The Games
• The eighth-ranked Johns Hopkins (7-3) men's lacrosse team heads to Ann Arbor, Michigan to open Big Ten play against the Wolverines (4-3). Faceoff is set for 7 pm on Saturday, March 25 with a live national television audience on BTN.
When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins picked up a 12-10 come-from-behind win against Delaware on Sunday night (March 19) at Homewood Field. The win was the second in three days for the Blue Jays, who topped Navy, 12-9, on Friday, March 17.
• Michigan had a two-game winning streak snapped as the Wolverines dropped an 18-8 decision against now top-ranked Notre Dame last Saturday (March 18) at home.
The Facts
• This is the 136th 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 1,011-367-15 (.731).
• Johns Hopkins is the only men's lacrosse program in the nation with 1,000 or more all-time victories. The Blue Jays picked up the program's 1,000th victory with an 11-10 win over Loyola on February 19, 2022.
• 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 eighth in this week's USILA Coaches Poll and eighth in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll.
• Michigan is listed as receiving votes in this week's USILA Coaches Poll and Inside Lacrosse Media Poll.
• The Johns Hopkins Athletic Communications Office uses the USILA Poll when referencing JHU's official ranking at the time of a 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 ranks second in all-time appearances in the Big Ten title game (4) and second in Big Ten Tournament titles (2).
• The eight games JHU has won in the Big Ten Tournament are the second most in league history.
• Including games played before the Big Ten was formed in 2015, Johns Hopkins is 140-70-1 (.666) all-time against teams currently competing in the Big Ten.
Balanced Scoring
• Johns Hopkins features one of the most balanced scoring sheets in the nation this season.
. The Blue Jays count 18 different players with at least one goal, 18 players with at least one assist and 22 players with at least one point.
• Taking the production up a notch, 10 players currently have at least six goals and 10 have at least seven points.
• Leading the way for the Jays thus far are Jacob Angelus (8g, 27a), Garrett Degnon (20g, 2a), Matt Collison (17g, 4a), Brendan Grimes (10g, 9a), Russell Melendez (12g, 6a), Dylan Bauer (8g, 4a), Johnathan Peshko (10g, 2a), Ryan Evans (6g 3a) and Ian Krampf (6g, 2a), who all have at least eight points thus far.
It's (Almost) All Coming Back
• Johns Hopkins has scored 115 goals and collected 69 assists for 184 points through 10 games. Of those totals, 94 (81.7%) of the goals, 64 (92.8%) of the assists and 158 (85.9%) of the points have been accumulated by players with at least one year of eligibility remaining.
22 Straight For Degnon
• Graduate student attackman Garrett Degnon continues to lead the team in goals (20) as the Blue Jays get set to open Big Ten play this week at Michigan. Since missing the game against Utah on February 25, he has scored 13 goals in five games with at least two goals in each of those five outings.
• The two-goal effort in the 12-10 win over Delaware pushed his goal-scoring streak to 22 games dating back to February 19, 2022, when he scored once in an 11-10 win over Loyola. The streak is currently the fifth longest active streak in the nation.
• During his 22-game goal-scoring run, Degnon has scored 55 goals and has 17 multi-goal games and nine games with 3+ goals to his credit.
• Degnon's 22-game run is also the longest by a Johns Hopkins player since a school-record-tying 37-game run by Ryan Brown that ran from 2013-16.
Collison Rolling
• Freshman Matt Collison continued his hot streak in last weekend's sweep of Navy and Delaware as he rang up one goal and two assists in the win over the Midshipmen and came back with two goals in the win over the Blue Hens.
• Through 10 games, Collison ranks second on the team in goals (17) and third in points (21) and has registered at least two points in each of the last eight games.
• Collison has earned Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors three times this season. Among Johns Hopkins players, only Joey Epstein (5 selections in 2019) and Shack Stanwick (4 in 2015) have earned the honor more times than Collison's three.
• Collison recently had a five-game run of multi-goal games to his credit - he is the first Blue Jay freshman middie to score two or more goals in five straight games in at least 20 years. Prior to Collison's run of five straight games with 2+ goals, Paul Rabil was the last JHU freshman middie to even have a four-game run of two or more goals (2005).
Offensive Notes of Interest
• Since the start of the 2022 season, the Blue Jays are 13-2 when they score 11 or more goals.
• In 40 quarters this season, the Blue Jays have scored two or more goals in 30 quarters and four or more in 17 quarters.
Extra-Extra
• The Johns Hopkins extra-man unit has converted on 11-of-29 (.379) attempts this season, but that hardly tells the story.
• After going 0-for-7 in the first four games of the season, the Blue Jays have converted on 11-of-22 (.500) chances in the last six games.
• Entering this week's games, the Blue Jays rank 40th in the nation in extra-man offense.
Non-Offensive Scoring
• Through 10 games, Johns Hopkins has gotten 15 points (8g, 7a) from non-offensive players, an average of 1.5 points per game.
• The Blue Jays got five points (2g, 3a) from non-offensive players against top-ranked Virginia as SSDMs Hunter Jaronski and Jakson Raposo both scored goals with faceoff specialists Matt Narewski and Logan Callahan and goalie Tim Marcille grabbing assists.
• Last season, the Blue Jays got 14 goals and eight assists for 22 points from non-offensive players in 16 games (just under 1.4 points/game).
Defensive Notes of Interest
• The Johns Hopkins defense has held nine of 10 opponents under its season scoring average. The Blue Jays have held five teams at least three goals under current scoring average.
• The Blue Jays have held their 10 opponents scoreless for a period of at least 10 minutes 15 different times thus far this season - six of those have come in the last three games.
• Through 10 games this season, the opposition has cashed in on 11-of-29 (.379) EMO chances; Johns Hopkins ranks 40th in the nation in man-down defense with a 62.1% kill rate.
• JHU allowed just 12 extra-man goals (on 35 chances) in 2022. The 12 EMO goals allowed are the fewest by a Blue Jay team since 2016, when Hopkins allowed just 11 (of 33 chances).
• Johns Hopkins was 4-0 in 2021, 5-0 in 2022 and, with the recent wins over Syracuse (11-9), Navy (12-9) and Delaware (12-10), is now 14-0 under head coach Peter Milliman and defensive coordinator Jamison Koesterer when holding the opposition to 10 goals or less.
Closing Strong
• The Blue Jays' current three-game winning streak has come on the strength of some strong play down the stretch in each game.
• During JHU's current three-game winning streak, the Blue Jays have outscored their three opponents by a combined score of 11-2 in the final 10 minutes of the fourth quarter.
• In the 11-9 win at Syracuse, the Blue Jays scored the final three goals of the game and held the Orange scoreless for the final 11:19.
• At Navy, Hopkins trailed 9-8 with just over eight minutes remaining before outscoring the Midshipmen 4-1 in the final 8:16.
• Down 9-5 midway through the third quarter, the Blue Jays scored seven straight goals and outscored Delaware 7-1 in the final 23:03 to fuel a 12-10 victory.
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