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Princeton University
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No. 1 Princeton Opens NCAA Tournament At Home Against Marist
May 08, 2026 | Men's Lacrosse
NCAA TOURNAMENT OPENING ROUND
No. 1 SEED PRINCETON (13-2)
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MARIST (12-4)
Sunday, May 10 • 2:30 pm
Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium • Princeton, N.J.
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A – About The Game
Princeton and Marist meet in the opening round of the NCAA tournament. The winner will advance to the quarterfinals next Sunday at Delaware against the winner of the game between Penn State and Army-West Point (Saturday, 2:30).
B – Ball Control
Marist (12.38) and Princeton (13.13) rank third and sixth in Division I in fewest turnovers per game.
C – Career Leader
Andrew McMeekin is Princeton’s career record holder for face-off wins (659) and groundballs (417). McMeekin ranks second among active Division I players in both categories and first among all NCAA tournament face-off men in both.
D – Defense
After allowing six goals in the first 18:39 Friday night against Yale, Princeton allowed only 13 more in the final 101:21 of the Ivy League tournament.
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 – First-Team
Princeton had three first-team selections on the USA Lacrosse Magazine All-American teams: G Ryan Croddick, A Nate Kabiri, M Tucker Wade. Princeton also had second-team selection D Jack Stahl, third-team selections SSDM Cooper Mueller and Chad Palumbo and honorable mention selections M John Dunphey and SSDM Jackson Green. Princeton’s three first-teamers and eight total were both Division I highs.
G – Goals
Since being held to seven goals in the opener against Penn State, Princeton has scored at least 11 goals in the last 14 games, including at least 15 in seven of the last eight. Princeton’s streak of 14 straight games with at least 11 goals is the longest in the history of the program.
H – History
Princeton is making its 25th NCAA tournament appearance. The Tigers are 33-18 in NCAA games, with six NCAA championships (1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001), eight NCAA championship game appearances and 11 Final Fours (most recently in 2022). Princeton remains the most recent team to win three straight NCAA championships.
I – Ivy League
Princeton won the Ivy League tournament this past weekend in Ithaca, defeating Yale 12-10 in the semifinals and Cornell 19-9 in the final. Princeton and Cornell shared the Ivy League championship, which goes to the regular-season winner.
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: 15 games, 18 goals, 14 assists, eight multi-point games, .462 shooting percentage. Prior to this season, Dunphey had career numbers of 23G, 15A, 38 Pts.
K – Kabiri
Nate Kabiri is a Tewaaraton Award finalist, Princeton’s sixth (Trevor Tierney, Ryan Boyle, Tom Schreiber twice, Michael Sowers, Coulter Mackesy). 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
8. Tom Schreiber (2011-14) 200
9. Chris Massey (1995-98) 192
10. Nate Kabiri (2024-present) 186
Career assists at Princeton
5. Dave Heubeck 99 (1977-80)
6. Don Hahn 96 (1949-51)
7. Tom Schreiber (2011-14) 94
8. Ryan Ambler (2013-16) 92
9. Nate Kabiri (2024-present) 90
Points by the end of junior year
1. Michael Sowers 261
2. Nate Kabiri 186
L – Leaders
Princeton has three captains in 2026: seniors Cooper Kistler and Chad Palumbo and junior Colin Burns.
M – Madalon
Matt Madalon has been Princeton’s head coach since the final five games of the 2016 season. He has a career record of 88-43, for a .672 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, has been to two quarterfinals and been to one Final Four.
N – No. 1
Princeton is the No. 1 overall seed for the third time (1996, 1997, 2026). The No. 1 overall seed has won the championship in six of the last 18 tournaments.
O – Offense
Princeton is third in Division I in goals per game with 14.73, trailing only Utah (15.84) and Richmond (15.47). Marist led the MAAC in scoring defense at 10.19 per game.
Most goals in a season at Princeton
1. 237 (2022)
2. 235 (1996)
3. 234 (2025)
4. 223 (1997)
5. 221 (2026)
P – Postseason
Nate Kabiri and Chad Palumbo have combined for 41G, 35A in nine career postseason games (six Ivy tournament, three NCAA), an average of 8.4 points per game. The two have combined to average 6.5 points per game in regular season games.
Q – Quarterly
Princeton has outscored its last four opponents (Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale, Cornell) by a combined 22-4 in the third quarter.
R – Red Foxes
Marist reached the opening round with a 10-6 win over Stony Brook Wednesday night. Princeton and Marist have met twice before, with, ironically, a 10-6 Princeton win in 2017 and an 18-7 Princeton win in 2022.
S – Shorties
Princeton’s top four shortstick defensive midfielders — Owen Fischer, Jackson Green, Quinn Krammer, Cooper Mueller — have combined for six goals, five assists, 28 caused turnovers and 69 groundballs.
T – Tucker
Tucker Wade has at least one goal in each of the last 22 games and is the only player with at least one goal in every game this season. Wade, who had six goals in the Ivy tournament, has scored the first Princeton goal in 13 of the last 32 games.
U – Unprecedented
Parker Reynolds has 15 goals and 14 assists; no other Princeton freshman midfielder has ever had as many of each. Porter Malkiel has 11 goals on 17 shots (.657); it is the highest shooting percentage of any player in Princeton history with double figures in goals.
V – Vana, McDonald, Malkiel
Princeton’s second midfield unit of sophomores Jake Vana, Aiden McDonald and Porter Malkiel has combined for 35 goals on 72 shots (.486). McDonald and Malkiel are a combined 19 for 33 (.576).
W – Winning
Princeton enters the NCAA tournament on an eight-game winning streak. Princeton is 26-6 since the start of last season and 56-23 since the start of the 2022 season.
X – Face-Off X
Princeton has a .547 face-off winning percentage for the season. Only once between 2012 and 2025 did Princeton win more than 50 percent of its face-offs. The last time Princeton had a higher single-season face-off percentage was 1997 (.609).
Y – Yikes
Princeton is 37th 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 21 opportunities, including holding Cornell, who came in as the No. 1 team in extra man offense . Princeton has allowed 12 EMO goals this year; six came against Brown.
Z – Zinger
Nate Kabiri and Chad Palumbo have combined for 41G, 35A in nine career postseason games (six Ivy tournament, three NCAA), an average of 8.4 points per game. The two have combined to average 6.5 points per game in regular season games.
PROBABLE 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 26 goals and 16 assists with a .426 shooting percentage ... had 3G, 2A in Ivy tournament final against Cornell ... 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 81 goals, 43 assists and 124 points
2 Nate Kabiri (Jr., McLean, Va.)
Tewaaraton Award finalist ... USA Lacrosse Magazine first-team All-American … unanimous first-team All-Ivy League ... Most Outstanding Player at the Ivy League Tournament ... second on the team in goals with 32 ... leads team in assists (36) and points (68) ... 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 ... ranks 10th all-time at Princeton in career points with 186 (96G, 90A), six away from Chris Massey for ninth and 14 away from becoming eighth 200-point scorer in program history... is also ninth all-time at Princeton in assists (90), trailing Ryan Ambler by two for eighth and Tom Schreiber for four for seventh ... is second at Princeton in points by the end of junior year (186), trailing only Michael Sowers (261) ... has at least one point in every game of his career ... has at least four points in 11 of last 12 games and at least three in every game except for one this season (Maryland) ... 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 ... USA Lacrosse Magazine third-team All-American … first-team All-Ivy League ... Ivy League All-Tournament Team ... leads the team with 36 goals ... is second with 60 points ... second on the team in assists (24)... has gone from two to 26 to 28 to 36 goals and from two points to 37 to 47 as a junior and now to 60 in his four seasons ... started this season at midfield and moved to attack after one game ... has at least one goal in 14 of 15 games — only game without a goal was regular season game against Yale ... had five goals against both Penn and Brown ... tied the Harvard game with 1:41 to go ... has 25G, 11A in nine career postseason games (six Ivy tournament, three NCAA) ... 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 11 games ... has 15G, 14A; no other Princeton freshman midfielder has ever had as many of each ... has at least one point in each of the last 14 games after not having a point in the season opener ... 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.)
USA Lacrosse Magazine first-team All-American ... first-team All-Ivy League for the second straight year ... Ivy League tournament All-Tournament team ... third on the team with 29 goals ... only player on the team with at least one goal in every game this season ... has at least one goal in 22 straight games ... 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 eight multi-goal games ... season high was four goals against Rutgers ... has scored Princeton’s first goal of the game in 13 games since the start of the 2025 season (32 games) ... has 93 career points (73G, 20A)
48 John Dunphey (Sr., Ridgewood, N.J.)
USA Lacrosse Magazine Honorable Mention All-American ... Honorable mention All-Ivy League ... has started 13 games ... has 18 goals and 14 assists ... has gone from six goals and six assists with a .182 shooting percentage a year ago to 18 goals and 14 assists with a .462 shooting percentage this season ... had five goals on five shots against Brown ... has at least one point in every game this season except for the regular season game at Yale ... has 14 goals and 11 assists in the last nine games after having four goals and three assists in the first six
Second Offensive Midfield
33 Porter Malkiel (So., Portland, Ore.)
Has 11G, 3A this year after having 1G last year ... has 11 goals on 17 shots ... has a .647 shooting percentage, which is the highest ever by a Princeton player in double figures in goals ... had career-high 3G, on three shots, against Cornell in Ivy tournament final ...
36 Jake Vana (So., Boxford, Mass.)
Has 16 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)
77 Aidan McDonald (So., Maple Ridge, B.C.)
Has eight goals and two 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.)
USA Lacrosse Magazine Honorable Mention All-American ... Honorable mention All-Ivy League ... has 10 caused turnovers and 23 groundballs ... 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 five caused turnovers and 12 groundballs ... has played in every game
20 Quinn Krammer (Sr., Kirkland, Wash.)
Has a goal, two assists, three caused turnovers and 18 groundballs ... goal came against Syracuse ... had assists against North Carolina and Lehigh
66 Cooper Mueller (Jr., Radnor, Pa.)
USA Lacrosse Magazine third-team All-American ... Has three goals and three assists, with 10 caused turnovers and 17 groundballs ... 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 six caused turnovers and 24 groundballs ... 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 five groundballs and five caused turnovers ... 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 seven caused turnovers and 19 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 14 caused turnovers and 49 groundballs ... Ivy Defensive Player of the Week after shutting out Penn’s Griffin Scane while having seven GBs and a caused turnover ... currently 15th 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 11 caused turnovers and 13 groundballs ... 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.)
USA Lacrosse Magazine second-team All-American ... Tewaaraton Award Final 25 Nominee ... 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 21 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.)
USA Lacrosse Magazine first-team All-American ... 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 ... leads the Ivy League (and is sixth in Division I) in save percentage (.570) ... leads the Ivy League and is 12th in Division I in goals-against (9.70) ... 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 180 of 315 face-offs (.571) with 116 groundballs ... 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 659 ... Princeton record holder for groundballs in a career (417) and season (132) ... is the only Princeton player ever with multiple seasons of 100 GBs (he has three of them) ... leads Ivy League and is eighth in Division I in groundballs per game (7.73) ... is second among active Division I players in career FO wins and career GBs ... 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 180 for 321 (.561) with 109 groundballs in 12 postseason games (six Ivy tournament, four 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 ...
