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No. 3 Princeton Opens Ivy Schedule At Yale
March 12, 2026 | Men's Lacrosse
No. 3 PRINCETON (4-1)
at
YALE (3-2)
Saturday, March 14 • Noon
Reese Stadium • New Haven, Conn.
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A – Again
Princeton and Yale meet for the 113th time in a series that dates to Oct. 14, 1882, and which the Tigers lead 80-30-2, including an 18-7 win a year ago. Here are the most played rivalries in Division I men’s lacrosse:
143 - Cornell vs. Hobart
128 - Johns Hopkins vs. Maryland
112 - Princeton vs. Yale
110 - Hobart vs. Syracuse
109 - Cornell vs. Syracuse
106 - Harvard vs. Yale
104 - Army vs. Navy
103 - Princeton vs. Rutgers
B – Back And Forth
Princeton has beaten Yale six straight times. Prior to that, Yale had beaten Princeton six straight times. Prior to that, the teams split their previous six meetings.
C – Century
Chad Palumbo enters the game against Yale with 99 career points (61G, 38A), while Colin Burns enters the game with 96 points (66G, 30A). Should they reach 100 points, they would be the 39th and 40th players in program history to do so.
D – Defense
Princeton allowed 23 goals in its first two games (12.5) and has allowed 25 in the three since (8.3). Princeton has held its last three opponents — Syracuse, North Carolina and Rutgers — to single digits; going back to last season, Jeremy Hirsch’s defense has held eight of its last 13 opponents below 10 goals.
E – Excellent
Princeton has already defeated three teams who have been ranked No. 1 this season — Maryland, Syracuse and UNC.
F – Four
Colin Burns has back-to-back four-goal games after having three total in the first three games. Burns leads Princeton with 11 goals.
G – Groundballs
Princeton had a 42-19 edge in groundballs against Rutgers. It was the largest groundball advantage in a single game since Matt Madalon became head coach in 2016. The most Princeton has ever been out-groundballed in the Madalon era came in 2018 against Yale (52-20).
H – Hunter
Hunter Spiess leads the team with seven caused turnovers and is second on the team in groundballs with 18, trailing only face-off man Andrew McMeekin (25).
I – In Goal
Ryan Croddick made 25 saves in the 11-9 win over North Carolina Sunday, giving him the highest save total by a Princeton goalie since Chris Corcoran made 26 against Navy in 1985 and the second-highest single-game total in Division I so far this season (Miles Lancaster of Hampton made 29 against NJIT). Croddick had a .432 save percentage in the first two games this season and has a .690 save percentage in the three since.
J – JG And Cooper
SSDM’s Jackson Green and Cooper Mueller both scored goals against Rutgers last week, marking the second time that both have scored in the same game (last year vs. Dartmouth). Between them this season they have also combined for eight caused turnovers and 14 groundballs. Both were preseason All-Americans, and both are two-sport athletes at Princeton. Mueller is on the men’s basketball team through the start of lacrosse practice and Green is a starting wide receiver on the football team, where he caught 17 passes for 233 yards and three TDs. He is the first Princeton player since Rob Bordley ’70 to have at least one goal in lacrosse and one touchdown in football for Princeton.
K – Kabiri
Nate Kabiri leads all current Princeton players in career goals (72), assists (64) and points (136). Kabiri, the only Princeton player ever with at least 30 goals and at least 25 assists as a freshman and sophomore, tied his career high with four assists against Rutgers. He currently leads the team with 10 assists and 18 points.
L – Leaders
Colin Burns is one of Princeton’s three captains, along with Cooper Kistler and Chad Palumbo. Burns is Princeton’s eighth junior captain in the last 25 years, along with George Baughan, Michael Sowers, Bear Goldstein, Tom Schreiber, John Cunningham, Jason Doneger and Ryan Boyle.
M – Meeks
Andrew McMeekin won 15 of 22 face-offs with nine groundballs in the win over Rutgers. McMeekin is second among active Division I players in career face-off attempts (1,016), face-off wins (527) and groundballs (326).
N – Number Three
Princeton is ranked third in the Kane Inside Lacrosse media poll, the USILA coaches’ poll and the USA Lacrosse Magazine poll.
O – On A Roll
Princeton is 48-21 dating to the start of the 2022 season and 29-10 dating to the start of the 2024 season.
P – Postseason
Princeton has played in each of the last four NCAA tournaments, with one Final Four and one quarterfinal appearance. Princeton has also won two of the last three Ivy League tournaments and reached the final of the other. In all, Princeton is 8-5 in postseason games in that time.
Q – Quite A Stat
Matt Madalon has a theory that a team should win the overwhelming amount of time when its face-off percentage and save percentage added together exceeds 1.000. In his career as Tiger head coach, his team has had 70 games in which its FO percentage added to its save percentage is greater than 1.000; its record in those games is 61-9, including the last three wins.
R – Reynolds
Freshman Parker Reynolds made his first career start in the win over Rutgers. Reynolds, who had been on the second midfield unit, went from no goals or assists in the opener against Penn State to two goals against both Maryland and Syracuse to two assists against UNC to a goal and three assists against Rutgers.
S – Stahl
Junior defenseman Jack Stahl is the reigning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week and also a selection to the USILA Team of the Week. In his last three games, he's held Syracuse's Joey Spallina, UNC's Owen Duffy and Colin Kurdyla — all three of whom are All-Americans — to a combined two goals and four assists on 20 shots, with five caused turnovers; the three players Stahl guarded went on to combine for seven goals and 13 assists in their next game.
T – Turnovers
Princeton leads the Ivy League and is 11th in Division I in fewest turnovers per game at 13.6
U – Unique
The 2026 season marks the 25th anniversary of Princeton’s sixth NCAA championship. Princeton’s NCAA titles have come in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 2001 — no school has won three straight since Princeton did so in 1996-98.
V – Violations
Princeton and Yale are tied for having the fewest extra-man opportunities in Division I, with six each.
W – Wade
Tucker Wade is second on the team with 10 goals, four of which came last week against Rutgers. Wade, a junior, became Princeton’s first sophomore midfielder to be first-team All-Ivy since Tom Schreiber in 2012.
X – Face-Off X
Andrew McMeekin is the only Princeton player with at least two seasons of at least 100 groundballs.
Y – Yearly
Colin Burns and Nate Kabiri are in Year 6 of playing together, between club ball, Georgetown Prep and now Princeton. Burns and Kabiri are the only two current Princeton players who have started every game of their careers.
Z – Zinger
Princeton has five players whose fathers competed at Princeton, two of whom played lacrosse. Freshman Evan Calkins is the son of Ed Calkins, a midfielder on the 1992 NCAA championship team. Sophomore Kevin Morrow is the son of David Morrow, the 1993 Division I Player of the Year. Sophomore Porter Malkiel is the son of Jon Malkiel, a member of the 1992 and 1994 NCAA title teams. Junior Cooper Mueller is the son of Kit Mueller, the 1990 and 1991 Ivy League men’s basketball Player of the Year. Gus van Metzsch is the son of Roland von Metzsch, a football offensive lineman in the early 1990s.
