Michigan to Travel to No. 8 Johns Hopkins for Top-15 Showdown

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The No. 14-ranked University of Michigan men's lacrosse team (6-3, 1-0 Big Ten) travels to Baltimore, Md., to take on No. 8-ranked Johns Hopkins (6-1, 1-0 Big Ten) on Saturday (March 30) at noon at Homewood Field. The contest will be broadcast live on ESPN2.

Notes

• The Wolverines enter the week ranked No. 14 in the Inside Lacrosse Media poll and No. 15 in the USILA Coaches Poll. Each of U-M's defeats this season have come against ranked teams, with No. 1 Notre Dame, No. 2 Virginia and No. 16 Harvard sporting a combined record of 19-4.

• The Michigan attack unit of senior Michael Boehm (19 goals, 21 assists), junior Ryan Cohen (19G, 19A), and graduate student Justin Tiernan (37G, 3A) combine to form one of the top attack trios in the NCAA with 118 points amongst the group. Tiernan continues to lead the country in goals per game (4.11 per contest), while Boehm and Tiernan are tied for No. 24 nationally in points-per-game (4.44).

• Tiernan's 37 goals are eight away from Boehm's single-season record of 45, set last season. He has registered a hat trick in every game as a Wolverine, and has scored at least one goal in 21 straight contests, the 11th-longest streak in the NCAA.

• With a goal and two assists against Maryland (March 23), Boehm is up to 212 career points, two shy of breaking the U-M career scoring record of 213 held by Josh Zawada. Boehm also is two goals shy of the program record for career goals (119, Zawada) and is tied for the career assist record (94, Zawada).

• Cohen's five points (1G, 4A) against the Terps moved him into third in the all-time points category, surpassing Ian King (2014-17). He now owns 73 goals and 74 assists in his Wolverines career (147 points).

• U-M is No. 11 in the country in scoring offense (14.22 goals per game) and points per game (23.11), No. 8 in assists per game (8.89) and No. 9 in extra-man offense (48 percent).

• Graduate close defender Cathal Roberts leads the Big Ten and is No. 18 nationally in caused turnovers per contest with 1.89 per game. As a team, U-M is No. 1 in the conference and No. 10 nationally in caused turnovers per contest with 9.56 per game.

• Senior faceoff man Justin Wietfeldt ranks No. 14 nationally in faceoff win percentage (62 percent) and No. 5 in the country in ground balls per game (9.33). Over the last five contests, he was won 96 of 134 draws (72 percent) with 65 ground balls.

• Freshman Rowan Clay has earned a starting nod on close defense each of the last two contests and is the first freshman to start multiple games on close defense since teammate Jack Whitney during the 2021 season. With seven ground balls and six caused turnovers, the No. 27 recruit in the country per Inside Lacrosse continues the legacy of Clays at Michigan. He is the brother or former U-M captain Bryce Clay (2019-23).

• Michigan head coach Kevin Conry and assistant coach Joel Tinney each played collegiately for the Blue Jays. Conry played at Johns Hopkins from 2001-04, while Tinney was a two-time first team All-American and team captain during the 2015-18 seasons in Baltimore.

• U-M is 1-11 all-time against Johns Hopkins, with the lone win coming during the 2021 season, 13-10 on April 4, 2021, at Homewood Field. Last season, U-M fell to the Blue Jays 15-11 in a contest that saw the Wolverines lead on three separate occasions but were outscored 7-2 over the last 22 minutes.