#3 Maryland (9-2, 2-2 B1G) vs. Johns Hopkins (6-6, 0-4 B1G)
April 18, 2025
SECU Stadium
8 PM
BTN
Watch COLLEGE PARK, MD -- No. 3 Maryland (9-2) finishes up the 2025 regular season with the 119th edition of "The Rivalry" when it hosts Johns Hopkins at SECU Stadium on Friday, April 18. The game is set for a 8 p.m. faceoff and will air on Big Ten Network.
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.
Parking Information
Fans should enter through the following entrances of campus to avoid congestion at just one entrance.
- University Blvd at Stadium Drive
- Campus Drive at Adelphi Dr
- Baltimore Ave at Campus Drive
Stadium Drive/Union Lane Garage/Regents Drive are available for parking at normal metered rates. Parking will be available for free after 4 PM in lot 1/Z.
Ticket Information
Fans are encouraged to purchase tickets ahead of time to avoid long wait times. For this game, there will be an additional option to purchase tickets at our Ludwig ticket booth. This ticket booth is located inside on the Ludwig Field/Kehoe track complex, just off of lot 1/Z.
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, No. 18 Virginia, No. 7 Penn State, and No. 2 Ohio State, holding all nine opponents to 10 goals or fewer.
- The Terrapins first 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. Maryland lost again on April 5 at Rutgers, 8-6.
- 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 .754 winning percentage is the best of any NCAA Division I school and far outpaces the Blue Jays (.729) and the Orange (.711).
Scouting The Blue Jays
- The Blue Jays are 6-6 on the season and 0-4 in Big Ten play. Hopkins opened the season with wins in five of its first six games including at Denver, and at home vs. Georgetown and Virginia. The Blue Jays' last victory came at Navy (12-9) on March 18. Overall, Hopkins is 4-3 on the road this season.
- Offensively, sophomore attackman Hunter Chauvette leads the Blue Jays with 20 goals, which is tied for fith-most in the Big Ten. Junior midfielder Brooks English is the team leader with 15 assists (tied for third in the Big Ten). Hopkins' team leader in points is junior midfielder Matt Collison, who has 29 points on 18 goals and 11 assists.
- Defensively, junior Oran Gelinas has started the last five games, including all four conference games for the Blue Jays. He enters the Maryland game with a 10.89 goals against average and a .500 save percentage.
- Johns Hopkins head coach Peter Milliman is in his fifth season as the Blue Jays head coach and has a 40-35 (.533) record. Overall, Milliman has been a head coach for 12 season with a career record of 105-71 (.597).
Maryland-Hopkins History: 1963
Bill Pettit (#55) and Ray Altman (#30) led Maryland to a 13-11 victory over the Blue Jays in 1963. Altman, playing in his final game for the Terps, set the program record for points against Hopkins in a single game with nine on four goals and five assists, while Pettit, the team's leading goal-scorer, added a hat trick.
Series history
- This will be the 119th meeting between the Terps and the Blue Jays (two previously counted games in 1928 and 1932 were not official games for Maryland). However, officially, Maryland is 50-67-1 against Johns Hopkins all-time. The Blue Jays list this as the 128th game between the two rivals. In addition to the unoffivial games in 1928 and 1932, Hopkins also counts seven more games in the series (1895-23) before men's lacrosse was an official varsity sport at the University of Maryland.
- Since 1924 Maryland and Johns Hopkins have met on the lacrosse field every year (except for 1944 & 1945 due to World War II and 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
- In 2024 at Homewood, No. 3 Hopkins opened up a 6-3 lead at the half with three straight goals to close the first half scoring. Maryland pulled to within one at 6-5 with 8:51 left in the third, but the Blue Jays tacked on an insurance goal before the end of the third to make it a 7-5 game. The game would end that way after both schools failed to score in the fourth with each team only managing three shots on goal in the final 15:00.
- In 2023, the two teams met twice, first in the regular season finale in College Park and then in the Big Ten Tournament Semifinal at Homewood Field. The two teams split those games.
- In the 2023 Big Ten Semifinals, third-seeded Maryland bested second-seeded Johns Hopkins, 14-9, in Baltimore behind a hat trick from former Blue Jay Owen Murphy and a career-high four points from Zach Whittier. Ten Terps had points in the game and eight scored goals. Hopkins scored the first three goals of the game but Maryland rebounded with six of the next seven and never looked back after that. Luke Wierman won 13 faceoffs in the game and became just the second Terp to ever eclipse 600 career wins. True freshman Brian Ruppel made 11 saves. Maryland allowed just six goals over the final 54:41 of game action.
- In the 2023 regular season finale, 6,594 fans gathered to watch the greatest rivalry in college lacrosse. The game was tied at every score from 0 to 10 and featured eight lead changes with Johns Hopkins prevailing 12-11. Freshman Braden Erksa had a career-high five points on a career-high tying four goals and an assist. Hopkins captured a share of the Big Ten Championship with the win and was led by Russell Melendez who scored two goals including the game-winner with 3:51 left to play.
- The 2022 game at Homewood Field came saw the Terps score the most goals in series history with a 22-7 victory. The 15-goal margin was also a series record. Logan Wisnauskas continued his dominance of Hopkins with an eight-point outing on five goals and three assists. Keegan Khan and Owen Murphy each scored four times and added an assist. Luke Wierman controlled the game at the faceoff X, winning 17-of-27 with nine groundballs and a goal. Logan McNaney allowed just four goals in three quarters of action in cage and made 11 saves.
Maryland-Hopkins History: 1973 NCAA Championship Game
Frank Urso scored the game-winning goal over Johns Hopkins in the 1973 NCAA Championship game to give Maryland its first NCAA Championship. From Sports Illustrated ...
"All that remained then was for Urso to score the winning goal at 1:18 of the second overtime. It was a 15-yarder—a long shot under such critical circumstances—but in maneuvering, Urso discovered that he could not see Matthews. 'I figured if I couldn't see him, then he couldn't see me, and I let it go.'"
Conference Domination
- Since joining the Big Ten in 2015, Maryland is 43-11 (.796) 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.
Maryland-Hopkins History: 2012 NCAA Quarterfinals
100th Season of maryland men's lacrosse
- The Terps boast an all-time record of 902-292-4 (.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 68-16 (.810), 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).
Joe Walters scored six goals, the most ever for a Terp against Johns Hopkins, in the Terrapins 11-4 win at Homewood Field in 2006.
Maryland-Hopkins History: 2012 at Homewood
Jesse Bernhardt and the Terrapin defense held the Blue Jays scoreless for the final 29:17 of Maryland's 9-6 win at Homewood in 2012. Maryland trailed 6-3 with less than a minute elapsed in the third, but the Terps rallied to score the game's final six goals to claim the victory.
900 Victories
Maryland-Hopkins History: 2021
Logan Wisnauskas tied the record for points (9) and assists (7) against Johns Hopkins in the first meeting in the Big Ten-only 2021 regular season. Maryland dominated the Blue Jays, en route to an 18-10 victory in College Park. The Terps would go on to defeat the Blue Jays twice more in 2021, 14-13 at Homewood, and 12-10 in the Big Ten Championship game at Penn State.
McNaney: Maryland's All-Time Saves Leader
Maryland-Hopkins History: 2010 Day of Rivals
Lockdown Defense
- The Terps have been excellent defensively in the 2025 campaign, holding its opponents to 10 goals or less in 10 of 11 games (and all 11 in regulation).
- Maryland held its first eight opponents in 2025 to 10 goals or less. 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 7.60 is the second-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.
- Maryland has held 10 of its 11 opponents to fewer goals then the opponents' season scoring average. Only Michigan (13 goals / 11.08 gpg) has scored more than its season average against the Terps.
Scoring Average Differences
| Opponent |
Goals/Game |
vs. UMD |
Difference |
| Richmond |
13.92 |
7 |
-6.92 |
| Loyola |
9.00 |
7 |
-2.00 |
| Syracuse |
14.67 |
7 |
-7.67 |
| Princeton |
12.55 |
9 |
-3.55 |
| Notre Dame |
14.44 |
10 |
-4.44 |
| Delaware |
11.91 |
3 |
-8.91 |
| Virginia |
11.00 |
6 |
-5.00 |
| Michigan |
11.08 |
13 |
+1.92 |
| Penn State |
12.73 |
8 |
-4.73 |
| Rutgers |
9.38 |
8 |
-1.38 |
| Ohio State |
12.92 |
8 |
-4.92 |
Climbing The All-Time Points List
