The Game
• Johns Hopkins (7-3, 2-1 B1G) hits the road for the final time in the regular season as the 10th-ranked Blue Jays head to Ohio State (8-3, 1-2 B1G) to take on the Buckeyes.
• Faceoff is set for 12 pm on Saturday, April 11 (BTN+).
When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins erased a 9-4 third quarter deficit to overcome sixth-ranked Penn State, 11-10, at Homewood Field last Saturday.
• Ohio State erased an early 4-0 deficit at Maryland to force overtime, but ultimately fell to the Terps, 8-7.
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 1,040-386-15 (.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 10 in this week's USILA Coaches Poll and the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and 11th 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.
• Ohio State is ranked 14th in the USILA Poll and the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and 12th in the USA Lacrosse Poll.
Poll Notes of Interest
• Including this week's poll, the USILA has issued 577 polls since the debut poll in 1973. Johns Hopkins has appeared in the top 20 in 552 of those 577 polls and has been ranked in the top 10 in 453 of the 577.
On this Date
• Since 1940, this week's game against Ohio State will be the 14th for Johns Hopkins on April 11.
• In that time, the Blue Jays are 12-1 in games played on April 11.
• The first-ever meeting between Johns Hopkins and Ohio State took place on April 11, 1999 with the Blue Jays grabbing a 17-8 win at Homewood Field.
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.
Record-Tying Rally
• The Blue Jays rallied from an 11-4 third-quarter deficit to top then 13th-ranked Virginia on February 28 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.
Another Rally
• Johns Hopkins trailed Penn State 9-4 with 12 minutes remaining in the third quarter last week at Homewood Field before rallying for an 11-10 victory.
• The Blue Jays scored seven straight goals in a span of just over 16 minutes to turn the 9-4 deficit into an 11-9 lead.
For Just the Second Time
• With a seven-goal comeback at Virginia (Feb. 28) and a five-goal rally against Penn State (Apr. 4), Johns Hopkins did something that had only been done once before in program history.
• With those two rallies in place, JHU has rallied from a deficit of five goals or more twice in the same season for just the second time.
• The only other time Johns Hopkins has turned this trick twice in one season was in 2018, when the Blue Jays rallied from a seven-goal deficit (9-2) at Virginia and then topped Georgetown in the first round of the NCAA Tournament after trailing by five (8-3).
Defensive Notes of Interest
• The Blue Jays have held the opposition scoreless for a stretch of 10 minutes or longer 15 times in 10 games. Nine of those 15 stretches are 15 minutes or longer.
• Nine of JHU's 10 opponents to-date have been held under their season scoring average by the Blue Jays.
• In 10 games, Johns Hopkins has held the opposition to two goals or less in 23 of the 40 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 10 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 40 quarters this season, the Blue Jays have scored at least two goals in 31 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.
Non-Offensive Scoring
• In 10 games, Johns Hopkins has gotten at least one point from 10 players who are not classified as offensive players.
• The ten have combined for 11 goals and eight assists for 19 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 39 goals and 42 assists for 81 points, an average of 8.1 points per game thus far.
• Collison tops the team's scoring chart with 21 goals and 11 assists for 32 points, while Rawson has 14 goals and 13 assists for 27 points to rank third on the team in points, second in assists and fourth in goals. English, who had career-best five-point efforts against Loyola (1g, 4a) and Virginia (1g, 4a), has 22 points on four goals and a team-high 18 assists through 10 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 10 games, DiCicco has one assist, 36 ground balls and 17 caused turnovers to his credit. He leads the team in GBs and CTs entering this week's game against Ohio State.
• DiCicco's 17 CTs also currently lead the nation among players who play with a short stick.
• DiCicco' 17 CTs are already a Johns Hopkins single-season record for a non-long stick.
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 58 games), the Blue Jays have played 34 games that have been decided by three goals or less, including 18, 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 (40 games), 26 Blue Jay games have been decided by three goals or less with 14 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 (1st), Syracuse (5th), Penn State (8th), Maryland (9th), Virginia (13th) Ohio State (14th), Towson (16th) and Rutgers (19th). All four other Blue Jay opponents from this season - Loyola, Navy, Michigan and Robert Morris - are listed as receiving votes in this week's poll.
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