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Moe Is Money

Legendary coach of the Princeton Tigers, Bill Tierney, took over the men’s lacrosse program in 1988. The Tigers had never won a NCAA Championship, with the program’s last year of glory coming with an Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association Championship in 1953. Tierney turned the program around, leading his team to five national championships in the 1990s. The run began in the 1992 NCAA D1 playoffs. Third-ranked Princeton got to the final against top-ranked Syracuse, which was playing its fourth final in five seasons. The underdog Tigers fought hard to get the game to overtime at 9-9. No one could score in the first overtime. Princeton gained possession off the faceoff to open the second overtime period when the ball squirted away from the battling centers to attackman Andy Moe. Moe had already scored three of Princeton’s nine goals and looked dangerous as he scooped up the ball and sprinted down the right side with two defenders giving chase. They never caught him, and nine seconds into the period he fired the ball past the Syracuse keeper for his fourth goal and the win. Tierney would win a sixth championship for Princeton in 2001, and the seventh of his career with Denver University in 2015.

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