The Game
• Johns Hopkins welcomes Rutgers to Homewood Field for the second game of a two-game homestand for the Blue Jays. The game will air live on WatchESPN/ESPN3 with a tape-delay broadcast on ESPNU (March 21 / 8 am).
Last Time Out
• The Blue Jays evened their record at 2-2 on the year with a 13-6 win over then 12th-ranked Penn State at Homewood Field last Saturday.
• Rutgers had a season-opening three-game winning streak snapped as the Scarlet Knights fell to Maryland, 19-12, in a game much closer than the final score would indicate.
The Facts
• This is the 134th 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 995-348-15.
• JHU owns 44 national championships with nine NCAA titles, 29 USILA titles and six ILA crowns to its credit.
Poll Position
• Johns Hopkins is ranked 14th in this week's USILA Coaches Poll and 15th in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll.
• Rutgers is a consensus top10 team as the Scarlet Knights are ranked seventh in this week's USILA Coaches Poll and sixth in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll.
Series History
• This week's game will be the 41st all-time between Johns Hopkins and Rutgers.
• The Blue Jays lead the all-time series 34-6.
• The teams first met in 1920 with Johns Hopkins claiming a 13-0 victory. Prior to the start of Big Ten play in 2015, Johns Hopkins and Rutgers had not met since 1998.
• A full series history, including all-time results, can be found on page 12.
On This Date
• This week's game against Rutgers will be the eighth all-time for Johns Hopkins on March 20.
• The Blue Jays are 6-1 all-time in games played on March 20. Included is a 15-10 win over Rutgers on this date in 1993. In that game, Johns Hopkins' all-time leading scorer, Terry Riordan, had four goals and two assists to power the Blue Jays past the Scarlet Knights.
• Every year that Johns Hopkins has won a game played on March 20 (1976, 1982, 1984, 1993, 1999, 2004), the Blue Jays have advanced to at least the NCAA Semifinals.
Extra-Extra
• Johns Hopkins cashed in on all four of its extra-man chances at Michigan and is now 5-of-12 (.417) on the year.
• Through four games, Johns Hopkins ranks fourth in the Big Ten and is tied for 21st nationally in extra-man offense.
• The four extra-man goals against the Wolverines are the most for JHU since the Jays had six in the 2019 Big Ten Championship game against Penn State.
• The effort at Michigan marked the 18th time since 2003 that Johns Hopkins has scored four or more extra-man goals in a game.
Offense Developing
• Johns Hopkins enters this week's game against Rutgers averaging 11.25 goals per game on 31.2% shooting.
• Over the last three games, the Blue Jays are averaging 12.3 goals per game and are shooting 33.0% during that time.
• After scoring a total of nine goals in the first five quarters of the season, the Blue Jay offense found its groove in the second and third quarters at Michigan.
• The Blue Jays scored five goals in the second period and six in the third against the Wolverines. That marked the first time JHU had scored 5+ goals in back-to-back quarters since the 2019 Big Ten Championship game against Penn State, when they scored six in the first quarter and five in the second.
• In 16 quarters this season, the Blue Jays have scored two or more goals in 12 quarters, three or more in eight quarters and four or more in five quarters.
No Shots for You
• Johns Hopkins held Penn State shotless during the third quarter of last week's 13-6 win over the Nittany Lions.
• The shotless quarter for Penn State marked the first time since 2012 that JHU has held a team shotless for a full quarter. Prior to last week, the last time JHU turned that trick was in 2012 against Princeton, when JHU held the Tigers shotless in the second quarter.
Kind of Remarkable
• Through four games, Johns Hopkins has allowed a total of nine goals in the third quarter of its games thus far.
• Of the nine goals the Blue Jays have surrendered in the third period, eight were scored by Maryland and one has been scored by Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State combined.
Scoreless Droughts
• The Johns Hopkins defense, which has been nearly entirely remade by first-year defensive coordinator Jamison Koesterer, continues to develop as the season unfolds and has held the opposition scoreless for extended stretches in three of the first four games this season.
• Through four games, Johns Hopkins has held the opposition scoreless for a stretch of 11:30 or longer five times and 21 minutes or longer twice.
• In the win over Penn State, the Blue Jays held the Nittany Lions scoreless for 13:31 from the first to the second quarter and then blanked them for 29:02 between the second and fourth quarters.
In Case We Get The
• Johns Hopkins is 38-28 (.576) all-time in overtime. The Blue Jays topped Mount St. Mary's, 13-12, in overtime in their last game of the 2020 season.
• Johns Hopkins has won eight of its last 12 overtime games.
One-Goal Wonders
• Johns Hopkins is 132-85 (.608) all-time in one-goal games. The Blue Jays won their last one-goal game, 13-12 (OT) against Mount St. Mary's in what turned out to be the 2020 season finale.
• The Blue Jays are 7-3 in their last 10 one-goal games.
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