The Tigers showed signs of promise last weekend at the Princeton Invitational, exploding for 11 goals while going undefeated in three games.
However, Princeton will need its young guns to have equally impressive performances if the Tiger's roar is going to have much of bite against the Crimson.
With eight goals and eight assists, sophomore scoring sensation Andrea Kilbourne leads the Tigers with 16 points this season. Freshman phenom Nikola Holmes, however, is not far behind with five goals and four assists in nine games this year.
The Princeton's defensive core--anchored by junior defenseman Annamarie Holmes, Nikola's older sister--is an equally potent offensive threat.
With the ability to unload from the point, the older Holmes leads all defensemen in the conference with five goals and nine assists for 14 points.
Despite the prolific scoring of Kilbourne and the Holmes sisters, however, Princeton has seen very little production from the rest of the squad.
The Holmes sisters and Kilbourne have combined for 18 of the team's 26 goals this season, and outside of those three players, there isn't much depth. The Crimson should be able to capitalize on that weakness.
"The keys to win this weekend are pretty simple," Francisco said. "We need to play good team defense, not just rely on the defensemen, and we need to have the forwards put the puck in the net more than we did last weekend."