The Game
• Johns Hopkins (2-0) wraps up a season-opening stretch of three games against top 20 teams in an eight-day span as the Blue Jays welcome Georgetown (1-0) to Homewood Field.
When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins picked up its second top-20 win in four days on Tuesday, February 4 as the Blue Jays made the short trip to Towson and slipped past the 17th-ranked Tigers, 11-10.
• Georgetown opened the 2025 season at home last Saturday (Feb. 1) and scored an impressive 13-6 win over Loyola.
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 1,029-375-15 (.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 USILA Coaches Poll and also checks in at number eight in the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll.
• Georgetown in ranked 10th in this week's USILA Coaches Poll and also checks in at number 10 in the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media 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.
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Home Openers
• After playing its first two games of the 2025 season on the road, Johns Hopkins will make its 2025 Homewood Field debut when the Blue Jays welcome Georgetown to Baltimore.
• The Blue Jays are 3-1 in home openers under head coach Peter Milliman and have currently won their last three home openers under his direction.
• JHU is 14-3 in its last 17 home openers and 20-5 in home openers this century.
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 Georgetown will be the 64th all-time for Johns Hopkins in the month of February.
• JHU is 42-21 (.667) all-time in games played in the month of February, including 13-6 (.684) 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 then made the short trip to Towson to open the season with back-to-back road games.
• Prior to this season, 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 was 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 opened 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 that day, four were graduate transfers, four were freshmen, four were sophomores and one was a junior.]
• 25 JHU players have appeared in both games thus far - 12 of the 25 had never appeared in a game for Johns Hopkins 10 days ago.
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 this week's USILA Coaches Poll as a reference point, the Blue Jays will play 10 games against teams ranked in the top 17 in the nation. The 10 include Syracuse (2nd), Maryland (4th), Virginia (5th), Georgetown (10th), Penn State (11th), Michigan (14th), Denver (15th), North Carolina (16th), Towson (17th) and Rutgers (19th). Two other Blue Jay opponents this season - Navy and Loyola - were among the teams receiving votes in this week's USILA Preseason Poll. Â
• Translation, 12 of Johns Hopkins' 13 opponents in 2025 appear in this week's USILA Coaches 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.
Causing Trouble
• Johns Hopkins collected eight caused turnovers in the season-opening win at Denver and added 10 in the 11-10 win at Towson; those numbers are on-par with what the Blue Jays have done over the last three seasons.
• Johns Hopkins caused 132 turnovers in 16 games during the 2024 season, an average of 8.25 per game. The 8.25 CTs/game were the most in program history, while the 132 overall CTs rank second in program history (CTs became an official statistic in 2009).
• The top three caused turnover totals in Johns Hopkins history have come in the last three years (122 in 2022 | 135 in 2023 | 132 in 2024) and the top four averages for caused turnovers per game have come in the last four years under the direction of current defensive coordinator Jamison Koesterer.
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.
• Against Towson, the Blue Jays held the Tigers scoreless for a stretch of 10:05 in the first half and allowed just one goal in a span of 19:35 in the first half - during that time, the Jays turned an early 1-0 deficit into a 6-2 lead.
• Dating back to last season, the Blue Jay defense has held the opposition scoreless for a stretch of 10 minutes or longer 31 times in 18 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.
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