The Game
« Johns Hopkins (0-2) hits the road for the second time on the year as the Blue Jays travel to North Carolina to take on the Tar Heels (3-0).
« Johns Hopkins is coming off an 18-12 loss to now top-ranked Loyola last Saturday at Homewood Field. North Carolina beat Harvard, 16-11, at home last Saturday to improve to 3-0 on the year.
The Facts
« This is the 132nd season of Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse. JHU first fielded a team in 1883.
« Johns Hopkins enters this week's game with an all-time record of 983-336-15.
« JHU owns 44 national championships with nine NCAA titles, 35 USILA titles and six ILA crowns to its credit.
In February
« This week's game at North Carolina will be the 40th all-time for Johns Hopkins in the month of February.
« JHU is 27-12 (.692) all-time in games played in the month of February.
« Johns Hopkins played its first game in the month of February in 1998, didn't play again in February until 2004 and has now played at least one game in the opening month of the season every year since 2006.
Poll Position
« Johns Hopkins is listed as receiving votes in this week's USILA Coaches Poll and in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll. These are the two official in-season polls conducted throughout the regular season.
« North Carolina is ranked 10th in the USILA Coaches Poll and 14th in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll.
Series History
« This week's game will be the 48th between Johns Hopkins and North Carolina. The series dates to a 16-9 Blue Jay victory in the 1977 NCAA Quarterfinals.
« JHU leads the all-time series 25-22 and won the last time the two teams met at UNC, 13-5, in 2017.
« The visiting team has won the last three games and four of the last five in the series.
Johns Hopkins-UNC Ties
« Johns Hopkins head coach Dave Pietramala and North Carolina head coach Joe Breschi were both members of the 1994 United States National Team that won the FIL World Championship.
« The head coach at North Carolina during the Tar Heels' 1981, 1982 and 1986 NCAA Championship seasons was Willie Scroggs, who played at Johns Hopkins from 1967-69 for legendary Blue Jay coach Bob Scott. JHU won the USILA National Championship in each of Scroggs' three varsity seasons.
On This Date
« This week's game at North Carolina will be the fifth for the Blue Jays on February 23. Johns Hopkins is 3-1 all-time in games played on this date, with wins in 2008, 2010 and 2013 and a loss last season (to North Carolina).
For What It's Worth
« This week's game against North Carolina will be JHU's third game of the season. Including the Tar Heels, Hopkins' first three opponents are a combined 7-0. On the flip side, North Carolina's first three opponents are currently a combined 1-7.
« North Carolina enters this week's game against Johns Hopkins ranked 10th in the USILA Coaches Poll. The Blue Jays have already played top-ranked Loyola and ninth-ranked Towson.
Road Warriors
« Johns Hopkins will play four of its first five games on the road in 2019. The Blue Jays opened at Towson (Feb. 9), returned home to play Loyola (Feb. 16) and then play at North Carolina (Feb. 23), at Princeton (Mar. 2) and at Syracuse (Mar. 9) in succession.
« The three-game road trip is nothing new for Johns Hopkins. The Blue Jays also had three-game road swings in 2015, 2016 & 2017.
« When JHU plays at Syracuse on March 9, the Blue Jays will be playing their fourth road game of the season. By comparison, Johns Hopkins didn't play its fourth road game last season until April 1 (@ Rutgers), while its fourth road trips in 2017 (@ Ohio State - April 9) and 2016 (@ UMBC - March 30) also came at least three weeks later than it will in 2019.
Against the ACC
« This week's game against North Carolina will be the 223rd all-time for Johns Hopkins against a team currently in the ACC.
« Johns Hopkins is 132-88-2 (.599) all-time against current ACC members.
« Johns Hopkins has played 52 all-time NCAA Tournament games against current ACC teams. The Blue Jays are 28-24 all-time in the NCAAs against the five teams currently competing in the ACC.
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