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No. 3 Princeton Hosts No. 10 Cornell
March 20, 2026 | Men's Lacrosse
No. 3 PRINCETON (5-1, 1-0 Ivy League) vs. No. 10 CORNELL (4-2, 1-0 Ivy League)
Saturday, March 21 • Noon
Sherrerd Field • Princeton, N.J.
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Series History - Cornell leads 44-42-2
Last Year - Cornell defeated Princeton 15-10 • March 15; Cornell defeated Princeton 20-15 • May 4 (Ivy tournament final)
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A – About The Game
The winner of the Princeton-Cornell game will be 2-0 in the Ivy League, after both teams won their league openers last week (Princeton over Yale, Cornell over Brown). The winner of the Harvard-Dartmouth game will also be unbeaten in the league; Harvard defeated Penn last week, while Dartmouth is playing its first league game.
B – Big Red
Princeton is 18-5 since the start of last season: 18-3 against the rest of Division I and 0-2 against Cornell (losses in the regular season and Ivy tournament final). The teams combined for 60 goals and 172 shots in those two games.
C – Century
Chad Palumbo enters the game against Cornell with 99 career points (61G, 38A), while Colin Burns enters the game with 97 points (66G, 31A). 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 35 in the four since (8.75).
E – Extra Man
Princeton has the fewest extra-man opportunities of any team in Division I (six). Princeton has not had an EMO in any of its last three games.
F – Five Straight
Princeton has won five straight games since an opening loss against Penn State (who also has a win over Cornell).
G – Goalie
Princeton’s Ryan Groddick leads the Ivy League and is eighth in Division I in saves per game (13.3) and is second in the Ivy League and ninth in Division I in save percentage (.584). His 25 saves against North Carolina are the second most by a Division I goalie this season (Miles Lancaster of Hampton made 29 against NJIT). Croddick has a .656 save percentage in his last four games (61 saves, 32 goals against).
H – Hunter
Hunter Spiess is third in the Ivy League in groundballs per game by non-FO men with 3.33. He trails two Dartmouth poles: Will Cohen (4.43) and Matthew Scheible (3.43).
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 – Juniors
Cornell’s Ryan Goldstein (with 153) and Princeton’s Nate Kabiri (with 141) rank second and fourth in career points among current Division I juniors. UVa’s McCabe Millon is first (157), and UNC’s Owen Duffy is third (150). Goldstein and Kabiri also rank 1-2 in the Ivy League in assist per game.
K – Kabiri
Nate Kabiri leads all current Princeton players in career goals (74), assists (67) and points (141). Kabiri, the only Princeton player ever with at least 30 goals and at least 25 assists as a freshman and sophomore, has seven assists in the last two games combined.
L – Leader
Andrew McMeekin set the Princeton career record for groundballs last week against Yale when he picked up his 332nd, one more than Greg Waller had between 1989-92. McMeekin is second all-time at Princeton in face-off wins with 536, trailing the school record of 646, held by Waller. McMeekin is second among active Division I players in career face-off attempts (1,016), face-off wins (536) and groundballs (332).
M – Malkiel
Porter Malkiel has back-to-back two-goal games after having one career goal prior to that.
N – Number One
Princeton is ranked No. 1 in the first Division I RPI, released this week. All five of Princeton's wins are against Top 20 RPI teams, including No. 2 Syracuse and No. 9 UNC. As for the polls, 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 49-21 dating to the start of the 2022 season, with four NCAA tournament appearances in four seasons. Prior to that, Princeton was 37-33 in its previous 70 games, with no NCAA appearances.
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.
R – Reynolds
Freshman Parker Reynolds has six goals and five assists and has yet to commit a turnover. The only Princeton player ever to get to double figures for a full season without commiting a turnover was Luke Crimmons, who had 8G, 2A without a turnover in 2018.
S – Stahl
Junior defenseman Jack Stahl has been named to the USILA Team of the Week each of the last two weeks and has one Ivy Defensive Player of the Week Award as well. Stahl has now held the last four players he’s guarded to three goals on 24 shots, with seven caused turnovers and nine groundballs. Those four players — Syracuse’s Joey Spallina, UNC’s Owen Duffy, Rutgers’ Colin Kurdyla and Yale’s Sean Grogan — have a combined 66 goals when not being guarded by Stahl.
T – Turnovers
Princeton leads the Ivy League and is 11th in Division I in fewest turnovers per game at 13.6
U – Unique
Princeton got five goals from its second midfield, four goals from its attack and two goals from its first midfield in the 11-10 win over Yale last week.
V – Vana
Jake Vana had three career goals prior to the game at Yale; he then had three goals against the Bulldogs.
W – Wade
Tucker Wade is tied for the team lead with 11 goals, along with Colin Burns. 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.
