COLLEGE PARK, MD. - The seventh-ranked Maryland men's lacrosse team continues its season-opening road trip at local rival No. 13 Georgetown on Saturday, Feb. 27 at 2 p.m. at the Hoyas' Multi-Sport Field. The game will be televised live nationally on ESPNU and locally on WMAR. Scott Garceau and Mark Dixon will handle the announcing duties.

• Maryland is coming off of a 12-7 win in its season opener at Bellarmine last Saturday. Grant Catalino led the offense with six points on two goals and four assists.

• The Hoyas are looking to rebound from a 2009 season that saw them finish with a 7-7 record and miss the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season. Offensively, Georgetown will be led by attackman Ricky Mirabito (23-6=29) and midfielder Andrew Brancaccio (22-3=25). Jack Davis, who had a .515 save percentage and a 8.49 goals-against average in 2009, returns as the starting goalie.

The Count Down
10 ... The 2010 meeting between the Terps and the Hoyas will be the 10th in the series.
9 ... Coach Cottle is in his ninth season as the Terps' head coach in 2010.
8 ... Grant Catalino has had a point in eight straight games, dating back to last season, and has had at least one point in 32 of 34 career games.
7 ... Maryland has won seven of the nine previous meetings with the Hoyas.
6 ... Catalino's six points vs. Bellarmine were the most by a Terp in the team's first game since 2004 when Xander Ritz had seven (4-3) vs. Delaware.
5 ... Catalino is five points away from the 100-point mark for his career.
4 ... Catalino scored four goals the last time the Terps played at Georgetown, an 11-7 win for Maryland.
3 ... Maryland got goals from all three midfield lines in its season opening win at Bellarmine. The first and second lines had three goals apiece, while the third line also added a goal.
2 ... Maryland returns only two Terps - Catalino and Ryan Young - that scored in the 13-10 loss to Georgetown in 2009.
1 ... The Terps had one first-time starter in their game at Bellarmine. Sophomore Jake Bernhardt made his first career start as a member of the team's first midfield.

Coaching Match-Up
• Now in his 28th season as a head coach, Dave Cottle enters today's game with a 269-111 career record for a 70.8 win percentage, sixth-highest among active coaches with at least 100 career wins. His win total is seventh among active coaches. He is 88-41 (68.2) in eight seasons at Maryland.

• Georgetown's Dave Urick is in his 30th season as a head coach and is first among active Division I head coaches with 322 coaching victories. Urick holds an all-time record of 322-111 (.744). Urick is now in his 20th season at Georgetown and has 200-81 (.712) mark.

• Cottle has a 17-2 lifetime record against Georgetown, with 10 victories coming while he was at Loyola from 1983-2001. Urick is 2-7 all-time vs. Maryland with NCAA losses in 1997 and 2005 and regular-season defeats in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008. He picked up his first win over the Terps with an 8-6 victory in College Park in 2007.

Series History vs. Georgetown

• The 2009 game was held at Ludwig Field due to rennovations to Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium and No. 8 Georgetown came in and topped the third-ranked Terps, 13-10. Maryland had a 6-5 lead going into halftime, but the Hoyas outscored the Terps 5-1 in the third quarter to take control of the game. Jeremy Sieverts had a hat trick for Maryland and Bryn Holmes was dominating at the X, winning 12-of-16 face-offs.

• The 2008 season opener saw the Terps as the underdog at Georgetown, but Maryland, which started three freshman at attack and one on close defense, came away from the Hoyas' Multi-Sport Field with an 11-6 victory. The three freshman attackmen, Grant Catalino, Ryan Young and Travis Reed combined for eight goals to lead the way for the Terrapins.

• The Hoyas solved their Terrapin puzzle for the first time in 2007 with an 8-6 win over the Terps at the Maryland Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex. Georgetown jumped out to a 6-1 lead at the half, but Maryland came storming back with five unanswered goals to knot the game at 6-6. But that was all the Terps could muster and the Hoyas added a pair of scores in the fourth quarter to eek out their first-ever win over the Terps.

• The 2006 meeting saw the Terps head to the Georgetown campus for just the second time in the series history and come away with a convincing 10-4 victory. Max Ritz had a career-day for Maryland, racking up then-career-bests with five points and four goals. Older brother Xander also had an amazing afternoon, scoring four goals including the game winner.

• The series' intensity was turned up a notch in the 2005 NCAA Quarterfinals at Princeton Stadium. The Terps looked to have iced the game with 1:33 left in the fourth quarter, when Bill McGlone scored to give Maryland a 9-7 lead, but the goal was disallowed when McGlone's stick was challenged and ruled to have an illegal pocket. The Hoyas tied the game and sent it into overtime, where the Terrapin man-down unit killed the remainder of the three-minute penalty. Senior Andrew Schwartzman sent the Terps to the Final Four by scoring the game-winner with just more than three minutes elapsed in the extra period. Joe Walters scored four goals in the game, while Max Ritz scored a pair of goals and added an assist.

• In the 2005 season opener Maryland used an 8-0 run spanning the second and third quarters to pull away from Georgetown en route to a 13-6 victory in each team's season opener on February 26. Eleven (11) different Terps scored on the afternoon with Bill McGlone leading the way with three goals. Joe Walters was limited to just a single goal, but added four assists for a five-point game. But the unquestioned star of the game was Maryland goalie Harry Alford who made 25 saves and scooped up eight groundballs.

• In the 2004 opener Xander Ritz and Joe Walters each netted three goals, with Ritz adding four assists for a seven-point game to propelled the Terrapins to a decisive 14-5 victory in the regular season home opener on February 28, 2004. Bill McGlone and Justin Smith each scored two goals, while goalie Tim McGinnis stopped 13 Hoya shots.

• In the 2003 game Brian Hunt, Ryan Moran and Mike Mollot each netted two goals, plus Lee Zink's first-career goal and a strong defense gave the Terps a 9-5 victory in the regular season home finale on April 28, 2003.

• In the first game between the schools, Maryland defeated Georgetown, 14-10, in the first round of the 1997 NCAA Tournament at Towson. The Terps jumped out to a 6-0 lead after the first quarter and never looked back as they began their run to the second of three trips to the NCAA championship game in a four-year span. The game marked Georgetown's first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance. All-American Scott Hochstadt, the school's 18th all-time leading scorer, led the way for Maryland as he posted five goals. Andrew Whipple added three for Maryland as the Terps outshot the Hoyas, 42-25.

Maryland In Season Openers
• Maryland has a 81-3-1 (.959) lifetime record in season openers dating back to the 1924 season. The Terps have won their last 17 openers and 24 of the last 25, with the only loss coming to Duke in 1993, when they fell to Duke 9-5 on March 6.

• After losing their 1925 opener to Yale, 5-3, the Terps went on to win 40 consecutive season openers from 1926 through 1967. The streak was broken when Maryland tied Princeton, 6-6, in the 1968 opener. Following the deadlock, Maryland went on to win its next 14 openers, giving the Terps a 54-0-1 record over a 57-year span (Maryland did not field a team in 1944 and 1945 due to World War II.)

17 Straight in Season Openers
• After beating Bellarmine to open the 2010 season the Terps have a 17-game winning streak in season openers. Five of those wins came against Villanova (1994-98) and the last nine over Denver, Mount St. Mary's, Air Force, Hobart, Duke, Georgetown (four times), Bellarmine (twice) and Presbyterian. Over the 17-year stretch, Maryland outscored its foes 222-81 (an average score of 13.8-5.1) in those games.

• The Terps have not allowed more than seven goals to any opponent in a season opener over the last 17 years. Maryland has not allowed an opponent to score 10 or more goals in a season opener since Syracuse beat the Terps, 16-13 on March 9, 1983.

Big Cat Plays Big During First Two Years
• How good has Grant Catalino been in his first two seasons? The easy answer would be pretty good, but here's some numbers to back that claim up.

• In his first two seasons Catalino has the fifth-highest point total since freshman records were first kept in 1970.

1. Joe Walters (2003-04): 75-39=114
2. Frank Urso (1973-74): 68-42=110
2. Bob Boneillo (1977-78): 38-72=110
4. Dan LaMonica (2001-02): 40-50=90
5. Grant Catalino (2008-09): 54-35=89
6. Mike Mollot (2000-01): 34-53=88

• Catalino has picked up in 2010 right where he left off. In the opener at Bellarmine he tied his career high with four assists and added a pair of goals for a six-point game in the 12-7 victory.

Defense Ready To Meet Expectations
• On paper this year's Maryland defense looks to be one of the best in recent memory, which says a lot about this group of Terps, but also brings with it the pressure of living up to some pretty high standards. Maryland lost only one starter from this unit (2009 senior Mike Griswold), but the core remains in tact with 2009 All-American Max Schmidt returning to anchor the group. Along side him will be junior Brett Schmidt (no relation), who moved to close defense last season before the Duke game and turned in an All-American-caliber season. The third close defender spot was won in the preseason by junior Ryder Bohlander. The defense is sure to provide an offensive boost to the Terps thanks to the return of All-American long pole Brian Farrell, who missed all but three games in 2009 due to injury. The second long pole spot will be filled by senior Dan Halayko, who was the team's top long-stick middie during Farrell's absence. Preseason injuries junior long pole Chris Ready and sophomore Grant Oliver leaves the fourth defender and third long pole spot in the hands of freshman Jesse Bernhardt.

• During the last six seasons, Maryland held its' opponents scoreless for long stretches of game time. The 2004 Terps kept opponents scoreless for stretches of 20 or more minutes eight times. In 2005 Maryland did it on seven occasions, and was just seconds away from keeping the high-powered Duke (1st meeting) and Navy offenses off the board for more than 20 minutes. The 2006 season saw the Terrapin defense do it 10 times in 17 games. In 2007 Terp "D" had 11 20+ minute scoring droughts to its credit in 16 contests. In 2008, the Terp defense had six 20+-minute scoring droughts. The 2009 Terps held opponents scoreless for 20 minutes or more eight times, including two separate stretches at Penn.

• Maryland's defense didn't get a 20-minute scoreless stretch at Bellarmine in the season opener, but it did hold the highly-motivated Knights, who were playing for their coach Jack McGetrick to whom the new locker room and concourse plaza was dedicated to prior to the game, off the board for 19:06. The starting close defense of Ryder Bohlander, Brett Schmidt and Max Schmidt combined for five groundballs and four caused turnovers. Junior Scott LaRue made the switch to defensive short-stick in the preseason and got into the scoring act with an assist on Grant Catalino's second goal.

Young Blood
• Ryan Young has been the one constant to the Terps' attack during the past two seasons. The junior from Manhasset, N.Y., has missed just one game during his two years as a Terp and has only missed one start (the 2009 home finale when three senior attackmen were given the start vs. Binghamton). During his first two years he has racked up 67 points on 28 goals and 38 assists (which leads the team over that two-year stretch). And Young has accomplished all of this while running the Terrapin offense from the X-spot. In 2009 he led the team with a .388 shooting percentage, which is the highest for a Maryland starting attackman since 2007 when Michael Phipps shot .394 for the year.

No time Off From Lax
• For the first time since picking up a lacrosse stick as a youngster Will Yeatman did not take the fall off from lacrosse to play football. The 6-foot-6, 250-pounder has always missed fall lacrosse practice in the past, but due to NCAA scholarship rules he did not practice with the Terrapin football team this past fall. Yeatman will play for the Maryland football team this fall.

Get To 10 And Win
• One of the things Coach Cottle often says is that if the Terps score 10 goals or more the chances of winning are pretty good. Well, a look at the results since Cottle arrived in College Park in 2002 shows that when Maryland scores 10 or more goals there's not just a pretty good chance the Terrapins will win; it's an almost certainty. Since 2002 Maryland has won 62 of the 67 games in which the Terps have scored 10 or more goals for a .925 winning percentage.

• Last season the Terps lost to Georgetown, 13-10 on Feb. 21 and lost again when scoring 10 in the ACC Semifinals in a 16-10 defeat at North Carolina. Prior to that, Maryland had not lost when scoring 10 or more goals since dropping an 11-10 decision to Virginia in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament in Durham, N.C. The Terrapins got to 10 goals in the 100th game against Johns Hopkins, but the Blue Jays took the game 14-10. Virginia is the only team to beat the Terps twice when allowing 10 or more goals. The Wahoos did it first in 2002 with another 11-10 decision.

Consecutive 10-Win Seasons
• Last year's 7-3 victory over No. 7-seed Notre Dame did more than send the Terps into the NCAA Quarterfinals for the seventh time in the past eight seasons. That victory was also the 10th of the year for Maryland, giving it seven straight seasons with double-digit wins. (Special thanks to Patrick Stevens of D1Scourse.com).

• How does that stack up against the rest of the college lacrosse programs? Take a look at programs with at least four-straight 10-win seasons:
Maryland (7): 2009 (10-6), 2008 (10-6), 2007 (10-6), 2006 (12-5), 2005 (11-6), 2004 (13-3), 2003 (12-4)
Navy (6): 2009 (11-5), 2008 (10-6), 2007 (11-4), 2006 (11-4), 2005 (12-4), 2004 (15-3)
Cornell (5): 2009 (11-3), 2008 (11-4), 2007 (15-1), 2006 (11-3), 2005 (11-3)
Virginia (5): 2009 (14-2), 2008 14-4), 2007 (12-4), 2006 (17-0), 2005 (11-4)
Notre Dame (4): 2009 (15-1), 2008 (14-3), 2007 (11-4), 2006 (10-5)
UMBC (4): 2009 (12-4), 2008 (12-4), 2007 (11-6), 2006 (10-5)

The 700 Club
• Maryland's 15-6 victory over Penn on April 14, 2009 was the program's 700th victory in 84 seasons of varsity men's lacrosse. The Terps join Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, Navy and Army as the only programs with 700 or more Division I wins.

• Two things that make Maryland's accomplishment all the more impressive is that the Terps reached the 700-win plateau in just their 84th season. Only Syracuse reached win No. 700 in as few seasons, but it took the Orange 53 more games than Maryland. In fact, Maryland needed only 940 games to reach 700 wins and only Johns Hopkins needed fewer games (932) to hit the historic number, but the Blue Jays did so in their 105th season.

Attack Ranked Top Unit In Nation
• Maryland has long had one of the best attack units in the nation, but this year, according to Inside Lacrosse at least, the Terps' attack unit is the best in the country. One thing in Maryland's favor is the depth of the unit. The Terps go five deep, all upperclassmen, on attack with senior Will Yeatman, juniors Grant Catalino, Travis Reed and Ryan Young and sophomore Joe Cummings.

• While it is hard to compare units across the country time provides perspective on how good this Terp attack unit is. Since 2004, this attack unit returns with more goals, assists and points than any other, taking into account just the top four attackmen. Take a look (*-returned the following year):

• The unit's total of 138 points is the second-best of the past six years, topped only by the 158 points of the 2006 attack that featured Turnbull Award winner Joe Walters, All-American Xander Ritz and 2007 All-American Michael Phipps.

• The total for the 2009 unit and the returning total is even more impressive when you add the 12 goals and two assists for Cummings. Although he played some midfield as a freshman in 2009, Cummings played crease attack on the man-up unit. Cummings' totals raise the 2010 returning attack totals to 152 points on 85 goals and 67 assists.

• The 2010 unit will be tracked in the chart above to see how they stack-up against the recent Terp attack units.

Shooting Tells The Story
• The difference between winning and losing for Maryland this season is simple - when the Terps shoot well they win. Coach Dave Cottle is on record saying that good teams will shoot at least 30%. As it turns out 30% is the magic number for the Terps this season.
• Since 2005 the Terps are a remarkable 32-1 (.970) when shooting 30% or better in a game. The only game Maryland lost during that stretch was a 13-10 decision to Georgetown in 2009 (the Terps shot 10-of-30 for exactly 30% vs. the Hoyas).

Terps' 85th Season Of Lacrosse
• The Terps boast an all-time record of 704-238-4 (.746), dating back to the first varsity team in 1924 (a team was not fielded in 1944 and 1945 due to World War II). Maryland has finished every one of its previous 84 seasons with a .500 or better record, including last season when the Terps went 10-6. The program reached the 700-win milestone with a 15-6 victory over Penn on April 14, 2009 at Ludwig Field.

• During the decade of the 2000s, Maryland went 111-49 for a .694 win percentage, making it the winningest decade in Terrapin lacrosse history. In the decade of the 1990s, Maryland posted a 95-47 record. The .669 winning percentage matched Maryland's win percentage of the 1980s when the Terps went 83-41 and also compiled a .669 win percentage.

Terps On ESPNU
• Saturday's game against Georgetown will be televised nationally on ESPNU. It will be the Terps' 24th game on ESPNU since 2006. Maryland is 12-11 all-time in games broadcast on ESPNU.

First-Time Opponents
• Maryland has played 74 different opponents in its 84 previous seasons. The 2010 season will add Colgate to that list. In the Terps' 74 first-time meetings Maryland is 70-4 in those games. Adelphi (12-13, 1982), Army (0-3, 1923), Syracuse (3-10, 1927) and Yale (3-5, 1925) are the only schools to beat the Terps the first time the schools met on a lacrosse field.

Home Sweet Home
• After playing all of their 2009 home games at Ludwig Field due to the renovations at Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium, the Terps return to their true home field in 2010. Maryland is scheduled to play four of its five home games at Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium, the lone exception being the mid-week game on March 15 vs. Penn, which will be played at Ludwig Field.

Home Cooking
• A lot is made in sports about the home-field advantage, and for the Maryland men's lacrosse team that advantage has held true since Coach Cottle arrived in College Park. Since 2002, the Terps are 45-16 (.738) when playing on the Maryland campus. At Chevy Chase Bank Field at Byrd Stadium Maryland is 27-11 (.711) under Cottle, while the Terps have gone 8-3 (.727) at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex and 10-2 (.833) at Ludwig Field.

Terps Set To Compete At 2010 FIL World Championships
• A pair of former Terps survived the rigorous try-out process and were named to the U.S. men's national team that will represent the United States at the 2010 FIL World Championships in Manchester, England from July 14-24, 2010. Former Maryland All-Americans Joe Cinosky and Brian Dougherty were among the 23 players selected to the final Team USA roster.

• Team USA won't be the only roster with a Maryland presence. Senior midfielder Adam Sear was among the 23 players selected to the Australian National Team that will compete in Manchester.

A Family Affair
• Many school's refer to their sports programs as families, but under Coach Cottle the Maryland men's lacrosse program has really become a family affair. Since arriving in College Park in 2002, Cottle has had 11 sets of brothers, including four on this season's roster, don the red and black together for at least one season.

Harry & Thomas Alford: 2004-05-06-07
Jake & Jesse Bernhardt: 2010
Justin & Owen Blye: 2009-10
Brendan & Ian Healy: 2003-04-05
Bryn & Curtis Holmes: 2010
Bryn & Travis Holmes: 2007
Dan & Mike LaMonica: 2002
Chris & Willy Passavia: 2002-03
Brian & Michael Phipps: 2007
Max & Xander Ritz: 2005-06
Mark & Michael White: 2008-09-10

• Maryland's family tradition doesn't end with brothers. Fathers and sons are also part of the Terps' tradition and that's never been more evident than this season. This year's Maryland men's lacrosse roster features three players whose father's not only played at Maryland, but won a nation title together. Mike Farrell, father of Brian, Wilson Phipps, father of Brian, and Jake Reed, father of Travis, were all members of the Terps' 1975 NCAA championship squad.

• The Terrapin family tree doesn't stop there for Brian Phipps. He is the fourth in a line of Phipps that donned the red and black for Maryland. The Phipps-family legacy started in the 1940's with Louis Phipps, who was an honorable mention All-American in 1949. His son, Wilson, was a member of the 1975 Terrapin National Championship squad. Brian is the second of Wilson's sons to play for the Terps. Michael Phipps played for Maryland from 2004-07 and was an honorable mention All-American as a senior after leading the squad in scoring with 50 points.

2010 Captains: Farrell, Holmes and Phipps
• Three players have been named team captains for the 2010 season. The trio, which was voted on by the team during the preseason, consists of redshirt junior Brian Farrell and seniors Bryn Holmes and Brian Phipps. Farrell is the first junior to be named a team captain since 2005 when Bill McGlone was selected by his teammates.

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