Game Notes | Hopkins-Virginia for a Spot in Championship Weekend - Johns Hopkins University Athletics (2024)

The Game
• Third-seeded Johns Hopkins (11-4) makes the five-mile trip north to Unitas Stadium (Towson University) to take on sixth-seeded Virginia (11-5) in the NCAA Quarterfinals. Faceoff is set for approximately 2:30 pm on Sunday, May 19 (ESPNU). The Hopkins-Virginia game will follow the game between fourth-seeded Syracuse and fifth-seeded Denver.

When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals with a 13-10 win over Lehigh in the first round of the NCAAs last Sunday at Homewood Field.
• Virginia was the first team to advance to the quarterfinals as the Cavaliers topped St. Joe's, 17-11, last Saturday afternoon at home.

How They Got In
• Johns Hopkins earned an at-large bid into the field of 17. The Blue Jays received one of the eight at-large selections into the NCAA Tournament, three of which came from the Big Ten.
• Virginia also earned an at-large bid into the field of 17. The Cavaliers are one of four ACC teams that earned an at-large bid.

Poll Position
• Johns Hopkins is ranked in the top five in the nation in both major national polls as the Blue Jays are third in the USILA Coaches Poll and third in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll.
• Johns Hopkins was #3 in the final RPI ranking prior to the start of the NCAA Tournament.
• Virginia is ranked fifth in the USILA Coaches Poll and fifth in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll.

As the #3 Seed
• Johns Hopkins drew the number three seed in the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time in its tournament history. The Blue Jays were previously seeded third in 1976, 2007 and 2011.
• Johns Hopkins advanced to the NCAA Semifinals as the number three seed in 1976, won the NCAA Championship as the three seed in 2007 and advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals from the three spot in 2011.

Q4 | 3:11

JHU 12 - 10 Lehigh

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— JHU Men's Lacrosse (@jhumenslacrosse) May 12, 2024

In the NCAAs at Towson
• Johns Hopkins has clinched a pair of trips to Championship Weekend in two all-time NCAA Tournament games played at Towson. The Blue Jays topped the host Tigers, 15-7, in the 1992 NCAA Quarterfinals, then drew Towson again in the 2003 NCAA Quarterfinals and picked up a 14-6 victory to move into the NCAA Semifinals.
• In the 1992 NCAA Quarterfinals, it was a six-goal performance from Brian Piccola that lifted the fifth-seeded Jays past the fourth-seeded Tigers, while a hat trick from Bobby Benson fueled the 14-6 win for the top-seeded Blue Jays in 2003. Current Blue Jay assistant coach Brian Kelly was a junior midfielder on that 1992 team.

Series History
• Johns Hopkins and Virginia will be meeting for the 98th time this week. The series dates to a 9-0 Johns Hopkins victory in 1904 and the Blue Jays are 62-34-1 against the Cavaliers.
• A complete look at the series history can be found on page 21.

Series History - NCAA Tournament
• Johns Hopkins and Virginia will be meeting for the 17th time in the NCAA Tournament. The Blue Jays have won 10 of the previous 16 NCAA Tournament meetings, including the last two (2014, 2015) and three of the last the last four (2005, 2014, 2015).
• The 17 all-time meetings between Hopkins and Virginia are the most in NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse history.

Most Games Played Between Two Teams - NCAA Tournament History
17 - Johns Hopkins-Virginia
14 - Johns Hopkins-Maryland
13 - Johns Hopkins-Syracuse

Against the ACC
• This week's game against Virginia will be the 239th all-time for Johns Hopkins against a team currently in the ACC and the fourth of the year for the Jays as they played at North Carolina and Virginia and had a neutral-site game against Syracuse earlier this season.
• Including the three games earlier this year, Johns Hopkins is 137-99-2 (.580) all-time against current ACC members.
• Johns Hopkins has played 53 all-time NCAA Tournament games against current ACC teams. The Blue Jays are 28-25 all-time in the NCAAs against the five teams currently competing in the ACC.

On This Date - May 19
• This week's game will be the 11th all-time game for Johns Hopkins on May 19.
• The Blue Jays are 7-3 all-time on this date, including 7-1 in the NCAA Tournament.
• Johns Hopkins and Virginia have played once on this date - in 1979 - with the Blue Jays taking a 16-7 victory in the NCAA Semifinals that year. Scott Baugher (4g) and Wayne Davis (3g) led the way offensively for the Blue Jays that day.

Tournament #49
• Johns Hopkins is making its record 49th NCAA Tournament appearance this season. Since the tournament debuted in 1971, the Jays have appeared in all but four tournaments (1971, 2013, 2021, 2022).
• The only other programs to appear in the tournament more than 40 times are Maryland (46), Virginia (43) and Syracuse (41).

Offensive Notes of Interest
• Since the start of the 2022 season, the Blue Jays are 25-5 when they score 12 or more goals.
• This season, in 60 full quarters (does not include overtime periods), the Blue Jays have scored two or more goals in 47 quarters and four or more in 24 quarters.
• Johns Hopkins is averaging 11.67 goals per game this season with at least 11 goals scored in 11 of 15 games thus far.
• In 15 games, the Blue Jays have gotten goals from 15 different players and 20 different players have at least one point.

45 Straight For Degnon
• Graduate student attackman Garrett Degnon will carry a school-record 45-game goal-scoring streak into this week's game against Virginia in the NCAA Quarterfinals after he scored twice in the first round of the NCAAs against Lehigh. The streak is currently the third-longest active streak in the nation.
• During his 45-game goal-scoring run, Degnon has scored 120 goals and has 38 multi-goal games and 29 games with 3+ goals to his credit.
• Degnon's 45-game run is the longest in school history after he broke the previous record of 37 earlier this season against Navy. Terry Riordan originally set the mark at 37 games from 1992-95 and Ryan Brown matched that with a 37-game run from 2013-16.
• The 45-game goal-scoring run for Degnon and the 37-game runs for Brown and Riordan are the only three goal-scoring streaks of 30+ games in Johns Hopkins history.

Causing Trouble
• Johns Hopkins tied the program record with 14 caused turnovers in the 9-8 overtime win against Penn State in early April - this came one week after notching 13 CTs in a win against Michigan.
• In 15 games thus far, the Blue Jays have 126 caused turnovers to their credit (8.4/game) with 10 coming in the 13-5 win against Towson, nine in the 11-9 win at Georgetown, 12 against Loyola and 11 at Virginia to go along with the efforts against Michigan (13) and Penn State (14). The 14 CTs against Penn State marked the 24th time in program history that the Blue Jays have been credited with 10 or more CTs in a game (CTs became an official stat in 2009).
• JHU currently ranks 28th in the nation - and third in the Big Ten - with its 8.40 caused turnovers per game.
• The 135 CTs the Blue Jays amassed last season are a JHU single-season record, while the 126 the Jays have this season rank as the second-highest total in program history.

Defensive Notes of Interest
• Johns Hopkins has held 14 of its first 15 opponents below its season scoring average (see chart on left). Eight of the 15 opponents have been held more than two goals below their season scoring average.
• The Blue Jays have held their first 15 opponents scoreless for a period of 10 minutes or longer a total of 27 times ... 17 of those 27 streaks have been 12+ minutes in length.
• In five regular season Big Ten games plus the Big Ten Semifinals, JHU held the opposition scoreless for at least 10 minutes 12 different times with 10 of those stretches covering at least 12 minutes.
• In the last 14 games, the opposition has gone scoreless for a stretch of 10 minutes or longer 26 times with four of those coming against Towson, three against Maryland and two each against Georgetown, Loyola, North Carolina, Rutgers, Michigan (reg. season), Penn State and Ohio State.
• Dating back to the start of the 2023 season, the Blue Jays have held their 33 opponents scoreless for a period of at least 10 minutes 51 different times - 41 of those have come in the last 26 games.
• This season, in 60 full quarters (does not include overtime periods), the Blue Jays have allowed two or less goals in 37 quarters and four or more in just nine quarters.
• The five goals the Blue Jays allowed against Towson were, at the time, the fewest JHU has surrendered since Hopkins topped Ohio State, 6-5, in the 2018 Big Ten Semifinals.
• The five goals the Blue Jays held Maryland to in the regular season finale were the fewest for the Terps in a game since they suffered a 5-4 loss to Notre Dame early in the 2017 season.
• Johns Hopkins is 24-2 under head coach Peter Milliman and defensive coordinator Jamison Koesterer when holding the opposition to 10 goals or less.

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