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No. 1 Princeton, No. 2 Notre Dame Meet For NCAA Championship
May 24, 2026 | Men's Lacrosse
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
No. 1 SEED PRINCETON (16-2) vs No. 2 SEED NOTRE DAME (15-2)
Monday May 25 • 1 pm
Scott Stadium • Charlottesville, Va.
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A – And Here We Are
Princeton is in the NCAA Championship Game for the ninth time; the first eight all came between 1992 and 2002. Princeton is 6-2 all-time in NCAA finals, with four of those wins in overtime. Notre Dame has reached the final for the third time in four years, having won in 2023 and 2024, and for the fourth time overall, with losses in 2010 and 2014. Princeton’s 2001 NCAA championship team, its sixth, will be honored at halftime of the championship game on its 25th anniversary.
B – Both Top Seeds
The game matches No. 1 seed Princeton and No. 2 seed Notre Dame. It is the second straight year that No. 1 has played No. 2; the time before that was back in 2005. This is the 18th meeting all-time between the top two seeds in the NCAA final. To date, the No. 1 seed has a 9-8 record against the No. 2 seed.
C – Comparatively
Princeton and Notre Dame are both shooting .331 as a team in the three NCAA tournament games so far (Princeton is 45 for 136; Notre Dame is 47 for 142). Princeton’s three NCAA tournament opponents are a combined 25 for 123 shooting, a percentage of .203; ND’s opponents are a combined 21 for 107, or .196.
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 39 more in the last 281:21 (which averages to 8.32 per 60 minutes. Princeton has not allowed more than 10 goals in any of its five postseason games.
E – Eleven
Princeton brings an 11-game winning streak into the NCAA Championship Game.
F – Fab Four
Princeton’s top four shortstick defensive midfielders — Owen Fischer, Jackson Green, Quinn Krammer, Cooper Mueller — have combined for 10 goals, seven assists, 35 caused turnovers and 78 groundballs.
G – Goals From Second Midline
Princeton’s second midfield unit of sophomores Jake Vana, Aiden McDonald and Porter Malkiel has combined for 42 goals on 91 shots (.462). The 42 goals are the most by any second midline in Division I. The three had five goals against Duke in the semifinal win.
H – Half And Half
Princeton has played five postseason games this year (two Ivy tournament, three NCAA). The combined score by halves:
First half: Princeton 32, Opponents 25
Second half: Princeton 44, Opponents 19
I – Interesting
Princeton had fewer shots, fewer face-off wins, fewer groundballs, fewer caused turnovers and twice as many turnovers compared to Duke — and doubled up the Blue Devils 14-7.
J – Just Two
Colin Burns and Tucker Wade are the only two Princeton players with at least one goal in all three NCAA games this season. In fact, Burns and Wade both have at least one goal in all six career NCAA games they’ve played.
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. Nate Kabiri (2024-present) 201
Career assists at Princeton
4. Jon Hess (1995-98) 133
5. Dave Heubeck 1977-80)/Nate Kabiri (2024-present) 99
Points by the end of junior year
1. Michael Sowers 261
2. Nate Kabiri 201
Points in a season
1. Michael Sowers (2019) 90
2. Michael Sowers (2018) 83/ Nate Kabiri (2026) 83
3. Michael Sowers (2017) 82
5. Coulter Mackesy (2023)/Mikey MacDonald (2015) 78
L – Lots Of Saves
Ryan Croddick made 20 saves in the semifinal win over Duke, tying Scott Bacigalupo’s Princeton record for saves in an NCAA game (Bacigalupo did so in a 14-13 quarterfinal loss to Towson in 1991). Croddick’s saves were the most in a Final Four game since Johns Hopkins' Michael Gvozden made 20 in the 2008 final.
M – Man Down
Princeton was ranked last in Division I after its game against Brown, when it allowed six EMO goals (despite committing only four penalties in that game). Since that game, Princeton has allowed one extra-man goal on 27 opportunities (it came against Yale in the Ivy tournament). In all of 2026, Princeton has allowed 12 EMO goals; six came against Brown.
N – NCAA And ILT
Nate Kabiri and Chad Palumbo have combined for 54G, 51A in the 12 career postseason games they’ve played together (six Ivy tournament, six NCAA), for an average of 8.75 points per game. The two have combined to average 6.5 points per game in regular season games.
O – Offense
Princeton has four 30-goal scorers for the first time in program history: Chad Palumbo (44), Nate Kabiri (38), Tucker Wade (37), Colin Burns (34).
P – Porter
Porter Malkiel has 14 goals on 22 shots this season, for a .636 shooting percentage that is the best of any Princeton player ever in double figures in a goal for a season.
Q – Quinn
Shortstick defensive midfielder Quinn Krammer has three goals and an assist in three NCAA tournament games this year. He had one goal and two assists in the first 15 games of the season combined.
R – Rolling
In its five postseason games, Princeton has had a 6-1 run against Duke, a 5-0 run against Penn State in the quarterfinal, an 8-0 run against Marist in the first round, a 9-0 run against Cornell in the Ivy League final and a 7-0 run against Yale in the Ivy League semifinal.
S – Scoring
Since being held to seven goals in the opener against Penn State, Princeton has scored at least 11 goals in the last 17 games, including at least 14 in nine of the last 11. Princeton’s streak of 17 straight games with at least 11 goals is the longest in the history of the program. Princeton has scored 266 goals in 2026, the most in any season in program history, and its 14.73 goals per game are the fourth-most in program history.
T – Turnovers
Princeton committed a season high 18 turnovers against Duke in the semifinal. Princeton is among the Division I leaders in fewest turnovers per game, averaging just more than 13.
U – Unprecedented
Parker Reynolds has 16 goals and 17 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
Jake Vana has 20 goals on the season. Only one other second-line midfielder in Princeton history has reached 20 goals in a season (Jake Stevens).
W – Wade
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. Tucker Wade (2026) 37
3. Josh Sims (2000) 36
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 Princeton’s 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
Matt Madalon has been Princeton’s head coach since the final five games of the 2016 season. He has a career record of 91-43, for a .681 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 and first NCAA final.
Z – Zinger
Princeton and Notre Dame will play for the third time ever, with games in 1995 (a 6-4 Tiger win at the Gilman School in Baltimore) and in 2010 (an 8-5 ND win on Sherrerd Field in the NCAA tournament opening round). The first game matched Kevin Corrigan against Bill Tierney. The second game matched Kevin Corrigan against Chris Bates. The 2026 game will match Kevin Corrigan against Matt Madalon.
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 34 goals and 19 assists with a .436 shooting percentage ... had 4G against Duke in NCAA semifinal ... 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 89 goals, 45 assists and 134 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 ... has 102 career goals and 99 career assists; only he and Michael Sowers have achieved those numbers at Princeton ... is eighth in career points at Princeton (201), seven away from tying Mikey MacDonald for seventh ... one assist away from becoming the fifth Princeton player with at least 100 career assists ... second this season on the team in goals with 38 ... leads team in assists (45) and points (83) ... tied for second on single-season points list with Michael Sowers’ sophomore year, one ahead of Sowers’ freshman year and seven away from Sowers’ junior year ... had 3G, 2A in NCAA semifinal win over Duke ... had 3G, 5A against Marist in opening round ... had 2G, 5A against Cornell in Ivy final ... first Princeton player ever with three seasons of at least 30 goals 25 assists ... second Princeton player with at least 35 goals and 40 assists in a season (Michael Sowers) ... is second at Princeton in points by the end of junior year (201), trailing only Michael Sowers (261) ... has at least one point in every game of his career ... has at least four points in 13 of last 15 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 74 points, which is tied for seventh in a single-season at Princeton ... second on the team in assists (30)... has 14 goals and eight assists in last three NCAA tournament games, including eight goals and six assists in the three 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 74 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, 17A ... only three other Princeton freshmen, and no other middies, have had at least 16G and 17A (Michael Sowers, Coulter Mackesy, RyanBoyle) ... has at least one point 16 of 18 games ... had a goal and two assists against Penn State (NCAA game) ... of his 17 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 ... third on the team with 37 goals ... second all-time at Princeton in goals in a season by a midfielder, trailing only Kip Orban (45 in 2015) ... has 102 career points (91G, 21A) … only player on the team with at least one goal in every game this season ... has at least one goal in 25 straight games ... has eight goals on 22 shots in three NCAA games this season and 14 goals on 31 shots in five postseason games including the Ivy tournament ... had two goals in final 1:10 of first half of NCAA semifinal win over Duke, snapping a 4-4 tie and giving Princeton the lead for good ... 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 (35 games)
48 John Dunphey (Sr., Ridgewood, N.J.)
Honorable mention All-Ivy League ... has started 15 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 12 games, Dunphey 16 goals and 14 assists, for 30 points, for an average of 2.5 per game, or nearly triple his career average prior to that; he has scored those 16 goals on just 29 shots, which is a .552 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 14G, 3A this year after having 1G last year ... has 14 goals on 22 shots (.636) ... has the highest season shooting percentage for a Princeton player with at least 14 goals in program history ... had career-high 3G, on three shots, against Cornell in Ivy tournament final ... had two goals on two shots against Duke in NCAA semifinal
36 Jake Vana (So., Boxford, Mass.)
Has 20 goals and one assist ... has seven multiple goal games ... tied career-high with three goals against Duke in NCAA semifinal game ... also had three goals against Yale in regular season game ... had four straight two-goal games (against Brown, Lehigh, Vermont, Penn) ... has scored Princeton’s first goal in last two NCAA games
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 27 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 ... assisted on a Nate Kabiri goal in NCAA semifinal win over Duke ... 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, three assists, three caused turnovers and 19 groundballs ... had 1G, 2A prior to NCAA tournament and now has 3G, 1A in those three games ... scored the tying goal in the fourth quarter against Penn State in the quarterfinal win ... had two goals against Marist ... other goal came against Syracuse ... had assists against North Carolina and Lehigh
66 Cooper Mueller (Jr., Radnor, Pa.)
Inside Lacrosse second-team All-American ... first-team All-Ivy League for second straight year ... Has four goals and three assists, with 12 caused turnovers and 20 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 31 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 nine caused turnovers and 28 groundballs ... 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 57 groundballs ... is first Princeton longstick to have at least 16 CTs and 57 GBs; Zach Currier also did so twice ... his 57 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 15 caused turnovers and 15 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 25 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.)
USILA Co-First-Team All-American and Co-Ensign Markland Kelly Award as top goalie in Division I ... 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) ... made 20 saves in NCAA semifinal win over Duke, tying Scott Bacigalupo’s program record for an NCAA game, set in the 1991 quarterfinals ... 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.)
Honorable mention USILA All-American … second-team All-Ivy League ... Has won 219 of 376 face-offs (.582) with 145 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 698 ... Princeton record holder for groundballs in a career (446) and season (145 this season, broke his own program record) ... is the only Princeton player ever with multiple seasons of 100 GBs (he has three of them) ... 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 216 for 382 (.565) with 138 groundballs in 15 postseason games (eight Ivy tournament, seven NCAA)
99 Russ Fitzgerald (Fr., Flourtown, Pa.)
Is 41 for 91 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
