#2 Maryland (7-1, 0-1 B1G) vs. #7 Penn State (6-2, 0-1 B1G)
March 29, 2025
SECU Stadium
Noon
BTN
Watch COLLEGE PARK, MD -- No. 2 Maryland (7-1) looks to rebound from its first loss of 2025 when it hosts No. 7 Penn State at SECU Stadium on Saturday, March 29. The game is set for a noon faceoff and will air on Big Ten Network.
Saturday's game will be "Senior Day" for the Terps.
Noah Armitage,
Colin Burlace,
Jack Dowd,
Bryce Ford,
Zack Goorno,
Geordy Holmes,
Matthew Keegan,
Shea Keethler,
Charlie Koras,
Westin Schmidt,
Eric Spanos,
Kevin Tucker, and
Zach Whittier will be honored in a post-game ceremony.
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...
- 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 lone loss of the season came on March 22. Michigan scored the deciding goal with 1:06 remaining in the third overtime to top then-No. 1 Maryland, 11-10.
- 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.
- 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).
Maryland is third in the nation is scoring defense, allowing just 7.50 goals per game.
Scouting The Nittany Lions
- Penn State is 6-2 this season and is also 0-1 in the Big Ten following its 13-9 home loss to Ohio State on March 23. The Nittany Lions are a perfect 3-0 away from Happy Valley this season with wins at Villanova, Yale and Cornell.
- Freshman midfielder Hunter Aquino leads the Nittany Lions with 26 points on 11 goals and a team-best 15 assists, but Matt Traynor is the driving force of the PSU offense. The senior attackman leads Penn State with 16 goals and is second on the team with 23 points despite playing in just five of the team's eight games. Traynor's 4.67 points per game leads the Big Ten.
- Penn State head coach Jeff Tambroni is in his 25th season as a head coach and 15th in State College. He is 233-124 (.653) all-time and 124-84 (.596) with the Nittany Lions.
- Nittany Lion associate head coach John Haus is a former Terrapin (2010-13) and played three seasons for Coach Tillman from 2011-13. Haus was a three-time All-American and is still tied for 58th on the career points list with 103.
Penn State associate head coach John Haus was a three-time All-American for the Terps and finished his career with 103 points.
Series history
- Maryland is 41-2 all-time against Penn State since the two programs first met in 1924.
- Since Maryland joined the Big Ten in 2015, the Terps lead the series 10-2.
- Last season, the Nittany Lions used a 7-1 run to open the game en route to a 19-9 victory in the 2024 Big Ten Tournament semifinals in Columbus, Ohio. Eric Spanos and Daniel Maltz each had a pair of goals to pace the Terrapin offense, but Matt Traynor and TJ Malone combined for 11 points for Penn State.
- The two teams met earlier in 2024 at University Park in an instant classic. The Terps were down as many as five goals and trailed 8-4 at halftime. Down 10-7 heading into the third quarter, the Terps rattled off six straight goals and came away with a 13-11 victory. Jack Koras led the way with four goals and Luke Wierman went 16-of-27 at the faceoff dot.
- The lone NCAA Tournament meeting between the two schools came in 2005. After a two and a half hour delay due to a thunderstorm, the No. 3-seeded Terps, behind four points apiece by Joe Walters and Xander Ritz, advanced with a 14-10 win in College Park. The Terps won the first 36 games of the series from 1924 until 2019.
Conference Domination
- Since joining the Big Ten in 2015, Maryland is 41-10 (.804) 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 900-291-4 (.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 66-15 (.815), 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).
C. Rennie Smith scores on Virginia in 1955. Maryland finished that season 11-0 and was named the USILA Champions.
900 Victories
Lockdown Defense
- The Terps have been excellent defensively in the 2025 campaign, holding its opponents to 10 goals or less in seven of eight games (and all eight in regulation). The last time the Terrapin defense had seven straight games allowing 10 or fewer goals was the final seven games of the 2017 season, when the Terps captured the NCAA Championship.
- Maryland's scoring defense of 7.50 is the third-best mark in the nation and first in the Big Ten.
- 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.
In addition to leading Terrapin defenders with 21 groundballs, LSM
Jack McDonald has one of the Terps' two pole goals this season.
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