The Game
• Johns Hopkins (6-2) opens the Big Ten portion of its 2025 regular-season schedule as the Blue Jays welcome Rutgers (4-5) to Homewood Field. Faceoff is set for 1 pm with a live stream of the game on ESPN+.
When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins picked up its sixth win of the season as the Blue Jays scored a 12-9 win at Navy last Saturday.
• Rutgers dropped its second straight game as the Scarlet Knights fell to UMass, 11-7, at home last Saturday.
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 1,033-377-15 (.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 is ranked 11th in this week's USILA Coaches Poll and also checks in at number 11 in the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll.
• Rutgers is not ranked in either poll this week.
Poll Notes of Interest
• Including this week's poll, the USILA has issued 562 polls since the debut poll in 1973. Johns Hopkins has appeared in the top 20 in 539 of those 562 polls and has been ranked in the top 10 in 452 of the 561.
Series History
• Johns Hopkins and Rutgers will be meeting for the 47th time this week. The series dates to a 13-0 Johns Hopkins victory in 1920 and the Blue Jays are 37-9 all-time against the Scarlet Knights.
• A complete look at the series history can be found on page 18.
Transfer Tie
• Johns Hopkins and Rutgers are both expected to trot out a starting defenseman this weekend that is playing the 2025 season as a graduate student. Nothing earth-shattering about that, until you dig deeper.
• Did you know that Johns Hopkins' starting defenseman Colby Weishaar and Rutgers starting defenseman Ben Stephanos were teammates and key members of the defense at UMBC together from 2021-24?
• Did you also know that both Weishaar and Stephanos were recruited to UMBC by current Johns Hopkins defensive coordinator Jamison Koesterer, who served in the same role with the Retrievers from 2016-2020.
Sticking Together
• Johns Hopkins has six players on its 2025 roster that played at Lawrenceville (NJ) in high school. The six - Hunter Chauvette, Reece DiCicco, Brooks English, Tyler Eye, Quintan Kilrain and Chuck Rawson - make the Blue Jays one of just four Division I teams with six players from the same high school.
On This Date
• This week's game will be the 11th game Johns Hopkins has played on March 22 and the first since 2014 and the first against Rutgers.
• Johns Hopkins is 6-4 all-time in games played on March 22 with six of the previous 10 games being played against Virginia.
• Three of Johns Hopkins' 10 games played on March 22 have gone to overtime, including a 10-9 win against Virginia in 1975 in which Blue Jay Hall of Famer Mike O'Neill became the first freshman in school history to score a game-winning goal in overtime.
• Exactly 50 years later, O'Neill remains one of just six Johns Hopkins freshmen to score a game-winning goal in overtime.
Streaking - Part I
• Johns Hopkins had a nine-game regular season winning streak snapped with the recent 13-12 loss to North Carolina. The nine-game run was the longest regular-season winning streak for Johns Hopkins since the Blue Jays won 15 straight between 2011-2012.
• Despite the tight loss to the Tar Heels and a 13-10 loss at 11th-ranked Syracuse on March 9, the Blue Jays are 11-2 in their last 13 regular season games.
Streaking - Part II
• With last week's 12-9 win at Navy, Johns Hopkins is 10-1 in its last 11 true road games.
• JHU had a national-best nine-game road winning streak snapped with the 13-10 loss at Syracuse on March 9.
• The loss was the first for the Blue Jays on the road since a 12-11 double-overtime loss at Penn State on April 8, 2023.
• The nine-game road winning streak was the longest for the Blue Jays since a nine-game run from 1987-89.
• The nine-game run is also tied for the third-longest winning streak in true road games in program history.
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 rank second in all-time appearances in the Big Ten title game (4) and tied for second in Big Ten Tournament titles (2). Â
• 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 149-73-1 (.670) all-time against teams currently competing in the Big Ten.
Defensive Notes of Interest
• Through eight games, Johns Hopkins is allowing an average of 10.12 goals per game and has held five of its eight opponents to 10 goals or less.
• Dating back to last season, the Blue Jays have held 14 of their last 17 opponents to 11 goals or less and 12 of those 17 have been held to 10 or less.
• This season, Johns Hopkins has held its eight opponents scoreless for a stretch of 10 minutes or longer 15 times with 10 of those 15 droughts lasting at least 14 minutes.
• Dating back to last season, the Blue Jay defense has held the opposition scoreless for a stretch of 10 minutes or longer 42 times in 23 games.
• In 32 quarters this season, Johns Hopkins has held the opposition to one goal eight times and to two goals 11 times as well. Translation, in 19 of 32 quarters this season (59.4% of quarters played), the Blue Jays have held the opposition to two goals or less.
Offensive Notes of Interest
• Since the start of the 2022 season, the Blue Jays are 28-6 when they score 12 or more goals.
• In 32 quarters this season, the Blue Jays have scored at least two goals in 30 of 32 quarters, three or more goals in 18 of 28 and four or more goals in eight quarters.
• Through eight games, Johns Hopkins has gotten goals from 16 different players, assists from 13 players and points from 17 players.
• Johns Hopkins has had an extended scoring run of +3 goals in every game this season and a run of +4 goals in seven of eight games on the year.
• Five different players have at least one hat trick this season with Hunter Chauvette (4) and Russell Melendez (3) combining for seven hat tricks this thus far.
• Nine different players have recorded at least one multi-goal game this season with Hunter Chauvette (5), Matt Collison (5) and Russell Melendez (3) leading the way.
• Through eight games, six different players have at least 11 points on the year; four of the six have at least one year of remaining eligibility after 2025 and three of the six have at least two years.
• Johns Hopkins had a player score five goals against North Carolina (Russell Melendez) and Virginia (Hunter Chauvette). This marked the first time JHU has had different players score five or more goals in back-to-back games since Cole Williams (Maryland) and Kyle Marr (Georgetown) did it late in the 2018 season.
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