No. 2 Princeton Hosts Dartmouth On Senior Day

Saturday, April 25

Princeton, N.J.

4:00 PM

Princeton University

Dartmouth

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April 24, 2026 | Men's Lacrosse

PRINCETON (10-2, 4-1 Ivy League) vs. DARTMOUTH (4-8. 0-4 Ivy League)

Saturday, April 25 • 4 pm
Sherrerd Field • Princeton, N.J.
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John Dunphey

A – At Stake
Here’s how things stand in the Ivy League:
* there are three Ivy games to be played (Dartmouth at Princeton, Harvard at Cornell, Yale at Brown)
* if Cornell beats Harvard, then Cornell will host the Ivy tournament; if Harvard beats Cornell, Princeton hosts the Ivy tournament, regardless of any other outcome
* Cornell and Harvard play at noon, so that game will be over before the Princeton-Dartmouth game begins
* Princeton would earn a share of the league championship with a win and Cornell win or a loss and Cornell loss
* Princeton would earn the outright league championship with a win and Cornell loss
* Cornell would win the outright championship with a win and Princeton loss
* there could still be a three-way tie or four-way tie for the championship, but only Princeton or Cornell can host the tournament
* Princeton, Cornell and Harvard will definitely be in the Ivy tournament. The fourth spot will go to Yale with either a win over Brown or Cornell win over Harvard or to Penn if neither of those things happen

B – Burns
Colin Burns is the reigning Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week after a career-high five goals in the 15-14 win over Harvard. Burns scored the game-winning goal with 17 seconds left on the game clock and three seconds left on the shot clock.

C – Chad
Chad Palumbo was the No. 7 pick of the first round of last week’s Premier Lacrosse League draft, chosen by the Carolina Chaos. Palumbo has gone from two points as a freshman to 37 as a sophomore to 47 as a junior to 43 to this point of his senior season.

D – Dartmouth
Princeton leads the all-time series 62-9 and has won the 10 nine meetings between the two, including an 11-8 win in the sleet and snow in Hanover. Princeton is 35-1 all-time against Dartmouth at home, with the lone Big Green win by a 13-6 score in 2003.

E – Extra-Man
Princeton is tied with Rutgers for the second fewest number of extra-man opportunities in Division I (18), one more than UMBC. Princeton had one EMO at Harvard last week and scored in 13 seconds.

F – Face-Offs
Andrew McMeekin has 614 career face-off wins, the second-highest total in Princeton history. He trails Greg Waller, Class of 1992, by 32 heading into the Dartmouth game.

G – Goals
Princeton has scored at least 15 goals in each of its last five game, its longest streak since doing so in all five games of the shortened 2020 season. The last time Princeton had a six-game streak of such games was in 1997, the year the Tigers went 15-0 and won the third of their six NCAA titles. The last time there was a streak of seven straight was the year before that, 1996, another NCAA championship season.

H – Honoring
The Dartmouth game will be Princeton’s annual Senior Day. The program will honor the 13 seniors who have to date been part of two Ivy League tournament championship teams and what will be four NCAA tournaments, with a chance to earn an Ivy League title in the Dartmouth game. The 13 seniors are: Ryan Croddick, Nick Crowley, John Dunphey, Zach Friedman, Cooper Kistler, Jackson Kane, Quinn Krammer, Andrew McMeekin, Ian Mize, Jamison Moore, Chad Palumbo, David Smythe and Jim Williams.

I – Ivy Stats
Princeton leads the Ivy League in six different team categories: scoring offense, scoring defense, scoring margin, points per game, fewest turnovers per game and winning percentage. Princeton goalie Ryan Croddick leads the league in both goals-against save percentage, while face-off man Andrew McMeekin leads the league in groundballs per game.

J – John Dunphey vs. John Dunphey
John Dunphey a year ago: 17 games, six goals, six assists, 11 turnovers, .181 shooting percentage. John Dunphey this year: 12 games, 14 goals, 10 assists, six turnovers, .438 shooting percentage.

Nate Kabiri

K – Kabiri
Nate Kabiri is one of 10 Division I players — and along with UNC’s Owen Duffy — with at least 91 career goals and 79 career assists. Kabiri is now 13th all-time at Princeton in career points and 12th all-time at Princeton in career assists.
Career points at Princeton
10. Dave Heubeck (1977-80) 182
11. Chris Brown (2018-22) 179
12. Wick Sollers (1975-77) 174
13. Nate Kabiri (2024-present) 170
Career assists at Princeton
9. Charles Stillwell (1982-85) 89
10. Bo Willis (1951-53) 84
11. Coulter Mackesy (2022-25) 81
12. Nate Kabiri (2024-present) 79

L – Leading
Princeton is in the top eight of Division I in seven different categories: scoring offense (fourth), winning percentage (fourth), shooting percentage (fifth), fewest turnovers per game (fifth), points per game (fifth), scoring margin (seventh), assists per game (eighth).

M – Man Down
Since allowing six man-down goals against Brown, Princeton has held its next four opponents to a combined 0 for 14 on extra man opportunities. That includes a two-minute non-releasable EMO for Harvard last week that spanned the third and fourth quarters, when the game was 10-10.

N – No. 3
Princeton is ranked third in the current Division I RPI. The Tigers have wins over No. 2 North Carolina, No. 4 Syracuse, No. 7 Harvard, No. 11 Maryland, No. 13 Yale and No. 17 Penn, as well as No 22 Rutgers, No. 29 Brown, No. 30 Lehigh and No. 48 Vermont. Princeton’s two losses are to No. 8 Cornell and No. 12 Penn State. Dartmouth’s RPI is currently No. 41.

O – Offense
There have been 12 times when a Princeton player has finished a season with at least 30 goals and at least 25 assists. Nate Kabiri already has two of those, and he enters the Dartmouth game with 27 goals and 25 assists. Should he get three more goals this season, he would become the first Princeton player ever with three such seasons.

P – Polls
Princeton is ranked second in all three major polls (Kane Inside Lacrosse Media, USILA Coaches’, USA Lacrosse Magazine).

Q – Quite A Stat
Colin Burns has 21 goals and a .467 shooting percentage. Only five Princeton players have ever finished a full season with at least 21 goals and at least a .467 shooting percentage: Ryan Boyle, B.J. Prager, Emmet Cordrey, Mikey MacDonald and Phillip Robertson.

R – Reynolds
Parker Reynolds, who assisted on the game-winning goal against Harvard, has 11 goals and 11 assists for the season. He is the 13th Princeton freshman who has ever had at least 11 of each but only the third midfielder, along with Tom Schreiber and Peter Buonanno.

S – Second Midfield
Princeton’s second midfield unit of Porter Malkiel, Aidan McDonald and Jake Vana are a combined 25 for 51 shooting for the season.

T – Tewaaraton
Princeton has three of the final 25 nominees for the Tewaaraton Award — A Nate Kabiri, A Chad Palumbo and D Jack Stahl.

U – Unblemished
Nate Kabiri has at least one point in all 45 games of his Princeton career.

V – Vana
Jake Vana has 14 goals without an assist this season. The record for most goals in a season by a Princeton player without an assist is 19, by Craig Katz in 1997.

W – Wade
Tucker Wade has the longest current streak among Princeton players of consecutive games with at least one goal at 19 games. He has a current point-scoring streak of 21 games — the last time he was held without a point was at Dartmouth a year ago.

X – Face-off X
Princeton has a face-off winning percentage of .530 through 12 games. The last time Princeton finished a full season with a better percentage was 1997 (.609).

Y – Yikes
Since a 2024 loss at Brown, Princeton is 0-3 against Cornell and 14-0 against the rest of the Ivy League.

Z - Zach
Senior LSM Zach Friedman was named one of Princeton’s two PNC Achiever Award recipients for the spring (along with women’s track and field athlete Shea Greene). Friedman is a Student-Athlete Wellness Leader, SCORRE leader, member of the Varsity Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and founding member of the Varsity Athletes Pre-Medical Society. Additionally, Friedman is a two-year Co-President of Princeton's Best Buddies program, helping to promote inclusion for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. From Arvada, Colo., Friedman is a Politics major with a pre-med focus who spent last summer teaching indigenous Alaskan populations about health literacy topics.