The Game
• Johns Hopkins hits the road for the second consecutive week as the Blue Jays make the trip south to Virginia to take on the Cavaliers.
• Faceoff for the 100th renewal of the series is set for 3 pm on Saturday, February 28 (ACC Network Extra).
When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins dropped its first game of the 2026 season as the Blue Jays fell at North Carolina, 17-9, last Friday night (Feb. 20).
• Virginia got back in the win column as the Cavaliers knocked off Stony Brook, 19-7, up on Long Island.
The Facts
• This is the 139th 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 1,036-384-15 (.727).
• 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 checks in at number 16 in this week's USILA Coaches Poll, number 13 in the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and number 15 in the USA Lacrosse Poll this week.
• The Johns Hopkins Athletic Communications Office uses the USILA Poll to denote JHU's official ranking at the time of a game.
• Virginia also carries a trio of rankings into the game as the Cavaliers are 13th in the USILA Coaches Poll, 14th in the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and 13th in the USA Lacrosse Poll.
Poll Notes of Interest
• Including this week's poll, the USILA has issued 571 polls since the debut poll in 1973. Johns Hopkins has appeared in the top 20 in 546 of those 571 polls and has been ranked in the top 10 in 452 of the 570.
Hopkins-Virginia for the 100th Time
• Johns Hopkins and Virginia will meet for the 100th time this Saturday in Charlottesville This makes the rivalry one of the most played in Division I college lacrosse history.
• This is the second series in Johns Hopkins history that will reach the 100-game mark. The Hopkins-Maryland game has been played 128 times and is second most played rivalry in Division I history.
• The series with Virginia is one of four in Johns Hopkins history that has been played at least 90 times.
• Below is a look at each Division I series that has been played at least 90 times (as of February 25, 2026):
| Most-Played DI Men's Lacrosse Games |
| 143 |
Cornell-Hobart |
| 128 |
Hopkins-Maryland |
| 112 |
Princeton-Yale |
| 109 |
Hobart-Syracuse | Cornell-Syracuse |
| 106 |
Harvard-Yale |
| 105 |
Army-Navy |
| 102 |
Princeton-Rutgers |
| 99 |
Hopkins-Virginia | Cornell-Penn | Maryland-Virginia |
Against the ACC
• This week's game at Virginia will be the 244th all-time for Johns Hopkins against a team currently in the ACC and the second of three straight the Jays will play against ACC teams.
• Johns Hopkins is 138-103-2 (.572) all-time against current ACC members.
• Johns Hopkins has played 55 all-time NCAA Tournament games against current ACC teams. The Blue Jays are 28-27 all-time in the NCAAs against the five teams currently competing in the ACC.
Extra-Extra
• Johns Hopkins has converted on 8-of-13 (.615) extra-man chances through four games. The Blue Jays currently rank sixth in the nation in extra-man offense with their 61.5% conversion percentage.
• JHU's eight extra-man goals in four games are already just one less than the Blue Jays scored during the entire 2025 season (9-of-28 (.321)).
Man-Down Among Nation's Best
• Johns Hopkins has killed 90.9% of its man-down chances through four games as the Blue Jays have allowed just one extra-man goal on 11 attempts.
• The Blue Jays currently rank sixth in the nation in man-down defense with their 90.9% kill rate.
All Clear
• Johns Hopkins has been successful on 69-of-72 (.958) clearing attempts through four games. The Blue Jays currently rank second in the nation in clearing percentage.
Riding it Back
• Johns Hopkins enters this week's game ranked sixth in the nation in opponent clearing percentage.
• In four games, the opposition is just 73-of-96 (.760) on clearing attempts against the Blue Jays
Defensive Notes of Interest
• The two goals the Blue Jays allowed against Robert Morris in the season opener were the fewest JHU has allowed in a game since 2014, when the Blue Jays topped Mount St. Mary's, 14-2, on April 14, 2014.]
• JHU held Robert Morris scoreless for a stretch of 38:11 is the longest by a Blue Jay opponent since Mount St. Mary's went 44:56 without scoring in that same game on April 14, 2014.
• The Blue Jays held Towson scoreless for the final 15:25 in a 13-11 win and then held Loyola scoreless for a stretch of 26:08 bridging the second and fourth quarters.
]• JHU has allowed just seven fourth-quarter goals in three games and held Robert Morris and Towson scoreless in the final period.
Offensive Notes of Interest
• Since the start of the 2022 season, the Blue Jays are 31-6 when they score 12 or more goals.
• The 17 goals the Blue Jays scored against Robert Morris are the most in a season opener since 1990, when JHU scored 20 in a 20-8 win against Princeton.
• The 52 goals the Blue Jays have scored through four games are the most through the first four games of a season for Johns Hopkins since 2017, when JHU scored 15 in back-to-back wins against Navy and UMBC, 14 in an overtime win against Loyola and 13 in a win at North Carolina for 57 through four games.
• In 16 quarters this season, the Blue Jays have scored at least two goals in 13 quarters, three or more goals in 11 quarters and four or more goals in eight quarters.
Pole Goals
• In four games this season, the Blue Jays have already gotten four goals from long poles as Parker Sorenson (2), Tyler Eye (1) and Charlie Hazard (1) have all found the back of the net.
• In 14 games last season, the Blue Jays got just three pole goals (Tyler Eye, Quintan Kilrain, Scott Smith).
First Midfield Producing
• The Blue Jays' first midfield unit of Matt Collison, Chuck Rawson and Brooks English has been among the most productive first lines in the nation in the early season.
• Despite being limited two goals and one assist at North Carolina, the trio has combined for 18 goals and 20 assists for 38 points, average of 9.5 points per game thus far.
• Collison and Rawson top the team's scoring chart as Collison has nine goals and six assists for 15 points, while Rawson has eight goals and seven assists for 15 points. English, who had a career-best five-point effort against Loyola (1g, 4a), has eight points on one goal and seven assists through four games.
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