After making national headlines by defeating Trinity earlier in the season, Yale is seeded third in the upcoming national championship. Yale lost to Princeton earlier in the month to drop in the rankings.
Here is a preview of the upcoming championships from the Yale site:

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The No. 3 Yale men's squash team became the nation's first new No. 1 in the Dunlop Men's College Squash Rankings in 13 years in the week following their Jan. 18 upset of Trinity. Now, after a spectacular 14-1 regular season that included wins over seven team in the current top ten, the Bulldogs hope to become the first team in 13 years to assume that spot at season's end, a feat they can accomplish with a win at the CSA Team Championships this weekend at Princeton.

Their road is not an easy one: since the Elis dropped a match to the No. 2 Tigers on Feb. 4, they currently hold the No. 3 national ranking, which translates to a No. 3 seed in the eight-team "Potter Cup" (A Division) bracket. The quarterfinal matches begin Friday, and Yale will take on No. 6 Cornell in a noon start.

The Bulldogs are undoubtedly in the tougher half of the draw: with a quarterfinal victory they collide with the winner of No. 7 Dartmouth and host No. 2 Princeton, the lone blemish on the Eli schedule. If Yale wins that match, a Sunday final (perhaps a rematch against No. 1 Trinity) would follow.

Despite the tough draw, the Bulldogs will undoubtedly be helped by the return of junior All-American Hywel Robinson to the lineup. Robinson has been out of action for the last few matches with an injury.

Robinson will play at the No. 2 position, sandwiched by classmates Kenneth Chan at No. 1 and Ricky Dodd at No. 3.

Playing the four will be senior John Roberts, the match-clinching hero in the Bulldogs' upset of Trinity. He is one of six finalists for the CSA's Skillman Award, "given annually to a senior men's squash player who has demonstrated outstanding sportsmanship during his entire college career" and "considered the Heisman Trophy" of men's college squash, according to the CSA.

Captain Ryan Down will play at No. 5, and sophomore Neil Martin will be at the No. 6 spot. Senior Robert Berner will play No. 7, just ahead of classmate Samuel Clayman, who had a clutch victory to help Yale past No. 4 Harvard last weekend.

Rounding out the Bulldog lineup will be freshman Joey Roberts at No. 9, along with sophomore Eric Caine (No. 10), and freshman Sam Schlifer (No. 11).

Last season, Yale fell to Trinity 5-4 in the Potter Cup finals, a loss they hope to avenge...again...with what would be a finals rematch if the Bulldogs can get there. But with Cornell and Princeton looming, getting there is no sure thing. Still, the Elis have made history once this season and would love to end their season the only way fitting for what has been a magical regular season: with a win.

The Bulldogs' quarterfinal action against the Big Red gets underway Friday at 12:30 pm.

When I talked to Yale men's squash team captain Ryan Dowd on Friday, he told me the Bulldogs were in for a dogfight with Rochester on Saturday.
The Bulldogs were indeed but pulled out a 5-4 win to knock off the No. 4 team on its homecourt.

Yale should take over the No. 1 spot in the nation when the new poll is released on Monday.

Rochester's Andres Duany defeated junior Kenneth Chan 3-0 at the No. 1 spot, but junior Hywel Robinson (3-2) and junior Richard Dodd (also 3-2) earned tough wins at the No. 2 and No. 3 spots, respectively, to spark the Elis.

Three of the big winners from Yale's streak-busting win over No. 1 Trinity also grabbed victories, as captain Ryan Dowd (3-0), sophomore Neil Martin (3-2) and senior Robby Berner (3-0) won at 5, 6 and 7.

The loss was only the second of Rochester's season (the other came at the hands of Ancient Eight rival Princeton). With the win, Yale moves its record to 9-0.

Yale men’s squash coach Dave Talbott said his team’s monumental win over Trinity on Wednesday was just as big for the sport as it was for his team.
The Bulldogs beat the nation’s top-ranked Bantams 5-4, ending the longest active win streak in intercollegiate varsity sports. Trinity, the 13-time defending national champion, had won 252 straight matches before falling at Brady Squash Center.

“It’s been really cool for the kids, but it’s great for the sport,” Talbott said. “All the coverage has been really exciting for the kids, but what it does for the sport is even more important.
“It brings attention to a sport that’s never been seen before. Our win has been on CNN and ESPN and in publications like the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the New Haven Register. It’s been off the charts.”
Yale captain Ryan Dowd, a senior from Boston who won his match in the contest, has quickly tried to refocus his team for the rest of the season.
Dowd beat Trinity’s Reinhold Hergeth and Yale also got victories from Robert Berner, Hywel Robinson and sophomore Neil Martin. Senior John Roberts closed it out with a dramatic five-set win over Johan Detter.
But now it’s back to reality for the second-ranked Bulldogs, who are 7-0 and don’t play another match at home until Feb. 12 against Harvard. Yale played No. 10 Western Ontario on Friday and will battle powerhouse Rochester, ranked fourth in the country, today in what is expected to be another intense match.
“It’s still crazy,” Dowd said on Friday. “We’re all still getting calls and texts and we know we have a big match (today). We have a big target on our backs for the rest of the season. To beat (Rochester) and then get the No. 1 ranking when they come out on Monday will validate the win.
“We’d been close against Trinity recently and they lost some players, but so did we. We felt that we could compete against them in every individual spot.”
Talbott, who’s been coaching at Yale since 1983 and led the men’s team to national titles and the women’s team to the 2011 crown, said the sport itself is dominated internationally. Continued...
“In the past 10 years I think Trinity has only had one American player,” he said. “Squash is big in Egypt and Pakistan and, of course, there’s great players in England. In America it’s basically a prep school sport for the entitled. Overseas it’s a professional sport.
“The players don’t make as much money as they do in tennis, but they make a good living at it.”
The Bulldogs have a 14-player roster consisting of two state players and eight international students.
“We lost some depth from last year’s team and Trinity had also lost some top players,” Talbott said. “But Trinity also brought in three new players in January, so there was some unknown aspects about their team.”
The players themselves are squash junkies and, after this weekend’s matches, they plan on heading to New York’s Grand Central Station to watch the Tournament of Champions — a world-class event which will be played on portable four-glass wall courts set up right in the station’s depot.
While much of the sport is unique, the intensity is sometimes ferocious. After Trinity beat Yale 5-4 last season in the CSA Team National Championships, a Bantam player screamed right in the face of Yale player following the match’s final point. Dowd said that was tough to swallow.
The Bulldogs got the last word on Wednesday.