Ti g e r Lac r o s s e 2010 • w w w .gopr i nc e T o N Ti g e r s .C o m NCAA Ch A m p i o N 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001 NCAA r u nn e r -u p 2000, 2002 25-T i m e iv y Le A g u e Ch A m p i o N PRINCETON VS . NOTRE DAME NCAA To u r na m e nt • op e N i N g ro u N d The site Class of 1952 Stadium • Princeton, N.J. The date Sunday, May 16, 2010 • 2:30 pm Radio/TV WPRB FM 103.3; goprincetontigers.com/ESPNU The records Princeton: 11-4 (4-2 Ivy League) Notre Dame: 7-6 (2-4 Big East) The seeds Princeton: No. 6 Notre Dame: unseeded The coaches Princeton: Chris Bates first season at Princeton, 11-4/11th overall, 81-75 Notre Dame: Kevin Corrigan 22nd season at Notre Dame, 203-102/same The series Princeton leads 1-0 Last meeting Princeton defeated Notre Dame 6-4 • March 14, 1995 PRINCETON PRINCETON vs. NOTRE DAME PROBABLE LINEUP See what ya got ... Attack Back on March 14, 1995, the defending NCAA champion Princeton men’s lacrosse team 14 Jack McBride Jr.. 33-13-46 used two goals each from Scott Conklin and Bart Bansbach and one goal each from Jeff 22 Rob Engelke Sr. 15-21-36 MacBean and Jesse Hubbard to hold off Notre Dame 6-4 in a game played on a warm, sunny, 15 Chris McBride Jr. 16-8-24 late-winter day at the Gilman School in Baltimore. It remains the only time Princeton and Notre Dame have played in men’s lacrosse. At 1 Alex Capretta So. 4-0-4 least until this weekend, when Notre Dame and Princeton meet for the second time, this First Midfield time in the opening round of the 2010 NCAA tournament. 2 Scott MacKenzie Sr. 10-11-21 Princeton, who tied for the Ivy League championship and won the Ivy League tournament, is the sixth seed; Notre Dame, who competed in the first year of Big East men’s lacrosse, 13 Mike Chanenchuk Fr. 28-8-36 is unseeded and recipient of an at-large bid. 18 Jeff Froccaro Fr. 15-7-22 On that day in 1995, the current seniors for Princeton and Notre Dame were in elementary Second Midfield school. Chad Wiedmaier, Princeton’s first-team All-Ivy League defenseman, wasn’t quite five years old yet. 8 Mike Grossman So. 4-3-7 Notre Dame’s coach for that game was Kevin Corrigan, who was then in his seventh season 31 Paul Barnes Sr. 3-0-3 in South Bend. Corrigan is still the ND coach, and he will be making his 15th appearance 29 Chris White Fr. 2-0-2 as a head coach in the NCAA tournament. On the other bench will be Princeton head coach Chris Bates, who in 1995 was in his 7 Tucker Shanley Fr. 2-0-2 second year as an assistant coach at Drexel. In all, Bates has spent four years a player at 47 Luke Armour Fr. 1-0-1 Dartmouth, five years as a Drexel assistant and 10 years as the Drexel head coach, and now Longstick Midfielder he gets to make his first appearance in the NCAA tournament. 3 John Cunningham So. 5G, 11CT, 50GB * * * 28 Jonathan Meyers So. 23GB, 10CT Shortstick Defensive Midfielder Princeton is 30-12 all-time in NCAA tournament games, with six NCAA championships, eight championship games, 10 Final Fours and 16 quarterfinal appearances, all since the 27 Tyler Moni Jr. 8-1-9, 30GB team’s first NCAA bid 20 years ago in 1990. 26 Peter Smyth So. 2-4-6, 24GB Of course, there is also something of a curse that Princeton will be facing in the 2010 5 Jimmy Davis Sr. 1A,2 CT,11GB tournament. Princeton has been in the quarterfinals 16 times in the last 20 years. In that same time, 21 Connor Reilly So. 1GB, 1 CT Princeton Stadium has been the predetermined host for the quarterfinals three times - 1999, Face-Off 2005, 2007 - and Princeton has missed the quarterfinals all three of those years. 26 Peter Smyth So. 54x107 In other words, Princeton is 16 for 17 in reaching the round of eight when the quarterfinals are not at Princeton Stadium and 0 for 3 when they are. The winner of the Princeton-Notre 18 Jeff Froccaro Fr. 85x169 Dame game advances to the quarterfinals at - of course - Princeton Stadium. 17 Bobby Lucas Fr. 25x48 The quarterfinals next Saturday at Princeton will have the winner of the Princeton-ND Defense game against the winner of No. 3 Maryland and Hofstra and the winner of No. 3 Duke-Johns Hopkins against the winner of No. 4 North Carolina-Delaware. 9 Chad Wiedmaier So. 12 CT, 10GB 37 Jeremy Hirsch Sr. 1A, 9 CT, 15GB * * * 41 Long Ellis Jr. 19 CT, 25 GB While Princeton has never played an NCAA tournament game in Princeton Stadium, the Goal Tigers are 4-0 in NCAA games at Class of 1952 Stadium. 6 Tyler Fiorito So. 8.62 GAA Princeton defeated Albany in 2003, Rutgers in 2004, UMBC in 2006 and UMass a year ago .568 S% in the opening round in games played at ’52. On the other hand, Princeton had a 21-game winning streak at Class of 1952 Stadium end with its 10-9 loss to Cornell on May 1. * * * Only four current Princeton players have at least one NCAA tournament point. Scott MacKenzie (1-1) and Rob Engelke (2-0) have two, while Chris McBride and Jack McBride each have one goal. Both McBrides scored against Cornell last year in a 6-4 quarterfinal loss. Engelke’s goals came in a 9-8 OT loss at Georgetown in the 2007 opening round. PRINCETON PRINCETON vs. NOTRE DAME SCHEDULE & RESULTS See what ya got ... February * * * 27 HOFSTRA ........................... W, 17-14 Princeton finished in a four-way tie for the Ivy title with Yale, Brown and Cornell. March Princeton won the Ivy League tournament last weekend, but that tournament determined only the Ivy League’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The four teams will all be Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic considered Ivy champions. at M&T Bank Stadium • Baltimore Princeton defeated Yale 7-6 in the Ivy semifinals, the same score that Princeton defeated Yale by in the regular season. Then, eight days after falling 10-9 at home to Cornell to force 6 vs. Johns Hopkins .....W, 11-10 (OT) the four-way tie, Princeton came from deficits of 5-1, 6-2 at the half and 7-3 late in the third to defeat Cornell 10-9 in the final on Jack McBride’s goal with one second left in overtime. Tyler Fiorito, who made 27 saves in the two games, was the tournament MVP. 9 at Manhattan .......................W, 13-8 There had never been a four-way tie for the Ivy championship until this year, but there 13 UMBC ..................................W, 10-5 were two three-way ties. Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton tied at 4-2 in 1964, and Princ- eton, Cornell and Dartmouth tied at 5-1 in 2003. 16 at North Carolina ............... L, 12-11 20 PENN ................................. W, 11-10 * * * 27 at Yale ....................................W, 7-6 Princeton was outscored by Cornell 8-1 in the two first quarters they played this season. April Princeton outscored Cornell 11-3 in the fourth quarters and overtime of the two games. In its last 11 games, Princeton has had the lead at the end of the first quarter twice, been New England Lacrosse Classic tied once and trailed eight times. Gillette Stadium • Foxborough, Mass. On the other hand, Princeton has outscored nine of its last 11 opponents after the third quarter (fourth quarter + overtime), while being outscored once (by Yale in the Ivy semifinals) 3 vs. Brown ...............................W, 9-7 and equalling its opponent once (Harvard). For the year, Princeton has outscored its opponents 53-33 in the fourth quarter and OT, including 44-22 in the last 11 games. Konica Minolta Big City Classic Meadowlands Stadium * * * East Rutherford, N.J. Princeton is 3-0 in overtime games this year. Princeton defeated Johns Hopkins on 10 vs. Syracuse ......................... L, 13-4 Scott MacKenzie’s goal, Penn on Jeff Froccaro’s goal and Cornell in the Ivy final on Jack McBride’s goal. Chris Bates has won more overtime games in one year at Princeton than he did in 10 13 RUTGERS.............................W, 10-8 years as head coach at Drexel, where he was 2-3 in overtime games. Notre Dame is 1-1 in overtime games, having defeated Ohio State and lost to Drexel, 17 DARTMOUTH ......................W, 16-2 both by a score of 7-6. 24 at Harvard ............................ L, 11-8 Princeton is 6-2 all-time in NCAA tournament overtime games, including 4-0 in NCAA finals. May 1 CORNELL ............................. L, 10-9 * * * Of Princeton’s 15 games, seven have been decided by one goal; Princeton is 5-2 in those Ivy League Tournament seven games. Princeton has played two other games that were decided by two goals and won both of those. Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, N.Y. 7 vs. Yale ...................................W, 7-6 * * * 9 at Cornell .....................W, 10-9 (OT) Princeton and Notre Dame have two common opponents, Rutgers and Syracuse. Princeton defeated Rutgers 10-8 and lost to Syracuse 13-4; Notre Dame lost to Rutgers 10-8 and Syracuse 12-6.