#7 Maryland (4-1) (0-0 B1G) vs. Brown (0-4) (0-0 IVY)
March 9, 2024
SECU Stadium
Noon
B1G+
COLLEGE PARK, MD - No. 7 Maryland returns home for the next two weekends to wrap up non-conference play and will host Brown on Saturday at noon.
The Terps got off to a 4-0 start to begin the 2024 season, including two overtime wins over No. 19 Richmond and No. 7 Syracuse.
Owen Murphy and
George Stamos notched the two game-winners for the Terps. Maryland also has a pair of home wins over No. 12 Loyola and No. 11 Princeton where the Terps held both teams to seven goals or less. Most recently, the Terps came up short in South Bend to No. 6 Notre Dame.
series history
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The Terps are 16-0 against Brown all-time, with just one of those games coming in the 21st century. This marks the first time the two sides have played each other in the regular season since 1995.
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The last time the two sides met was in the 2016 Final Four when the Terps won an overtime thriller in Philadelphia as Colin Heacock scored off an assist in overtime to send Maryland to the NCAA Championship.
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The last regular season meeting occured in 1995 in Providence, Rhode Island and resulted in an 11-8 Maryland win.
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The last time Brown played against the Terps in College Park was a 15-9 Maryland win in 1978.
The two teams have not met since the 2016 Final Four, which was a 15-14 overtime win for the Terps.
About the 2024 terps
- The Terps welcome back a large number of key returners from the 2023 team, including defenseman Ajax Zappitello, faceoff specialist Luke Wierman, attackmen Braden Erksa, Daniel Maltz and Daniel Kelly, and midfielders Jack Koras, Jack Brennan, Eric Spanos, Zach Whittier and Owen Murphy. Zappitello and Wierman were both First Team All Big-Ten and All-Americans last season while Erksa was the Big Ten Freshman of the Year.
- Zappitello will don the heralded and historic number one jersey for the Terps.
- In total, the Terps return over 90 percent of last year's goal scoring.
- The Terps also get back two key pieces from season-ending injuries suffered in 2022 NCAA Tournament MOP Logan McNaney and attackman Eric Malever who totaled 48 points (26G, 22A).
Ajax Zappitello is the second consecutive close defenseman to wear the Maryland No. 1 jersey.
Wierman In the record books
- With his 12th of 17 face-off wins against Richmond on Feb. 3, Luke Wierman became Maryland's all-time program leader in face-off wins. He broke Andy Claxton's record of 648 that had stood for over three decades. Against Notre Dame, Wierman added 12 more faceoff wins and now has 715 all-time.
- Wierman is also climbing up the career groundballs list and is one of only three Terps in history to scoop up 300 or more groundballs. He joined the exclusive 300 Club with his first of eight groundballs vs. Johns Hopkins on April 22, 2023.
- With six groundballs at Notre Dame, Wierman offically became second all-time in career groundballs, passing Brian Haggerty (380).
- Wierman set yet another program record against Princeton on Feb. 24, 2024 as he won a remarkable 20 of 23 faceoffs for 87%, marking the highest faceoff win percentage in program history for those who won a minimum of 20 faceoffs.
Luke Wierman set Maryland's all-time single-game faceoff percentage record against Princeton on Feb. 24 when he won 20 of 23 for 87%.
McNaney Returns, continues to climb rankings
- When Logan McNaney started in cage at Richmond on Saturday, Feb. 3, it marked his first game action in just under a year. After suffering a season-ending ACL injury against Loyola last season, McNaney missed the remainder of the 2023 season. Against the Spiders, McNaney played all 65:05 minutes and made 13 saves, including two in overtime.
- McNaney followed up that performance with 12 saves against Loyola, holding the Greyhounds to just four goals for their lowest scoring total since 2017. He then made a season-high 14 saves at Syracuse followed by 10 saves vs. Princeton.
- McNaney has 464 career saves, good for sixth all-time. He is just 36 saves away from becoming just the fourth Terp ever to eclipse 500 career saves.
Logan McNaney was named to the USILA Team of the Week on both Feb. 13 and Feb. 20.
Maltz Reaches 100 Career goals, Moving up the career points list
- Daniel Maltz scored the game's first goal between the Terps and Fighting Irish and officially cemented himself as the 18th Terp in program history to score at least 100 points.
- Additionally,starting with C. Rennie Smith, who totaled 128 career points from 1955-58, a total of 61 Maryland men's lacrosse student-athletes have reached the 100-point milestone for their careers. Maltz is the latest Terp on the 100-career-points list after his four points vs. Notre Dame on March 3, 2023.
- Maltz currently sits 31st all-time with 134 career points.
Maltz reached the 100-goal mark on March 3 against the Irish.
Zappitello on the caused turnover charts
- Ajax Zappitello is climbing the career caused turnovers list. With 57 CT's, he's just two back of Brett Makar at No. 13 with 59.
- He is one of just 16 Terps to eclipse 50 caused turnovers.
Zappitello caused three turnovers at No. 7 Syracuse on Feb. 17.
Overtime is terp time
- In two of the first three games this season, the Terps have found themselves in overtime---coming out victorious in both.
- Owen Murphy got the job done in Maryland's season opener at Richmond, connecting from deep in 2OT. SSDM George Stamos was the unlikely hero at Syracuse, notching the game-winner off a successful Maryland clear.
- Maryland went 2-1 in overtime games last season, with overtime wins at No.1 Virginia and at No. 19 Ohio State.
- The Terps are 14-8 in overtime games under John Tillman and have won four straight dating back to last season.
The Terps have won four straight overtime games dating back to last season.
10: The magic number
- Since John Tillman took over the program in 2011, Maryland has won 155 of the 175 games in which it has scored 10 or more goals for a .886 winning percentage.
- Most recently, the Terps scored 13 goals against No. 11 Princeton in a 13-7 win. Eric Spanos scored a career-high four goals while Daniel Maltz notched his first hat trick of the season.
- Maryland is 122-11 since Tillman took over the program in 2011 when it allows nine goals or less for a .917 winning percentage. The Terps have won 49 games in a row when holding foes to less than 10 goals.
- Most recently, the Terps held Princeton to seven goals in a game the Terps never trailed. Logan McNaney made 10 saves while Luke Wierman won 20 of 23 faceoffs to help the Terps dominate possession.
Maryland has won 49 consecutive games when it holds its opponents to single digits.
History of success
- Maryland has an all-time record of 886-284-4 (.756), 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 98 seasons. The program reached the 800-win milestone with a 12-6 victory on April 12, 2017, at Albany.
- The Terps boast four NCAA Championships, 28 Final Four appearances and 522 All-Americans.
- With a 14-9 win at No. 5 Johns Hopkins on May 4, 2023 in the Big Ten Tournament Semifinal, the Terps extended their streak of double-digit win seasons to 20, the longest active streak in NCAA Division I men's lacrosse. The streak also coincides with the Terps making 20 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, also the longest such streak in the country in NCAA Division I men's lacrosse.
- Since joining the Big Ten in 2015, Maryland is 38-7 (.844) in conference play. The 38 wins are 14 more than Johns Hopkins, which has 24. Penn State and Rutgers each have 23 wins, Ohio State has 20, and Michigan has seven.
The Terps won the 2022 National Championship with a perfect 18-0 record.
