The Game
• Johns Hopkins (6-3, 1-1 B1G) flips the calendar to April as the Blue Jays welcome Penn State (6-3, 2-0 B1G) to Homewood Field.
• Faceoff is set for 12 pm on Saturday, April 4 (ESPNU).
When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins had its two-game winning streak snapped as the Blue Jays fell, 9-8 in double overtime, at Rutgers on Sunday.
• Penn State jumped to a 4-0 lead in the first eight minutes and never looked back in a 13-6 win at Ohio State last Saturday.
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 1,039-386-15 (.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 14 in this week's USILA Coaches Poll and is 16th in the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and 13th in 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.
• Penn State is ranked sixth in the USILA Poll and the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and seventh in the USA Lacrosse Poll.
Poll Notes of Interest
• Including this week's poll, the USILA has issued 576 polls since the debut poll in 1973. Johns Hopkins has appeared in the top 20 in 551 of those 576 polls and has been ranked in the top 10 in 452 of the 573.
On this Date
• Since 1940, this week's game against Penn State will be the 12th for Johns Hopkins on April 4.
• In that time, the Blue Jays are 9-2 all-time in games played on April 4.
• Johns Hopkins and Penn State have played once on this date with that game coming in 1942. Henley Guild scored five goals to power Johns Hopkins to a 10-0 win in that game.
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 11-of-23 (.478) extra-man chances through nine games. The Blue Jays are currently ranked 12th in the nation in extra-man offense with their 47.8% conversion rate.
• JHU's 11 extra-man goals in nine games are already two more than the number the Blue Jays scored during the entire 2025 season (9-of-28 (.321)).
• Seven 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 73.9% of its man-down chances through nine games as the Blue Jays have allowed just six extra-man goals on 23 attempts.
• The Blue Jays are currently 13th in the nation in man-down defense with their 73.9% kill rate.
One of Two
• Johns Hopkins is currently one of just two teams in the nation to rank in the top 15 in the nation in extra-man offense and man-down defense; the only other team in the top 15 in both categories is Utah.
Defensive Notes of Interest
• The Blue Jays have held the opposition scoreless for a stretch of 10 minutes or longer 14 times in nine games. Eight of those 14 stretches are 15 minutes or longer.
• Eight of JHU's nine opponents to-date have been held under their season scoring average by the Blue Jays.
• In nine games, Johns Hopkins has held the opposition to two goals or less in 21 of the 36 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 nine 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 36 quarters this season, the Blue Jays have scored at least two goals in 28 quarters, three or more goals in 22 quarters and four or more goals in 15 quarters. JHU has scored a season-best six goals in a quarter three different times.
Non-Offensive Scoring
• In nine games, Johns Hopkins has gotten at least one point from 10 players who are not classified as offensive players.
• The ten have combined for 10 goals and seven assists for 17 points. 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 37 goals and 37 assists for 74 points, an average of 8.22 points per game thus far.
• Collison tops the team's scoring chart with 19 goals and 10 assists for 29 points, while Rawson has 14 goals and 12 assists for 26 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 19 points on four goals and a team-high 15 assists through nine 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 nine games, DiCicco has one assist, 32 ground balls and 14 caused turnovers to his credit. He leads the team in GBs and CTs entering this week's game against Penn State.
• 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.
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 57 games), the Blue Jays have played 33 games that have been decided by three goals or less, including 17, 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 (39 games), 25 Blue Jay games have been decided by three goals or less with 13 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 (2nd), Syracuse (3rd), Penn State (6th), Ohio State (9th), Maryland (10th), Rutgers (13th), Virginia (16th) and Towson (17th). One other Blue Jay opponent - Navy - is listed as receiving votes in this week's poll.
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