The Game
• Johns Hopkins (4-1) returns to Homewood Field for the first of three straight home games as the Blue Jays welcome Syracuse (4-2) to Baltimore.
• Faceoff for the 64th renewal of the series is set for 1 pm on Saturday, March 7 (ESPN+).
When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins scored a stunning 14-13 come-from-behind win at Virginia last Saturday as the Blue Jays erased an 11-4 third-quarter deficit.
• Syracuse split a pair of games last weekend in the ACC/Ivy Challenge. The Orange topped Penn, 9-8, in overtime on Sunday in the second of those two games.
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 1,037-384-15 (.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 11 in this week's USILA, KANE Inside Lacrosse Media and USA Lacrosse Polls.
• The Johns Hopkins Athletic Communications Office uses the USILA Poll to denote JHU's official ranking at the time of a game.
• Syracuse sits exactly one spot ahead of Johns Hopkins at number 10 in each of those three polls.
Poll Notes of Interest
• Including this week's poll, the USILA has issued 572 polls since the debut poll in 1973. Johns Hopkins has appeared in the top 20 in 547 of those 572 polls and has been ranked in the top 10 in 452 of the 572.
Brotherly Love
• Johns Hopkins junior midfielder Chuck Rawson is the older brother of Syracuse freshman midfielder Ted Rawson.
Against the ACC
• This week's game against Syracuse will be the 245th all-time for Johns Hopkins against a team currently in the ACC and the third of three straight the Jays will play against ACC teams.
• Including last week's win at Virginia, Johns Hopkins is 139-103-2 (.574) 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.
Record-Tying Rally
• The Blue Jays rallied from an 11-4 third-quarter deficit to top then 13th-ranked Virginia last Saturday in Charlottesville.
• JHU outscored the Cavaliers 10-2 in the final 24:22 of the game, including 6-1 in the fourth quarter.
• The rally from a seven-goal deficit marked just the second time in program history that Johns Hopkins has come from seven down to win a game.
• The only other documented seven-goal comeback in Johns Hopkins history came on March 24, 2018, when the Blue Jays erased a 9-2 halftime deficit at Virginia and won 15-13.
Extra-Extra
• Johns Hopkins has converted on 9-of-16 (.563) extra-man chances through five games. The Blue Jays currently rank eighth in the nation in extra-man offense with their 61.5% conversion percentage.
• JHU's nine extra-man goals in five games already match the number the Blue Jays scored during the entire 2025 season (9-of-28 (.321)).
• Five different players have scored at least one extra-man goal for the Blue Jays with Hunter Chauvette (3) and Chuck Rawson (2) accounting for five of the nine EMO goals on the year for the Blue Jays.
Man-Down Among Nation's Best
• Johns Hopkins has killed 78.6% of its man-down chances through five games as the Blue Jays have allowed just three extra-man goals on 14 attempts.
• The Blue Jays are currently tied for 19th in the nation in man-down defense with their 78.6% kill rate.
All Clear
• Johns Hopkins has been successful on 88-of-94 (.936) clearing attempts through five games. The Blue Jays are currently tied for second in the nation in clearing percentage.
Riding it Back
• Johns Hopkins enters this week's game ranked 10th in the nation in opponent clearing percentage.
• In five games, the opposition is just 86-of-111 (.775) 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 seven times in five games. Five of those seven 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 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 eight fourth-quarter goals in five 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 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.
• The 66 goals the Blue Jays have scored through five games are the most through the first five games of a season for Johns Hopkins since 2014, when JHU scored 69 goals in its first five games.
• In 20 quarters this season, the Blue Jays have scored at least two goals in 16 quarters, three or more goals in 13 quarters and four or more goals in 10 quarters.
Pole Goals
• In five 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.
• The trio has combined for 20 goals and 27 assists for 47 points, an average of 9.4 points per game thus far.
• Collison and Rawson top the team's scoring chart as Collison has 10 goals and eight assists for 18 points, while Rawson has eight goals and eight assists for 16 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 13 points on two goals and a team-high 11 assists through five games.
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 53 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 (35 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' 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 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 (6th), Ohio State (7th), Syracuse (10th), Penn State (13th), Maryland (14th), Rutgers (16th) and Virginia (17th), Two other Blue Jay opponents - Towson, Navy - are listed as receiving votes in this week's poll.
More Strength
• The Blue Jays will play eight games this season 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).
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