#1 Maryland (1-0, 0-0 B1G) vs. Syracuse (2-0. 0-0 ACC)
February 13, 2026
JMA Wireless Dome
6 PM
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. — No. 1 Maryland (1–0) continues the 2026 season on the street in opposition to No. 2 Syracuse (2-0) in Syracuse, N.Y., on the JMA Wireless Dome. Faceoff is ready for six p.m., with dwell protection on ACC Network.
The 2026 marketing campaign represents the a hundred and first season of Maryland males’s lacrosse. The program has produced 532 All-Americans, appeared in 30 Final Fours, and captured 4 NCAA nationwide championships. The Terrapins have completed .500 or higher in each season.
Where we have been …
- The reigning nationwide runner-up Terrapins are coming off an NCAA-best twenty second consecutive NCAA Tournament look and their thirtieth Final Four general, essentially the most of any program. Maryland superior to the NCAA Championship recreation for the ninth time within the final 14 tournaments and the 18th time in program historical past, beating Syracuse 14-8 within the NCAA Semifinal. The Terps completed 14–4 and recorded double-digit wins for the twenty second straight season, the longest lively streak in NCAA Division I males’s lacrosse.
- Maryland opened the season with a 19–10 victory over Loyola, its highest single-game aim complete since 2022, and prolonged its season-opening successful streak to 33 consecutive video games. Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week Leo Johnson scored 5 targets and dished an assisit on his Terp debut.
Maryland-Syracuse History:
Last season, Maryland confronted Syracuse twice—as soon as within the common season, incomes an 11–7 house victory, and once more within the NCAA Tournament semifinals, the place the Terps secured a 14–8 win. Eric Spanos mixed for six targets and three assists throughout the 2 matchups.
Series historical past
- The Terps and the Orange share a longstanding rivalry between two applications with wealthy histories, courting again to their first assembly in 1927. Maryland leads the all-time sequence, 16–6.
- This matchup marks the fifth-consecutive assembly between the 2 applications. The Terps have received eight straight contests within the sequence, outscoring Syracuse 102–69 throughout that stretch, courting to 2011.
- Last season, Maryland confronted Syracuse twice—as soon as within the common season, incomes an 11–7 house victory, and once more within the NCAA Tournament semifinals, the place the Terps secured a 14–8 win. Eric Spanos mixed for six targets and three assists throughout the 2 matchups.
About the coaches
- John Tillman is in his nineteenth season as a head coach and his sixteenth with the Terps, proudly owning a 216–75 profession report for a .741 successful proportion—the very best amongst all lively Division I coaches. Highlighted by an undefeated 2022 marketing campaign, Tillman is 196–55 (.777) as Maryland’s head coach.
- Gary Gait, at present in his fifth season at Syracuse, is the fifth head coach in program historical past. He owns a 39–29 profession report and has led this system to two NCAA Tournament appearances as head coach, together with one Final Four look final 12 months and one ACC Championship—this system’s first since 2016.
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John Tillman is in his nineteenth season as a head coach and his sixteenth with the Terps.
Terps’ a hundred and first Season Of Lacrosse
- The Terps boast an all-time report of 907-295-4 (.754), courting again to the primary varsity workforce in 1924 (a workforce was not fielded in 1944 and 1945 due to World War II). Maryland has completed with a .500 or higher report in all earlier 99 seasons. The program reached the 800-win milestone with a 12-6 victory on April 12, 2017, at Albany and have become simply the third faculty with 900 wins on March 29, 2025, with a 13-8 win over Penn State.
- Maryland completed the last decade of the 2010s 134-42 for a .761 successful proportion, making it the winningest decade in Terrapin lacrosse historical past. Nine of these seasons got here below the route of head coach John Tillman, who has posted a 122-38 report and a .763 successful proportion on the helm for Maryland.
- During the last decade of the 2000s, Maryland went 111-49 for a .694 win proportion. In the last decade of the Nineteen Nineties, Maryland posted a 95-47 report. The .669 successful proportion matched Maryland’s win proportion of the Nineteen Eighties when the Terps went 83-41 and in addition compiled a .669 win proportion.
- Midway by the 2020s, the Terrapins are 73-18 (.802), which is on tempo for the second-best successful proportion for a decade behind solely the Fifties when the Terps have been 84-15-1 (.845). The solely different decade with a successful proportion of .800+ was the Seventies, with a mark of 85-21 (.802).
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Midway by the 2020s, the Terrapins are 73-18 (.802), which is on tempo for the second-best successful proportion for a decade behind solely the Fifties when the Terps have been 84-15-1 (.845).
Key Returners
- The Terps welcome again a trio of attackmen/midfielders who began nearly all of video games in 2025. Graduate pupil Eric Spanos has appeared in 51 profession video games, totaling 116 factors (79 targets, 37 assists). Senior Braden Erksa has recorded 137 factors in 51 video games (83 targets, 54 assists), whereas graduate pupil Zach Whittier has added 61 factors (27 targets, 34 assists) over 48 video games.
- Spanos was chosen to put on the extremely coveted No. 1 jersey this season, marking the primary time since Jared Bernhardt (2019–21) that an offensive participant has donned the jersey.
- Defensively, Maryland returns a trio of key contributors from its 2025 run: shut defenseman Will Schaller, long-stick midfielder AJ Larkin, and short-stick defensive midfielder Eric Kolar. The group has mixed for 128 video games performed.
- In aim, senior Brian Ruppel returns and is anticipated to anchor the Terps’ protection after backing up 2022 NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player and profession saves report holder Logan McNaney. Ruppel has appeared in 17 profession video games, beginning 13 through the 2023 season following McNaney’s season-ending harm. During that stretch, he recorded 138 saves whereas permitting 11.25 targets per recreation.
Big Crowds come out for the terps
- Maryland performed in two of the three highest-attended regular-season video games of the 2025 males’s school lacrosse season, highlighted by a crowd of 10,137 followers when the Terps confronted Notre Dame in Atlanta.
- The Terps ranked second nationally in house attendance regardless of taking part in the fewest house video games among the many prime 5 applications, drawing a complete of 28,079 followers.
- Maryland was additionally second nationally in common attendance in 2025 (4,011).
- SECU Stadium additionally hosted the third-largest regular-season crowd of 2025 when Maryland welcomed Johns Hopkins, attracting 10,123 followers.
Holding opponents to single-digits
- Maryland is 139-13 since Tillman took over this system in 2011 when it permits 9 targets or much less for a .914 successful proportion, together with a 51-game successful streak when holding foes to lower than 10 targets from 2017 to April 20, 2024.
- The Terps have been 13-1 final season when holding opponents to single digits, doing so in 14 of 17 video games.
Overtime is terp time
- The Terps are 17-9 (.654) in extra time video games below John Tillman and have received eight of their final 10 courting again to 2020.
- The Terrapins are 39-30-4 all-time in extra time video games courting again to the second season in 1925. Maryland performed to a 5-5 tie at Stevens in 3OTs.