Michigan
Rutgers
U-M to Host Rutgers on Sunday Under the Lights
4/1/2024 1:49:00 PM | Men's Lacrosse
Promotions
• Senior Night, Pride Day
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The No. 15-ranked University of Michigan men's lacrosse team will host the Rutgers Scarlet Knights Sunday (April 7) night at 7 p.m. The contest will be broadcast on Big Ten Network. Prior to the matchup, U-M will honor its 18-member graduating class in the final regular-season home game of the campaign.
Notes
• The contest will serve as the final regular-season matchup of the 2024 season for the Wolverines, which are 2-1 on the year in home games contested at U-M Lacrosse Stadium and 10-6 over the last two seasons. Michigan will also honor 18 graduating graduate students and seniors prior to the contest.
• The Wolverines (6-4, 1-1 B1G) enter the week ranked No. 15 in the Inside Lacrosse Media poll and No. 16 in the USILA Coaches Poll. U-M is tied for second in the league with the 1-1 mark and holds a tiebreaker over Maryland. Johns Hopkins is atop the standings with a 2-0 record, while Rutgers enters the matchup with a 6-4 overall record and is 0-2 in B1G play to sit in last place.
• U-M had a trio of student-athletes named to the Inside Lacrosse Midseason All-American lists in graduate midfielder Beau Pederson (first team), while senior faceoff man Justin Wietfeldt and classmate Michael Boehm earned honorable mention spots.
• An attack-driven team by trade, the trio of Boehm (21g, 24a), junior Ryan Cohen (21g, 22a) and graduate student Justin Tiernan (40g, 3a) combine to form one of the top attack trios in the NCAA with 131 points amongst the group. Tiernan continues to lead the country in goals per game (4.00/contest), while Boehm is No. 22 nationally and second in the conference in points per game (4.50).
• Tiernan's 40 goals are five away from Boehm's single-season record of 45 (2023). He has registered a hat trick in every game as a Wolverine, and has scored at least one goal in 22 straight contests -- the 11th-longest streak in the NCAA.
• With five points (2g. 3a.) against Johns Hopkins (March 30), Boehm broke the U-M career record for goals, assists and points. He now boasts 120 goals, 97 assists and 217 points in his storied Wolverine career. The assist mark is three short of becoming the first Wolverine in program history to reach 100 helpers in a career.
• Senior faceoff man Justin Wietfeldt ranks eighth nationally in faceoff win percentage (62.3 percent) and third in the country in ground balls per game (9.50). With 95 ground balls on the season, he is six away from breaking former teammate Nick Rowlett's single-season record of 100 (2021, 2023).
• Cohen sits in third in the program annals for points (153) as well as assists (76). His career goal mark of 77 is No. 7 in Wolverine history.
• U-M is No. 13 in the country in scoring offense (13.90 goals/game), No. 4 in assists per game (9.00) and No. 5 in extra-man offense (52 percent) as well as No. 9 in points per game (22.90).
• Graduate close defender Cathal Roberts leads the Big Ten and No. 17 nationally in caused turnovers per contest with 1.80/game. As a team, U-M is tops in the conference and No. 16 nationally in caused turnovers per contest with 9.10/game.
• Michigan is 6-1 on the season when scoring first, 4-0 against unranked opponents, 5-1 when outshooting an opponent -- and 4-0 when having fewer turnovers than the opposition.
• Rutgers leads the all-time series by a 9-1 margin. Last season, the Wolverines fell by a 13-12 score in overtime in Piscataway. Cohen and Boehm each had five points each, but U-M was held scoreless for 20 minutes before going on a 3-0 run to tie the game at 12 and send the game into overtime. Michigan has dropped each of the last three contests by identical 13-12 scores. The lone U-M win in the series came on April 5, 2015, by a 10-8 count inside Michigan Stadium.
