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PRINCETON, N.J.- Head coach Scott Bradley and the Princeton University baseball team released its 2025 schedule on Wednesday with sights set on returning to the Ivy League tournament for the third straight season.

The Tigers finished with an 18-26 record in 2024 and went 12-9 in conference play and will look to earn double-digit conference wins for the third year in a row. Princeton returns two of its top players from 2024 in Jacob Faulkner and Jake Koonin with opening day on Feb. 21 in sight. 

Things To Note

• This will be the fifth straight season Princeton will open the season with a power conference series.

• Princeton’s opponents combined to go 415-402 in 2024 with two competing in the NCAA tournament (Penn and Wake Forest) 

• The Tigers kick off the season (Feb. 21-23) in Coral Gables, Fla. with a four game series against the University of Miami Hurricanes.

  
  
  

• Princeton is set to face two of the three ACC teams to have won a national championship (Miami and Wake Forest)

• The team will face Wake Forest and Maryland at David F. Couch Ballpark (Feb 28- Mar. 2)

• The Tigers will spend spring break in Virginia, taking on VCU (Mar. 7-9), William & Mary (Mar. 11-12) and Liberty (Mar. 14-16). 

• The first home contest and Ivy League opener will come on Mar. 22 when Princeton takes on Dartmouth in a doubleheader with a single game to close out the series on Mar. 23.

• The following week has the Tigers traveling to Rutgers for a midweek contest on Mar. 26 before heading back to Clarke Field to take on Columbia (Mar. 29-30).

• Princeton heads to Seton Hall (Apr. 2) before taking on the 2024 Ivy League Champions in Penn (Apr. 5-6).

• A trip to Monmouth on April 9 is next up on the schedule followed by a weekend matchup against the Harvard Crimson (Apr. 12-13).

• The final midweek contest will take place on April 16 against Rider before the final home series of the season against the Brown Bears (Apr. 19-20).

• The Tigers will close out the regular season against Cornell (Apr. 26-27) and Yale (May 3-4) with the Ivy League Tournament scheduled for May 16-19

The Tigers return All-Region pitcher Jacob Faulkner to the roster. The senior also collected unanimous First-Team All-Ivy honors in 2024 thanks to eight victories, four saves and a 3.14 ERA in 20 appearances with 52 punchouts in 66 innings pitched. Faulkner heads into the 2025 season with eight straight wins, good for third all-time, and is just six saves shy of the program record.

Jake Koonin will be back on the field for Princeton after being named to the All-Ivy second team just a season ago. The junior owned the highest batting average on the team at .319 and started in all 44 games for Princeton. Koonin racked up 22 doubles and four home runs and is currently tied  for the program record for longest hitting streak at 20 games.

Bradley will be back at the helm for his 27th season with the Tigers. He owns a 462-610-2 record and has led the Tigers to seven Ivy League titles, seven NCAA tournament appearances and 12 20-win seasons.

Princeton welcomed in seven new players as the class of 2028: James Beasley, Liam Kinneen, Isaac Lamson, Will Robbins, Nick Shenefelt, Grant Werdesheim and Joseph Zorc.