#2 Maryland (8-1, 1-1 B1G) at Rutgers (5-6, 1-1 B1G)
April 5, 2025
SHI Stadium
5 PM
B1G+
Watch COLLEGE PARK, MD -- No. 2 Maryland (8-1) hits the road for the first time in conference play this season when it travels to Piscataway, NJ, to play Rutgers at SHI Stadium on Saturday, April 5. The game is set for a 5 p.m. faceoff and will air on Big Ten Plus.
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, No. 18 Virginia, and No. 7 Penn State, holding all eight 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).
Scouting The Scarlet Knights
- Rutgers is 5-6 this season and is also 1-1 in the Big Ten following its 13-11 road loss to Ohio State on March 29. The Scarlet Knights are 3-3 at home this season with wins over LIU, Loyola, and St. John's. Rutgers' home losses came to Stony Brook, St. Joseph's, and UMass.
- Offensively, sophomore attackman Colin Kurdyla leads the Scarlet Knights with 25 points on a team-leading 16 goals and nine assists and is averaging 3.75 points per game over the last four games. Freshman attackman JJ Aiello is tied with Kurdyla for the team lead with nine assists.
- Defensively, redshirt sophomore Cardin Stoller has started all 11 games in cage for the Scarlet Knights and is third in the Big Ten in goals against average (8.78) and save percentage (.577). Rutgers' close defense of Ben McKelvy, Tommy Mendyke, and Ben Stephanos has started all 11 games together this season.
- Rutgers head coach Brian Brecht is in his 21st season as a head coach and 14th at Rutgers. He is 169-141 (.545) all-time and 104-92 (.531) with the Scarlet Knights.
Series history
- Maryland is 36-1 all-time against Rutgers, including winning 19 straight from 1981-present.
- The series with the Scarlet Knights is one of the oldest in Maryland history dating back to 1931. The Old Liners, as Maryland was known by then, and the Scarlet Knights were deadlocked at 2-2 after three quarters, but Maryland stormed Rutgers in the fourth quarter, out-scoring the Scarlet Knights 8-1 over the final 15 minutes to take a 10-3 decision.
- That was the start of 18-straight victories for Maryland over Rutgers. The streak ended in 1980 when the Scarlet Knights eeked out a 9-8 win in College Park.
- Since then, however, Maryland has gone on another winning streak. The Terrapins have won 19 in a row over Rutgers, beginning with a 15-12 win in Piscataway in 1981.
- The two schools met only once from 1982-1995 - a 13-7 Terrapin victory in the first round of the 1991 NCAA Tournament in College Park. Maryland held a 4-3 at the half thanks Rutgers's deliberate pace of play. But Mark Douglas scored his third goal of the game just 50 seconds into the third quarter, and Rob Wurzburger broke things open with another goal less than a minute later to open up a 6-3 lead for the Terps. Douglas finished with five points (4g-1a), while Steve Kavoit stopped 23 shots in goal, including 11 in the second quarter.
- The series resumed with a three-game stretch from 1996-98 but went on hiatus again until both schools joined the Big Ten at the start of the 2014-15 academic year. The conference officially recognized men's lacrosse beginning in the 2015 season.
- Maryland pulled out a 9-8 victory in that first conference meeting with Rutgers on Apr. 12, 2015, thanks to Matt Rambo, who finished with six points (3g-3a), scoring the game-winning goal with just 13 seconds remaining. The Scarlet Knights led 6-3 early in the third quarter, but Maryland went on a 5-0 run to take an 8-6 lead with 11:04 left in the fourth. Rutgers responded with back-to-back goals to tie the game with 3:34 left, which set up Rambo's heroics.
- The two schools last met in Piscataway in the 2023 regular season. Maryland jumped ahead with a 5-0 run to start the game and never looked back, en route to an 11-8 victory. Four Terps scored two goals apiece, including current Terrapins Eric Spanos and Zach Whittier. Brian Ruppel was solid in net, making 12 saved.
- Last season saw a tightly contested game with Maryland holding a one-goal lead early in the fourth quarter. But the Terps scored the final four goals of the game over the last 11:07 to pull away and secure an 11-6 win at SECU Stadium. Daniel Kelly led the Terps with three goals and an assist, while Logan McNaney made 15 saves.
Conference Domination
- Since joining the Big Ten in 2015, Maryland is 42-10 (.808) 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 901-291-4 (.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 67-15 (.817), 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).
Kevin O'Leary made 705 saves during his career.
900 Victories
Lockdown Defense
- The Terps have been excellent defensively in the 2025 campaign, holding its opponents to 10 goals or less in eight of nine games (and all nine in regulation).
- Maryland held its first eight opponents in 2025 to 10 goals or lessnc. 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 7.56 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 seven of its nine opponents to fewer goals then the opponents' season scoring average. Only Michigan (13 goals / 11.88 gpg) has scored more than its season average against the Terps, while Loyola's seven goals is the same as its season average.
McNaney: The Chase for 706
Logan McNaney needs just eight saves to break Maryland's career saves record, which has stood 41-years.
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