The No. 10 Maryland (1-1) men's lacrosse team welcomes the No. 11 Penn Quakers to College Park, Md., as it plays its first home game of the 2015 season. The Terps and Quakers are slated for a 5 p.m. start at Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium on Tuesday, Feb. 24.
Note: Seating in the stadium will be restricted to the mezzanine level due to snow/ice in the bowl. Limited seating will be available.
Event Information
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Quick-Hitters
• Maryland's first game in history as a sanctioned program was against Penn in 1924, resulting in a 4-3 victory for the Terps. Maryland has never lost in the series, winning all 10 matchups, including seven straight from 2004-2010.
• The Terps and Penn last met on March 15, 2010, in College Park, Md., with Maryland winning, 10-7, behind two goals and four assists from Grant Catalino.
• Head coach John Tillman needs one win to capture his 50th career win at Maryland (70th overall). He would be the fastest coach in Maryland history to reach the milestone.
• Maryland is 82-6-1 all-time in home-openers, including a 16-1 record over the past 17 seasons. The Terps have won five straight home-openers since falling to Georgetown, 13-10, on February 21, 2015.
• The Terps dropped their first game of the season to then-No. 14 Yale, 10-6, on a freezing day in New Haven, Conn., this past Saturday. Despite the loss, Maryland remained in the Inside Lacrosse top-10 for the 43rd consecutive week.
• Junior goalkeeper Kyle Bernlohr captured the first Big Ten honor in Maryland lacrosse history after being awarded Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week for his effort against Navy. Making his first career start, Bernlohr made 12 saves and held the Midshipmen to just one goal.
• Bernlohr currently ranks third in the nation with a .686 save percentage and fourth with a 5.50 goals-against-average -- both are tops in the Big Ten Conference.
• The Terps are 37-3 all-time in the month of February, including a 11-1 record under Tillman. Maryland's loss to Yale was the first in Tillman's tenure in February.
• Head coach John Tillman is back for his fifth season as head coach of the Terps after leading Maryland to their third NCAA Final Four appearance in the last four seasons. Tillman was 48-19 through his first four seasons, the most wins ever by a Maryland coach through four seasons.
• Maryland currently ranks third nationally in scoring defense (5.50 GAA) and clear percentage (0.951).
• Senior Jay Carlson needs just one game-winning goal to move into a tie for second all-time in Maryland history with Grant Catalino and Joe Cummings, who both scored nine GWG's.
Maryland Home Schedule Info
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The Count Down
10 ... Since 2002 Maryland has won 112 of the 121 games (93%) in which it has scored 10 or more goals. The Terps have won 17 straight games in such situations.
9 ... Maryland is 132-27 in games since 2002 when it allows nine goals or less, for an .830 winning percentage. The Terps are 13-1 since 2014 in such situations.
8 ... Maryland was a perfect 8-0 at home last season (4-2 on the road).
7 ... The Terps were 7-0 against unranked opponents in 2014 (25-2 overall during Tillman's tenure).
6 ... Jay Carlson has scored in six straight games - the longest active streak on the Maryland roster.
5 ... Matt Rambo and Henry West lead the Terps with five points through the first two games of the season.
4 ... Coach Tillman's 49 wins is the most ever for a Maryland head coach in his first four seasons. Maryland is also one of four programs to garner at least 10 wins every year since 2011.
3 ... Three Terps were selected in the MLL Draft in January: Joe LoCascio (17th - Florida), Charlie Raffa (24th - Chesapeake) and Casey Ikeda (54th - Florida).
2 ... Henry West has scored two goals in both contests to open the season, and leads the team with four goals scored.
1 ... Only one program - Maryland - has earned a bid in every NCAA tournament since the field expanded to 16 in 2003.
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Tale of the Tape |
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| Maryland |
Category |
Penn |
| 7.0 |
Goals Per Game |
10.5 |
| 5.5 |
Opponents' Goals Per Game |
9.0 |
| 34.0 |
Shots Per Game |
33.0 |
| 20.6 |
Shot Percentage |
31.8 |
| 21.0 |
Shots on Goal Per Game |
18.0 |
| 51.5 |
Shots on Goal Percentage |
54.5 |
| 12.0 |
Saves Per Game |
9.5 |
| 68.6 |
Save Percentage |
51.4 |
| 19.0 |
Groundballs Per Game |
26.5 |
| 20.5 |
Opponents' Groundballs Per Game |
22.5 |
| 9.5 |
Turnovers Per Game |
15.5 |
| 4.5 |
Caused Turnovers Per Game |
7.5 |
| 31.0 |
Face-Off Percentage |
61.7 |
| 95.1 |
Clear Percentage |
82.9 |
| 87.5 |
Opponents' Clear Percentage |
80.8 |
| 3.5 |
Penalties Per Game |
3.0 |
| 2:30 |
Penalty Minutes Per Game |
1:45 |
| 40.0 |
Man-Up Conversion Percentage |
50.5 |
| 14.3 |
Opponents' Man-Up Conversion Percentage |
16.7 |
Coaching Match-Up
• John Tillman is in his eighth season as a head coach, and fifth with the Terps, with a 69-39 career record for a .639 winning percentage. Tillman is 49-20 (.710) as Maryland's head coach.
• Penn's Mike Murphy is in his 6th season as head coach of the Quakers, compiling a 37-34 career record. Murphy led the Quakers to an Ivy League Tournament title in 2014, finishing 11-4 overall.
Series history vs. Penn
• Maryland's series history against Penn is a special one, as the Quakers were the first opponent in Maryland's illustrious 90-year history. Maryland has won all 10 meetings in the series, including the first in 1924, 4-3.
• After meeting three teams between 1924 and 1930, Maryland and Penn restored the series for seven consecutive seasons between 2004 and 2010. The Terps dominated the Quakers during the seven-game stretch, winning by an average margin of seven goals.
• Penn last visited College Park on March 15, 2010, and fell to the Terps, 10-7. The attack unit of Grant Catalino, Travis Reed and Ryan Young combined for six goals and seven assists as Maryland never trailed.
• No current Terrapins have played Penn in their career.
Maryland in Home-openers
• The Terps are a formidable 82-6-1 all-time in home-openers throughout their illustrious history, including a 16-1 record over the last 17 seasons. Maryland has won five consecutive home-openers, last falling to eighth-ranked Georgetown, 13-10, in 2009.
• Maryland had a monster home-opener last season, defeating Mount St. Mary's, 16-3. Then-freshman Matt Rambo was incredible in his collegiate debut, posting four goals and two assists, while Jay Carlson added three goals of his own.
Last Time Out
• Maryland dropped its first game of the season with a 10-6 loss to Yale in New Haven, Conn. The Terps and Bulldogs traded leads throughout the game, before Yale seized the game with four goals in the final frame.
• Junior Henry West posted a pair of goals for the second consecutive game, while transfer Dylan Maltz tallied his first and second career goals in a Maryland uniform.
Get To 10 And Win
• Since 2002, Maryland has won 112 of the 121 games in which it has scored 10 or more goals for a .926 winning percentage.
• The Terps have won 17 straight games when scoring at least 10 goals, last falling to #12 Colgate, 13-11, on May 5, 2012.
| Record When Scoring 10+ Goals |
| Year |
W-L |
Loss |
| 2015 |
0-0 |
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| 2014 |
11-0 |
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| 2013 |
8-0 |
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| 2012 |
10-2 |
at UNC, 10-11 |
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at Colgate, 11-13 |
| 2011 |
9-1 |
Johns Hopkins, 11-12 ot |
| 2010 |
12-1 |
Virginia, 10-11 |
| 2009 |
6-2 |
Georgetown, 10-13 |
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at UNC, 16-10 ACC SF |
| 2008 |
9-0 |
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| 2007 |
8-1 |
Virginia, 10-11 |
| 2006 |
8-0 |
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| 2005 |
5-0 |
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| 2004 |
10-1 |
Hopkins, 10-13 |
| 2003 |
8-0 |
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| 2002 |
7-1 |
Virginia, 10-11 |
Holding Opponents To Single-Digits
• Maryland is 132-27 in games since 2002 when it allows nine goals or less, for an .830 winning percentage.
• The Terps have also won 87 percent (64-10 record overall) of its games since 2009 when allowing less than 10 goals.
• The Terps are 13-1 when allowing nine goals or less since the beginning of 2014.The Terps' lone loss last season came to eventual national finalist Notre Dame, 6-5, at the ACC Tournament.
Consecutive 10-Win Seasons
• Maryland's 12-8 win over 8th-ranked Notre Dame on April 19, 2014 extended the Terps' streak of double-digit win seasons to 12, which is the longest active streak in NCAA Division I men's lacrosse.
• There are only four programs with a current streak of at least six-straight 10-win seasons:
- Maryland (12): 2014 (13-4), 2013 (10-4), 2012 (12-6), 2011 (13-5), 2010 (12-4), 2009 (10-7), 2008 (10-6), 2007 (10-6), 2006 (12-5), 2005 (11-6), 2004 (13-3), 2003 (12-4)
- Notre Dame (9): 2014 (12-6), 2013 (11-4), 2012 (13-3), 2011 (11-3), 2010 (10-7), 2009 (15-1), 2008 (14-3), 2007 (11-4), 2006 (10-5)
- Duke (7): 2014 (17-3), 2013 (16-5), 2012 (15-5) 2011 (14-6), 2010 (16-4), 2009 (15-4), 2008 (18-2), 2007 ( 17-3)
- North Carolina (6): 2014 (10-5), 2013 (13-4), 2012 (11-6), 2011 (10-6), 2010 (13-3), 2009 (12-6)
• Cornell's string of seven-straight 10+ win seasons came to an end in 2012 with a 9-4 final mark. Virginia's streak of eight-consecutive seasons with 10+ wins ended in 2013 with a 7-8 record, while Siena saw its run of six 10-win seasons end in 2013 also.
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, Army and Cornell 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.
| All-Time Winningest Programs (prior to 2015 season) |
| Team |
W-L-T |
Pct. |
| 1. Johns Hopkins |
944-308-15 |
.751 |
| 2. Syracuse |
855-328-16 |
.720 |
| 3. Navy |
763-333-14 |
.694 |
| 4. Maryland |
760-257-4 |
.746 |
| 5. Army |
749-363-7 |
.672 |
| 6. Cornell |
722-457-27 |
.610 |
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| The Road To 700 Wins |
| Team |
Seasons |
Games Played |
| Maryland |
84 |
940 |
| Syracuse |
84 |
993 |
| Army |
92 |
1,029 |
| Navy |
99 |
972 |
| Johns Hopkins |
105 |
932 |
| Cornell |
117 |
1,171 |
Terps' 90th Season Of Lacrosse
• The Terps boast an all-time record of 760-257-4 (.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 89 seasons with a .500 or better record, including last season when the Terps went 12-6. 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.
• Prior to the 2015 season, Maryland is 38-13 in the 2010s for a .750 winning percentage - on pace for the best decade in Maryland history.
Three Taken In MLL Draft
• Led by senior midfielder Joe LoCascio, three Maryland men's lacrosse student-athletes were chosen in the 2014 Major League Lacrosse collegiate draft.
• LoCascio was chosen 17th overall by the Florida Launch, and was quickly followed by Charlie Raffa, who was selected 24th overall by the Chesapeake Bayhawks.
• Defender Casey Ikeda was the final Terp taken in the draft, chosen 54th overall by Florida.
2015 Team Captains
• Senior Charlie Raffa and Casey Ikeda will represent the Terrapins as captains for the 2015 season.
Inaugural Big Ten Season
• The 2015 season marks the University of Maryland's men's lacrosse team's inaugural campaign competing in the Big Ten Conference. It follows an announcement from the conference office on June 3, 2013 that the Big Ten had secured six men's teams when Johns Hopkins was accepted as a sport affiliate member for men's lacrosse only. The Big Ten has six men's programs: Maryland, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State and Rutgers.
• The six programs that will comprise Big Ten men's lacrosse boast 56 national championships, with schools that have competed for more than a century. Johns Hopkins has been an independent since 1883 and leads all schools with 44 national championships. Maryland has claimed 11 national titles, while Rutgers has also won a national championship.
• The Scarlet Knights launched men's lacrosse in 1887, followed by programs starting in 1913 for Penn State, 1924 for Maryland and 1953 for Ohio State. Michigan instituted a men's lacrosse program in 2012. Maryland, Ohio State and Penn State each qualified for the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship this season, with the Buckeyes advancing to the quarterfinals.