The Game
• Johns Hopkins welcomes Towson to Homewood Field for the Blue Jays' only scheduled midweek game of the 2026 season.
• Faceoff is set for 4:02 pm with a live national television audience on ESPNU.
When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins opened the 2026 season with a 17-2 win over Robert Morris on Monday, February 1. The game had originally been scheduled for Saturday, January 31, but was moved back two days due to weather.
• Towson had its 2026 season-opening game against North Carolina weathered-out on February. The Tigers posted an 11-6 record in 2025.
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 1,034-383-15 (.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 15 in the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and number 16 in the USA Lacrosse Poll this week. JHU was number 17 in the USILA Preseason Poll ... this week's USILA Poll was not available in time to be included in this set of notes.
• Towson was ranked 15th in the USILA Preseason Poll and 17th in this week's KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and 19th in the USA Lacrosse Pol..
Poll Notes of Interest
• Including the Preseason Poll, the USILA has issued 568 polls since the debut poll in 1973. Johns Hopkins has appeared in the top 20 in 543 of those 568 polls and has been ranked in the top 10 in 452 of the 568.
For Openers
• With the win against Robert Morris, the Blue Jays are now 21-5 in their last 26 season openers.
• Johns Hopkins has won 16 of its last 19 season openers and is 4-2 in openers under head coach Peter Milliman.
• Johns Hopkins has now scored at least 10 goals in its season opener in 17 of the last 19 years and at least 12 goals in 11 of the last 15.
Against the CAA
• This week's game against Towson will be the 78th all-time for Johns Hopkins against a team currently in the CAA, which is now known as the Coastal Athletic Conference.
• Johns Hopkins is 66-11 (.857) all-time against current CAA members with 75 of those 77 games against Towson (51) and Hofstra (24).
Weathering the Changes
• Prior to moving the season opener against Robert Morris back two days, the last time a Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse game date was moved due to weather was almost 10 years ago to the week.
• The Johns Hopkins-UMBC game, originally scheduled for February 13, 2016, was moved to March 30, 2016 when bitterly cold temperatures and windy conditions forced the movement to the later date.
• After going 10 years without moving a game, the Blue Jays were forced into another change just five days after the Robert Morris game scheduled for Saturday, February 7 at Georgetownwas postponed due to extreme cold in the region.
It's Been a While - The Robert Morris Breakdown
Part I
• Hunter Chauvette (6) and Matt Collison (5) became the first Johns Hopkins duo to score five or more goals in a game since March 27, 1999, when Dylan Schlott (5) and Conor Denihan (5) both scored five in a 16-15 win against Virginia.
Part II
• Collison became the first Johns Hopkins midfielder to post a five-goal game since Paul Rabil had six against Syracuse in the 2008 national championship game.
Part III
• Dash Lamitie (G), Max Wickersham (A) and Parker Sorenson (D) all started in the win against Robert Morris. This was the first time Johns Hopkins has started three or more freshmen in a season opener since 2002, when Kyle Barrie (A), Kyle Harrison (M), Peter LeSueur (A) and Chris Watson started in an 8-5 season-opening win against Princeton.
Part VI ... in Three Parts
• Lamitie became the first Johns Hopkins freshman to start a season opener in goal since Jesse Schwartzman got the nod in a 10-9 win against Penn in the 2004 opener.
• Wickersham became the first Johns Hopkins freshman to start a season opener on attack since Brendan Grimes started against Ohio State in the 2021 opener.
• Sorenson became the first Johns Hopkins freshman to start a season opener on defense since Jack Rapine started against Navy in the 2017 opener.
Part V
• The two goals Johns Hopkins allowed are the fewest since the Blue Jays topped Mount St. Mary's 17-2 on April 14, 2014.
Part VI
• Robert Morris had a scoring drought of 38:11, the longest by a Blue Jay opponent since Mount St. Mary's went 44:56 without scoring in the 17-2 game noted above on April 14, 2014.
Part VII
• Charlie Iler (4) and Chuck Rawson (4) became the first Blue Jay tandem with four or more assists in a game since Jacob Angelus (5) and Russell Melendez (4) both had 4+ in a win against Bryant in the first round of the 2023 NCAA Tournament.
Strength of Schedule
• Johns Hopkins' 13 regular season opponents compiled a 128-82 (.610) record in 2025 with its eight non-conference opponents rolling up a 74-54 (.578) record.
• Using the Preseason USILA Coaches Poll as a guide, the Blue Jays will play 10 games against teams ranked in the top 20 in the nation. The 10 include Maryland (1st), Syracuse (2nd), Georgetown (5th), Penn State (7th), North Carolina (8th), Ohio State (10th), Virginia (14th), Towson (15th), Rutgers (18th) and Michigan (20th).
More Strength
• The Blue Jays will play eight games against teams that qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 2025.
• Of the eight games against 2025 NCAA Tournament teams on tap, three are against teams that advanced to the Final Four (Syracuse, Penn State, Maryland), and another (Georgetown) is against a team that advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals.
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.
• 11 of Johns Hopkins' 14 games last season were decided by three goals or less with five, one-goal games and six, three-goal games. Only three Johns Hopkins game last season - an 11-6 win against Georgetown, a 14-10 loss to Ohio State and a 10-4 loss at Penn State - were 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 49 games), the Blue Jays have played 30 games that have been decided by three goals or less, including 15, one-goal games, five games decided by two goals and 10 others that have been decided by three goals.
• Since the start of the 2024 season (31 games), 22 Blue Jay games have been decided by three goals or less with 11 decided by one goal, three decided by two goals and eight decided by three goals
Offensive Notes of Interest
• Since the start of the 2022 season, the Blue Jays are 29-6 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.
• Last season, in 56 quarters played, the Blue Jays scored at least two goals in 45 of the 56 quarters, three or more goals in 25 of the 56 and four or more goals in 12 quarters.
That's Early
• Last week's game against Robert Morris on February 2 was the second earliest, by game date, in Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse history.
• The earliest game in program history came in 2025, when the Blue Jays played at Denver on February 1.
• Last week's game against Robert Morris was originally scheduled for January 31, but moved to February 2 due to extreme temperatures forecast in the Baltimore area on January 31. If the game had not been rescheduled for February 2, the January 31 date would have been the earliest date the Blue Jays played in program history.
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