The Game
• The sixth-ranked Johns Hopkins (9-3, 2-0 B1G) men's lacrosse team heads north to Pennsylvania as the Blue Jays travel to Penn State (6-3, 1-1 B1G). Faceoff is set for 7 pm on Saturday, April 8 with a live national television audience on BTN. The Johns Hopkins-Penn State game is one of two games on April 8 featuring two top 10 teams - the other features #1 Duke at #2 Notre Dame.
When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins ran its winning streak to five games as the Blue Jays topped Rutgers, 16-12, at Homewood Field last Saturday.
• Penn State snapped a two-game losing streak on Sunday (April 2) as the Nittany Lions ran past Ohio State, 17-9, 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 1,013-367-15 (.732).
• 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 sixth in this week's USILA Coaches Poll and sixth in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll.
• Penn State is ranked eighth in this week's USILA Coaches Poll and eighth in the 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.
500th Top 20 Ranking
• After being listed as receiving votes in the USILA Preseason Poll, the Blue Jays made the jump to ninth after starting the season at 2-0.
• The number nine ranking marked the 500th time in school history that JHU has appeared in the top 20 of the USILA Poll.
• The USILA Poll debuted in 1973 and this week's poll is the 526th issued; JHU's number six ranking this week means the Blue Jays have appeared in 507 of the 526 polls. In addition, this week's number six ranking marks the 430th time that Johns Hopkins has been ranked in the top 10 in the nation.
Series History
• This week's game will be the 18th all-time meeting between Johns Hopkins and Penn State. The Blue Jays lead the series 13-4.
• A complete look at the series history between Johns Hopkins and Penn State can be found on page 19.
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 142-70-1 (.669) 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 21 different players with at least one goal, 20 players with at least one assist and 24 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 (11g, 31a), Garrett Degnon (26g, 2a), Russell Melendez (17g, 9a), Brendan Grimes (15g, 10a), Matt Collison (17g, 5a), Johnathan Peshko (11g, 4a), Dylan Bauer (8g, 4a), Ryan Evans (8g 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 146 goals and collected 84 assists for 230 points through 12 games. Of those totals, 119 (81.5%) of the goals, 80 (95.2%) of the assists and 199 (86.5%) of the points have been accumulated by players with at least one year of eligibility remaining.
24 Straight For Degnon
• Graduate student attackman Garrett Degnon continues to lead the team in goals (26) as the Blue Jays get set to travel to Penn State. Since missing the game against Utah on February 25, he has scored 19 goals in seven games with at least two goals in six of those outings.
• His goal against Rutgers pushed his goal-scoring streak to 24 games dating back to February 19, 2022, when he scored once in an 11-10 win over Loyola. The streak is currently tied for the third longest active streak in the nation.
• During his 24-game goal-scoring run, Degnon has scored 61 goals and has 18 multi-goal games and 10 games with 3+ goals to his credit.
• Degnon's 24-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.
Marcille With Career-High 21 Saves at Syracuse
• Senior goalie Tim Marcille posted a career-best 21 saves in the 11-9 win at Syracuse on March 11. Coupled with an 11-save effort earlier in the week against top-ranked Virginia, he earned Big Ten Specialist of the Week honors for the second time this season.
• Marcille's 21 saves against the Orange are the most by a Blue Jay goalie since Brian Carcaterra had 23 in a 16-12 win at Loyola on May 6, 2000.
• Earlier this season, Marcille, recorded his third consecutive game with 15+ saves in the 11-7 loss to 19th-ranked North Carolina as he posted 15 stops against the Tar Heels.
• The 15-save effort followed a 15-save performance in the season-opener against Jacksonville and a 16-save effort against third-ranked Georgetown.
• With the showings against Jacksonville, Georgetown and UNC, Marcille became the first Johns Hopkins goalie with three straight games of 15+ saves since Brian Carcaterra had 18 (Towson), 17 (Loyola) and 16 (Duke) in the final three games of the 1997 season.
• Through games of April 5, Marcille sports a .531 save percentage and an 11.62 goals against average. He ranks 20th in the nation in save percentage.
• Marcille was also recently added to the Tewaaraton Watch List.
Offensive Notes of Interest
• Since the start of the 2022 season, the Blue Jays are 15-2 when they score 11 or more goals.
• In 48 quarters this season, the Blue Jays have scored two or more goals in 37 quarters and four or more in 22 quarters.
Non-Offensive Scoring
• Through 12 games, Johns Hopkins has gotten 23 points (13g, 10a) from non-offensive players, an average of 1.92 points per game.
• In the win against Rutgers, the Blue Jays got six points from non-offensive personnel (4g, 2a), including two goals from SSDM Brett Martin.
• 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 11 of 12 opponents under its season scoring average this season. The Blue Jays have held five teams at least three goals under current scoring average.\
• In addition, the Blue Jays have held their 12 opponents scoreless for a period of at least 10 minutes 17 different times thus far this season - eight of those have come in the last five games.
• Through 12 games this season, the opposition has cashed in on 12-of-33 (.364) EMO chances; Johns Hopkins ranks 36th in the nation in man-down defense with a 63.6% 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' five-game winning streak has come on the strength of some strong play down the stretch in each game.
• During JHU's current five-game winning streak, the Blue Jays have outscored their three opponents by a combined score of 17-4 in the final 10 minutes of the fourth quarter.
• Overall during the five-game streak, the Blue Jays hold a 21-7 scoring advantage in the fourth period.
• 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.
• Down 9-8 with less than five minutes remaining in the third quarter, the Blue Jays outscored Michigan 7-1 in a 15-minute span to grab a 15-10 lead.
• In the 16-12 win against Rutgers, the Blue Jays trailed 10-8 with nine minutes remaining in the third quarter before closing with an 8-2 run.
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