The Game
• Johns Hopkins (7-4, 2-2 B1G) returns home and welcomes Maryland (6-4, 3-1 B1G) to Homewood Field for the final regular season game of the year and the 129th meeting in the greatest rivalry in college lacrosse.
• Faceoff is set for 2 pm on Saturday, April 18 (ESPNU).
When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins played its third consecutive one-goal game and dropped a 7-6 decision at 14th-ranked Ohio State last Saturday.
• Maryland locked up no worse than a share of the Big Ten regular season title with a 12-2 win against Rutgers last Saturday night 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 1,040-387-15 (.726).
• 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 12th in this week's USILA Coaches Poll, 13th the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and 12th 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.
• Maryland is ranked seventh in the USILA Poll and the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and sixth in the USA Lacrosse Poll.
Poll Notes of Interest
• Including this week's poll, the USILA has issued 578 polls since the debut poll in 1973. Johns Hopkins has appeared in the top 20 in 553 of those 578 polls and has been ranked in the top 10 in 453 of the 578.
On this Date
• Since 1925, this week's game against Maryland will be the 14th for Johns Hopkins on April 18.
• In that time, the Blue Jays are 9-4 in games played on April 18.
• This will be the fourth time that Johns Hopkins and Maryland have met on this date.
B1G Tournament Talk
• Complete seeding for the upcoming Big Ten Tournament will be determined this weekend as the league wraps up regular-season play.
• The other two league games on tap this weekend - Michigan/Ohio State and Penn State/Rutgers - will take place on Friday, April 17. With that, what's at stake when Johns Hopkins and Maryland faceoff on Saturday, April 18 will be clearly defined.
• Below is a look at possible scenarios for seeing. Because goal could come into play, exact seeding may not be available until all games are completed:
| Win This Week |
Tournament Seeding |
| JHU-PSU-OSU |
JHU, PSU, MD, OSU, MICH, RU |
| JHU-RU-OSU |
Goal differential in JHU-MD game to determine. |
|
If JHU wins by 2+ ... JHU, MD, OSU, MICH, RU, PSU |
|
If JHU wins by 1 ... RPI to determine |
| JHU-PSU-MICH |
JHU, PSU, MD, MICH, OSU, RU |
| JHU-RU-MICH |
JHU, MD, MICH, Goal diff to determine 4-6 |
| MD-PSU-OSU |
MD, PSU, OSU, JHU, MICH, RU |
| MD-RU-OSU |
MD, OSU, JHU, MICH, RU, PSU |
| MD-PSU-MICH |
MD, MICH, PSU, OSU, JHU, RU |
| MD-RU-MICH |
MD, MICH, OSU, RU, JHU, PSU |
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.
Defensive Notes of Interest
• The Blue Jays have held the opposition scoreless for a stretch of 10 minutes or longer 17 times in 11 games. Nine of those 17 stretches are 15 minutes or longer.
• 10 of JHU's 11 opponents to-date have been held under their season scoring average by the Blue Jays.
• In 11 games, Johns Hopkins has held the opposition to two goals or less in 27 of the 44 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.
• JHU held Penn State scoreless for 24:10 in the second half. During that stretch, the Blue Jays outscored the Nittany Lions 7-0 to grab an 11-9 lead in what became an 11-10 win.
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 11 or more goals in seven of 11 games this season. The Blue Jays are 7-0 in those seven 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 44 quarters this season, the Blue Jays have scored at least two goals in 34 quarters, three or more goals in 25 quarters and four or more goals in 16 quarters. JHU has scored a season-best six goals in a quarter three different times.
Pole Goals
• In 11 games this season, the Blue Jays have 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).
Non-Offensive Scoring
• In 11 games, Johns Hopkins has gotten at least one point from 10 players who are not classified as offensive players.
• The ten have combined for 12 goals and eight assists for 20 points - 10 more than the group totaled in 2025. Sophomore faceoff specialist Joe Hobot (3g, 1a) and junior SSDM Warry Colhoun (1g, 2a) lead the way with seven combined points.
• Last season, in 14 games, Johns Hopkins got a total of 10 points (5g, 5a) from non-offensive players.
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 41 goals and 43 assists for 84 points, an average of 7.64 points per game thus far.
• Collison ranks second on the team in scoring with 21 goals and 11 assists for 32 points, while Rawson has 16 goals and 13 assists for 29 points to rank third on the team in points, second in assists and tied for third in goals. English, who had career-best five-point efforts against Loyola (1g, 4a) and Virginia (1g, 4a), has 23 points on four goals and a team-high 19 assists through 11 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 11 games, DiCicco has one assist, 39 ground balls and 17 caused turnovers to his credit. He leads the team in GBs and CTs entering this week's game against Maryland.
• DiCicco's 17 CTs also currently lead the nation among players who play with a short stick and are a school single-season record for a non-long stick player.
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.
• JHU's last three games against Rutgers, Penn State and Ohio State have all been, to coin a baseball term, decided in walk-off fashion:
• The game against Rutgers was decided in double overtime, while junior Warry Colhoun deflected a Penn State shot high over the crossbar at the buzzer. Last week at Ohio State, Buckeye goalie Caleb Fyock made a point-blank save in the final 10 seconds to seal the victory for OSU.
• 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 59 games), the Blue Jays have played 35 games that have been decided by three goals or less, including 19, 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 (41 games), 27 Blue Jay games have been decided by three goals or less with 15 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 eight games against teams ranked in the top 20 in the nation. The eight include North Carolina (3rd), Syracuse (5th), Maryland (7th), Ohio State (9th), Virginia (11th), Penn State (14th), Towson (17th) Loyola (18th), and Rutgers (19th). Three other Blue Jay opponents from this season - Rutgers, Michigan, Robert Morris - are listed as receiving votes in this week's poll.
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