#4 Maryland (3-1, 0-0 B1G)
vs.
#2 Notre Dame (3-0, 0-0 ACC)
March 4, 2023
SECU Stadium
1:00 p.m. ET
BTN+
COLLEGE PARK, MD - No. 4 Maryland (3-1) welcomes No. 2 Notre Dame (3-0) to SECU Stadium on Saturday, March 4. The game marks the Fighting Irish's first trip to College Park since 2020, when the teams met prior to the COVID-19 shutdown. The game can be streamed live on
B1G+.
Maryland opened its 2023 season with a dominating 15-4 home win over No. 19 Richmond (Feb. 4) but lost its first road game of 2023 with a 12-7 loss at Loyola (Feb. 11). The Terps rebounded with a pair of total-team-effort wins over then-No. 16 Syracuse, 15-12 at home on Feb. 18, and then-No. 6 Princeton, 11-5 on the road on Feb. 25.
The Irish are 3-0 on the season. After a pair of double-digit victories at home over Marquette (21-10, Feb. 15) and Cleveland State (18-8, Feb. 19), Notre Dame went on the road for the first time in 2023 and won a 15-8 decision at then-No. 16 Georgetown (Feb. 25).
Series History - Notre Dame
- The Terps are 9-6 against Notre Dame in program history, winning the last three games. This marks the eighth-straight season the Terps and Irish will meet. Maryland is 4-3 over the previous seven meetings, dating back to 2016.
- Last season, top-ranked Maryland entered Arlotta Family Stadium and came away with a hard-fought 11-9 victory. Jack Brennan, Kyle Long, Eric Malever, and Logan Wisnauskas each scored two goals, and Long and Wisnauskas added two assists for four-point games. Faceoff man Luke Wierman won 18-of-24 faceoffs in the game.
- The 2021 season was a Big Ten-only regular season, but Maryland and Notre Dame met in Notre Dame, IN, in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament. The Terps won that one, 14-13 when Anthony DeMaio scored just 39 seconds into OT.
- The 2014 season was the only one Maryland and Notre Dame had overlapping as members of the ACC. The two teams met three time that season, including matching up in the ACC Tournament and the NCAA Semifinals.
- The first-ever meeting between the two schools happened in 1995 with Maryland holding on for a 14-11 victory in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament. Senior attackman Rob Chomo led the Terps with five points on a goal and four assists, while freshman attackman Matt Hahn scored both of his goals in the fourth quarter to help seal the Terrapin victory.
- The Fighting Irish's first regular season game in College Park came in 2004 and saw sophomore midfielder Brendan Healy score the game-winning goal in the second overtime to give Maryland a 9-8 win. Grad student Tim McGinnis made 16 stops in cage, while sophomore Joe Walters led the scoring with a hat trick.
Tim McGinnis made 16 saves in Maryland's 9-8 double-overtime win over Notre Dame in 2004.
Wierman Joins 400-Win Club; Climbing Up Groundballs Chart
Luke Wierman won 13 faceoffs and grabbed nine groundballs in Maryland's 11-5 win at then-No. 4 Princeton.
Fresh Face Between the Pipes
The Long Game
Kyle Long is second all-time among Maryland midfielders in career assists behind only the legendary Frank Urso.
Hat Trick Terps
- Maryland has had a hat trick in 61 straight games dating back to February 2, 2019. During that span, Logan Wisanuskas and Jared Bernhardt lead the way with 37 and 29 hat tricks, respectively.
- Owen Murphy continued the streak with four goals in Maryland's 2023 season-opening win over No. 19 Richmond.
- Daniel Kelly netted four goals in Maryland's 12-7 loss at Loyola on Feb. 12 to keep the streak alive.
- Kelly and Jack Koras each had hat tricks in the 15-12 win over No. 16 Syracuse on Feb. 18, with Kelly scoring a game-best four goals. For Koras, it was his first career hat trick.
- Daniel Maltz, four goals, and Koras, three goals, continued the streak in Maryland's 11-5 win at No. 6 Princeton.
10: The Magic Number
Get To 10 & Win
- Since John Tillman took over the program in 2011, Maryland has won 141 of the 157 games in which it has scored 10 or more goals for a .898 winning percentage. The Terps scored at least ten goals in 17 of 18 games in 2022, with the lone single-digit scoring game coming in the NCAA Championship game, a 9-7 victory over Cornell on May 30.
- Maryland is 3-0 in 2023 when scoring 10+ after opening the season with a 15-4 win over No. 19 Richmond, beating No. 16 Syracuse, 15-12, on Feb. 18, and dropping No. 6 Priceton, 11-5, on the road on Feb. 25.
- The last time Maryland failed to reach 10 goals or more at home dates back to May 9, 2015. Maryland hosted Yale in the first round of the NCAA tournament and advanced with an 8-7 victory. The Terps trailed 7-4 early in the fourth quarter, but four straight goals by Bryan Cole, Joe LoCascio, Matt Rambo, and Henry West brought home the victory.
- Maryland is also 103-13 (.888) in the last eight seasons when scoring at least 10 goals.
Holding Opponents To Single-Digits
- Maryland is 117-11 since Tillman took over the program in 2011 when it allows nine goals or less, for a .914 winning percentage.
- Maryland is 2-0 in 2023 when holding opponents to less than 10 goals after a 15-4 win over No. 19 Richmond on Feb. 4 and holding No. 6 Priceton to five goals in an 11-5 Terrapin win on Feb. 25.
- The last time the Terps allowed less than 10 goals and lost a game was March 4, 2017 - a 5-4 loss at Notre Dame.
- The last time Maryland suffered a home loss when giving up less than 10 goals was back to the first year of the Big Ten Tournament when Ohio State topped the Terps, 9-6, in the conference semifinals at SECU Stadium.
Pole Goals
- Last season the Terps enjoyed a boost of offense from long poles with 10 pole-goals.
- The 2023 season started much the same with the first goal of the season coming via a pole-goal from LSM John Geppert, who was the leading pole-goal scorer in 2022 with 10.
- The 2023 total is already at three pole goals, with Geppert adding another tally in the Terps' 15-12 win over No. 16 Syracuse.
Terps' 98th Season of Men's Lacrosse
- The Terps boast an all-time record of 874-278-4 (.758) entering the 2023 season, 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 with a .500 or better record in all 97 seasons of existence. The program reached the 800-win milestone with a thrilling 12-6 victory on April 12, 2017 on the road against Albany.
- Maryland finished the decade of the 2010s 134-42 for a .761 winning percentage, making it the winningest decade in Terrapin lacrosse history. Nine of those seasons came under the direction of head coach John Tillman, who has posted a 122-38 record and .763 winning percentage at the helm for Maryland.
- Maryland Men's Lacrosse By the Decade:
- 2020's: 41-3 (.932)
- 2010's: 134-42 (.761)
- 2000's: 111-49 (.694)
- 1990's: 95-47 (.669)
- 1980's: 83-41 (.669)
Maryland compiled a 134-42 (.761) record in the 2010's, highlighted by the 16-3 2017 NCAA Championship season.
Staff Updates
- The Terrapins welcome two new assistant coaches in 2023.
- Jake Bernhardt rejoined the staff on July 6, 2022, after five seasons at the University of Vermont working under fellow Terp alum Chris Feifs. During his tenure the Catamounts won the America East twice, made their first two NCAA Tournaments in program history, and went 44-24. Bernhardt was a member of the Terrapins' staff in 2014 as the Director of Operations.
- Tim O'Branski joined the Terps in September 2022 as the team's volunteer assistant coach. Before becoming a Terp, O'Branski spent two years as offensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator at Mercer University.
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