No. 1Â Maryland (7-0, 0-0Â B1G)Â vs. Michigan (4-4, 0-0 B1G)
March 22, 2025
SECU Stadium
Noon
B1G+
WatchCOLLEGE PARK, MDÂ --Â After wrapping up an undefeated non-conference slate, No. 1 Maryland (7-0) moves into Big Ten play, with Michigan coming to SECU Stadium for a noon faceoff on Saturday, March 22. It will air on Big Ten Plus.
With a win, the Terps will move to 8-0 for the third time under head coach
John Tillman since he was hired in 2011. The two other seasons were 2021 when Maryland was undefeated heading into the NCAA Championship game and 2022 when the Terps went a perfect 18-0 and captured the school's fourth NCAA Championship.
This year marks the 100th season of Maryland men's lacrosse. The program has produced 525 All-Americans, 29 Final Fours, and four NCAA National Championships. The Terps have remarkably also finished .500 or better in every season.
Where we've been...
- With the Terps' 12-6 win at Virginia on March 15, Maryland joined Johns Hopkins and Syracuse as the only three schools with 900 all-time victories. The Terrapins .755 winning percentage is the best of any NCAA Division I school and far outpaces the Blue Jays (.730) and the Orange (.710).
- This season Maryland has wins over No. 18 Richmond, Loyola, No. 2 Syracuse, No. 5 Princeton, No. 1 Notre Dame, Delaware, and No. 18 Virginia, holding all seven opponents to 10 goals or fewer.
- The Terrapins are coming off their NCAA-best 21st consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance and 29th Final Four, tied with Johns Hopkins for the most by any program. The Terps returned to the NCAA Championship game for the eighth time in 13 tournaments and the 17th time in program history.
Series history
- Maryland is 10-3 vs. Michigan in the all-time series between the two schools, which began in 2014.
- The Terrapins won the first 10 games of the series, including the first eight in regular-season Big Ten play. However, the Wolverines have won the last three in the series against the Terps, including an 16-11 win in College Park in 2023.
- Prior to joining the Big Ten, Maryland and Michigan met just one time. The Terps and Wolverines played in Michigan Stadium ("The Big House") in 2014 and the No. 1 Terrapins brought home a 13-5 win. Junior Jay Carlson netted a hat trick in the first half and had four goals in total to lead the Maryland offense. Senior goalie Niko Amato made seven saves for the Terps, who were led defensively by senior Michael Ehrhardt, who caused three turnovers and picked up two groundballs.
Jared Bernhard set Big Ten Tournament records for goals (8) and points (10) against Michigan in the 2021 semifinals.
Conference Domination
- Since joining the Big Ten in 2015, Maryland is 41-9 (.820) in conference play.
- The Terps are also a conference-best 11-5 (.688) all-time in Big Ten Tournament games. Since joining the Big Ten in 2015, the Terps have won at least a share of the Big Ten regular season title six out of a possible nine times (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022). The Terps have also won the Big Ten Tournament four times (2016, 2017, 2021, 2022).
Logan Wisnauskas is the career points leader in the Big Ten with 340.
100th Season of maryland men's lacrosse
- The Terps boast an all-time record of 900-290-4 (.755), 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 previous 99 seasons. The program reached the 800-win milestone with a 12-6 victory on April 12, 2017, at Albany and became just the third school with 900 wins on March 15, 2025, with a 12-6 win at Virginia.
- 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 a .763 winning percentage at the helm for Maryland.
- During the decade of the 2000s, Maryland went 111-49 for a .694 win percentage. 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.
- Midway through the 2020s, the Terrapins are 66-14 (.825), which is on pace for the second-best winning percentage for a decade behind only the 1950s when the Terps were 84-15-1 (.845). The only other decade with a winning percentage of .800+ was the 1970s, with a mark of 85-21 (.802).
Maryland wins the 2022 National Championship, capping a perfect 18-0 season.Â
900 Victories
Lockdown Defense
- The Terps have been excellent defensively in the 2025 campaign, holding its opponents to 10 goals or less in all seven games. The last time the Terrapin defense had seven straight games allowing 10 or fewere goals was the final seven games of the 2017 season, when the Terps captured the NCAA Championship.
- The last time Maryland had a longer streak of games not allowing more than 10 goals was 2016, when the Terrapins held opponents to 10 goals or less in the first 18 games of the season. During that streak Maryland was 16-2 in those 18 games and allowed just 7.67 goals per game.
- Maryland's scoring defense of 7.00 is the third-best mark in the nation.
- The Terps held Delaware to just three goals. The last time the Terps held an opponent to three or fewer goals was on March 14, 2015, when they defeated Villanova 11-2.
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