Massey 146
3. Coulter Mackesy 145
Career points at Princeton
1. Michael Sowers 302
2. Kevin Lowe 247
3. Ryan Boyle 232
4. Coulter Mackesy 215 / Jon Hess 215
Mackesy ranks second among active Division I players in both career goals (145) and career points (215), trailing Cornell’s C.J. Kirst in both.
D – Dartmouth
Dartmouth is 7-1 overall and 1-0 in the Ivy League. The Big Green leads the Ivy League in scoring defense (8.75 goals per game) and has allowed fewer than 10 goals in five of eight games, including three straight.
E – Extra man
Princeton is 10 for 13 (.729) on extra-man opportunities. The last time Princeton was over .500 for a full season was a .514 mark in 2014. Princeton was 2 for 2 against Harvard in EMO, and both were on 30-second penalties.
F – From The Midfield
Princeton’s offensive midfielders didn’t have any goals in the opener against Penn State but have had 46 in the last six games (7.7 per game). Princeton got nine of its 13 goals against Harvard from offensive midfielders.
G – Goalie
Ryan Croddick, who made 17 saves last week against Harvard, is leads Division I with 15.3 saves per game. Croddick, a first-year starter, is also the only Division I goalie with at least 22 saves in two different games this season — 22 against Penn State and 24 against Rutgers.
H – Head Coach
Matt Madalon has as record of 67-39 (.631) at Princeton since taking over with five games to go in the 2016 season. In the last 55 years, only Bill Tierney (238-86, .735) has won more games and had a higher winning percentage as Princeton head men’s lacrosse coach than Madalon. In fact, you have to go back to Dick Colman (also a Hall of Fame football coach) from 1946-49 to find a coach who has a higher winning percentage than Madalon (minimum two years as head coach).
I – Ivy League
There are four Ivy League teams ranked in the top 17 of RPI: Princeton No. 1, Cornell No. 6, Harvard No. 8, Dartmouth No. 17. The preseason media poll ranked the teams this way: Cornell, Princeton, Yale, Penn, Harvard, Brown and Dartmouth.
J – J.G.
Shortstick defensive midfielder Jackson Green, known as J.G. to his lacrosse teammates, has been a monster through the first half of the season, with three goals, a runout of the final nine seconds to protect the win over Duke, two caused turnovers (one in overtime against Penn State) and seven ground balls, as well as an immeasurable impact defensively and in transition. Green is a wide receiver on the football team who walked onto the men’s lacrosse team.
K – Kabiri
Nate Kabiri, a sophomore, is second among active Princeton players in career points with 77 (42G, 35A) in 23 career games (all starts).
L – Leaders
Princeton has two captains for the 2025 season — Michael Bath and Coulter Mackesy.
M – Mueller
Cooper Mueller has seven caused turnovers and 17 ground balls. The only Princeton shortsticks to reach at least 10 caused turnovers and 20 ground balls without taking at least one face-off are Beau Pederson (11CT, 26GB in 2023), Jake Stevens (11CT, 60GB in 2019) and Austin deButts twice (11CT, 21GB in 2016; 18GB, 26GB in 2015) — caused turnovers weren’t an official stat until 2009. If you include face-offs, Andrew McMeekin did so a year ago and Zach Currier did so three times.
N – National Leaders
Princeton leads Division I in extra-man offense (10 for 13, .769). Dartmouth leads Division I in ground balls per game (37.88).
O – Offense
Chad Palumbo and Tucker Wade combined for two goals in the first three games of the season. They’re combined for 16 in the five games since.
P – Penalty Free
Colin Mulshine has not committed a penalty in 27 straight games, despite usually guarding the other team’s top attackman. For his career, Mulshine has played in 54 career games, with 49 career starts, and has committed only one penalty (a 30-second hold) in 2023 against Harvard. Mulshine made the USILA Team of the Week this past week after holding Harvard’s Sam King four points below his scoring average.
Q – Quarterly
Princeton has outscored its opponents in only one quarter for the season (23-17 in the first quarter). Princeton is even with its opponents in the third quarter (20-20) and been outscored by two in the second (24-22) and fourth (19-17). Princeton also has one overtime goal (win over Penn State).
R – RPI
Princeton is ranked No. 1 in the first NCAA RPI release. Going by RPI, Princeton has wins over No. 3 North Carolina, No. 4 Duke, No. 5 Penn State, No. 8 Harvard and No. 20 Rutgers, with losses to No. 2 Maryland and No. 6 Cornell. Dartmouth’s current RPI is 17.
S – Series History
Princeton leads the all-time series 61-9 and has won the last nine meetings between the two, including most recently a 15-5 win a year ago in Princeton. The 2022 game saw the Tigers eek out a 12-10 win in a game that Dartmouth led 10-9 with 12:27 to go after a 5-0 run before the Tigers scored three times in two minutes for the win.
T – Turnovers
Princeton is fourth in Division I in fewest turnovers per game (13.86). Dartmouth is third in Division I in caused turnovers per game (11.25), and Dartmouth’s Thomas Goguen leads the Ivy League and is eight in Division I in caused turnovers per game (2.25).
U – Underclassmen
Princeton starts two sophomores on attack (Colin Burns, Nate Kabiri), one sophomore at midfield (Tucker Wade) and one sophomore on defense (Jack Stahl), with three sophomores at shortstick defensive midfield (Cooper Mueller, Jackson Green, Owen Fischer). Princeton also has a sophomore on the second midfield (Carson Krammer) and another defenseman who is getting regular playing time (Hunter Spiess). That’s a total of nine sophomores who make major contributions from a class that was the No. 1 rated incoming class by Inside Lacrosse a year ago.
V – Very Deep
Princeton has been regularly playing six shortstick defensive midfielders (Liam Fairback, Owen Fischer, Jackson Green, Michael Kelly, Quinn Krammer, Cooper Mueller) and eight poles (Michael Bath, Nick Crowley, Finn Fox, Zach Friedman, Cooper Kistler, Colin Mulshine, Hunter Spiess, Jack Stahl)
W – Wyatt
Wyatt Madalon, the youngest of Matt and Ashleigh Madalon’s three children (along with older sisters Waverly and Whitney), was born during Princeton’s most recent trip to Hanover, in 2023.
X – Face-off X
Andrew McMeekin is 22 for 41 on face-offs with 18 ground balls in two career games against Dartmouth.
Y – Year 6
Colin Burns and Nate Kabiri are in their sixth year playing together on attack. They’re now in Year 2 at Princeton after playing together for two years at Georgetown Prep and four years as club teammates.
Z – Zinger
The weather for Saturday in Hanover is for snow and temps in the 30s. The weather for Princeton’s last trip to Hanover was near 90. It will also be 80 and sunny in Princeton Saturday.
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