The Game
• Johns Hopkins (5-2) welcomes Michigan (3-5) to Homewood Field for the third of three consecutive home games for the Blue Jays.
• Faceoff for the Big Ten opener for both teams is set for 12 pm on Saturday, March 21 (ESPN+).
When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins got back in the win column last Saturday as the Blue Jays topped Navy, 14-10, at Homewood Field in their final non-conference game of the year.
• Michigan dropped its final non-conference game last Saturday at top-ranked Notre Dame, 9-4.
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 1,038-385-15 (.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 12 in this week's USILA Coaches Poll, 12th in the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and 11th 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.
• Michigan is not ranked in any of the three polls listed above.
Poll Notes of Interest
• Including this week's poll, the USILA has issued 574 polls since the debut poll in 1973. Johns Hopkins has appeared in the top 20 in 549 of those 574 polls and has been ranked in the top 10 in 452 of the 573.
On this Date
• This week's game against Michigan will be the ninth for Johns Hopkins on March 21.
• The Blue Jays are 5-3 all-time in games played on March 21 and this week's game will be the first for Johns Hopkins on this date since 2015.
Time for a Change
• The start time for Johns Hopkins' upcoming game at Ohio State on April 11 has been changed.
• Originally set for a 1 pm start, the game between the Blue Jays and Buckeyes is now set for a 12 pm faceoff.
Sticking Together
• Johns Hopkins has seven players on its 2026 roster that played at Lawrenceville (NJ) in high school. Research indicates the seven - Hunter Chauvette, Reece DiCicco, Brooks English, Tyler Eye, Quintan Kilrain, Chuck Rawson and Alexander Swinnie - make Johns Hopkins the only Division I team in the nation with seven or more players from the same high school.
• The complete list of 2026 Division I men's lacrosse teams with seven or more players from the same high school:
Extra-Extra
• Johns Hopkins has converted on 10-of-20 (.500) extra-man chances through seven games. The Blue Jays are currently tied for 12th in the nation in extra-man offense with their 50% conversion rate.
• JHU's 10 extra-man goals in seven 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 72.2% of its man-down chances through seven games as the Blue Jays have allowed just five extra-man goals on 18 attempts.
• The Blue Jays are currently tied for 19th in the nation in man-down defense with their 72.2% kill rate.
Defensive Notes of Interest
• The Blue Jays have held the opposition scoreless for a stretch of 10 minutes or longer 10 times in seven games. Six of those 10 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.
• Six of JHU's seven opponents to-date have been held under their season scoring average by the Blue Jays.
Offensive Notes of Interest
• Since the start of the 2022 season, the Blue Jays are 33-6 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 28 quarters this season, the Blue Jays have scored at least two goals in 22 quarters, three or more goals in 17 quarters and four or more goals in 12 quarters.
DiCicco Leading the Nation
• Sophomore Reece DiCicco has emerged as one of the top short-stick defensive middies in the nation this season.
• Through seven games, DiCicco has one assist, 28 ground balls and 13 caused turnovers to his credit. He leads the team in GBs and CTs entering this week's game against Michigan.
• DiCicco's 13 CTs also currently lead the nation among players who play with a short stick. Below are the national leaders in CTs among non-long sticks.
It's Been a While - Part I
• Matt Collison (4), Charlie Iler (4) and Hunter Chauvette (3) all notched three or more goals in the 14-10 win against Navy on March 14.
• This marked the first time since March 30, 2024 that Johns Hopkins has had three or more players record a hat trick in the same game. That day, it was Johnathan Peshko (3), Garrett Degnon (3) and Russell Melendez (3) who all notched hat tricks in a 15-11 win against the Wolverines.
• In this century, last week's effort by Collison, Iler and Chauvette marked the 44th time Johns Hopkins has had three or more players with a hat trick in one game.
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