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Finishing as Princeton’s all-time leading scorer, Michael Sowers has been making calls in the last 48 hours to inform his finalists of his destination for the 2021 college lacrosse season.

Sowers is bound for Duke pending admission, multiple sources confirmed with Inside Lacrosse this weekend.

The four-time All-American is expected to enroll in a one-year business program in Duke's graduate school.

Sowers entered the NCAA’s Transfer Portal on April 9, shortly after receiving the news that Princeton student-athletes would be unable to withdraw and re-enroll in order to play in 2021. Yale and Harvard also chose not to allow players to pursue that option, one that had been exercised by Cornell's Rob Pannell in 2012.

Upon entering the portal, Sowers received contact from over two dozen Division I programs, researching them online and building relationships with coaches over the phone and via Zoom, all while finishing up his 100-page thesis paper at Princeton.

The Upper Dublin (Pa.) grad averaged a whopping 9.4 points per game in 2020, tallying 16 goals and 31 assists for the 5-0 Tigers, who were ranked No. 3 in Inside Lacrosse’s final Maverik Media Poll before the cancellation of the season. He was also named as IL's Player of the Year in 2020 and was the subject of Matt Kinnear's feature in mid-March.

At Duke, he’ll be expected to quarterback an offense that will have an embarrassment of riches returning on the attack, though it remains to be seen exactly which fifth-year seniors will be returning to Durham. Freshman Dyson Williams led the Blue Devils with 25 goals and five assists in 2020, while junior J.P. Basile broke through for 19 points, playing in six of their eight games. Joe Robertson will also return from a season-ending ACL injury after recording 42 goals and 17 assists for Duke in 2019.

A long-awaited arrival, the Blue Devils will also welcome No. 1 senior recruit Brennan O’Neill, who has been touted by many as a “generational talent” out of St. Anthony’s HS on Long Island. He picked Duke in October 2018 after flipping from Penn State, serving as the cornerstone of an incoming class that will feature five other Top 50 seniors.

Check back to InsideLacrosse.com for more on this developing story.