The Game
•  Johns Hopkins (6-4, 0-2 B1G) returns home for the final time during the 2025 regular season as the Blue Jays welcome third-ranked Ohio State (10-1, 2-0 B1G) to Baltimore for Homecoming.  Faceoff is set for 2 pm on Saturday, April 5 (ESPNU).

When Last We Saw Them
•  Johns Hopkins dropped its second straight game by the score of 11-8 as the Blue Jays fell at Michigan last Saturday.
• Ohio State ran its winning streak to 10 games as the Buckeyes topped Rutgers, 13-11, 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 1,033-379-15 (.729).
• 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.

Oh Captain, My Captain
•  Three individuals were selected to serve as Blue Jay captains during the 2025 season.
• Graduate students Dylan Bauer (M), Patrick Deans (LSM) and Scott Smith (D) will lead the team this season after a vote of their teammates.
• This is the first season any of the three have served as a team captain.

Poll Position]
• Johns Hopkins is ranked 17th in this week's USILA Coaches Poll and also checks in at number 17 in the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll.
• Ohio State is ranked third in both the USILA Coaches Poll and the KANE Inside Lacrosse  Media Poll this week.

Poll Notes of Interest
• Including this week's poll, the USILA has issued 564 polls since the debut poll in 1973.  Johns Hopkins has appeared in the top 20 in 541 of those 564 polls and has been ranked in the top 10 in 452 of the 564.

Series History
• Johns Hopkins and Ohio State will be meeting for the 19th time this week.  The series dates to a 17-8 Johns Hopkins victory in 1999 and the Blue Jays are 11-7 all-time against the Buckeyes.
• A complete look at the series history can be found on page 19.

Program Ties
• Johns Hopkins defensive coordinator Jamison Koesterer spent four seasons (2013-16) on Nick Myers' staff at Ohio State.
• Koesterer helped the Buckeyes to a pair of trips to the NCAA Quarterfinals (2013, 2015) while working with the defense and faceoff specialists. 

More Program Ties
• Johns Hopkins graduate student short-stick defensive middies Patrick Hackler and Jack Monfort were both members of the United States U-20 Team that won the FIL World Championship in 2022.  That team was coached by current Ohio State coach Nick Myers.

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
• Since 1958, this week's game will be the 14th game Johns Hopkins has played on April 5, the first since 2015 and the second against Ohio State.
• Johns Hopkins is 9-4 all-time in games played on April 5 with a 15-12 loss at Ohio State in their last game on this date in 2015.

Strength of Schedule
• The Blue Jays' 14 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 seven games against teams ranked in the top 20 in the nation.  The seven include Maryland (2nd), Ohio State (3rd), Syracuse (7th), North Carolina (8th), Penn State (10th), Michigan (13th), Georgetown (14th).  Three other Blue Jay opponents this season - Virginia, Rutgers & Denver - are among the teams receiving votes in this week's USILA Poll.  
• Translation, 10 of Johns Hopkins' 13 opponents in 2025 appear in this week's USILA Coaches Poll.

Three Straight by Same Margin
• Each of Johns Hopkins' last four games (Syracuse, Navy, Rutgers, Michigan) has been decided by exactly three goals.]
• Since the NCAA began sponsoring lacrosse as a championship sport in 1971, this marks the first time that Johns Hopkins has played four consecutive games that have been decided by the same margin.  There have been a number of three-game runs where games were decided by the same margin, but this is the first four-game run with the same final margin.

Don't Leave Early
• Fans at Johns Hopkins lacrosse games shouldn't leave early as it's likely the game will be decided in the final 10 minutes.
• Nine of Johns Hopkins' 10 games to-date have been decided by three goals or less with four, one-goal games and five, three-goal games.  Only one Johns Hopkins game this season, an 11-6 win against Georgetown, has been decided by more than three goals.
• Close games are nothing new for the Blue Jays under head coach Peter Milliman.  Dating back to the start of the 2023 season (a span of 44 games), the Blue Jays have played 28 games that have been decided by three goals or less, including 14, one-goal games, five games decided by two goals and nine others that have been decided by three goals.
• Since the start of the 2024 season (26 games), 20 Blue Jay games have been decided by three goals or less with 10 decided by one goal, three decided by two goals and seven decided by three goals

Defensive Notes of Interest
• Johns Hopkins has held seven of its first 10 opponents below its season scoring average (see chart on right).  Three of the 10 opponents have been held more than two goals below their season scoring average.
• Through 10 games, Johns Hopkins is allowing an average of 10.30 goals per game and has held five of its 10 opponents to 10 goals or less.
• Through games of April 2, Johns Hopkins is one of just 12 teams nationally that has held each of its opponents this season to 13 goals or less.
• Dating back to last season, the Blue Jays have held 16 of their last 19 opponents to 11 goals or less and 12 of those 19 have been held to 10 or less.
• This season, Johns Hopkins has held its 10 opponents scoreless for a stretch of 10 minutes or longer 18 times with 12 of those 18 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 45 times in 25 games.
• In 40 quarters this season, Johns Hopkins has held the opposition to one goal nine times and to two goals 13 times as well.  Translation, in 22 of 40 quarters this season (55.0% 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 40 quarters this season, the Blue Jays have scored at least two goals in 35 of 40 quarters, three or more goals in 21 of 40 and four or more goals in nine quarters.
• Through 10 games, Johns Hopkins has gotten goals from 17 different players, assists from 13 players and points from 18 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 10 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 10 games, six different players have at least 13 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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