The Game
• Johns Hopkins (6-2, 1-0 B1G) hits the road for the first time in Big Ten play as the Blue Jays head north to Rutgers (7-3, 0-1 B1G).
• Faceoff is set for 12 pm on Sunday, March 29 (BTN).
When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins picked up its second consecutive win as the Blue Jays opened Big Ten play with a 14-8 win against Michigan last Saturday at Homewood Field.
• Rutgers never trailed in regulation, but fell to Ohio State, 6-5, in overtime in its Big Ten opener last Saturday at home.
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 1,039-385-15 (.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 11 in this week's USILA Coaches Poll and is 11th in the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and the USA Lacrosse Poll as well.\
• The Johns Hopkins Athletic Communications Office uses the USILA Poll to denote JHU's official ranking at the time of a game.
• Rutgers also carries a pair of rankings into this week's game as the Scarlet Knights are 18th in the USILA Poll and 17th in the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll.
Poll Notes of Interest
• Including this week's poll, the USILA has issued 575 polls since the debut poll in 1973. Johns Hopkins has appeared in the top 20 in 550 of those 575 polls and has been ranked in the top 10 in 452 of the 573.
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.
Extra-Extra
• Johns Hopkins has converted on 10-of-22 (.455) extra-man chances through eight games. The Blue Jays are currently tied for 17th in the nation in extra-man offense with their 45.5% conversion rate.
• JHU's 10 extra-man goals in eight 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 76.2% of its man-down chances through eight games as the Blue Jays have allowed just five extra-man goals on 21 attempts.
• The Blue Jays are currently 13th in the nation in man-down defense with their 76.2% kill rate.
All Clear
• Johns Hopkins has been successful on 143-of-161 (.888) clearing attempts through eight games. The Blue Jays are currently ranked 17th in the nation in clearing percentage.
Riding it Back
• Johns Hopkins enters this week's game ranked 26th in the nation in opponent clearing percentage.
• In eight games, the opposition is 145-of-174 (.833) 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 12 times in eight games. Seven of those 12 stretches are 15 minutes or longer.
• Seven of JHU's eight opponents to-date have been held under their season scoring average by the Blue Jays.
• In eight games, Johns Hopkins has held the opposition to two goals or less in 17 of the 32 quarters that have been played.
• 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.
Offensive Notes of Interest
• Since the start of the 2022 season, the Blue Jays are 34-6 when they score 12 or more goals.
• JHU has scored 13 or more goals in six of eight games this season. The Blue Jays are 6-0 in those six games.
• 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 32 quarters this season, the Blue Jays have scored at least two goals in 26 quarters, three or more goals in 20 quarters and four or more goals in 14 quarters. JHU has scored a season-best six goals in a quarter three different times.
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 thus far this season.
• The trio has combined for 35 goals and 35 assists for 70 points, an average of 8.75 points per game thus far.
• Collison tops the team's scoring chart with 19 goals and nine assists for 28 points, while Rawson has 14 goals and 11 assists for 25 points to rank third on the team in goals and points and second in assists. English, who had career-best five-point efforts against Loyola (1g, 4a) and Virginia (1g, 4a), has 17 points on two goals and a team-high 15 assists through eight games.
DiCicco Leading the Nation
• Sophomore Reece DiCicco has emerged as one of the top short-stick defensive middies in the nation this season.
• Through eight games, DiCicco has one assist, 30 ground balls and 14 caused turnovers to his credit. He leads the team in GBs and CTs entering this week's game against Rutgers.
• DiCicco's 14 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.
| Reece DiCicco |
Johns Hopkins |
SSDM |
14 |
| Luke Davis |
Boston University |
SSDM |
11 |
| Jack Pilling |
Richmond |
SSDM |
10 |
| Jack Taylor |
Jacksonville |
Attack |
10 |
| Andrew Kasten |
Fairfield |
SSDM |
10 |
| Dominic Shaw |
Ohio State |
SSDM |
10 |
| Jon King |
Penn State |
SSDM |
10 |
| Owen Guest |
Harvard |
SSDM |
10 |
| Patty Eldredge |
Colgate |
SSDM |
10 |
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, the effort by Collison, Iler and Chauvette against Navy marked the 44th time Johns Hopkins has had three or more players with a hat trick in one game.
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 games 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 56 games), the Blue Jays have played 32 games that have been decided by three goals or less, including 16, one-goal games, six games decided by two goals and 10 others that have been decided by three goals.
• Since the start of the 2024 season (38 games), 24 Blue Jay games have been decided by three goals or less with 12 decided by one goal, four decided by two goals and eight decided by three goals.
Strength of Schedule
• Johns Hopkins' 12 regular season opponents compiled a 116-77 (.601) record in 2025 with its seven non-conference opponents rolling up a 62-49 (.559) record.
• Using this week's USILA Coaches Poll as a guide, the Blue Jays will play seven games against teams ranked in the top 20 in the nation. The seven include North Carolina (5th), Ohio State (6th), Syracuse (7th), Penn State (9th), Maryland (12th), Towson (17th) and Rutgers (18th). Three other Blue Jay opponents - Virginia, Navy and Robert Morris - are listed as receiving votes in this week's poll.
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