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Princeton University Athletics
Princeton University
Cornell
No. 2 Princeton, No. 4 Cornell Meet For Ivy Tournament Championship
May 02, 2026 | Men's Lacrosse
PRINCETON (12-2, 5-1 Ivy League, co-champion) vs. CORNELL (11-3, 5-1 Ivy League)
IVY LEAGUE TOURNAMENT SEMIFINAL
Sunday, May 3• 1:00 pm
Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, N.Y.
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A – Again
Princeton is in the Ivy League tournament final for the fourth straight year. The Tigers won in 2023 and 2024 and lost to Cornell in 2025. Princeton won the first Ivy tournament in 2010, also on Schoellkopf Field, and is 3-4 all-time in ILT finals.
B – Big Red
Princeton has lost seven straight games to Cornell, including a 13-11 game in Princeton on March 21. Since the start of the 2025 season, Princeton is 25-6: 25-3 against the rest of Division I and 0-3 against Cornell. Since a 2024 loss at Brown, Princeton is now 16-0 against the rest of the Ivy League and 0-3 against Cornell. Princeton has won seven straight since its loss to Cornell.
C – Champs
By league rules, Princeton and Cornell tied for the Ivy League championship, which is decided in the regular season. The winner of the Ivy League tournament gets the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
D – Defense
After allowing six goals in the first 18:39 Friday night against Yale, Princeton allowed only four more in the final 41:21.
E – Extra Man
Cornell leads Division I in extra-man offense at .615. Princeton is tied for 46th in man-down defense — but Princeton was ranked last in Division I after allowing six EMO goals against Brown (despite committing only four penalties in that game). Since that game, Princeton has allowed one extra-man goal on 17 opportunities. Princeton has allowed 12 EMO goals this year; six came against Brown.
F – Five
Nate Kabiri had three assists against Yale in the ILT semifinal, giving him 30G, 31A for the season and making him the fifth Princeton player ever with a 30/30 season: Dave Tickner (1976), Mikey MacDonald (2015), Michael Sowers (2017, 2019) and Chris Brown (2022). Kabiri and Sowers are the only players in program history with at least two seasons of 30G, 25A. Kabiri is the only player with three such seasons; Sowers had 16G and 31A in five games in 2020.
G – Goalie
Princeton’s Ryan Croddick, the two-time Ivy League Goalie of the Year, has a .364 first-half save percentage and .655 second-half save percentage in the last three games.
H – Honors
Princeton had six first-team All-Ivy League selections, its second highest total ever behind the seven in 1997, when Princeton went 15-0 and won the fourth of its six NCAA titles. The first-teamers were: Ryan Croddick (G, also Goalie of the Year for the second straight year), Nate Kabiri (A), Cooper Mueller (SSDM), Chad Palumbo (A), Jack Stahl (D, also Defenseman of the Year) and Tucker Wade. Andrew McMeekin (FO) was a second-team selection, and John Dunphey (M), Jackson Green (SSDM) and Hunter Spiess (D) were honorable mention selections. Cooper Kistler was the team’s Academic All-Ivy League representative.
I – ILT Records
Nate Kabiri is Princeton’s career leader in assists in Ivy tournament games with 13 and is third in career points with 19. Chad Palumbo is second in both goals (15) and points (20), behind Mikey MacDonald in both (18G, 24Pts). Tucker Wade is fourth in career ITL goals with 10 and fifth in points (15), behind MacDonald, Palumbo, Kabiri and Coulter Mackesy (18).
J – John Dunphey vs. John Dunphey
John Dunphey a year ago: 17 games, six goals, six assists, three multi-point games, .181 shooting percentage. John Dunphey this year: 14 games, 18 goals, 11 assists, seven multi-point games, .474 shooting percentage. Prior to this season, Dunphey had career numbers of 23G, 15A, 38 Pts.
K – Kabiri
Nate Kabiri in the Princeton record book:
Career points at Princeton
9. Chris Massey (1995-98) 192
10. Dave Heubeck (1977-80) 182
11. Nate Kabiri (2024-present)/Chris Brown (2018-22) 179
Career assists at Princeton
7. Tom Schreiber (2011-14) 94
8. Ryan Ambler (2013-16) 92
9. Charles Stillwell (1982-85) 89
10. Nate Kabiri (2024-present) 85
Points by the end of junior year
1. Michael Sowers 261
2. Coulter Mackesy 185
3. Nate Kabiri 179
L – Leaders
Princeton has three captains in 2026: seniors Cooper Kistler and Chad Palumbo and junior Colin Burns.
M – Meeks
Andrew McMeekin enters the game with 645 career face-off wins. The Princeton career record is 646, held since 1992 by Greg Waller. McMeekin, already a three-time Ivy League All-Tournament team selection, is Princeton’s record-holder for career groundballs (410) and season (132). He is also currently tied for fourth on the single-season GB list (109) — with himself, from a year ago. McMeekin is the only Princeton player ever with more than one season of at least 100 GBs, and he has three of them.
N – NCAA Selections
The NCAA tournament selections will be announced Sunday night at 9:30 on ESPNU. Princeton and Cornell will both be in the field regardless of who wins the ILT final. Princeton will be in the NCAA tournament for the fifth straight year, its longest streak since being in the tournament every year from 1990-2004.
O – Offense And Defense
Princeton leads the Ivy League and is fifth in Division I in scoring offense (14.43 per game). Cornell leads the Ivy League and is 11th in Division I in scoring defense (9.21 per game). Princeton and Cornell rank 1-2 in the Ivy League in scoring offense and 1-2 in the offense in scoring defense.
P – Palumbo
Chad Palumbo has 22G, 9A, 31 Pts in eight career postseason games (five Ivy tournament, three NCAA), an average of 3.88 points per game. Palumbo has an average of 3.55 points per game in regular season games.
Q – Quarterly
Princeton has outscored its last three opponents (Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale) by a combined 13-3 in the third quarter. Princeton trailed at the half against both Harvard and Yale.
R – Reynolds
Parker Reynolds has 14 goals and 13 assists. Only one other Princeton freshman midfielder has ever had at least 14G, 13A, and that was Tom Schreiber (16-13) in 2011.
S – Streaks
Princeton’s seven-game losing streak to Cornell is its longest against any opponent since a seven-game streak against Penn from 1983-89 and much longer streaks against Johns Hopkins (1967-1999) and Cornell (1968-1989). All three of those streaks ended in 1990.
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 47 games of his Princeton career.
V – Vana, Malkiel, McDonald
Princeton’s second midfield unit of sophomores Jake Vana, Porter Malkiel and Aidan McDonald have combined for 30 goals on 65 shots this season, with six assists. A year ago they combined for two goals on 14 shots, with one assist.
W – Wade
Tucker Wade had three goals and an assist Friday night against Yale, including three goals in the 7-0 run that turned a 6-2 deficit into a 9-6 lead. Wade now has at least one goal in 21 straight games, the longest current streak by a Princeton player. If you’re wondering, the program record is 46 straight games, set by Chris Massey from 1995-98.
X – Face-Off X
Princeton lost 8 of the first 10 face-offs against Yale Friday night and then won 11 of the last 16. Princeton won 16 of 27 face-offs against Cornell in the game this past March, a game that first-team All-Ivy face-off man Jack Cascadden missed due to injury.
Y – Yikes
Princeton leads the Ivy League in fewest turnovers per game at 13.0 and had 11 against Yale Friday night. Cornell is 66th in Division I in caused turnovers per game, at 6.36.
Z – Zinger
Princeton’s current RPI is 3. The Tigers have Top 20 wins this season over No. 2 North Carolina, No. 6 Syracuse, No. 13 Yale (twice), No. 14 Harvard, No. 15 Maryland and No. 16 Penn.
