The Game
•  Johns Hopkins (3-3) welcomes Syracuse (2-3) to Homewood Field as the Blue Jays return home after playing two straight on the road.  Faceoff is set for 4 pm on Sunday, March 13. 

Last Time Out
•  Johns Hopkins dropped its second straight on the road as the Blue Jays fell at second-ranked Virginia, 19-8, last Saturday.
•  Syracuse snapped a three-game losing streak as the Orange knocked off Hobart, 18-16, in the Carrier Dome last Sunday.

The Facts
•  This is the 135th 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 1,000-358-15 (.734).
•  JHU owns 44 national championships with nine NCAA titles, 29 USILA titles and six ILA crowns to its credit.

First to 1,000
•  Johns Hopkins became the first men's lacrosse program in history to reach 1,000 all-time victories with an 11-10 win over Loyola (2-19-22).
• With the win (and subsequent results), the Blue Jays are 1,000-358-15 all-time and sit 74 wins ahead of Syracuse on the all-time victories list among Division I men's lacrosse programs.

On This Date
•  This week's game against Syracuse will be the sixth all-time for Johns Hopkins on March 13.
• The Blue Jays are 4-1 all-time on this date with a 13-6 win against UMBC in 2018 in their last game on March 13.

Series History
•  This week's game will be the 60th game in a series that dates to a 4-4 tie between the two teams in 1921.
• JHU holds a slim 30-28-1 advantage in the head-to-head matchups.
• Since 2012, the visiting team has won four of nine games played on campus (one neutral site game in that time).

Against the ACC
• This week's game against Syracuse will be the 231st all-time for Johns Hopkins against a team currently in the ACC.
• Johns Hopkins is 133-95-2 (.583) 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.

Poll Position
•  Johns Hopkins is ranked 19th in this week's USILA Coaches Poll and is receiving votes in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll.
• Syracuse is ranked 18th in the USILA Coaches Poll and 17th in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll.

Familiar Faces on Both Sides
•  While he has yet to play in a game at Johns Hopkins, senior LSM Jared Fernandez transferred to JHU after playing at Syracuse from 2018-20.
• First-year Syracuse defensive coordinator Dave Pietramala played at Johns Hopkins from 1986-89 and helped lead the Blue Jays to the 1987 NCAA Championship.  He also served as JHU's defensive coordinator from 1995-97 and as the head coach at Homewood from 2001-20.  He led JHU to the 2005 and 2007 NCAA Championships and two other appearances in the national championship game (2003, 2008).
• Syracuse midfielder John Cohen is in his first season playing for the Orange after being a member of the Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse team in 2020 and 2021.

Quite A Stretch
•  The Blue Jays are in the midst of a stretch that will see them play five games against teams ranked in the top 20 in the nation at the time of the game and four that remain in the top 20, including two against teams currently in the top five.  In succession, and using this week's USILA Poll as a reference, the five-game run includes games at Georgetown (5th), at home against Loyola (NR), back-to-back road games at North Carolina (7th) and Virginia (2nd) and this week's game against Syracuse (18th).  This doesn't include the season-opening game against Jacksonville, which is currently ranked 15th.
• Again using this week's USILA Poll as a reference, the Blue Jays will play nine teams ranked in the top 20 in the nation, including each of the top three, five of the top seven and eight of the top 15, during the 2022 season.

Lacrosse's All-Time Winningest Program
•  Johns Hopkins enters this week's games with an all-time record of 1,000-358-15 to rank as the all-time winningest program in college lacrosse history.
• With the win against Loyola on February 19, Johns Hopkins became the first men's college lacrosse program to reach 1,000 all-time wins.
•  JHU is one of just seven schools with 700+ victories, one of just five with 800+ wins and one of two that has won 900 or more games.

Balance on Offense
• While it's still early, the Blue Jays feature a balanced scoring unit through the first six games of the season.
• Johns Hopkins has six players with eight or more points, 11 players with at least two goals and six players with two or more assists.
• In all, 16 different players have already scored at least one goal and 19 players have at least one point to their credit through six games.  The 16 players who have scored a goal already this season in six games already matches how many players scored a goal for the Blue Jays in 13 games last season.

Extra-Extra
• JHU has converted on 6-of-15 (.400) extra-man chances through six games with two EMO goals in each of their three wins (Jacksonville, Towson, Loyola).
• Five different players have scored extra-man goals on the year - Garrett Degnon, Joey Epstein, Brendan Grimes, Jack Keogh, Johnathan Peshko - and two players, Connor DeSimone and Keogh, have combined for six EMO assists.
• Johns Hopkins converted on 15-of-35 (.429) extra-man chances in 2021 to finish tied for 12th nationally in extra-man offense.
• Epstein is JHU's career active leader in EMO goals with 13, while Degnon has eight to his credit.
•  The Blue Jays' 42.9% conversion percentage last season marked the eighth time since 2012 that Hopkins has finished the season at better than 40% on extra-man.

Roster Breakdown
•  The Blue Jays' 51-man roster includes nine graduate students, nine seniors, nine juniors, 13 sophomores and 11 freshmen.
• Johns Hopkins' 2022 roster includes players from 13 different states and five players from Canada.
• By state, the Blue Jays hail from New York (12), Maryland (11), Pennsylvania (4), Massachusetts (4), New Jersey (3), Virginia (3), Florida (2), Connecticut (2), Ohio (1), Georgia (1), Delaware (1), Utah (1), Texas (1).

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