In a thrilling Ivy League Tournament semifinal clash, the men’s soccer team (11–6 overall, 5–2 Ivy League) pulled off a turnaround, taking down the No. 16 Cornell Big Red (12–3–2, 5–2) 3–2 in overtime. Princeton, the No. 3 seed, conceded two goals early on against the No. 2 seed Cornell, but a dominant second-half performance and a dramatic extra-time winner propelled them to victory.
Both teams came into the match with the same conference records. The only thing separating the Tigers from the Big Red was a narrow 1–0 loss earlier this season.
“We thought we were too conservative in terms of committing numbers forward and trying to keep them pinned for their end,” Head Coach Jim Barlow ’91 wrote to The Daily Princetonian, referring to the previous Cornell game. “We thought in order to score we needed to get more players forward and go for it.”…