SYRACUSE Men’S Lacrosse 11 NCAA TITLES • 4 USILA TITLES • 27 FINAL FOUR APPEARANCES • 5 UNDEFEATED SEASONS • 28 LACROSSE HALL of FAMERS
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SYRACUSE Men’s Lacrosse 11 NCAA TITLES • 4 USILA TITLES • 27 FINAL FOUR APPEARANCES • 5 UNDEFEATED SEASONS • 28 LACROSSE HALL OF FAMERS #1 Syracuse vs. Johns Hopkins 2020 SCHEDULE/RESULTS Date: Saturday, March 7 (4-0, 0-0 ACC) Time: 1 p.m. Location: Homewood Field | Baltimore, Md. TV: ESPN3 February Series History: 27-30-1 | Streak: W1 | Last 10: 6-4 7 COLGATE (ACCN) W, 21-14 Last Meeting: 3/9/19 | W, 14-10 | Syracuse, N.Y. 15 BINGHAMTON (ACCN) W, 17-4 23 ARMY (ACCNX) W, 9-7 THE GAME 28 HOBART (ACCN) W, 21-13 u #1 Syracuse faces Johns Hopkins in the latest installment of the rivalry betwen the sport's greatest programs. u The game will be broadcast on ESPN3 with Syracuse grad Anish Shroff and Hopkins grad Quint Kessenich on March the call Jack McMullen and Kyle Fetterly will broadcast the action on KRock, Cuse.com and the TuneIn App, while WAER will also carry the game. 7 at Johns Hopkins (ESPN3) 1 p.m. 14 at Rutgers (Big Ten Plus) 1 p.m. WHEN #1 21 at Duke * (ESPNU) 12 p.m. uThe Syracuse men’s lacrosse team has been ranked atop the USILA Poll over 20-percent of the time in the 28 NOTRE DAME * ! (ESPNU) 2 p.m. poll’s history after earning the No. 1 spot this week. u Syracuse has been No. 1 in 98 polls since 1973. April uThe Orange is 119-24 (.836) in games when holding the nation’s top ranking, including a 53-13 (.820) record under head coach John Desko. 3 at Albany (TBA) 7 p.m. uSince Syracuse joined the ACC, Syracuse’s men’s lacrosse, women’s lacrosse, men’s cross country, men’s soccer 7 at Cornell (ESPN+) 7:30 p.m. and field hockey teams have all spent time as No. 1 in their respective polls, which is 25-percent of Syracuse's 11 NORTH CAROLINA * ! (ESPNU) 2 p.m. teams being ranked No. 1 in their respective polls. 18 at Virginia * (ACCN) 12 p.m. PURSUING PERFECTION u A win on Saturday would have Syracuse off to its 19th 5-0 start in program history (101 seasons) and fifth * - ACC games time under Head Coach John Desko (22 years). ! - Played at Cicero-North Syracuse u In the last 50 years (1970-pres.) Syracuse has started 5-0 on 10 occasions. The Orange won the national title Home games in BOLD CAPS in four of those 10 seasons and reached Championship Weekend six times after a 5-0 start. u The most recent 5-0 start was in 2016. Nick Mellen and Andrew Helmer (who redshirted that season) are the only members of the current Orange who have seen the team get off to a 5-0 start. THE JOHNS HOPKINS SERIES u College lacrosse’s two biggest names, combining for 21 NCAA Championships and 1,907 combined wins, making them the winningnest programs ever, meet for a 59th time. u Johns Hopkins leads the all-time series 30-27-1, but Syraucuse has won six of the last 10. u While the series has become an annual regular season highlight, ‘Cuse and Hopkins is most known for meeting in May. Syracuse has faced the Blue Jays 13 times in the NCAA Tournament, three more times than TALE OF THE TAPE any other opponent (Princeton, 10). The programs have faced each other eight times on Championship weekend. Stats ‘Cuse Hopkins u Due to Carrier Dome scheduling conflicts in 2017 with the NCAA women’s basketball tournament, Hopkins Shots/Game 53.8 43.5 made back-to-back trips to Syracuse after the Orange played two-straight at Homewood (2016, 2017). Before Goals/Game 17.0 10.75 this current stretch, the teams swaped sites every year since SU visited Homewood Field twice in a row in Assists/Game 8.0 5.75 both 1998 and 1999. Syracuse returns to Homewood for the first time since a 2017 OT thriller. Points/Game 25.0 16.5 u The Orange defeated the Blue Jays 14-10 last season. Peter Dearth (2-1), Jamie Trimboli (2-1) and Jacob Shot % .316 (68-215) .247 (43-174) Buttermore (3-0) all had big games for 'Cuse. GAA ...................................9.81....................13.00 u There have been 17 games decided by one goal between Syracuse and Johns Hopkins, including the 2016 Ground Balls/Game ...........43.0......................29.0 and 2017 matchups. EMO ..........................2-7 (.286)........... 6-12 (.500) Clears ....................65-71 (.908)......... 50-67 (.746) AGAINST THE B1G TEN uSyracuse enters Saturday’s game with a 124-61-2 record all-time against the six current members of the Big Faceoff % ............82-121 (.678)....... 67-109 (.615) Ten. Penalties ....................14/11:30.............. 19/14:30 u’Cuse has faced JHU (27-30-1), Penn State (46-11-1), Rutgers (42-9), Maryland (6-11), and Ohio State (2-0). The Orange has never faced Michigan. Syracuse Leaders uSU will play a Big Ten opponent in back-to-back weeks, when Syracuse heads to Rutgers next week. Goals: Trimboli and Scanlan, 13 Assists: Rehfuss, 11 TOUGH ON THE RIDE Points: Scanlan, 17 u Through four games (and his first four starts on attack), Griffin Cook has seven caused turnovers. Since Saves: Porter, 48 caused turnovers officially became an NCAA statistic in 2010, Cook is just the fourth attackmen in program Ground Balls: Phaup, 28 history have had more than six caused turnovers in an entire season. Caused Turnovers: Cook, 7 u In fact, in the 10 seasons since CTs became an official stat, Cook's total would already tie or beat the SU single season lead among attackmen in nine of those 10 years. Hopkins Leaders u The highest single-season caused turnover totals among SU attackmen are Cody Jamieson, 9 (2010), Chris Goals: Degnon, 8 Daniello, 8 (2010), Dylan Donahue, 7 (2015). That list is the entirety of attackmen who finished a single Assists: Williams, 5 season ahead of Cook. Points: Williams, 11 u Cook has the most caused turnovers by an attackman in the country this season. Saves: Darby, 40 u Stephen Rehfuss also has four caused turnovers this season, which ranks fourth on the team, and leads all Ground Balls: Prouty, 17 non-faceoff specialists with 15 ground balls. Caused Turnovers: Reinson, 3 Syracuse Athletic Communications • 105W Manley Field House • Syracuse, N.Y. 13244 • p: 315.443.2608 • c: 315-941-6569 MLAX Contact: Tyler Cady • Email: [email protected] • Web: Cuse.com • Twitter: @CuseMLAX, @Cuse #1 SYRACUSE (4-0) vs. JOHNS HOPKINS (1-3) // GAME 5 A WIN AGAINST HOPKINS WOULD... SERIES BREAKDOWN u Be the program’s 917th victory, second all-time behind Johns Hopkins. u Give Syracuse a 5-0 start for the 19th time in program history (101 seasons) and fifth time under Head SU 6-4 in last 10 (27-30-1 overall) Coach John Desko (22 seasons). DATE SCORE RESULT All-Time Series u Improve SU’s record to 71-28 since the start of the 2014 season. 3/19/11* 5-4 W(2OT) 22 26 1 u Move Syracuse to 28-30-1 all-time vs. Johns Hopkins. The Blue Jays once led the series by margins of 12-2-1 3/17/12 7-11 L 22 27 1 and 25-16-1. Since 1931, 'Cuse has only been in within 2 games of .500 vs. the Blue Jays once prior, which 3/16/13* 13-8 W 23 27 1 was following the 2015 regular season meeting between the programs. u Give John Desko 258 wins, passing longtime Cornell head coach Richie Moran for sole possession of 18th in 3/15/14 12-10 W 24 27 1 NCAA Division I history. 3/12/15* 14-6 W 25 27 1 5/17/15 15-16 L 25 28 1 3/19/16 10-11 L(OT) 25 29 1 3/18/17 8-7 W(OT) 26 29 1 3/10/18* 7-18 L 26 30 1 3/9/19 14-10 W 27 30 1 LAST TIME THEY MET * - denotes home game Syracuse 14, Johns Hopkins 10 March 9, 2019 // Syracuse, N.Y. Overall: Hopkins leads, 30-27-1 at Syracuse: SU leads, 11-9-1 On a day when the 2009 Syracuse lacrosse team was honored in the Dome for their relentless fourth- at Hopkins: Hopkins leads, 16-8 quarter effort that capture the program’s 11th national title, it was a fourth-quarter barrage a decade at Neutral Sites: SU leads, 8-4 later that earned the No. 15 Orange (3-2) a 14-10 win over No. 17 Johns Hopkins (2-3) in the latest Longest SU Win Streak: 5 (2008-11) chapter of the storied rivalry. Longest Hopkins Win Streak: 9 (1930-80) Jacob Buttermore’s hat trick led the way offensively, while Peter Dearth (2-1) chipped in two from the SU Total Goals: 622 midfield. Bradley Voigt and Jamie Trimboli each scored two as well, while Drake Porter turned in 13 Hopkins Total Goals: 718 saves, including eight in the third quarter alone. The Orange defense buckled down and only allowed SU’s Most Goals: 21 (1992, 1993) five goals over the game’s final 45 minutes. Hopkins’ Most Goals: 21 (1965) SU’s Largest Margin of Victory: 12 (1988) “We got the lead in the fourth quarter and a week ago, we had it and we didn’t finish it so it was Hopkins’ Largest Margin of Victory: 20 (1931) nice to be in a similar situation and put it away,” said head coach John Desko.