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No. 1 Princeton, Duke Meet In NCAA Semifinals
May 20, 2026 | Men's Lacrosse
No. 1 SEED PRINCETON (15-2)
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UNSEEDED DUKE (11-4)
NCAA SEMIFINAL NO. 1
Saturday May 23 • Noon
Scott Stadium • Charlottesville, Va.
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A – At The X
Andrew McMeekin is 207 for 362 (.572) with 130 groundballs in 14 postseason games (eight Ivy tournament, six NCAA), including a 19 for 26 performance with 12 groundballs and a goal in the win over Penn State (who came into the game sixth in Division I in face-off winning percentage). McMeekin has won .590 of his face-offs this season, the highest for a Princeton player since James Mitchell was at .609 in the 1997 unbeaten season. Princeton has won a program record 266 face-offs this season.
B – Blue Devils
Princeton and Duke split games in Durham in the 2024 (17-8 Duke) and 2025 (15-14). Princeton leads the all-time series with Duke 9-2, including 2-0 in the NCAA tournament (1997 semifinals, 1998 quarterfinals). The Tigers and Blue Devils first played in 1947, when Hall-of-Fame football coach Dick Colman was also the Princeton men's lacrosse coach. Five of the games in the series were played between 1947 and 1980 (Princeton won four of those). Prior to the last two games, the teams had not played since 2002, when B.J. Prager scored a goal in the third OT on an assist from Ryan Boyle for a 7-6 win. Prager and Boyle had combined to win the 2001 NCAA title in OT a season earlier; the 2001 team will be honored on its 25th anniversary at halftime Monday.
C – Chad
Chad Palumbo had 9G, 10A in the first seven games of the season. In the last 10, Palumbo has 35G, 18A, including 14G, 8A in Princeton’s four postseason games.
D – Defense
After allowing six goals in the first 18:39 of the Ivy League tournament against Yale (which averages out to 19.3 goals per 60 minutes), Princeton has allowed only 32 more in the last 221:21 (which averages to 8.67 per 60 minutes. Princeton allowed 186 goals a year ago in 17 games; through 17 games this year Princeton has allowed 168.
E – Experience
Princeton is in the NCAA tournament for the fifth straight year. Prior to that, Princeton had not been to the NCAA tournament since 2012. Princeton’s current streak is its longest since going to the tournament every year from 1990-2004 and is the second-longest active one in Division I (Georgetown, eight).
F – Fab Four
Princeton’s top four shortstick defensive midfielders — Owen Fischer, Jackson Green, Quinn Krammer, Cooper Mueller — have combined for 10 goals, five assists, 34 caused turnovers and 76 groundballs.
G – Goals
Since being held to seven goals in the opener against Penn State, Princeton has scored at least 11 goals in the last 16 games, including at least 15 in eight of the last 10. Princeton’s streak of 16 straight games with at least 11 goals is the longest in the history of the program. Princeton has scored 252 goals in 2026, the most in any season in program history, and its 14.824 goals per game are the fourth-most in program history.
H – High Scoring
Princeton (14.82) and Duke (14.73) rank 3-4 in Division I in scoring offense (behind Utah and Richmond). The most recent Princeton-Duke game (2025 in Durham) finished 15-14.
I – Interesting
Princeton got more goals from its second midfield and shortstick defensive midfielders (four) than it did from its attack (three) in the quarterfinal win over Penn State.
J – John Dunphey vs. John Dunphey
John Dunphey had 23 career goals and 15 career assists for his first three seasons. Through six games this season, he had added four more goals and three more assists, giving him 27 goals and 18 assists for 45 points, in 42 games with a career shooting percentage of .243 to that point. In the last 11 games, Dunphey 16 goals and 14 assists, for 30 points, for an average of 2.9 per game, or triple his career average prior to that; he has scored those 16 goals on just 27 shots, which is a .593 shooting percentage. Dunphey had one goal against Penn State, the one with 6:43 left in the fourth to put Princeton ahead for good at 11-10.
K – Kabiri
Nate Kabiri is a Tewaaraton Award finalist, Princeton’s sixth (Trevor Tierney, Ryan Boyle, Tom Schreiber twice, Michael Sowers, Coulter Mackesy). Kabiri also leads all Division I juniors in career points with 196 (12th overall) and is Kabiri and Michael Sowers are the only two Princeton players ever with at least 90 career goals and 90 career assists.
Nate Kabiri in the Princeton record book:
Career points at Princeton
7. Mikey MacDonald (2012-15) 208
8. Tom Schreiber (2011-14) 200
9. Nate Kabiri (2024-present) 196
Career assists at Princeton
4. Jon Hess (1995-98) 133
5. Dave Heubeck 1977-80) 99
6. Nate Kabiri (2024-present) 97
Points by the end of junior year
1. Michael Sowers 261
2. Nate Kabiri 196
Points in a season
1. Michael Sowers (2019) 90
2. Michael Sowers (2018) 83
3. Michael Sowers (2017) 82
4. Coulter Mackesy (2023)/Mikey MacDonald (2015) 78/Nate Kabiri (2026) 78
L – Lots Of Saves
Ryan Croddick is the second Princeton goalie ever with two seasons of at least 200 saves. Kevin Gray (1975 and 1976) is the other.
M – Milestones
Nate Kabiri enters the game with 99 career goals and 196 career points; Princeton has had 16 career 100-goal scorers (the 16th was Chad Palumbo, who got there a week ago) and eight career 200-point scorers. Tucker Wade enters the game with 99 career points (79G, 20A).
N – Next Generation
Princeton’s 2026 team has the sons of three players who were part of Princeton’s first NCAA title in 1992: Kevin Morrow (father David, a Hall of Famer and the 1993 Division I Player of the Year), Evan Calkins (father Ed) and Porter Malkiel (father Jon, 1992 and 1994 NCAA champ). Princeton also has Cooper Mueller, whose father Kit was the 1990 and 1991 Ivy League men’s basketball player of the year. Duke All-American defenseman Charlie Johnson’s mother Katie Thurlow was a first-team All-American lacrosse player who also played field hockey before graduating from Princeton in 1992.
O – Offense
Princeton has four 30-goal scorers for the first time in program history: Chad Palumbo (44), Nate Kabiri/Tucker Wade (35 each), Colin Burns (30).
P – Postseason
Nate Kabiri and Chad Palumbo have combined for 51G, 47A in the 11 career postseason games they’ve played together (six Ivy tournament, five NCAA), for an average of 8.9 points per game. The two have combined to average 6.5 points per game in regular season games.
Q – Quinn
Shortstick defensive midfielder Quinn Krammer has three goals in two NCAA tournament games this year. He had one goal in the first 15 games of the season combined.
R – Rolling
Princeton shut out Penn State for the final 14:02 of the quarterfinal game, outscoring the Nittany Lions 5-0 to go from 10-9 down to a 14-10 win. In its four postseason games, Princeton has had that 5-0 run, an 8-0 run (against Marist in the NCAA opener), a 9-0 run (against Cornell in the Ivy League tournament) and a 7-0 run (against Yale in the Ivy League semifinal).
S – Seeds
Princeton is the No. 1 overall seed; the top seed has won the tournament three of the last four years and six of the last 18. The No. 1 seed is 4-3 in the semifinals in the last seven NCAA tournaments. Princeton is the No. 1 overall seed for the third time (1996, 1997, 2026). Princeton has won six NCAA titles, twice each as the No. 1 seed, No. 2 seed (1998, 2001) and No. 3 seed (1992, 1994).
T – Tucker
Tucker Wade has six goals on 10 shots in two NCAA games this season and 12 goals on 19 shots in four postseason games including Ivy tournament, He also has at least one goal in each of the last 24 games and is the only player with at least one goal in every game this season. Wade has scored the first Princeton goal in 14 of the last 34 games. He enters the semifinal game against Duke with 99 career points (79G, 20A).
Season goals by a Princeton midfielder
1. Kip Orban (2015) 45
2. Josh Sims (2000) 36
3. Tucker Wade (2026) 35
U – Unprecedented
Parker Reynolds has 16 goals and 16 assists; no other Princeton freshman midfielder has ever had as many of both. Reynolds is also one of two Division I freshmen middies with at least 16 goals and 16 assists (the other is Carson Turissini, of Iona, the MAAC Rookie of the Year who had 21G, 20A) and one of four Princeton players to do so (attackmen Michael Sowers, Coulter Mackesy and Ryan Boyle). Reynolds has at least one point in 15 of 17 games this year; the only two times he’s been shut out were against Penn State in the opener and Marist. Reynolds had a goal and two assists a week ago in the win over Penn State.
V – Vana, McDonald, Malkiel
Princeton’s second midfield unit of sophomores Jake Vana, Aiden McDonald and Porter Malkiel has combined for 37 goals on 80 shots (.463). The three are second in Division I lead for goals by a second midfield unit, two behind North Carolina.
W – Winning
Princeton enters Championship Weekend on a 10-game winning streak. Princeton is 28-6 since the start of last season and 58-23 since the start of the 2022 season. Princeton is 15-2 this year, tying the program record for wins in a season. In addition, Princeton has avenged both of its losses this season — defeating Cornell in the Ivy tournament final after losing in the regular season and Penn State in the NCAA quarterfinals after opening the season with a loss to the Nittany Lions.
X – X Factor
Princeton is 6-2 all-time in NCAA tournament overtime games, though it has not played an OT NCAA game since losing at Georgetown in 2007. Of Princetons six NCAA titles, four of them were won in overtime. Among current Princeton players, only Colin Burns has an OT goal in his career (assisted by Nate Kabiri). Princeton has played only three OT games since any current player has been on the roster, with the Penn State win in 2025 and losses to Rutgers and Cornell in 2023.
Y – Yikes
Princeton is 33rd in man-down defense — but 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 23 opportunities (it came against Yale in the Ivy tournament). Princeton has allowed 12 EMO goals this year; six came against Brown.
Z – Zinger
Matt Madalon has been Princeton’s head coach since the final five games of the 2016 season. He has a career record of 90-43, for a .677 winning percentage that trails only Bill Tierney’s .735 (and Ernie Ransom, who went 7-2-1 in his only season as interim head coach, 1950). Since 2022 Madalon has won three Ivy League tournament championships and one Ivy League championship, has taken the team to five straight NCAA tournaments, three quarterfinals and now his second Championship Weekend.
PROBABLE PRINCETON LINEUP
Attack
0 Colin Burns (Jr., Potomac, Md.)
Team tri-captain (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) ... Has 30 goals and 19 assists with a .423 shooting percentage ... had 3G, 2A in Ivy tournament final against Cornell and in NCAA opener against Marist ... had 1G, 1A against Penn State in NCAA quarterfinal ... had career-high five goals against Harvard, including the game-winner with 17 seconds to go (and three seconds on the shot clock); earned Ivy Offensive Player of the Week honors after that game ... had four goals each against North Carolina and Rutgers ... has started every game of his career ... third among active players with 85 goals, 45 assists and 130 points
2 Nate Kabiri (Jr., McLean, Va.)
USA Lacrosse Magazine first-team All-American ... Tewaaraton Award finalist ... unanimous first-team All-Ivy League ... Most Outstanding Player at the Ivy League Tournament ... enters the semifinals with 99 career goals and 97 career assists ... is ninth in career points at Princeton, four away from tying Tom Schreiber ... is sixth in career assists at Princeton, two away from tying Dave Heubeck for fifth ... second this season on the team in goals with 35 ... leads team in assists (43) and points (78) ... tied for fourth on single-season points list with Coulter Mackesy (2013) and Mikey MacDonald (2015), behind only three seasons by Michael Sowers ... had 3G, 5A against Marist ... had 2G, 5A against Cornell in Ivy final ... first Princeton player ever with three seasons of at least 30 goals 25 assists ... sixth Princeton player with a season of at least 30G, 30A ... is second at Princeton in points by the end of junior year (196), trailing only Michael Sowers (261) ... has at least one point in every game of his career ... has at least four points in 12 of last 14 games and at least three in every game except for two this season (Maryland, Penn State NCAA game) ... Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week and USILA Team of the Week after having 5G, 5A in wins against Syracuse and North Carolina
10 Chad Palumbo (Sr., Newton, Mass.)
Tewaaraton Award Top 25 Nominee ... third-team All-American by USA Lacrosse Magazine ... first-team All-Ivy League ... Ivy League All-Tournament Team ... leads the team with 44 goals ... is second with 72 points ... second on the team in assists (28)... has 14 goals and six assists in last three NCAA tournament games, including eight goals and four assists in the two NCAA games this season ... has gone from two to 26 to 28 to 44 goals and from two points to 37 to 47 as a junior and now to 72 in his four seasons ... started this season at midfield and moved to attack after one game ... has at least one goal in 16 of 17 games — only game without a goal was regular season game against Yale regular season ... had five goals against both Penn and Brown ... tied the Harvard game with 1:41 to go ... three-time Ivy League All-Tournament Team selection ... team tri-captain ... No. 7 overall selection in the recent Premier Lacrosse League draft, by the Carolina Chaos
First Offensive Midfield
8 Parker Reynolds (Fr., Manlius, N.Y.)
Began the season on the second midfield but has started the last 13 games ... has 16G, 16A ... only three other Princeton freshmen, and no other middies, have had at least 16G and 16A (Michael Sowers, Coulter Mackesy, RyanBoyle) ... has at least one point 15 of 17 games ... had a goal and two assists against Penn State (NCAA game) ... of his 16 assists, eight have been to Tucker Wade ... had 2G, 3A in the Ivy tournament ... had three goals against Penn ... had a fourth-quarter goal against Harvard to tie score at 11-11
19 Tucker Wade (Jr., Bethesda, Md.)
First-team All-American by USA Lacrosse Magazine and Inside Lacrosse ... first-team All-Ivy League for the second straight year ... Ivy League tournament All-Tournament team ... tied for second on the team with 35 goals ... only player on the team with at least one goal in every game this season ... has at least one goal in 24 straight games ... has six goals on 10 shots in two NCAA games this season and 12 goals on 19 shots in four postseason games including the Ivy tournament ... had three goals in both ILT games ... scored all three of his goals in ILT semifinal game against Yale during 7-0 run that turned 6-2 deficit to 9-6 lead ... has nine multi-goal games ... season high was four goals against both Penn State (NCAA game) and Rutgers ... has scored Princeton’s first goal of the game in 15 games since the start of the 2025 season (34 games) ... has 99 career points (79G, 20A)
48 John Dunphey (Sr., Ridgewood, N.J.)
Honorable mention All-Ivy League ... has started 14 games ... has 20 goals and 17 assists ... had 24 career goals and 15 career assists for his first three seasons and had four goals and three assists through six games this season, giving him 27 goals and 18 assists for 45 points, in 42 games with a career shooting percentage of .243 to that point ... in the last 11 games, Dunphey 16 goals and 14 assists, for 30 points, for an average of 2.9 per game, or triple his career average prior to that; he has scored those 16 goals on just 27 shots, which is a .593 shooting percentage ... had one goal against Penn State, which gave the Tigers the lead for good with 6:43 to go
Second Offensive Midfield
33 Porter Malkiel (So., Portland, Ore.)
Has 12G, 3A this year after having 1G last year ... has 12 goals on 20 shots (.600) ... has the second-highest season shooting percentage for a player with at least 12 goals in program history, behind only Phillip Robertson, who had 33 goals on 52 shots for a .635 percentage in 2018 ... had career-high 3G, on three shots, against Cornell in Ivy tournament final ...
36 Jake Vana (So., Boxford, Mass.)
Has 17 goals and one assist ... has six multiple goal games ... had career-high of three goals against Yale in regular season game ... had four straight two-goal games (against Brown, Lehigh, Vermont, Penn) ... scored Princeton’s first goal against Penn State in NCAA quarterfinal
77 Aidan McDonald (So., Maple Ridge, B.C.)
Has eight goals and three assists after missing all of last year and the first two games of this season due to injuries ... leads team with three extra-man goals ... had a goal and assist against Brown and Dartmouth
Shortstick Defensive Midfield
4 Jackson Green (Jr., Rochester, N.Y.)
Honorable mention USA Lacrosse Magazine All-American ... All-Ivy League ... has 13 caused turnovers and 26 groundballs ... had 3CTs and 2GBs in quarterfinal win over Penn State ... set up two Princeton goals on fastbreaks after interceptions in quarterfinals, including on the tying goal early in the fourth quarter ... had a goal against Cornell in ILT final ... had a goal against Rutgers ... is a huge part of the clearing game ... caught 17 passes for 233 yards and three TDs; he is the first Princeton player since Mike Neary ’82 to have at least one goal in lacrosse and one touchdown in football for Princeton
14 Owen Fischer (Jr., Glen Arm, Md.)
Has seven caused turnovers and 13 groundballs ... has played in every game
20 Quinn Krammer (Sr., Kirkland, Wash.)
Has four goals, two assists, three caused turnovers and 19 groundballs ... scored the tying goal in the fourth quarter against Penn State in the quarterfinal win ... had two goals against Marist, giving him three goals in two NCAA goals after having one goal in first 15 games of the season ... other goal came against Syracuse ... had assists against North Carolina and Lehigh
66 Cooper Mueller (Jr., Radnor, Pa.)
USA Lacrosse Magazine third-team All-American ... first-team All-Ivy League ... Has four goals and three assists, with 11 caused turnovers and 19 groundballs ... had the game-sealing goal in NCAA quarterfinal against Penn State ... also had goals against Maryland, Rutgers and Lehigh and assists against Penn (two) and Vermont ... has nine career goals on 17 career shots (.529) ... member of the basketball team in the winter ... father Kit was two-time Ivy League men’s basketball Player of the Year
Longstick Midfield
7 Zach Friedman (Sr., Arvada, Calif.)
Has nine caused turnovers and 32 groundballs ... has three CTs in two NCAA tournament games with six GBs ... had two CTs and four GBs against Marist ... PNC Bank Student-Athlete Achiever Award winner for the spring: “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.”
13 Nick Crowley (Sr., Peterborough, Ont.)
Has played in every game... has seven groundballs and six caused turnovers ... had a CT and GB against Penn State in NCAA game ... can play close defense or LSM ... also plays on the man-down unit
88 Cooper Kistler (Sr., Tiburon, Calif.)
Academic All-Ivy league selection ... started first game of the season on close defense but has been an LSM since ... has eight caused turnovers and 27groundballs ... also had assists against Vermont and Penn ... missed Rutgers and Yale games due to injury
Defense
15 Hunter Spiess (Jr., Old Greenwich, Conn.)
Honorable mention All-Ivy League ... started every game on defense ... has 16 caused turnovers and 54 groundballs ... is second Princeton longstick to have at least 16 CTs and 54 GBs in a season (Andrew Song, 2016, 16CTs, 54GBs); Zach Currier also did so twice ... his 54 GBs are fourth-best in a season by a Princeton starting closed defenseman: Todd Higgins (99 in 1995), Derick Raabe (73 in 2013), Ryan Mollett (60, 2001) ... Ivy Defensive Player of the Week after shutting out Penn’s Griffin Scane while having seven GBs and a caused turnover ... currently 14th among Princeton longsticks in single-season GBs
17 Finn Fox (So., Weston, Mass.)
Ivy League Tournament All-Tournament Team selection ... started every game on defense ... has 141 caused turnovers and 14 groundballs ... had three CTs against Marist in NCAA opener ... scored a goal against Vermont for the first of his career and the only goal by a Princeton longstick this season
28 Jack Stahl (Jr., Newport Beach, Calif.)
Tewaaraton Award Final 25 Nominee ... first-team All-American by Inside Lacrosse ... unanimous Ivy League Defenseman of the Year ... unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection ... was an LSM for the first game and has started every game on defense since ... has 20 caused turnovers (leads team) and 23 groundballs ... has had more caused turnovers than goals allowed by the player he’s been guarding in eight of the 12 games since he’s moved to a starting defenseman spot ... two-time USILA Team of the Week selection ... Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week after Princeton’s win over Rutgers, when he held Colin Kurdyla to a single goal ... had a three-game stretch — against Kurdyla, Syracuse's Joey Spallina and UNC's Owen Duffy — where he allowed two goals on 20 shots, with five caused turnovers of his own mixed in ... Inside Lacrosse midseason second-team All-American ... Inside Lacrosse No. 1 breakout Player of the Year in midseason
Goalie
26 Ryan Croddick (Sr., Rumson, N.J.)
First-team All-Ivy League and Ivy League Goalie of the Year, both for the second straight year ... ILT All-Tournament Team ... has started every game the last two years ... second Princeton goalie ever with two seasons of at least 200 saves (Kevin Gray in 1973 and 1975) ... seventh in Division I in save percentage (.571) ... Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week and Division I Player of the Week after his 39-save, 16-goals-against weekend in a sweep of North Carolina and Syracuse ... made career-high 25 saves against UNC, which is the highest single-game total by a Princeton goalie since 1985 (and also the Sherrerd Field record) ... made point-blank save against Maryland as time expired to preserve 13-12 Princeton win
Face-Off
32 Andrew McMeekin (Sr., Newtown Square, Pa.)
Second-team All-Ivy League ... Has won 210 of 356 face-offs (.590) with 137 groundballs ... also has five goals and four assists ... Princeton record holder for career FO wins and career GBs ... set the Princeton record for career FO wins in the ILT final against Cornell and now has 689 ... Princeton record holder for groundballs in a career (438) and season (137 this season, broke his own program record) ... is the only Princeton player ever with multiple seasons of 100 GBs (he has three of them) ... leads Ivy League and is sixth in Division I in groundballs per game (8.06) ... is second among active Division I players in career FO wins and career GBs ... was 19 for 26 with 12 GBs and goal in NCAA win over Penn State ... was 19 for 21 with 15 GBs and an assist against Dartmouth to earn Ivy Defensive Player of the Week award ... had goals against Syracuse, Brown and Harvard and assists against Maryland, Syracuse, Rutgers and Dartmouth ... has five games of double figure GBs ... three-time Ivy League All-Tournament Team, including Most Outstanding Player in 2024 ... is 207 for 362 (.572) with 130 groundballs in 14 postseason games (eight Ivy tournament, six NCAA)
99 Russ Fitzgerald (Fr., Flourtown, Pa.)
Is 41 for 87 (.500) on face-offs ... has 23 groundballs and a caused turnover ... had one assist, against Vermont ... missed Marist game due to injury
99 Cooper Revis (Fr., Chevy Chase, Md.)
Is 12 for 23 on face-offs ... went 6 for 10 against Marist in the NCAA game after being 5 for 13 for the season prior
