Men's Lacrosse
#4Maryland (7-3) (2-1B1G)vs.Rutgers (7-4) (1-2B1G)
April 13, 2024
SECU Stadium
7 PM
BTN
COLLEGE PARK, MD-No. 4 Maryland (7-3) hosts Rutgers (7-4) at SECU Stadium at 7 PM on Saturday in the Terps' regular season home finale.
Maryland is 7-3 on the season coming off avictoryin a defensive slugfest over Ohio State, 8-7. The week before Marylandcollected a 13-11 win at No. 4 Penn State that saw the Terps come back from a five-goal deficit. The Terps have threeovertime wins (at No. 19 Richmond, at No. 7 Syracuse, Brown) plus home wins over No. 12 Loyola and No. 11 Princeton. The Terps' losses are against No. 6 Notre Dame, No. 4 Virginia and No. 20 Michigan.
Rutgers is 7-4 coming off their first conference win of the season, defeating No. 15 Michigan 9-7. The Scarlet Knights also have wins over Lehigh, Stony Brook, Loyola, Hofstra, Detroit Mercy and UMass. Rutgers' losses have come againstNo. 6 Army, No. 14 Princeton, No. 13 Johns Hopkins and Ohio State.
series history
- The Terps are an impressive 36-1 against Rutgers all-time and are winners of the past 18 meetings.
- Last season, the two teams met twice, first in Piscataway in the penultimate game of the regular season and then in the Big Ten Quarterfinals in College Park. Both games were close until the end, with the Terps taking each one by scores of11-8 and 14-11, respectively.
The Terps have won 18 straight meetings against Rutgers.
Wierman In the record books
- With his 12th of 17 face-off wins against Richmond on Feb. 3, Luke Wiermanbecame Maryland's all-time program leader in face-off wins. He broke Andy Claxton's record of 648 that had stood for over three decades. Against Michigan, Wierman added 10more faceoff wins and now has 741all-time.
- Wierman is also climbing up the career groundballs list. With seven groundballs against Michigan, heofficially becamethe second Terp all-time with 400+ groundballs in his career. Thanks to eightgroundballs vs. Ohio Stateon Saturday, he nowstandsat 416for his career and only trails Andy Claxton and his 451 all-time.
- Wierman set yet another program record against Princeton on Feb. 24, 2024 as he won a remarkable 20 of 23 faceoffs for 87%, marking the highest faceoff win percentage in program history for those who won a minimum of 20 faceoffs.
Luke Wierman set Maryland's all-time single-game faceoff percentage recordagainst Princeton on Feb. 24 when he won 20 of 23 for 87%.
McNaney Returns, continues to climb rankings
- When Logan McNaney started in cage at Richmond on Saturday, Feb. 3, it marked his first game action in just under a year. After suffering a season-ending ACL injury against Loyola last season, McNaney missed the remainder of the 2023 season. Against the Spiders, McNaney played all 65:05 minutes and made 13 saves, including two in overtime.
- Behind a nine-save performance at Penn State, McNaney officiallybecame just the fourth Terp ever to eclipse 500 career saves.
- Against Ohio State, he made 10 saves and allowed just seven goals, bringing him to 512 career saves.
Logan McNaney was named to the USILA Team of the Week on both Feb. 13 and Feb. 20.
Maltz Reaches100 Career goals, Moving up the career points list
- Daniel Maltzscored the game's first goal between the Terps and Fighting Irish and officially cemented himself as the 18th Terp in program history to score at least 100 points.
- Additionally, starting with C. Rennie Smith, who totaled 128 career points from 1955-58, a total of 61 Maryland men's lacrosse student-athletes have reached the 100-point milestone for their careers. Maltzis the latest Terp on the 100-career-points list afterhis four points vs. Notre Dame on March 3, 2023.
- Maltz currently sits 29thall-time with 145career points and 13th all-time with 110career goals. Against Michigan on March 23, Maltz led the Terps with four points on three goals and an assist.
- Maltz also notched an extra-man goal against the Wolverines, putting him in a three-way tie for fifth all-time in EMO goals with 16 in his career. Joe Walters stands No. 1 in that category with 20 extra-man goals to his name.
- Most recently, Maltz scored two goals within eight seconds in the fourth quarter at Penn State.
Maltz reached the 100-goal mark on March 3 against the Irish.
Zappitello on the caused turnover charts
- Ajax Zappitello is climbing the career caused turnovers list. With 66CT's, two coming last week vs. Ohio State, he's now in sole possession of No. 11.
- Zappitellois one of just 16 Terps to eclipse 50 caused turnovers.
- He has caused at least one turnover in every single game this season, and has multiple in eightof 10games.
Zappitello caused three turnovers at No. 7 Syracuse on Feb. 17.
Overtime is terp time
- In three of the first six gamesthis season, the Terps have found themselves in overtime---coming out victorious in all three.
- Owen Murphy got the job done in Maryland's season opener at Richmond, connecting from deep in 2OT. SSDM George Stamos was the unlikely hero at Syracuse, notching the game-winner off a successful Maryland clear. Daniel Maltz notched the winner against Brown, coming off a feed from Braden Erksa.
- Maryland went 2-1 in overtime games last season, with overtime wins at No.1 Virginia and at No. 19 Ohio State.
- The Terps are 15-8 in overtime games under John Tillman and have won five straight dating back to last season.
Three different Terps have score game-winner in overtime this season (Owen Murphy, George Stamos and Daniel Maltz)
10: The magic number
- Since John Tillman took over the program in 2011, Maryland has won 157of the 179games in which it has scored 10 or more goals for a .877winning percentage.
- Most recently, the Terps scored 13 goals, including six in the fourth quarter, in a big comeback win at Penn State.
- Maryland is 123-11 since Tillman took over the program in 2011 when it allows nine goals or less for a .917 winning percentage. The Terps have won 50games in a row when holding foes to less than 10 goals.
- The Terps have held opponents under 10 goals three times this season and have won all three. Most recently, the Terps held the Buckeyes to just seven goals in a thrilling 8-7 win.
Maryland has won 49 consecutive games when it holds its opponents to single digits.
History of success
- Maryland hasan all-time record of 889-287-4 (.756), 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 98seasons. Theprogram reached the 800-win milestone with a 12-6 victory on April 12, 2017, at Albany.
- The Terps boast four NCAA Championships, 28 Final Four appearances and 522 All-Americans.
- With a 14-9 win at No. 5 Johns Hopkins on May 4, 2023 in the Big Ten Tournament Semifinal, the Terps extended theirstreak of double-digit win seasons to 20, the longest active streak in NCAA Division I men's lacrosse. The streak also coincides with the Terps making 20 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, also the longest such streak in the country in NCAA Division I men's lacrosse.
- Since joining the Big Ten in 2015, Maryland is 39-8(.830) in conference play.
The Terps won the 2022 National Championship with a perfect 18-0 record.
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Players Mentioned
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#10 Braden Erksa
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- 6' 0"
- Sophom*ore
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#37 Daniel Maltz
- A
- 6' 2"
- Senior
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#30 Logan McNaney
- G
- 5' 10"
- Graduate Student
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#55 Owen Murphy
- A/M
- 6' 0"
- Senior
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#54 George Stamos
- M
- 6' 0"
- Sophom*ore
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#52 Luke Wierman
- FO
- 6' 2"
- Graduate Student
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#1 Ajax Zappitello
- D
- 6' 1"
- Senior
Players Mentioned
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#10 Braden Erksa
- 6' 0"
- Sophom*ore
- A
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#37 Daniel Maltz
- 6' 2"
- Senior
- A
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#30 Logan McNaney
- 5' 10"
- Graduate Student
- G
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#55 Owen Murphy
- 6' 0"
- Senior
- A/M
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#54 George Stamos
- 6' 0"
- Sophom*ore
- M
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#52 Luke Wierman
- 6' 2"
- Graduate Student
- FO
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#1 Ajax Zappitello
- 6' 1"
- Senior
- D
