Pregame Coverage
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The Game
« Johns Hopkins opens the 2019 season with a short trip up Charles St. to take on local rival Towson.
« The Blue Jays posted a 12-5 record, won the Big Ten Tournament title and advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals last season.
The Facts
« This is the 132nd season of Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse. JHU first fielded a team in 1883.
« Johns Hopkins enters the 2019 season with an all-time record of 983-334-15.
« JHU owns 44 national championships with nine NCAA titles, 35 USILA titles and six ILA crowns to its credit.
For Openers
« The Blue Jays are 16-2 in season openers under head coach Dave Pietramala.
« The Blue Jays has won 11 straight season openers dating back to an 8-7 loss to Albany in 2007.
« Johns Hopkins has scored at least 10 goals in its season opener in each of the last 11 years and at least 12 goals in six of the last seven.
In February
« This week's game against Towson will be the 38th all-time for Johns Hopkins in the month of February.
« JHU is 27-10 (.730) 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 played 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 ranked seventh in the USILA Preseaon Coaches Poll and seventh in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll. These are the two official in-season polls conducted throughout the regular season.
« In addition to the number seven preseason rankings from the USILA and Inside Lacrosse, the Blue Jays were also ranked ninth in the Face-Off Yearbook Preseason Poll and seventh in the Lacrosse Magazine Preseason Poll.
Series History
« This week's game will be the 47th between Johns Hopkins and Towson. The series dates to a 15-8 Blue Jay victory in 1976.
« JHU leads the all-time series 41-5, including a 14-6 victory at Homewood Field in the 2018 season opener for both teams.
« The home team has won the last five games in the series.
Familiar Faces
« Towson is coached by Shawn Nadelen, who played at Johns Hopkins from 1998-2001 and was a co-captain on Dave Pietramala's first team at JHU. He twice helped the Blue Jays to the Final Four (1999, 2000).
« Andy Shilling, Towson's volunteer assistant coach, is the father of Johns Hopkins sophomore attackman Luke Shilling.
« Towson junior defenseman Gary Bodden is the younger brother of Maddie Bodden, who played on the women's lacrosse team at Johns Hopkins from 2014-17 and helped JHU to the NCAA Tournament three times (2014, 2015, 2016).
On This Date
« Johns Hopkins has played two previous games on February 9 with wins against Ohio State (2014) and Navy (2016) in those two outings.
« Free lacrosse has been the name of the game in Johns Hopkins' two previous games played on February 9. The win against Ohio State in 2014 (10-9) came in triple overtime, while the win at Navy in 2016 was a double-overtime affair. By time played, the game against Ohio State in 2014 is the second longest in Johns Hopkins history (68:59).
State of Affairs
« This week's game against Towson will be the 96th for Johns Hopkins against a team from the state of Maryland since head coach Dave Pietramala took over in 2001.
« Johns Hopkins is 78-17 (.821) all-time against in-state rivals under Pietramala's direction.
• JHU was 3-2 against Maryland-based teams in 2018. The Blue Jays beat Towson (14-6), fell to Loyola (12-5), topped UMBC (13-6) and split with Maryland (lost 8-7, won 13-10).
Winningest Program in College Lacrosse History
« Johns Hopkins enters the 2019 season with an all-time record of 983-334-15 to rank as the all-time winningest program in college lacrosse history.
« JHU is one of just seven schools with 700+ victories, one of just three with 800+ wins and one of two that has won 900 or more games.
Pietramala Sixth in Wins Among Active Head Coaches
« Johns Hopkins head coach Dave Pietramala enters the 2019 season ranked sixth among active Division I head coaches in career victories with 220.
« Including his time at Cornell, Pietramala sports a career record of 220-98 (.692). His mark at Johns Hopkins currently stands at 197-81 (.709)
In Case We Get There
« Johns Hopkins is 27-16 (.628) in overtime under the direction of head coach Dave Pietramala. JHU's last overtime game came in the first round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament, when the Blue Jays topped Georgetown, 10-9.
« Johns Hopkins has won seven of its last 10 overtime games.
One-Goal Wonders
« Including the 10-9 overtime win against Georgetown in the first round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament, Johns Hopkins is 55-26 (.679) in one-goal games under head coach Dave Pietramala.
« The Blue Jays were 4-1 in one-goal games in 2018.
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