Johns Hopkins 2024

[jhu06]

Two new bracketologies out today with very different assessments of the Jays.

One has us as the 4 seed vs. St. Joe's, a matchup with Virginia/Army in the quarters if we were to win that:
https://www.usalacrosse.com/magazine/co ... notre-dame

Other one has us down as the 8 seed seed vs. Penn, playing ND in the quarters again.
https://twitter.com/fieldystick/status/ ... 7200446727

Jays can do themselves a huge favor by finishing conference play strong to earn a top seed. So much of tournament success is based on who you play and your path to Memorial Day. We need another big win or two to feel good about a home game. Would be super chill if they could get one on Saturday.

I was trying to think how many years there have been since 18 and company got their diplomas that the Blue Jays have entered April in this kind of bracketology shape. Sweeping Loyola, UVA, and UNC really changes the direction of a season.

Beat Penn State and the odds for a bye in the big ten look good opening up the potential ncaa bid, ncaa home game and path to a top 4 seed.

Homecoming Weekend things to Watch
1. Better start at the faceoff dot and improved help from the wings. Dunn/Callahan won 2 of 13 faceoffs last year against them.
2. Bauer/Chauvette/Ayers contributing more
3. Deleted comment about a view of alumni held by some at Homewood
4. Man Down defense-it's the only category where they've slipped this year in conference from 2 last year to 4.
5. How they attack Fracyon-17 saves last year. Better ball movement, better looks, more transition.
6. Melendez continued resurgence
7. No dumb offsides penalties-a recurring theme this year
8. Building leads and finishing games
9. They held Angelus pointless last year. That can't happen.
10. Malone had 8 points and 8 gbs last year. Needs to be taken care of.
11. GBs -16 last year with -10 in saves -10 in faceoffs.

[51percentcorn]

Homecoming Weekend things to Watch
1. Better start at the faceoff dot and improved help from the wings. Dunn/Callahan won 2 of 13 faceoffs last year against them.
2. Bauer/Chauvette/Ayers contributing more
3. Deleted comment about a view of alumni held by some at Homewood
4. Man Down defense-it's the only category where they've slipped this year in conference from 2 last year to 4.
5. How they attack Fracyon-17 saves last year. Better ball movement, better looks, more transition.
6. Melendez continued resurgence
7. No dumb offsides penalties-a recurring theme this year
8. Building leads and finishing games
9. They held Angelus pointless last year. That can't happen.
10. Malone had 8 points and 8 gbs last year. Needs to be taken care of.
11. GBs -16 last year with -10 in saves -10 in faceoffs.

1. Extremely Valid - Starting with a -10 in possessions is no bueno
2. Bauer is on the 1st mid-field - he actually has more points then Peshko and only takes 2.5 shots per game on average - less than Chauvette and Ayers takes exactly 2 shots per game - Chauvette IS on the field to shoot - he scored an EMO last week - they're doing fine with what they are being asked to do. It doesn't matter who scores as long as they score. First words out of Chic's mouth every season "As long as you don't care who gets the credit we will be successful"
3. The weather is supposed to be fairly pleasant on Saturday unless its changed - partly sunny mid 50's or some such. Should be a nice crowd pulling for the guys in Hopkins Blue and Black - assuming reasonable weather the Jays should get really good crowds for the next two home games. Not sure what view is held by some at Homewood
4. It was 37% before the Michigan game - one of Michigan's EMOs was with about a minute left and Hopkins up 5 - one of the others was an incredible low angle shot by Boehm I think - when you draw up man-down D those are the kind of shots you want to give up - that thing was a missile with no room. The issue is NOT FOULING - there have only been 4 out of the 10 games where Hopkins has faced 2 or less EMOs
5. A huge key to the game - no question - BUT you do have to follow the UMD advice to their players - don't get frustrated - he's going to do stuff like catch the ball with his lower legs - in my mind he may be the best goalie in the business - just keep working. The key might be on the other side - Chayse is exactly at 55% - he approaches that on Saturday Hopkins has a good chance
6. I wouldn't necessarily expect 6 like last year - the kid has been hurt and plays hard and cares - not much more to ask
7. Didn't realize this was a theme
8. That's kind of 24/7 - why is that something to watch for @ Homecoming?
9. Very valid - Still - they were one play away from finishing the game
10. Also very valid - very few players make you pay for your poor approaches/bad decisions and mistakes like he does - I'll join the crowd - don't help him create offense
11. Incredibly valid - Mullins was only credited with 5 ground balls so the Nittany Lions had 39 non face-off man gbs - that's just too many

[jhu06]

Homecoming Weekend things to Watch
1. Better start at the faceoff dot and improved help from the wings. Dunn/Callahan won 2 of 13 faceoffs last year against them.
2. Bauer/Chauvette/Ayers contributing more
3. Deleted comment about a view of alumni held by some at Homewood
4. Man Down defense-it's the only category where they've slipped this year in conference from 2 last year to 4.
5. How they attack Fracyon-17 saves last year. Better ball movement, better looks, more transition.
6. Melendez continued resurgence
7. No dumb offsides penalties-a recurring theme this year
8. Building leads and finishing games
9. They held Angelus pointless last year. That can't happen.
10. Malone had 8 points and 8 gbs last year. Needs to be taken care of.
11. GBs -16 last year with -10 in saves -10 in faceoffs.

1. Extremely Valid - Starting with a -10 in possessions is no bueno
2. Bauer is on the 1st mid-field - he actually has more points then Peshko and only takes 2.5 shots per game on average - less than Chauvette and Ayers takes exactly 2 shots per game - Chauvette IS on the field to shoot - he scored an EMO last week - they're doing fine with what they are being asked to do. It doesn't matter who scores as long as they score. First words out of Chic's mouth every season "As long as you don't care who gets the credit we will be successful"
3. The weather is supposed to be fairly pleasant on Saturday unless its changed - partly sunny mid 50's or some such. Should be a nice crowd pulling for the guys in Hopkins Blue and Black - assuming reasonable weather the Jays should get really good crowds for the next two home games. Not sure what view is held by some at Homewood
4. It was 37% before the Michigan game - one of Michigan's EMOs was with about a minute left and Hopkins up 5 - one of the others was an incredible low angle shot by Boehm I think - when you draw up man-down D those are the kind of shots you want to give up - that thing was a missile with no room. The issue is NOT FOULING - there have only been 4 out of the 10 games where Hopkins has faced 2 or less EMOs
5. A huge key to the game - no question - BUT you do have to follow the UMD advice to their players - don't get frustrated - he's going to do stuff like catch the ball with his lower legs - in my mind he may be the best goalie in the business - just keep working. The key might be on the other side - Chayse is exactly at 55% - he approaches that on Saturday Hopkins has a good chance
6. I wouldn't necessarily expect 6 like last year - the kid has been hurt and plays hard and cares - not much more to ask
7. Didn't realize this was a theme
8. That's kind of 24/7 - why is that something to watch for @ Homecoming?
9. Very valid - Still - they were one play away from finishing the game
10. Also very valid - very few players make you pay for your poor approaches/bad decisions and mistakes like he does - I'll join the crowd - don't help him create offense
11. Incredibly valid - Mullins was only credited with 5 ground balls so the Nittany Lions had 39 non face-off man gbs - that's just too many

You're very right about Ierlan. Last year they had 10 sub 52 percent save percentage games and went 5-5 in them and 7-1 in the others. This year they've had 3 and lost all 3 and gone 7-0 when they're above that threshold.

[51percentcorn]

Suffered through the highlights of last year's game - a few minor observations since many of the players remain the same:
- Fracyon had trouble picking up Melendez's shot early on - I don't think that is something you can count on as an absolute for this game - it appears to my goalie related uneducated eye that changing levels is particularly important with #50 in dark blue - if he knows what quadrant you're going to it's infinitely more difficult to get it by him even with velocity. It seemed like alot of the UMD goals last week ended up with Fracyon on his knees after maybe thinking higher
- Not Smith's greatest game last year - and the defense ended up with some very poor miscommunications - especially on Malone's goals. Goal #1 - Smith badly plays a meh pick behind - looked like maybe he thought Malone would cross back and hesitates and gets roasted. Goal #2 - semi transition by Penn State - slide comes from middle but Smith also take a couple steps upfield - big mistake - easy pass to Malone - makes Smith look bad on lay-up. Goal #3 - no one supports Martin on an invert - that was a goal 10 seconds before it happened. Goal #4 - Hopkins apparently thought Goal #3 was such a nice goal we would allow him to dance through Martin AND Jaronski with nary a 6 ft pole in sight. He's a great player - the two skip cross field passes for time and room goals were unbelievable - next level - but don't hand him anything. If you don't play picks correctly he will school 1st team AA's as he showed last week.
- The goal that tied the game at 11 was poor readiness on defense and not lights out goaltending either.
- The number of mistakes Hopkins made at the end of regulation and in OT could fuel a coaching clinic

[44WeWantMore]

Johns Hopkins accumulated 302.5 points in the winter and sits in second place in the final LEARFIELD Directors' Cup winter standings it was announced today.

[kennypowers]

Anyone know how bad the standing room only seats are at the Ohio State stadium? Going to go to it, and it's all that's left.

[Hoponboard]

“No. 5 Penn State (7-2, 1-1) at No. 6 Johns Hopkins (7-3, 2-0) - Saturday 2 p.m. (ESPNU)

With starting defensemen Jack Posey and Kevin Parnham out due to injuries, the Nittany Lions can ill afford the kind of possession imbalance they faced last week when they lost seven of eight fourth-quarter faceoffs and Luke Wierman propelled Maryland to six unanswered goals and a comeback win.”

usalacrosse.com

[jhu06]

Johns Hopkins accumulated 302.5 points in the winter and sits in second place in the final LEARFIELD Directors' Cup winter standings it was announced today.

MIT offers 17 mens sports. Hopkins offers 20 d3 teams total. Seems like a fair standings.

The lacrosse fundraising campaign is at $238k with bonuses. The entire university day of giving thing which was exhaustively promoted to all alumni, faculty and parents is at $430k on their page. Milliman seems to have won over some folks who've worn the uniform.

I was thinking the optimal scenario is run the table, and get a situation where the terps and penn state have to go head to head but weitfelt is such a game changer after watching the first half last week. Just win this weekend, stay healthy and keep the band humming I guess.

[hmmm]

Anyone know how bad the standing room only seats are at the Ohio State stadium? Going to go to it, and it's all that's left.

There are no bad seats at the new facility.

[BlueJaySince1947]

Let's hope Q the K is someplace other than Geblein stadium today...

[jhu06]

championship defense, awful offense and faceoffs the difference. Someone needs to put pressure on fracyon or they're in for some nasty April showers on their May dreams.

[HopFan16]

Fracyon is good, but he's not this good. Change levels. Shoot low. Do something. Making it way too easy for him.

D is locked in though.

[jhu06]

the kind of goal it was going to take to beat him. probably a gb they would have liked to have had on a nearly botched penn state clear.
defense has
grad student-goalie
grad student-ssdm
grad student-close d 2
senior-d 1
senior-ssdm 1
senior-ssdm 2
senior-ssdm 4
senior-ssdm 5

and looks like it.

[jhu06]

This is why big individual national recognition has never really reached this offensive group.

[jhu06]

they really really miss Brooks English in this game. He really brought the kind of different offensive dimension that bigger guys like collison/degnon/peshko/grimes don't have.

[HopFan16]

they really really miss Brooks English in this game. He really brought the kind of different offensive dimension that bigger guys like collison/degnon/peshko/grimes don't have.

You're not wrong

[jhu06]

2 weeks in a row brutal timeouts by Milliman. Yikes.

[jhu06]

In fairness to PM he probably wanted it when they were in trouble and with the play going away from him the refs saw it late. Better to have possession than not.

[Haveaday]

Penn State defense is at full strength for the first time all season. Posey and Parnham both back today making an already good defense even better. Agree though that you’re not gonna beat Fracyon with some of these poorly located shots.

[flalax22]

Terrible decision on the timeout —- again