No. 1 Maryland men -Lacrosse against Michigan Preview

Maryland will enter the big ten Play on Saturday with her non -conference slate.

In the nine full seasons since leaving the ACC, Maryland won or divided six seasonal conference titles and won four out of six appearances in the Big Ten tournament game.

Maryland’s failure to win the last two conference championships – according to the standards under head coach John Tillman, a drought – opened the door for another challenger.

And yet only a few people would have expected Michigan to accept the coat, the Wolverines came out of nowhere to win their first trophy in the 2023 Big Ten tournament before defending it again last year.

When rolling around at the end of April, Maryland will try to steal the crown of Michigan’s head – for the time being, the TERPS have an excellent opportunity to increase themselves.

Maryland is fresh from her 900th victory and organizes Michigan at 12 p.m. in the Secu Stadium. The game is broadcast on Big Ten Plus.

Michigan Wolverines (4-4, 0-0 Big Ten)

2024 Record: 10-7, 2-3 big ten

While Head coach Kevin Conrys Eight -year term, The Wolverines have expanded their young lacrosse program, which was founded in 2012. Michigan had a 10-victory season, won the Big Ten tournament and reached the NCAA tournament for the first time in 2023. Next year, the Wolverines again reached all the files in a nearby carbon copy near carbon copies.

The Wolverines can still be optimistic to do it in 2025 in a row, but it was a Jekyll-and-Hyde start the season. You won four games and scored an average of 16 goals for and 4.3 goals against per game in these matchups. In their four losses, however, these figures hike by – 7.8 goals per game and 14 goals.

These losses came against ranking opponents in all their games: North Carolina No. 4, No. 7 Duke, No. 12 Harvard and No. 8 Notre Dame. With four of her five opponents of conference, Michigan has to summon this trend as soon as possible.

Player to know

Ryan Cohen, senior attacker, No. 40 – Cohen is very viewed on the college lacrosse. The attacker deserves places on the Tewaaraton observation list, the all-American team of the pre-season and the Big Ten players who can be observed. Cohen’s statistics speak for himself, 18 assists are connected to the sixth figure in division I, and he has a point strip with 56 games after playing or supporting in every game in which he played.

Hunter Taylor, Junior goalkeeper, No. 52 – Taylor is the definition of a clutch goalkeeper. Born in Rockville, Maryland, was appointed in Big Ten in two consecutive all-touring teams after publishing a savings share of over 73% in each final. And yet, even though he seems to have made one step forward this year, Taylor’s career savings share without a big ten tournament is just under 48%.

Pace Billings, Graduate Defender, No. 12 – Billings has the second most common floor balls of an outfield player in the big ten this year. The all-American Lonable mention of Princeton Transfer and pre-season was one of the best defenders Michigans this season and has to do well against the terps if Michigan is to win.

Strength

Team crime. The Wolverines lost some offensive stars in the past off -season – their transition to the committee attack was expected, but effective. Thirteen Wolverines scored several goals in 2025 and their 63 templates for the 10th place in the country.

weakness

Facoffs. Michigan’s 46.9% profit share occupies 50th place in the nation and is the lowest in the bigest in the bigest with a significant lead. The Wolverines missed the former Faceoff specialist Justin Wietfeldt, who won the same number of allusions as Luke Wierman (244) last season. They turned between Jack Rideout, Nick Lauderback and Jackie Weller, whereby only Weller won more than half of his Facoffs (22-of-40).

Three things to know

1. Maryland disappeared against Michigan? The terps and the Wolverines have confronted 13 times in their history, and Maryland won 10 of the matchups. However, Michigan has won each of the last three games and scored 12 or more goals beyond the terps each time.

2. Braden Erksa ready to work. Maryland’s junior attacker confronted Michigan three times in his career. And although he has not yet hit her, Erksa has certainly made his contribution, scored several goals in every game and achieved nine career points against the Wolverines.

3. Logan McNaney near Maryland Record. McNaney has 678 career parades after his 13-save efforts against Virginia, which for Maryland goalkeeper in second place. Kevin O’Leary had 705. With McNaney, the sixth NetMinder in O’Leary’s 40-year record was able to break the next weekend.