May 14, 2003
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No. 3 MARYLAND (11-3) vs. No. 5 MASSACHUSETTS (13-2)
SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2003 * 12:30 p.m. ET
CARRIER DOME (49,550/Artificial Turf), SYRACUSE, N.Y.
TV: ESPN Reg. (Comcast SportsNet) * Audio: WMUC (88.1 FM), WMUCSports.com
No. 3 Terps Battle No. 5 UMass In NCAA Quarterfinal At Syracuse
* The No. 3 seeded Maryland men's lacrosse returns to the NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals for the first time since 2000, as the Terps will take on No. 5 Massachusetts this Saturday at 12:30 p.m., at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y. The game will be the first of a quarterfinal doubleheader as host No. 6 Syracuse faces No. 4 seed Princeton in the second game at 3:30 p.m.
* Both quarterfinals will be produced by ESPN Regional Television and televised live back to the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area on Comcast SportsNet. The game also airs on regional television to more than 32 million homes including live broadcasts on Empire Sports Network, New England Sports Network (NESN) and Comcast SportsSouth and on a tape delayed basis on Fox SportsNet New York beginning at 7 p.m.. Dave Ryan (play-by-play) and Dale Drypolcher (color commentary) will call the action. The game will also air live on the radio at 88.1 FM (WMUC) in the College Park area and be available on WMUCSports.com.
* The Terps (11-3 overall) are making their 26th NCAA Tournament appearance, the third most of any school in NCAA history. Maryland has reached the NCAA Quarterfinals 24 times in those 26 showings. It also marks the Terps' 12th appearance in the Quarterfinals since the field was expanded from the original eight in 1986. The Minutemen (13-2 overall) are making their 15th NCAA appearance and are in the quarterfinals for the ninth time -- fifth since the field expanded in 1986.
* The winner of the Maryland/Massachusetts game will advance to the 2003 NCAA Lacrosse National Semifinals and will take on the winner of the Virginia/Georgetown game on Saturday, May 24 in Baltimore, Md., at newly renamed M&T Bank Stadium (formerly Ravens Stadium). The semifinal doubleheader will face-off at 11:30 a.m. with the order of the games to be announced on Monday, May 19. Both semifinals will be televised live on ESPN2. The title game will be played on Memorial Day Monday, May 26 at 11 a.m. and be televised on ESPN.
* With a win over UMass, Maryland would advance to the lacrosse final four for the 17th time (third only to Johns Hopkins and Syracuse). It would also be the Terps' first trip to the semifinals since the 1998 season. Maryland has won the national championship twice (1973 and 1975). Massachusetts has never advanced to the lacrosse semifinals since the tournament started in 1971.
Fast Facts About the Terps
* The Terps advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals with an 8-5 victory over No. 17 Ohio State last Sunday, May 11 at Byrd Stadium. Maryland is now 33-23 all-time in NCAA tournament games.
* Maryland received well-balanced scoring -- some from unlikely sources in the win over the Buckeyes. Senior captain Mike Mollot (Holbrook, N.Y.) led the way with two goals and an assist and ACC Rookie of the Year Joe Walters (Rochester, N.Y.) scored his team-high 32 goal in the win. To show the Terps' balance, all four members of the Terps' second midfield scored. Sean Leary (Troy, Mich.), Matt Brock (Manakin-Sabot, Va.) and Willy Passavia (Stony Brook, N.Y.) scored the game's first three goals and Jamie Daue (Lutherville, Md.) notched his fourth goal of the season after Mollot's first tally in the game.
* The Terps' defense continued to be stellar holding Ohio State to a season-low five goals. Maryland has held each of its last three opponents to five goals or fewer as senior goalie Danny McCormick (McLean, Va.) has a 5.28 goals against average in the last three games. Junior defenseman Lee Zink (Rowayton, Conn.) held the nation's fifth-leading scorer Curtis Smith without a point. That marked the third straight game, Zink has shutout his man. Fellow All-American defenders Michael Howley (Wantagh, N.Y.) and Chris Passavia (Stony Brook, N.Y.) have dominated in helping Maryland to force 86 turnovers over the last three games (28.7 to/pg).
* Over its current four-game winning streak the Terps have outscored its opponents 42-22 including holding No. 5 Georgetown to just five goals and No. 18 Notre Dame to just a season-low four goals.
The win over Notre Dame gave the Terps their 10th win of the season marking the 20th time in the 78 year history of Maryland men's lacrosse, that the Terps have won at least 10 games in a season. Overall, Maryland has a 636-204-4 (75.6 win percentage) record in lacrosse without having ever posted a losing record in a season, ever.
* The win over Notre Dame gave head coach Dave Cottle has 200th career win. Cottle has a 20-7 (74.1 win percentage) record at Maryland in two seasons after he went 181-70 in 19 years at Loyola from 1983-2001. He is currently third on the active career win percentage list, winning 72.3 percent of his games and ranks him tied with Duke's Mike Pressler for ninth among all active coaches in career coaching wins.
* The Terps have the nation's third-team goals against average and best of any team in the tournament, allowing just 6.79 goals per game (95 in 14 games). Last season the Terps tied with Cornell for the No. 1 scoring defense allowing just 7.00 goals per game. UMass comes into the game with the nation's third-highest scoring offense at 12.53 goals per game, which should make for some interesting match-ups.
* Maryland has outscored its opponents 41-12 in the second quarter and 113-61 from the second quarter on. In 14 games, the Terps have held six opponents scoreless in the second quarter, with every instance coming in the last 12 games.
Maryland's 26th Time At NCAA's
* Maryland is making its 26th overall NCAA Tournament appearance in 2003. The Terps have played in the third-most tournaments since the event began in 1971.
* The Terps have captured two NCAA championships, 1973 and 1975. Earlier this season, the team celebrated the 30th Anniversary of the 1973 at halftime of the Johns Hopkins game on April 12, as more than 25 players from that team came back to Byrd Stadium.
* Only Johns Hopkins and Virginia have played in more. The top-seeded Blue Jays have appeared in the last 32 tournaments, only missing the first event in 1971. Virginia has played in 27 NCAA Tournaments, playing in the last 11.
* Massachusetts is in its 15th NCAA Tournament and second in a row. Its 15th appearances are fifth most among all teams left in the tournament and is eighth-best all-time.
Maryland Record In NCAA's
* The Terps have won the third-most Division I NCAA Tournament games, compiling a 33-23 overall record in 56 games. Only Johns Hopkins (48-24) and Syracuse (43-15) have won more Division I games.
* Maryland is fifth by percentage (.592) among all teams ever to play in the tournament (Princeton, Syracuse, Johns Hopkins and Cornell are ahead).
* The Terps have captured two titles. Only six other schools have ever won the NCAA Championship: Syracuse (8), Johns Hopkins (7), Princeton (6), North Carolina (4), Cornell (3), Virginia (2).
* UMass has a 5-14 record in NCAA Tournament games, but has won a game in each of its last three berths (1997, 2002 and 2003). They have never reached the NCAA semifinals.
Maryland As The No. 3 Seed
* Maryland is the No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the sixth time and second in three years. Maryland was previously a No. 3 seed in 1971, 1975, 1977, 1978 and 2001.
* The last time Maryland won the NCAA championship in 1975, the Terps were seeded No. 3. In 12 games as the No. 3 seed, Maryland has a 8-4 record, following its first round win over Ohio State on May 11.
* Prior to this year, Maryland fell to No. 6 seed Towson, 12-11 at Byrd Stadium, the last time they were a No. 3 seed in 2001. That game was the finale for coach Dick Edell, who retired the following fall due to health problems.
Against Common Opponents
* The Terps and Minutemen have played four common teams this season with each team winning all four games.
* Maryland defeated Stony Brook (16-4 on March 15), Navy (9-7 on April 5), UMBC (15-8 on April 25) and Georgetown (9-5 on April 28). The Terps outscored those four opponents by a score of 49-24.
* UMass defeated Stony Brook (17-7 on March 1), Navy (10-9 on March 8), UMBC (11-8 on April 5) and Georgetown (11-8 on April 19). Overall, the Minutemen have a cumulative score of 49-32 against the same four teams.
Against The 2003 Field
* Maryland is 4-1 against teams which qualified for the 2003 NCAA Tournament with victories coming against No. 2 seed Virginia (8-7 on March 29), Towson (12-8 on March 8) , Georgetown (9-5 on Apr. 28) and Ohio State in the NCAA First Round (8-5 on May 11). The Terps' only loss came to No. 1 Johns Hopkins (6-5 on April 12 in overtime)
* The Terps have a 80.0 win percentage against teams in the field. Only Johns Hopkins has a better percentage at 87.5, having won seven of eight against the field.
* UMass is 5-2 against the field of 16 with wins over Hofstra -- twice (14-7 on March 23 and 9-6 on May 11 in the NCAA First Round), Albany (15-5 on March 18), Georgetown (11-8 on April 19), Syracuse (14-13 in OT on April 26). Their only two losses this season came at the hands of teams in the tournament. They fell to Penn State (11-10 on March 29) and Rutgers (12-9 on May 3).
Cottle In The NCAA Tournament
* This is Dave Cottle's first NCAA Tournament appearance as the head coach of Maryland. He is coaching his 15th team to the NCAA Tournament, with the previous 14 coming during his stint at Loyola. All 14 of his appearances came consecutively starting with the 1988 season and going through the 2001 campaign. Overall, Cottle is 9-14 in NCAA Tournament games, which ranks him fifth among all coaches in the 2003 Tournament in wins. Only Princeton's Bill Tierney (26-7), Virginia's Dom Starsia (16-14), Syracuse's John Desko (12-2) , and Towson's Tony Seaman (11-15) have more tournament wins to their credit than Cottle.
* With his 15th tournament appearance, Cottle now ranks fifth all-time in most NCAA Tournament Division I appearances as a head coach behind only Syracuse's Roy Simmons Jr. (19), former Maryland coach Dick Edell (17), Towson's Tony Seaman (16) and Virginia's Dom Starsia (16). With his streak of 14 consecutive tournaments while at Loyola, Cottle is second only to Simmons Jr. (19), for the longest consecutive steak.
* Cottle has now led his teams to the NCAA Quarterfinals on 13 occasions and to the NCAA semifinals twice with an appearance in the 1990 championship game where Loyola fell to Syracuse, 21-9. He also reached the NCAA semifinals, as the No. 1 seed with Loyola, but lost to Maryland, 19-8 at Byrd Stadium on May 23, 1998.
* Cottle has a perfect 7-0 coaching record against Massachusetts winning all of those games while he was at Loyola. In his only NCAA game against Massachusetts, Cottle led the Greyhounds to a 20-9 victory at Baltimore in the 1991 NCAA first round. Overall, Cottle-coached teams have outscored UMass 102-55 in the seven games spanning from 1988 to 2000. Cottle has a 4-0 record against UMass head coach Greg Cannella winning consecutive games from 1997-2000.
Credit Cottle for Looking Ahead To Syracuse
* This will be the Terps' second trip to Syracuse this season, as they scrimmaged the Orangemen back on Feb. 13 at the Carrier Dome. Cottle set up the game so that Maryland would become acclimated to playing a game in the dome, something no member of the current Terps had done in a college game. He did this in anticipation of Maryland having to play an NCAA Tournament game at the dome. Lo and behold, the Terps were sent back to Syracuse by the NCAA committee, but now have some experience in playing in the unique setting.
* In that preseason game, Maryland lost a high-scoring 15-14 battle as freshman sensation Joe Walters scored six goals and added one assist. Ryan Moran had four goals and an assist as well.
* Overall, this will be Maryland's third-ever game in a dome -- all of which have come in the Carrier Dome. The Terps lost their first and only game against Syracuse in the Dome, a 12-5 decision, in the NCAA Semifinals on May 21, 1983. Maryland lost its only other game at the Dome, a 15-11 defeat to Towson also in the NCAA Semifinals on May 25, 1991.
The Brief Series History With UMass
* Maryland and Massachusetts have played just once before, a 13-4 Terp win in Amherst on May 8, 1983. In that win third team All-American midfielder Kevin Sullivan scored three goals to lead Maryland . Tim Worstell also had two goals. In the nets, Kevin O'Leary (a current NCAA referee) made 15 saves as Maryland outshot UMass, 54-34.
* Against teams from the state of Massachusetts, the Terps are a perfect with a combined record of 35-0. They are never lost to Boston College (1-0), Harvard (25-0), UMass (1-0), M.I.T. (2-0) or Williams College (6-0).
Maryland-UMass Connections
* UMass head coach Greg Cannella actually began his college lacrosse career at Maryland. He played in 10 games in the 1984 season scoring three goals and adding three more assists. After that season, the native Long Islander returned home to play a year at Nassau C.C., where he was a first-team All-American and followed that with two years at UMass, where he graduated in 1988.
* Maryland does not have any players from the state of Massachusetts on it roster, but UMass has two Free State natives in Justin Walker (Baltimore, Md.) and Jake Deane (Annapolis, Md.).
* With vast location differences the teams do not have many former high school teammates, just six Terps played on the same team high school teams as six Minutemen at four schools. Five of the 12 players (Tyler Hereth and Teddy Murphy from Maryland and Scott Hinchney, Mike Nobile and Jack Reid of UMass) went to Glastonbury High School in Connecticut.
* Terp brothers Chris Passavia and Willy Passavia along with UMass's Derek Kunkel won the New York State high school championship together at Ward Melville High School in 1999.
Terps Perfect Vs. ECAC Lacrosse League
* Maryland enters the UMass game with a perfect 9-0 record against ECAC Lacrosse League foes since the league was formed in 2000. This season, the Terps went 3-0 against ECAC teams with wins over UMBC, Navy and Georgetown. Maryland also picked up a pair of wins in each of the last three seasons against Navy and UMBC. Maryland has not faced Massachusetts, Penn State or Rutgers since the league started in 2000.
Current Individual Terps In The NCAA Tournament
* Heading into the Ohio State game, only 13 current members of the Maryland roster had ever played in an NCAA Tournament game as Maryland did not make the tournament last season. But now the current Terps have one win under their belts as they face UMass this Saturday.
* Senior midfielder Mike Mollot leads all players in scoring in NCAA games as he has six goals and six assists in four games. He had a career day with three goals and four assists for a career-high seven points against Hofstra in the 2000 first round at UMBC. He also had a goal and assist vs. Towson in the 2001 quarterfinals. In the 2003 first round against Ohio State, he had two goals and an assist.
* Junior attacker Dan LaMonica is second on the team in points in NCAA games. In that 2001 Towson quarterfinal game, he posted a team-high five points on two goals and three assists. He had three assists in the win over Ohio State in the 2003 first round.
* Senior midfielder Jamie Daue is the only other Terps with more than one goal, as he scored in the 2001 Towson game and vs. the Buckeyes in 2003.
* Joe Walters, Matt Brock, Sean Leary, Ryan Moran and Willy Passavia all scored goals in the win over Ohio State.
* Prior to the 13-save effort vs. Ohio State, goalie Danny McCormick had played the final 46 seconds of the Terps' 2000 NCAA quarterfinal loss to Princeton for his only postseason action.
Current Individual Terps Vs. UMass
* As the Terps and Minutemen have not played in 20 years, it would be expected that no member of either team has faced the other. But, Maryland has two players who played against UMass while they were playing at other programs.
* Junior midfielder Justin Smith (University Park, Md.) actually set his career for points in a game with five against UMass while he was a sophomore at UMBC. He tallied a hat trick and added two assists against UMass on April 6, 2002. Ironically, Smith tied his points high of five against Maryland in his final game with UMBC on May 4, 2002.
* Graduate student Brian Hunt also posted a hat trick against UMass in his only game against them while he was playing at Yale. He tallied three goals in Amherst on April 14, 2001.
Five Terps Honored By The ACC
* Maryland features five players who were honored by the ACC this season. Seniors Michael Howley, Mike Mollot, Ryan Moran and Chris Passavia were named to the All-ACC team. It was the third time Howley earned All-ACC accolades making him the first Terp to be honored three years in a row since Mark Douglas (1989-91). Mollot and Passavia were also named to the team last season. It was the first league honor for Moran.
* Freshman attacker Joe Walters was named the league's Rookie of the Year. He is the first Terp to win the honor since Howley in 2000. Walters tallied his sixth hat trick vs. UMBC of his initial college campaign and added a goal against Ohio State in the NCAA First Round to raise his team high goal total to 32. He is closing in on the school record for goals by a freshman set by Matt Hahn, who scored 36 in 1995.
Mollot Moves Up Career Charts
* Senior captain Mike Mollot stands alone in 14th place all-time on Maryland's scoring charts in the program's storied lacrosse history after a netted two goals and added an assist against Ohio State on Sunday and now has 166 points. He passed Mark Douglas (1988-91), whom he was tied with at 157 entering the Georgetown game. Mollot currently has 72 goals and 94 assists for 166 points in three-plus seasons. He can move up to 13th with nine more points to tie Pete Worstell (1977-81).
* Mollot moved into 9th place all alone on the school's all-time career assist list with two assists vs. Notre Dame. He added another vs. Ohio State and currently has 94 career assists passing Mike Hynes (1974-77). Mollot is just two assists from tying Jack Heim (1964-67) for eighth in the list.
* Mollot became the 30th player in Maryland history to surpass the 100-point plateau with the seven points against Towson on March 9, 2002.
* Junior Dan LaMonica became the 31st Terp with 100-plus points in his career as he tallied two goals and added three assists vs. Butler on March 25. He now has 121 career points on 51 goals and 70 assists in two-plus seasons after a three-assist game vs. Ohio State. It was his third three-assist game of the season and 11th of his career. LaMonica's 70 career assists is 10 away from cracking the top-15 list at Maryland.
* Graduate student Brian Hunt piled up 128 points in his three seasons at Yale and ranks 10th all-time in Bulldog history in scoring. He had 78 goals and 50 assists from 1999-2001 with Yale. With the Terps, Hunt has scored 19 goals and added 10 assists in his Maryland debut and now has 157 career points on 97 goals and 60 assists. He needs just three goals for 100 all-time.
Mollot, Hunt: The ACC's Best
* Mike Mollot and Brian Hunt rank No. 1 and No. 2, respectively among all active ACC players in career scoring. Mollot tops the charts with 166 points on 72 goals and 94 assists. Hunt has the most goals of any ACC player with 97 along with 60 assists for 157 points. Hunt did accumulate 128 of the points at Yale.
* Just a junior, Dan LaMonica moved into fourth place all alone with three assists against Ohio State and now has 121 career points. He is the only non-senior with more than 100 career points in the ACC. He has 121 points on 51 goals and 70 assists.
Terps Top ACC Stat Charts
* When looking at the ACC statistics, the Terps rank No. 1 or 2 in seven of nine team and individual categories.
* In the team stats, the Terps have the top defense, allowing just 6.79 goals game and the No. 2 scoring offense at 10.64 goals game.
* On the individual side Joe Walters is second in the conference in goals per game (2.29 gpg) and is 20th nationally with that mark. He is tied for second with three Virginia players in points per game (3.0 ppg) behind Duke's Matt Rewkowski.
* In the assists column Dan LaMonica is second in the league averaging 1.42 assists per game. Mike Mollot is third in the league at 1.29 assists per game.
* Goalie Danny McCormick leads the league in save percentage (62.1), which ranks seventh nationally and leads the ACC in goals against average (6.72), which is third nationally.
On The Offensive, Terps Scoring At High Rate
* No. 3 Maryland has continued its winning ways with a strong offense that is tallying 10.64 goals per game to rank No. 11 in the nation in goals per game. The Terps are a perfect 7-0 when they score 10 or more goals this season with a high of 18 vs. Butler in Florida on March 25. They broke a mini scoring slump with 15 against UMBC on April 25 -- that came on the heels of consecutive losses vs. Hopkins and Duke, when they combined for just 11 goals.
* Maryland has six players with 10 or more goals and five players with more than 28 points. Ten different Terps have five goals or more.
* Freshman attacker Joe Walters leads the scoring parade. The ACC Rookie of the Year, Walters tops the club with 32 goals and 42 points through 14 games. With 32 goals, he is closing in on the Maryland school record for goals by a freshman set by Matt Hahn (36) in 1995. The left-handed attacker posted his sixth hat trick of the year vs. UMBC. He has posted four-goal efforts vs. Bucknell, Towson, Navy and Butler. He was named the WMAR-TV Star of the Game and Maryland Student-Athlete of the Week after the Towson game. Walters has scored a goal in the last 13 games in a row and has multi-point games in 12 of 14 games as a freshman as well as nine multi-goal games. Walters and Ryan Moran are the only Terps with a point in all 14 games this season.
* Junior attacker Dan LaMonica has 11 goals and 20 assists for 31 points ranking third on the team in point scoring. He became the 31st Terp to pass the 100-point plateau with two goals and three assists vs. Butler on March 25. He now has 121 career points on 51 goals and 70 assists in two-plus years of action. His career point total ranks first among all juniors in the ACC and fourth overall. His six assists against Navy were a personal career high and the most by a Terp since Tim Cox also had six against Navy on April 14, 1990. He had his third three-plus assist game of the year against Ohio State and now has 14 assists in his last seven games..
* A Tewaaraton Trophy "Player to Watch," attacker Brian Hunt came to Maryland after graduating from Yale last spring, has 15 career hat tricks dating back to his career with the Bulldogs after posting three this season, most recently vs. Butler on March 25. His 40-game point scoring streak came to an end at Virginia as he was held off scoring sheet for the first time since his sixth college game in 1999. He had two goals vs. Notre Dame in the regular-season finale and now has 157 career points (2.96 PPG). Hunt's 157 career points are second to only Mike Mollot in career points among players in the ACC. Hunt is closing in on the 100 career goals mark, as he entered the tournament with 97. He has multiple points in 39 of 53 career games.
* All-ACC midfielder and Tewaaraton Trophy candidate Mike Mollot stands 14th on the Terps' all-time career scoring chart with 166 points after three points vs.Ohio State in the NCAA First Round. He is also in 9th place on Maryland's all-time career assist chart with five helpers in his last four games and now has 94 for his career. He has 72 goals and 94 assists in three-plus seasons. His 166 points are the most among all active players in the ACC. His 22-game point scoring streak come to an end vs. Johns Hopkins on April 12. Overall, 43 of his 59 career games have been multi-point games, including 10 this year.
* All-ACC midfielder Ryan Moran has 22 goals to rank second on the team in goals after posting the final goal of the game in the Terps' NCAA first round win over Ohio State. He had his fifth career hat trick vs. Duke in the ACC Semifinals -- three of which have come against Duke. Moran, set a new career-high with four goals vs. Bucknell this season on March 11. He now has all 37 of his goals in his last 25 games, dating back to last season -- after never scoring his first two years with Maryland. He surpassed his season goal, assist and point totals from last season against UMBC as he had 15 goals, four assists and 19 points last season. He has the longest point-scoring streak on the team at 15 games, including all 14 this season.
* The Terps' extra-man unit was strong early in this season and is currently scoring on 30.6 percent of its opportunities. Maryland has scored 19 goals on 62 chances led by Ryan Moran and Joe Walters who have five EMG's. Brian Hunt, Dan LaMonica and Mike Mollot each have two extra-man tallies as well. In comparison, last season the Terps scored just 17 extra-man goals the entire season, on 63 chances (27 percent). The defense has held opponents to just 16 EMG's on 64 chances (25.0 percent).
Rock-Solid Defense Stifles Opponents
* The Terps' defense, the nation's best last year allowing seven goals a game, and has continued its prowess, allowing 6.79 goals per game (third best in the nation), backstopped by preseason honorable mention goalie Danny McCormick. Preseason first-team All-Americans Michael Howley and Chris Passavia have teamed with Lee Zink and defensive middies Brett Harper and Paul Gillette to keep opponents at bay. The Terps have allowed only one team to score 10 goals against Maryland this season -- North Carolina on March 22. Gillette leads the team in groundballs with 57, while Zink (28) and Harper (27) top the team in caused turnovers. Howley and Passavia have forced 22 and 21 turnovers , respectively. Maryland has forced its last three opponents, Georgetown (33), Notre Dame (31) and Ohio State (22) into 86 combined turnovers (28.7 per game).
* Zink, who was named the Maryland Student-Athlete of the Week of April 28-May 4, may have been the best of the three over the last three games. In those three games, he has forced opponents into 13 turnovers including a team season-high (7) at Notre Dame. He also had a career-high nine groundballs vs. the Irish. Most impressive though, is that fact that he has not allowed the attacker which has been guarding to score in the last three games. Included in that run, he blanked Georgetown's leading scorer Neal Goldman and Ohio State's Curtis Smith, who came into the NCAA Tournament as the nation's fifth leading scorer. Zink also scored his first career goal vs. Georgetown on April 28. Howley and Passavia are tied for third (along with Ryan Moran) on the team in groundballs with 40 as they have consistently guarded top opposing attackmen. Howley shutout down the nation's fifth-leading scorer at the time Patrick Walsh of Notre Dame, holding him pointless and without a shot until the final minute of the game.
* Overall, the Terps have outscored their opponents 149-95 (10.62-6.79) per game -- a 3.83 goal margin (fourth best in the nation). Even more amazing is that opponents have just 12 goals total in the second quarter and 21 in the third quarter for a combined total of 33 for the second and third quarters. In contrast the Terps have 71 goals in the middle periods (a 38 goal margin -- 29 in the second quarter alone).
* The Terps' defense has continued to be stellar as it has had several runs of holding its opponents scoreless. In 10 of 14 games, the Terps have held opponents scoreless for stretches of at least 20 minutes including five of the last six games.
* To open its NCAA Tournament run, Maryland continued its stifling defense in holding Ohio State scoreless for the game's first 27:44 and them limiting them to one goal over the first 54:28 of the game.
* In its last regular-season game, the Terps kept Notre Dame off the scoreboard for 32:55 minutes after the Irish scored exactly one minute into the game. They did not score again until 11:05 was left in the third quarter. Following that goal, the Irish did not score for another 9:25 -- meaning that they had just one goal in 42:30 span. Only the effort vs. Duke in the season opener was better.
* Maryland had perhaps its best defensive effort vs. Georgetown in limiting the Hoyas to just five goals on 43 shots. The Hoyas committed 33 turnovers and were held off the scoreboard for 18:10 late in the game.
* Against UMBC, the Terps shutout the Retrievers in the second quarter -- marking the fifth time a foe has failed to score in the second stanza to date -- and held UMBC off the board for 20:36 from the last first quarter until the early fourth quarter.
* Despite the loss, Maryland held No. 1 Johns Hopkins to just six goals as the Jays came into the game as the nation's fourth highest scoring team at 13.14 per game. Maryland kept Hopkins off the scoreboard for a string of 27:21 from early in the third quarter until the game-winning goal 1:21 into overtime.
* Against Navy, the Maryland defense was on top of its game against as it allowed just one goal over a span of 33:42 from the second through late fourth quarter.
* Against Virginia, the Terps shutdown what was the fifth-highest scoring offense in the country and held the Cavaliers to just seven goals. Maryland limited the Virginia attack to four goals on 17 shots with Howley, Passavia and Zink pressuring the attackers. Maryland blanked Virginia for a spell of 33:06 from the mid-first quarter until 4:14 left in the third quarter. Over that time, the Terps reeled off seven consecutive goals to build a 7-2 lead.
* The Terps kept Butler scoreless for a stretch of 24:32 from late in the second quarter until early in the fourth quarter.
* Maryland kept host Stony Brook to just one goal in the first 33:11 of the game in building a 15-1 lead in the early third quarter. With the score tied 1-1, Maryland went on a 14-goal run holding Stony Brook scoreless for 27:32.
* After a high-scoring 6-6 first quarter with Bucknell, Maryland buckled down and held the Bison off the scoreboard for more than 30 minutes and nearly shut them out for the second and third quarters before a fluke Bison goal with one second left in the third quarter.
* Against Towson, Maryland held the Tigers without a goal for almost 18 minutes from the second to the third quarter and with just one goal from the late second to late fourth quarters.
* Against Duke, the Terps held the then-No. 7 Blue Devils without a goal for 38 minutes spanning the final three quarters and to just one goal for nearly 50 minutes from midway in the first quarter until late in the fourth quarter.
