2021 JOHNS HOPKINS MEN’S LACROSSE Game 1 | February 20, 2021 | 12 pm | Homewood Field | Baltimore, MD #20 JOHNS HOPKINS MEDIA CENTER #10 OHIO STATE BLUE JAYS TV _____ESPNU (Tape Delay / Feb. 21 / 10 am) BUCKEYES Live Video _______________ WatchESPN.com Overall: 0-0 Overall: 0-0 Live Stats _____________ HopkinsSports.com Big Ten: 0-0 Big Ten: 0-0 USILA Rank: 20th USILA Rank: 10th IL/Media Rank: 19th SOCIAL MEDIA IL/Media Rank: 8th Twitter ________________ @jhumenslacrosse Head Coach Head Coach _________________________ @HopkinsSports Peter Milliman / Empire State ‘12 Nick Myers / Springfield ‘01 Instagram __________________@jhumenslax Overall Record: 65-36 (.644) / 8th Season _________________________ @HopkinsSports Overall Record: 106-76 (.582) / 13th Season Record at Hopkins: 0-0 (.000) / 1st Season Facebook ____ Johns Hopkins Men’s Lacrosse Record at Ohio State: Same The Game 2021 JOHNS HOPKINS • Johns Hopkins opens the season against Ohio State as the Big Ten kicks off its conference-only SCHEDULE & RESULTS 2021 schedule this weekend. Feb. 20 Ohio State * _________________12 pm 27 @ Michigan * _________________1 pm The Facts Mar. 6 @ Maryland * _________________TBA • This is the 134th season of Johns Hopkins men’s lacrosse. JHU first fielded a team in 1883. 13 Penn State * _________________12 pm • Johns Hopkins enters this week’s game with an all-time record of 993-346-15. 20 Rutgers * ____________________1 pm • JHU owns 44 national championships with nine NCAA titles, 29 USILA titles and six ILA crowns to its credit. May 1 Big Ten Quarterfinals Campus( Sites) 6 Big Ten Semifinals @( PSU) Poll Position May 8 Big Ten Championship (@ PSU) • Johns Hopkins is ranked 20th in this week’s USILA Coaches Poll and 19th in the Inside La- crosse Media Poll. * Big Ten Game • Ohio State is ranked in the top 10 in both the USILA Coaches Poll (10th) and the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll (8th). (The schedule for the second half of regular season will be announcd in early March. Those games will Series History take place between March 27-April 24) • This week’s game will be the 14th all-time meeting between Johns Hopkins and Ohio State. • The series dates to a 17-8 Johns Hopkins victory in 1999 and JHU has won 9-of-13 against the JOHNS HOPKINS Buckeyes. ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS • Complete series history can be found on page 11. Director of Athletic Communications: _ Ernie Larossa Larossa Office Phone: _____________ 410/516-0552 On This Date Larossa Cell Phone: _______________ 410/299-7437 • This week’s game against Ohio State will be just the third all-time on February 20 for the Larossa Fax: _____________________ 410/516-7482 Blue Jays. Larossa Email: _______________ [email protected] • Johns Hopkins is 1-1 all-time in games played on February 20 as the Blue Jays topped Siena Asst. Director of Ath. Communications: ____ Jill Guise 11-3, on this date in 2009 and dropped a 9-8 decision at Loyola in 2016. Guise Office Phone _______________ 410/516-0638 Athletic Communications Asst: ________ Jeff Jezewski For Openers Jezewski Office Phone: ____________ 410/516-0591 • The Blue Jays are 17-3 in their last 20 season openers. Coordinator of Digital Media: _______ Matt Lawrence • Johns Hopkins has won 12 of its last 13 season openers, including a 15-7 win against Towson in 2020. Lawrence Office Phone: ___________ 410/516-3471 • Johns Hopkins has scored at least 10 goals in its season opener in 12 of the last 13 years and On the Web: ______________www.HopkinsSports.com at least 12 goals in seven of the last nine. In February Johns Hopkins and ESPNU • This week’s game against Ohio State will be the 45th all-time for Johns Hopkins in the month of February. Johns Hopkins enjoys an exclusive na- • JHU is 29-15 (.659) all-time in games played in the month of February. tional television agreement with ESPNU that • Johns Hopkins played its first game in the month of February in 1998, didn’t provides the Blue Jays with the mot extensive play again in February until 2004 and has now played at least one game in television coverage in the nation. the opening month of the season every year since 2006. All Johns Hopkins home games air on the ESPN family of networks with a majority of the games airing on ESPNU. Johns Hopkins is the only lacrosse program in the nation - men or women - with its own exclusive national television agreement. GAME 1 - OHIO STATE at JOHNS HOPKINS / 2 Milliman’s Debut Things to Know - Ohio State Big Ten Standings • Peter Milliman will make his Johns Hopkins « Ohio State comes to Homewood Field for the coaching debut when the Blue Jays host Ohio 2021 season opener after posting a 5-2 record Big Ten Overall State on Saturday. in the shortened 2020 season. Record Record Streak • Milliman spent three seasons as the head coach « This is actually the second time OSU has Johns Hopkins 0-0 0-0 W1 at Cornell from 2018-20 and compiled a record opened a season at Johns Hopkins as the Blue of 28-10 while guiding the Big Red. Maryland 0-0 0-0 W2 Jays and Buckeyes met in the first game of the • Cornell was ranked number two in the nation Michigan 0-0 0-0 L1 2014 season. when the 2020 season came to an end in mid- Ohio State 0-0 0-0 W2 « The Buckeyes were just three goals away from March. Penn State 0-0 0-0 W1 being 7-0 when the 2020 season ended as the Rutgers 0-0 0-0 L4 only blemishes on their record were a 9-7 loss First Time out to UMass and a 17-16 setback to Cornell. • Dating back to 1955 when Bob Scott took over This Week’s Games « Head coach Nick Myers’ team returns its top as the head coach at Johns Hopkins, Peter Mil- Ohio State at Johns Hopkins (Feb. 20) nine scorers from an offense that was averag- liman is the seventh person to serve as the head Michigan at Maryland (Feb. 20) ing just under 14 goals per game (13.86) last coach at JHU. Penn State at Rutgers (Feb. 20) season. Included are every player who scored • The previous six head coaches at JHU posted a four or more goals and all but one that had two 4-2 record in their coaching debuts at Hopkins. or more assists. Tale of the Tape (2020 Stats) « Ohio State ranked among the national leaders Year Coach ______________ 1st Game Result in a number of statistical categories a year ago, JHU Category OSU 1955 Bob Scott __________ W/14-1 (Harvard) including shooting percenage (.357), clearing 1975 Henry Ciccarone _ W/9-8 (OT) (Virginia) percentage (.889) and opponent clearing per- 10.83 Scoring Offense 13.86 1984 Don Zimmerman ______ W/10-8 (UMBC) centage (.787); the Buckeyes ranked in the top 13.17 Scoring Defense 10.14 1991 Tony Seaman ______L/10-15 (Princeton) 15 in each of those areas. 1999 John Haus ________ W/12-11 (Princeton) « Ohio State’s top four returning scorers - Tre .381 Extra-Man Offense % .455 2001 Dave Pietramala______L/4-8 (Princeton) Leclair, Jack Myers, Jackson Reid and Griffin .533 Man-Down Defense % .737 Hughes - combined for 67 goals and 40 assists Milliman’s Assistants and scored on an amazing 41.6% of their 161 .255 Shooting % .357 • Johns Hopkins head coach Peter Milliman is combined shots. .588 Faceoff % .558 joined on the sideline by offensive coordinator « Ohio State is 10-2 under head coach Nick .789 Clearing % .889 John Grant, Jr., defensive coordinator Jamison Myers in season openers and the Buckeyes have .470 Save % .577 Koesterer and volunteer assistant Dan Annino. currently won five consecutive openers. • Grant, Jr. comes to JHU after spending the last two years at Air Force as an assistant coach, while Buckeyes to Watch Koesterer spent the last four years as an assistant coach at nearby UMBC. Tre Leclaire (Gr. • A) • Annino was an assistant coach for three years at his alma mater, Amherst College, and was the « Returns for his final season as one of the most 2019 IMLCA Division III Assistant Coach of the Year. feared shooters in college lacrosse. Rang up 26 goals and eight assists for 34 points in just Roster Breakdown seven games in 2020. • The Blue Jays’ 57-man roster includes 21 newcomers, including 17 freshmen, three transfers « A three-time All-American and two-time All- and one senior who has played on the men’s basketball team at JHU for three seasons. Big Ten selection, he counts 135 career goals and 38 assists to his credit. He ranks second More Than 75% of Offense Returns in program history in goals and sixth in points. • In the COVID-shortened 2020 season, Johns Hopkins scored 65 goals and added 36 assists for 101 points in six games. The Blue Jays return 78.5% of their goals (51), 77.8% of their assists (28) Justin Inacio (Sr. • FO) and a total of 78.3% of their points (79) from a year ago. « Latest in a long line of outstanding faceoff specialists at OSU. Led the Big Ten in faceoff You Look Familiar - Part I winning percentage last season (.655) as he won • Johns Hopkins defensive coordinator Jamison Koesterer spent four seasons as an assistant 72-of-110 in just four games. coach at Ohio State from 2013-16. « The 2018 Big Ten Freshman of the Year and • While at OSU, Koesterer helped the Buckeyes to a pair of trips to the NCAA Quarterfinals (2013, 2019 Co-Big Ten Specialist of the Year has 2015).