The Game
• Johns Hopkins (4-2) returns to Homewood Field for the second of three straight home games as the Blue Jays welcome Navy (5-2) to Baltimore.
• Faceoff for the 95th renewal of the series is set for 1 pm on Saturday, March 14 (ESPN+).
When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins dropped its second game of the season last Saturday as the Blue Jays fell to Syracuse, 12-8, at home.
• Navy picked up its second straight win with a 10-9 overtime victory at Jacksonville on Tuesday night.
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 1,037-385-15 (.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 14 in this week's USILA Coaches Poll, 12th in the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and 13th in the USA Lacrosse Poll.
• The Johns Hopkins Athletic Communications Office uses the USILA Poll to denote JHU's official ranking at the time of a game.
• Navy is listed as receiving votes in the USILA and KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Polls.
Poll Notes of Interest
• Including this week's poll, the USILA has issued 573 polls since the debut poll in 1973. Johns Hopkins has appeared in the top 20 in 548 of those 573 polls and has been ranked in the top 10 in 452 of the 573.
On this Date
• This week's game against Navy will be the eighth for Johns Hopkins on March 14.
• The Blue Jays are 4-3 all-time in games played on March 14.
• Johns Hopkins and Navy are meeting for the first time on this date. The teams were scheduled to play on March 14, 2020, but that was the first game canceled after the March 12th national shutdown due to the COVID pandemic.
Brotherly Love
• Johns Hopkins sophomore midfielder Liam Gregorek is the younger brother of Navy sophomore midfielder Alec Gregorek.
• Although they are the same year in school, Alec is one year older than Liam as he spent one year at the Naval Academy Prep School before arriving at the Academy for the 2024-25 academic year.
• Zach Gregorek, Liam and Alec's older brother, graduated from the Naval Academy in 2025 and was a four-year member of the lacrosse team there as well.
Against the Patriot League
• This week's game against Navy will be the 264th all-time for Johns Hopkins against a team currently in the Patriot League.
• Johns Hopkins is 199-63-1 (.759) all-time against current Patriot League members.
• 225 of the 263 games the Blue Jays have played against Patriot League members have come against Army (69), Loyola (62) and Navy (94).
Extra-Extra
• Johns Hopkins has converted on 10-of-19 (.526) extra-man chances through six games. The Blue Jays currently rank 11th in the nation in extra-man offense with their 52.6% conversion rate.
• JHU's 10 extra-man goals in six games are already one more than the number the Blue Jays scored during the entire 2025 season (9-of-28 (.321)).
• Six different players have scored at least one extra-man goal for the Blue Jays this season and nine different players have at least one point on EMO.
Man-Down Among Nation's Best
• Johns Hopkins has killed 75.0% of its man-down chances through six games as the Blue Jays have allowed just four extra-man goals on 16 attempts.
• The Blue Jays are currently tied for 21st in the nation in man-down defense with their 75.0% kill rate.
All Clear
• Johns Hopkins has been successful on 104-of-115 (.904) clearing attempts through six games. The Blue Jays are currently ranked ninth in the nation in clearing percentage.
Riding it Back
• Johns Hopkins enters this week's game ranked 15th in the nation in opponent clearing percentage.
• In six games, the opposition is just 105-of-133 (.789) on clearing attempts against the Blue Jays.
Defensive Notes of Interest
• The Blue Jays have held the opposition scoreless for a stretch of 10 minutes or longer eight times in six games. Five of those eight stretches are 15 minutes of longer.
• 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, the longest scoreless stretch 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.
• Four of JHU's six opponents to-date have been held under their season scoring average by the Blue Jays, while Syracuse matched its scoring average against the Jays.
Offensive Notes of Interest
• Since the start of the 2022 season, the Blue Jays are 32-6 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.
• In 24 quarters this season, the Blue Jays have scored at least two goals in 18 quarters, three or more goals in 15 quarters and four or more goals in 10 quarters.
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.
• The trio has combined for 25 goals and 30 assists for 55 points, an average of 9.2 points per game thus far.
• Collison and Rawson top the team's scoring chart as Collison has 13 goals and eight assists for 21 points, while Rawson has 10 goals and 10 assists for 20 points; Collison ranks first on the team in points while Rawson is tied for second. English, who had career-best five-point efforts against Loyola (1g, 4a) and Virginia (1g, 4a), has 14 points on two goals and a team-high 12 assists through six games.
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