The Games
• Johns Hopkins (4-5) welcomes Michigan to Homewood Field for Homecoming. This is the first on-campus Homecoming game at JHU since 2019, when the Blue Jays topped Rutgers, 15-13.
Last Time Out
• Johns Hopkins dropped a 12-10 decision at Delaware on Sunday, March 20. That was the second of two games in three days for the Blue Jays, who fell to Navy, 11-10, at home on Friday, March 18.
• Michigan dropped its second straight after a season-opening seven-game winning streak as the Wolverines lost to Notre Dame, 12-7, last Saturday on the road.
The Facts
• This is the 135th season of Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse. JHU first fielded a team in 1883.
• Johns Hopkins enters this weekend's games with an all-time record of 1,001-360-15 (.733).
• 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 1,001-360-15 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 Michigan will be the 12th all-time for Johns Hopkins on March 26. The Blue Jays are 8-3 all-time on this date and have won their last three games played on this day.
• Among the notable wins on this date was a 9-7 win over Virginia in 2005 before a crowd of better than 8,300 at Homewood Field in a matchup of the top two ranked teams in the nation (JHU-1, VA-2).
Series History
• This week's game will be the 10th all-time meeting between Johns Hopkins and Michigan. The Blue Jays lead the series 8-1.
• The series dates to a 17-8 Blue Jay win in 2013. The first three games in the series took place at Homewood Field, while four of the last six have taken place in Michigan.
• The Blue Jays won the first four meetings at Homewood Field by an average of 8.75 goals per game and averaged 16.5 goals per game in those four outings before UM picked up its first win series history with the 13-10 at Homewood last April.
Johns Hopkins and the Big Ten
• The Blue Jays open Big Ten play with this week's game against Michigan. Johns Hopkins joined the Big Ten as a sport affiliate member in 2015, the first year the league offered men's lacrosse as a championship sport.
• Since the league was formed, the Blue Jays are tied for the league-lead in all-time appearances in the Big Ten title game (5) and rank second in Big Ten Tournament titles (2). The seven games JHU has won in the Big Ten Tournament are tied for the most in league history.
• Johns Hopkins is 137-66-1 (.681) all-time against teams currently competing in the Big Ten.
Poll Position
• Johns Hopkins is listed as receiving votes in both the USILA Coaches Poll and the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll this week.
• Like Johns Hopkins, Michigan is listed as receiving votes in both the USILA Coaches Poll and the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll this week.
Strength of Schedule
• The strength of JHU's 2022 schedule has been well documented since head coach Peter Milliman announced the schedule last fall. The strength of the schedule has played out as expected with a quick look at the opposition's record to date bearing that out.
• To-date, the nine opponents the Blue Jays have played have compiled a record of 40-20 ... that .667 opponent winning percentage ranks fourth in the nation.
• The Blue Jays' five remaining opponents currently have a combined record of 29-11 ... that .725 winning percentage of future opposition gives the Blue Jays the fourth-toughest remaining schedule in the nation.
• Overall, JHU's 14 regular season opponents are currently a combined 69-31 ... that .690 opponent winning percentage ranks as the third-highest in the nation.
Lacrosse's All-Time Winningest Program
• Johns Hopkins enters this week's games with an all-time record of 1,001-360-15 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.
• The seven schools with 700+ wins in Division I men's lacrosse history are listed below.
Balance on Offense
• A quick look at the stat sheet reveals the Blue Jays feature a balanced scoring unit through the first nine games of the season.
• Johns Hopkins has seven players with eight or more points, 10 players with at least three goals and four players with 10 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 nine games. The 16 players who have scored a goal already this season in nine games already matches how many players scored a goal for the Blue Jays in 13 games last season.
Defensive Notes of Interest
• The Blue Jay enjoyed one of their top defensive performances of the Peter Milliman era in the recent 10-7 win over Syracuse.
• Hopkins held the Orange more than nine goals below their season scoring average entering the game and the seven goals SU scored were its fewest since March 10, 2018. Ironically, JHU was also the last team to hold the Orange to seven as Hopkins scored an 18-7 win at the Carrier Dome in that game on March 10, 2018.
• Hopkins held the Orange to just one goal in the final 22 minutes of the game as SU went scoreless for more than 11 minutes at one point in the first half and more than 16 minutes at one point in the second half.
• While there are many factors that go into winning a game, scoring defense is a big key. Since Milliman took over in 2021 and appointed Jamison Koesterer as the defensive coordinator, JHU is 5-0 when holding the opposition to less than 10 goals.
Causing Trouble
• Johns Hopkins was credited with 11 caused turnovers in the 11-8 season-opening win against Jacksonville, added 10 against Navy and 11 at Delaware; in all, the Blue Jays have totaled 67 CTs through nine games.
• The 11 caused turnovers in JHU's last game at Delaware mark the 18th time in school history that JHU has had 10 or more caused turnovers in a game (CTs became an official stat in 2009).
Extra-Extra
• JHU has converted on 9-of-24 (.375) extra-man chances through nine games and currently ranks 34th in the nation in extra-man offense.
• Five different players have scored extra-man goals on the year - Garrett Degnon, Joey Epstein, Brendan Grimes, Jack Keogh, Johnathan Peshko - and four players have combined for nine assists with Keogh dishing out four of the nine.
• 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 nine 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.
Additional Information Available in PDF Version
