The Game
• Johns Hopkins (1-1) hits the road for the first time in 2024 and plays its third game in eight days as the Blue Jays make the short trip to Georgetown (0-1). Faceoff is set for 12 pm on Saturday, February 10. The game will air live online on Flolive.tv (there will be a fee to watch the broadcast).
When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins bounced back from a 13-12 overtime loss to Denver in its season opener with a 13-5 victory over Towson on Tuesday, February 6 at Homewood Field.
• The Hoyas dropped their season opener at Loyola, 18-10, last Saturday.
The Facts
• This is the 137th 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 1,017-371-15 (.730).
• 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.
Game #150 for Milliman
• Last week's game against Towson was the 150th as a college head coach for Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse coach Peter Milliman. With the win over the Tigers, he is now 89-61 (.593) in his collegiate coaching career.
Game #50 at Hopkins for Milliman
• This week's game at Georgetown will be the 50th for Peter Milliman as the head coach at Johns Hopkins.
Poll Position
• Johns Hopkins is ranked 13th in this week's USILA Poll, while Georgetown is listed as receiving votes.
• Inside Lacrosse did not release an updated poll this week after initially posting a preseason poll.
Series History
• Johns Hopkins and Georgetown will be meeting for the sixth time in a series that dates to a 15-10 Blue Jay victory in 1993 and includes a 13-12 Johns Hopkins victory last season.
• JHU won the first three meetings, including a 14-6 win in the 2007 NCAA Quarterfinals and a 10-9 OT win in the first round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament.
• In the 2018 game, Georgetown led 8-3 late in the third quarter before Johns Hopkins used a 6-1 run to force overtime and then won it on a Shack Stanwick goal with 29 seconds remaining in the first OT.
• Georgetown picked up its first win against Johns Hopkins early in the 2022 season as the Hoyas turned an early 5-3 deficit into a 16-8 victory. That was the first time the teams met at GU.
Against the BIG EAST
• Johns Hopkins has played 17 all-time games against teams currently competing in the BIG EAST.
• The Blue Jays are 14-3 all-time against BIG EAST teams with nearly half of those (8) coming against Villanova.
• Georgetown is the second of two BIG EAST team the Blue Jays will play this season as they dropped a 13-12 decision in overtime against Denver in the season opener.
Road Openers
• This week's game against Georgetown will be the first road game of the 2024 season for the Blue Jays.
• Johns Hopkins is 3-0 in its road opener under head coach Peter Milliman. The Blue Jays topped Michigan in 2021 (14-7), Towson in 2022 (18-12) and Jacksonville (12-7) in its road openers in Milliman's first three seasons.
In February
• This week's game against Georgetown will be the 59th all-time for Johns Hopkins in the month of February.
• JHU is 37-21 (.638) all-time in games played in the month of February.
• Johns Hopkins played its first game in the month of February in 1998, didn't play again in February until 2004 and has now played at least one game in the opening month of the season every year since 2006.
On This Date
• This week's game will be the third all-time for Johns Hopkins on February 10. The Blue Jays fell to Towson (7-5) in their first-ever game played on February 10 and then topped the Tigers (14-6) in 2018 on this date.
32 Straight For Degnon
• Graduate student attackman Garrett Degnon will carry a 32-game goal-scoring streak into this week's game at Georgetown after he scored at least one goal in all 17 games he played in last season and has scored at least once in each of Hopkins' first two games this season. The streak is currently the longest active streak in the nation.
• During his 32-game goal-scoring run, Degnon has scored 80 goals and has 25 multi-goal games and 19 games with 3+ goals to his credit.
• Degnon's 32-game run is also the longest by a Johns Hopkins player since a JHU-record-tying 37-game run by Ryan Brown from 2013-16. Brown and Terry Riordan (1992-95) co-hold the JHU record for most consecutive games having scored a goal.
Chauvette off and Running
• Freshman Hunter Chauvette has wasted little time making an impact on the team as he scored three goals on four shots in his Blue Jay debut against Denver and added three more goals against Towson.
• With his back-to-back hat tricks to open the season, Chauvette is the first Johns Hopkins freshman since Mike O'Neill in 1975 to record hat tricks in the first two games of a season.
• Chauvette, who scored all three of his goals in the first half against Denver, is the first Johns Hopkins freshman to score three or more goals in their first career game since Shack Stanwick had three against UMBC in 2015.
• Chauvette was one of just three freshmen in the nation to score three or more goals in the 18 Division I men's lacrosse games played on opening weekend (listed below).
Causing Trouble
• The 135 CTs the Blue Jays amassed last season are a JHU single-season record, while the 7.50 CTs/game narrowly missed the school-record of 7.63 (2022). Caused turnovers were first kept as an official statistic in 2009.
• In two games thus far, the Blue Jays have 13 caused turnovers to their credit with 10 coming in the 13-5 win against Towson. This marked the 20th time in program history that the Blue Jays have been credited with 10 or more CTs in a game (CTs became an official stat in 2009).
Offensive Notes of Interest
• Since the start of the 2022 season, the Blue Jays are 19-4 when they score 12 or more goals.
• In 80 full quarters since the start of the 2023 season (does not include overtime periods), the Blue Jays have scored two or more goals in 63 quarters and four or more in 35 quarters.
• Johns Hopkins averaged 12.56 goals per game in 2023. That output was the highest scoring average for the Blue Jays since 2015, when Hopkins averaged 13.0 goals per game. The 12.56 goals per game are also the second-best mark at JHU since 2004.
• As a team, Johns Hopkins shot 32.9% in 2023, a mark that ranked 14th in the nation. The 32.9% shooting percentage was the highest for JHU since 2015 (.331).
Defensive Notes of Interest
• In the season opener against Denver, the Blue Jays held the Pioneers scoreless for a stretch of 18:33 and followed that by holding Towson scoreless for runs of 11:48, 10:27, 10:07 and 21:26. Dating back to the start of the 2023 season, the Blue Jays have held their 20 opponents scoreless for a period of at least 10 minutes 29 different times - 20 of those have come in the last 12 games.
• The five goals the Blue Jays allowed against Towson were the fewest JHU has surrendered since Hopkins topped Ohio State, 6-5, in the 2018 Big Ten Semifinals.
• Johns Hopkins is 17-0 under head coach Peter Milliman and defensive coordinator Jamison Koesterer when holding the opposition to 10 goals or less.
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