The Game
• Johns Hopkins (6-7, 2-2 B1G) welcomes Maryland (11-0, 2-2 B1G) to Homewood Field for the 2022 regular season finale. Faceoff is set for 6 pm (ESPNU) on Saturday, April 23.
Last Time Out
• Johns Hopkins locked up a home game in the Big Ten Quarterfinals with a 13-10 win over Penn State last Saturday night at Homewood Field.
• Maryland ran its season-opening winning streak to 11 games as the Terps erased an early 7-3 deficit and cruised to a 19-12 win over Ohio State.
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 1,003-362-15 (.732).
• 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 1,003-362-15 all-time and sit 74 wins ahead of Syracuse on the all-time victories list among Division I men's lacrosse programs.
B1G Tourney Talk
• All six Big Ten teams will compete in the league tournament starting with the quarterfinals on Saturday, April 30.
• Johns Hopkins and Ohio State are assured of home games in the quarterfinals, while Maryland (#1 seed) and Rutgers (#2 seed) have earned byes into the semifinals.
• Below are the scenarios that can play out heading into the final weekend of regular season play:
• Johns Hopkins earns the #4 seed with a win over Maryland coupled with an Ohio State win over Michigan this weekend. In this scenario, the Blue Jays would host Penn State in the quarterfinals.
• Johns Hopkins earns the #4 seed with a loss to Maryland coupled with an Ohio State win over Michigan this weekend. In this scenario, the Blue Jays would host Penn State in the quarterfinals.
• Johns Hopkins earns the #3 seed with a win over Maryland coupled with an Ohio State loss to Michigan this weekend. In this scenario, the Blue Jays would host Michigan in the quarterfinals.
• Penn State is locked into the #5 seed and will play at the #4 seed in the Big Ten quarterfinals regardless of the result of this week's Penn State-Rutgers game.
• Michigan is locked into the #6 seed and will play at the #3 seed in the Big Ten quarterfinals regardless of the result of any of the three league games this weekend.
• The time of the Big Ten quarterfinal game at Homewood Field on April 30 will be announced no later than Sunday, April 25. The game will start no later than 2 pm with a live stream available on HopkinsSports.com.
On This Date
• Dating back to 1955, this week's game against Maryland will be the 13th for Johns Hopkins on April 23. The Blue Jays are 10-2 on this date in that time and have currently won five straight on April 23.
• While he didn't officially win the Tewaaraton Trophy on this date, Kyle Harrison '05 all but locked up the award with a five-goal masterpiece in a thrilling 9-8 win over fifth-ranked Navy at Homewood Field on April 23, 2005. After Navy took an 8-7 lead with less than a minute to play, Harrison forced overtime with an unassisted goal with 23 seconds remaining in regulation and then won it with his fifth of the game just 1:47 into OT.
Series History
• This week's game will be the 123rd all-time meeting between Johns Hopkins and Maryland. The Blue Jays lead the all-time series 74-47-1.
• Maryland won all three meetings in 2021 as the Big Ten played a league-only schedule. Included were a 14-13 win at Homewood Field in the regular-season finale and a 12-10 win in the Big Ten Championship game.
Johns Hopkins and the Big Ten
• 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.
• Including games played before the Big Ten was formed in 2015, Johns Hopkins is 139-68-1 (.671) all-time against teams currently competing in the Big Ten.
Poll Position
• Johns Hopkins is receiving votes this week in both the USILA Coaches Poll and the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll this week.
• Maryland is ranked number one unanimously 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 13 opponents the Blue Jays have played have compiled a record of 89-56 ... that .614 opponent winning percentage ranks seventh in the nation.
• Overall, JHU's 14 regular season opponents are currently a combined 100-56 ... that .641 opponent winning percentage ranks as the fourth-highest in the nation.
Lending a Hand
• Through 13 games, Johns Hopkins has collected an assist on 90-of-141 (.638) goals this season. The Blue Jays are one of just 24 teams in the nation assisting on 60% or more of their goals and rank ninth with an assist on 63.8% of their goals on the year.
More Lending
• The first 11 goals Johns Hopkins scored in its win over Penn State and 12 of its 13 on the night were assisted (.923). Taking it back to the game against Ohio State on April 9, 20 of the last 23 goals JHU has scored have been assisted (.870).
Balance on Offense
• A quick look at the stat sheet reveals the Blue Jays feature a balanced scoring unit through the first 13 games of the season.
• Johns Hopkins has eight players with nine or more points, eight players with at least six goals and four players with 13 or more assists.
• In all, 18 different players have already scored at least one goal and 22 players have at least one point to their credit through 13 games.
Defensive Notes of Interest
• While there are many factors that go into winning a game, scoring defense is a big key. Since Peter 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.
• Through 13 games, the Blue Jay defense has held the opposition scoreless for a stretch of 10 minutes or longer 12 times with eight of those stretches coming in the last seven games.
Causing Trouble-Part I
• JHU was credited with a season-high 12 caused turnovers in last week's 13-10 win over Penn State. Johns Hopkins was also credited with 11 caused turnovers in the 11-8 season-opening win against Jacksonville, added 10 against Navy, 11 at Delaware, nine against Michigan and eight at Rutgers; in all, the Blue Jays have totaled 100 CTs through 13 games.
• The 7.69 caused turnovers per game this season is on pace to break the previous single-season record of 6.92 caused turnovers per game (2021). Prior to 2021, JHU had average more than 6.5 caused turnovers per game just once (6.73 / 2013) since CTs became an official stat in 2009.
• Johns Hopkins' 100 caused turnovers this season mark the fourth time JHU has topped 100 CTs in a season and leave the '22 Jays just four shy of the single-season record of 104 (2015 - 18 games).
Causing Trouble-Part II
• In a recent four-game stretch, Johns Hopkins was credited with 10 (Navy), 11 (Delaware), nine (Michigan) and eight (Rutgers) caused turnovers. This marked the first time since caused turnovers became an official statistic in 2009 that JHU has caused 8+ turnovers in four consecutive games.
Extra-Extra
• JHU has converted on 13-of-35 (.371) extra-man chances through 13 games and ranks 35th in the nation in extra-man offense.
• Seven different players have an scored extra-man goal on the year - Garrett Degnon, Connor DeSimone, Joey Epstein, Brendan Grimes, Jack Keogh, Johnathan Peshko, Scott Smith - and 12 of the 13 have been assisted.
• 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.
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