The Game
• Johns Hopkins (1-0) makes the short trip to Towson to take on the Tigers (0-0) in the Blue Jays' only mid-week game of the 2025 season.
When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins was last seen two time zones away in Denver on Saturday with the Blue Jays grabbing a 13-10 win over the Pioneers in the 2025 season opener.
• Towson will be opening its season when the Blue Jays visit Unitas Stadium. The Tigers posted a 13-4 record, won the CAA title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2024.
The Facts
• This is the 138th 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 1,028-375-15 (.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.
Poll Position
• Johns Hopkins in ranked eighth in this week's KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll. The USILA Poll for this week had not be issued as of 4 pm on Monday, February 3. JHU was eighth in the USILA Preseason Poll.
• Towson is ranked 17th in this week's KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll. The Tigers were also 17th in the USILA Preseason Poll.
For Openers
• With the 13-10 win at Denver, the Blue Jays are now 20-5 in their last 25 season openers.
• Johns Hopkins has won 15 of its last 18 season openers and is 3-2 in openers under head coach Peter Milliman.
• Johns Hopkins has scored at least 10 goals in its season opener in 16 of the last 18 years and at least 12 goals in 10 of the last 14.
That's Early
• Last week's game against Denver on February 1 was the earliest, by game date, in Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse history.
• Prior to this season, the earliest game in program history came in 2024, when the Blue Jays hosted Denver on February 3.
In February
• This week's game against Towson will be the 63rd all-time for Johns Hopkins in the month of February.
• JHU is 41-21 (.662) all-time in games played in the month of February, including 12-6 (.667) under fifth-year head coach Peter Milliman.
• 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.
It's Been a While
• Johns Hopkins opened the season at Denver and now makes the short trip to Towson to open the season with back-to-back road games.
• The Blue Jays last opened with two straight on the road in 2016; prior to that, the Jays had last done it in 2011, so this year's two-game season-opening road swing is just the third such occurrence in the last 15 years.
• Taking it back farther, this is just the fifth time since 1970 (1979, 1987, 2011, 2016, 2025) that the Blue Jays are opening a season with two straight road games.
New-Look Jays
• Johns Hopkins had 26 players appear in last week's 13-10 win at Denver.
• Remarkably, of the 26 players who appeared in the game, 13 were making their Blue Jay debut, including nine who had never appeared in a college game before that day.
• Of the 13 players who wore the Hopkins Blue and Black for the first time, four were graduate transfers, four were freshmen, four were sophomores and one was a junior.Â
Against the CAA
• This week's game against Towson will be the 94th all-time for Johns Hopkins against a team currently in the CAA, which is now known as the Coastal Athletic Conference after formerly being the Colonial Athletic Conference from its founding in 1983 until July 20, 2023.
• Johns Hopkins is 81-12 (.871) all-time against current CAA members.
• 74 of JHU's 93 all-time games against current CAA members have come against Towson (50) and Hofstra (24).
Roster Breakdown
• The Blue Jays' 58-man roster includes nine graduate students, 11 seniors, 10 juniors, 17 sophomores and 11 freshmen.
Strength of Schedule
• The Blue Jays' 13 regular season opponents combined to post a 131-80 (.629) record in 2024 with JHU's eight non-conference opponents rolling up an 86-46 (.652) record.
• Using the Preseason USILA Coaches Poll, the Blue Jays will play nine games against teams ranked in the top 17 in the nation. The nine include Syracuse (3rd), Virginia (4th), Maryland (6th), Denver (9th), Georgetown (11th), Penn State (12th), Michigan (15th), North Carolina (16th) and Towson (17th). Three of the Blue Jays' other opponents this season - Ohio State, Loyola and Rutgers - were among the teams receiving votes in the USILA Preseason Poll.
More Strength
• The Blue Jays will play eight games, including three straight to open the season, against teams that qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 2024.
• Of the eight games against 2024 NCAA Tournament teams on tap, three are against teams that advanced to the Final Four (Denver, Virginia, Maryland), and two others (Georgetown, Syracuse) are against teams that advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals.
Strange But True
• The first three opponents on Johns Hopkins' 2025 season - Denver, Towson and Georgetown - all posted a 13-4 record last season. Translation: the Blue Jays' first three opponents of the 2025 season combined to post a 39-12 (.765) record in 2024.
Defensive Notes of Interest
• The Blue Jay defense held Denver scoreless for stretches of 14:01 and 16:51 in the 13-10 season-opening win last week. In addition, during a stretch midway through the second half, the Blue Jays allowed just one goal in a span of 23:25. During that time, the Blue Jays used a 5-1 run to turn a 7-7 tie into a 12-8 lead.
• Dating back to last season, the Blue Jay defense has held the opposition scoreless for a stretch of 10 minutes or longer 30 times in 17 games last season.
• The Johns Hopkins defense held 15 of 16 opponents under its season scoring average last season.
• In 64 full quarters during the 2024 season, Johns Hopkins held the opposition scoreless in five quarters, held them to one goal in 10 quarters and to two goals in 24 quarters. Translation, in 39 of 64 full quarters last season (61% of quarters played), the Blue Jays held the opposition to two goals or less.
Offensive Notes of Interest
• Since the start of the 2022 season, the Blue Jays are 26-5 when they score 12 or more goals.
• Last season, in 64 full quarters (does not include overtime periods), the Blue Jays scored two or more goals in 50 quarters and four or more in 25 quarters.
• Picking up where they left off last season, JHU scored at least three goals in each of the four quarters in the win at Denver.
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