Potter Cup brackets
Potter Cup lineups

PRINCETON, N.J. – The culmination of the men's squash team's season comes this weekend, when it looks to improve its national standing at the College Squash Association's National Team Championships, staged at Princeton's Jadwin Squash Courts.
 
Cornell (12-5, 4-3 Ivy League) will be competing in the Potter Cup, which serves as the A Division of the CSA's national tournament and crowns the national champion. The Big Red is seeded sixth, which is where it has been ranked by the CSA this season from start to finish.
 
First up for Cornell will be a clash against third-ranked Yale at noon Friday. The teams have met once before this season, with the Big Red falling short of a tight 5-4 affair on Jan. 14 in New Haven, Conn. The Big Red had particular success at the top of the lineup with Nick Sachvie (No. 1), Alex Domenick (No. 2), Thomas Spettigue (No. 4) and Owen Butler (No. 8) providing victories. Cornell had both a four- and five-game loss in the match.
 
The winner of Friday's rematch between the Big Red and Bulldogs will advance to a semifinal at 11:30 a.m. Saturday against the winner of a Friday first-round match between second-seeded Princeton and seventh-seeded Dartmouth. Cornell fell to the Ivy League champion Tigers, 6-3, on Feb. 10 shortly after a 8-1 victory against visiting Dartmouth on Feb. 4.
 
The other side of the Potter Cup bracket features top-seeded and 13-time defending champion Trinity, fourth-seeded Harvard, fifth-seeded Rochester and eighth-seeded Franklin & Marshall. The championship match is at 12:30 p.m. Sunday.
 
If Cornell loses Friday, its only chance to improve its national standing is by winning its two consolation matches. The first would be the loser of the Princeton/Dartmouth match in a consolation final at 3 p.m. Saturday, then Trinity, Harvard, Rochester or F&M in the fifth-place match at 3 p.m. Sunday.