The Game
• Top-seeded Johns Hopkins (8-4, 3-2 B1G) heads north to Rutgers to take on fourth-seeded Michigan (6-8, 2-3 B1G) in the Big Ten Semifinals.
• Faceoff is set for 3 pm on Thursday, April 30 (BTN).
When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins closed the regular season on Saturday, April 18 with a 9-8 win against rival Maryland that locked up the top seed in the Big Ten Tournament.
• Michigan advanced to the Big Ten Semifinals as the fifth-seeded Wolverines went on the road and topped rival Ohio State, 11-8, in the Big Ten Quarterfinals last Saturday (Apr. 25).
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 1,041-387-15 (.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 seven in each of the three major Division I Polls this (USILA Coaches, KANE Inside Lacrosse Media ,USA Lacrosse).
• The Johns Hopkins Athletic Communications Office uses the USILA Poll to denote JHU's official ranking at the time of a game.
• Michigan is listed as receiving votes in the USILA and KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Polls and is 20th in the USA Lacrosse Poll.
Poll Notes of Interest
• Including this week's poll, the USILA has issued 580 polls since the debut poll in 1973. Johns Hopkins has appeared in the top 20 in 555 of those 580 polls and has been ranked in the top 10 in 455 of the 580.
On this Date
• Since 1921, this week's game against Michigan will be the 16th for Johns Hopkins on April 30.
• In that time, the Blue Jays are 12-2-1 in games played on April 30.
B1G Tournament Talk
• Johns Hopkins is competing in the Big Ten Tournament for the 11th time this season. The Blue Jays are 8-8 all-time in the tournament.
• For the first five years the league sponsored men's lacrosse (2015-19), only the top four teams in the final regular season standings qualified for the tournament. Beginning in 2021, all six teams qualified and a quarterfinal round, featuring the #3 and #4 seeds hosting the #5 and #6 seeds, was added.
• Johns Hopkins owns two tournament titles (2015, 2018) to its credit and has played in the title game on two other occasions (2019, 2021).
B1G Regular Season Co-Champions
• Johns Hopkins grabbed a share of the 2026 Big Ten regular season title when the Blue Jays topped Maryland, 9-8, in the regular season finale on April 18.
• This is the third regular season title in the last four years for the Blue Jays (2023 (co), 2024, 2026 (co)) and the fourth overall regular-season title for JHU since joining the league in 2015 (2015 (co), 2023, 2024, 2026).
• JHU's three regular season titles in the last four years lead the league. During that time, JHU has grabbed at least a share of three titles, while Penn State (2), Ohio State (2) and Maryland (1) all have at least a share of one.
• The Blue Jays' four overall regular season titles rank second in league history.
What's on the Line
• The winner of the Big Ten Tournament will receive the Big Ten's automatic bid to the upcoming NCAA Tournament.
• The bracket for the 2026 NCAA Tournament will be announced on Sunday, May 3 (9:30 pm | ESPNU).
It's Been a While - Four Straight One-Goal Games
• Johns Hopkins has played four consecutive games that have been decided by exactly one goal. The Blue Jays opened this stretch with a 9-8 double-overtime loss a Rutgers, followed with an 11-10 win against Penn State, dropped a 7-6 decision at Ohio State and capped the regular season with a 9-8 win against Maryland.
• This marks the first time since 1952 - and just the second time in program history - that Johns Hopkins has played four consecutive one-goal games. The solo captain on that 1952 Blue Jay team? Legendary Hall of Fame coach Bob Scott, who was a senior midfielder in 1952.
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.
• Depending on the route taken, the Lawrenceville School is approximately 24-27 miles away from Rutgers' SHI Stadium, site of this week's Big Ten Tournament.
Defensive Notes of Interest
• The Blue Jays have held the opposition scoreless for a stretch of 10 minutes or longer 19 times in 12 games. Ten of those 19 stretches are 15 minutes or longer.
• 10 of JHU's 12 opponents to-date have been held under their season scoring average by the Blue Jays.
• In 12 games, Johns Hopkins has held the opposition to two goals or less in 30 of the 48 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 12 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 48 quarters this season, the Blue Jays have scored at least two goals in 37 quarters, three or more goals in 27 quarters and four or more goals in 16 quarters. JHU has scored a season-best six goals in a quarter three different times.
Non-Offensive Scoring
• In 12 games this season, Johns Hopkins has gotten at least one point from 10 players who are not classified as offensive players.
• The ten have combined for 13 goals and eight assists for 21 points - 11 more than the group totaled in 2025. Sophomore faceoff specialist Joe Hobot (3g, 1a), junior defenseman Quintan Kilrain (2g, 2a) and junior SSDM Warry Colhoun (1g, 2a) lead the way with 11 combined points.
• Last season, in 14 games, Johns Hopkins got a total of 10 points (5g, 5a) from non-offensive players.
DiCicco Leading the Nation
• Sophomore Reece DiCicco has emerged as one of the top short-stick defensive middies in the nation this season.
• Through 12 games, DiCicco has one assist, 46 ground balls and 19 caused turnovers to his credit. He leads the team in GBs and CTs entering this week's Big Ten Tournament.
• DiCicco's 19 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 four games against Rutgers, Penn State, Ohio State and Maryland 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. Against Ohio State, Buckeye goalie Caleb Fyock made a point-blank save in the final 10 seconds to seal the victory for OSU, while the Blue Jay defense made a last-second stand to hold off Maryland.
• 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 60 games), the Blue Jays have played 36 games that have been decided by three goals or less, including 20, 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 (42 games), 28 Blue Jay games have been decided by three goals or less with 16 decided by one goal, four decided by two goals and eight decided by three goals.
• 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.
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