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No. 7 Princeton Heads To Brown
March 26, 2026 | Men's Lacrosse
No. 7 PRINCETON (5-2, 1-2 Ivy League) at BROWN (5-3, 0-1 Ivy League)
Saturday, March 28 • Noon
Stevenson-Pincince Field • Providence, R.I.
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A – About
Princeton has won 11 straight games against Ivy teams other than Cornell and is 0-3 against Cornell in that time. The last time Princeton lost to an Ivy team other than Cornell was on its last trip to Providence, where Brown won 13-12 after getting out to a 6-0 lead by the second quarter. Princeton tied it twice, at 8-8 and 12-12, but current Brown senior Marcus Wertheim scored the game-winner with 2:24 to play.
B – Bears vs. Tigers
Princeton and Brown meet for the 64th time, and the Tigers lead the all-time series 35-28. Princeton defeated Brown 17-7 a year ago in Princeton, with a 4G, 3A performance from Nate Kabiri and a 3G, 3A performance from Colin Burns. Ryan Croddick made 16 saves for the Tigers.
C – Century
Colin Burns enters the game with 99 career points (68G, 31A). Should he get one more point, he would become the 40th player in program history to reach 100 career points. The 39th was Chad Palumbo, who enters the game against Brown with 105 career points (65G, 40A).
D – Dunphey
John Dunphey had two goals against Cornell last week. He now has six goals for the first seven games of this season, equaling his entire 2025 total.
E – Entering A Busy Stretch
Princeton finishes its non-league regular season schedule with games Tuesday at home against Lehigh and next Saturday at Vermont. The Lehigh game will be Princeton’s only mid-week game this season.
F – Following
Princeton has not lost consecutive games in the same season since a four-game losing streak early in 2023. Since then, Princeton is 11-0 in the game following a loss (in the same season; the Tigers lost the 2025 NCAA quarterfinal game against Syracuse and then the opener this year against Penn State).
G – Goalie
Ryan Croddick made 25 saves in the 11-9 win over North Carolina, 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 has a .422 save percentage and 13.0 goals against average in Princeton’s two losses this year and a .589 save percentage and 8.8 GAA in the five wins.
H – Hunter
Hunter Spiess is second in the Ivy League in groundballs per game by non-FO men with 3.43, behind Dartmouth’s Will Cohen (3.78).
I – Ivy League
Cornell and Harvard are both 2-0 in the Ivy League, followed by 1-1 Princeton and Penn, 0-1 Brown and Dartmouth and 0-2 Yale. This weekend’s other league games are Yale at Cornell and Penn at Dartmouth. Harvard will play North Carolina on a neutral site in Maryland.
J – JG
Jackson Green leads all Ivy League shortsticks in caused turnovers per game with seven in seven games. JG is also a wide receiver on Princeton’s 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 (75), assists (70) and points (145). Kabiri, the only Princeton player ever with at least 30 goals and at least 25 assists as a freshman and sophomore, has 10 assists in the last three games and is the 15th Princeton player ever to reach 70 career assists. He also ranks fifth among active juniors in Division I with 145 career points and 70 career assists.
L – Leaders
Princeton has three captains for 2026: Colin Burns, Cooper Kistler, Chad Palumbo.
M – Meeks
Andrew McMeekin holds the Princeton record for career groundballs with 342. McMeekin is second all-time at Princeton in face-off wins with 548, trailing the school record of 646, held by Waller. McMeekin is second among active Division I players in career face-off attempts (1,056), face-off wins (548) and groundballs (342), trailing Canisius’ Micah Hanson in all three.
N – No. 3
Princeton is currently third in the RPI rankings. Princeton is ranked seventh in the Kane Inside Lacrosse media poll and the USA Lacrosse Magazine Poll and eighth in the USILA coaches’ poll.
O – On A Roll
Princeton is 49-22 dating to the start of the 2022 season, with four NCAA tournament appearances in four seasons.
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 seven goals and six assists to date, with at least two points in each of his last six games for the longest such current streak on the team. Only four Princeton freshmen middies have reached double figures in goals and assists this century: Ryan Boyle in 2001, Whitney Hayes and Scott Sowanick in 2004 and Tom Schreiber in 2011.
S – Stahl
Jack Stahl, who was named the No. 1 breakout player of the year to date by Inside Lacrosse last week, has not allowed more than one goal against any of the last five players he’s guarded. Stahl, who has two USILA Team of the Week and one Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week Awards this season, had five caused turnovers in last week’s game against Cornell (one off the school single-game record set by Michael Bath against Rutgers in 2024). Stahl ranks second in the Ivy League in CTs per game at 1.86, trailing only Dartmouth’s Thomas Goguen.
T – Turnovers
Princeton leads the Ivy League and is 11th in Division I in fewest turnovers per game at 13.43. Princeton turned it over 13 times in each of its last two games, against Yale and Cornell.
U – Unmatched
Princeton is the most recent team to win three straight NCAA championships, something the Tigers did from 1996-98. Princeton has won six NCAA titles: those three, plus 1992, 1994, 2001
V – Very Few
Princeton has had fewer extra man opportunities than any other team in Division I with eight and is in fact the only team in single digits. There have been a total of four penalties called in Princeton’s last three games between the Tigers and their opponents.
W – Wade
Tucker Wade leads the team with 14 goals. Wade, a junior who became Princeton’s first sophomore midfielder to be first-team All-Ivy since Tom Schreiber in 2012, has eight goals in the last three games after having six in the first four.
X – Face-Off X
Freshman FOGO Russ Fitzgerald is now 23 of 38 (.605). The last Tiger over .600 for a full season with more than 5 attempts was Hakim Thompson in 2006 (11x16, .688). The last time a Tiger had more than 38 FO attempts and was over .600 was Dennis Kramer (60x97, .619) in 1997.
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.
