Buckeyes Travel to Meet No. 9 Terrapins Saturday

Ohio State vs. No. 9 Maryland
Date: Saturday, April 6
Time: Noon
Venue: SECU Stadium
Live Stats: OhioStateBuckeyes.com
Watch: B1G+
Rosters: Ohio State | Maryland
Season Stats: Ohio State | Maryland

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State men's lacrosse team plays its final road game of the 2024 regular season this weekend, traveling to College Park, Md. to take on No. 9 Maryland. The Buckeyes (6-5, 1-1 B1G) and Terrapins (6-3, 1-1 B1G) faceoff Saturday, April 6 at noon from SECU Stadium.

The game will be streamed on B1G+ (subscription required). Live stats will be available on OhioStateBuckeyes.com.

Buckeyes In a Nutshell
As a team...

Ohio State earned its first conference win of the season last week at Rutgers. The Buckeyes earned their first back-to-back win over the Scarlet Knights with a 14-8 victory that saw Alex Marinier tally a career-high five goals and Caleb Fyock post 11 saves.
The Buckeyes tied their season high points in a game with 22 points on 14 goals and a season-high eight assists against Rutgers.
The matchup was the Buckeyes' sixth in as many weeks against a ranked opponent. Ohio State's past opponents' current rankings: No. 1 Notre Dame, No. 2 Virginia, No. 7 Penn State, No. 8 Denver and No. 12 Cornell.
The remaining three games of the regular season are all against ranked teams – No. 9 Maryland (April 6), No. 10 Johns Hopkins (April 14) and No. 16 Michigan (April 20).
Ohio State is 18th in the RPI entering the weekend. Eight of the team's 14 opponents this season are in the top-20 of the RPI. The Buckeyes' 2024 schedule currently ranks the sixth strongest in the country.
Ohio State leads the conference with 35.18 ground balls per game and ranks in the top 10 nationally in the category.
The Buckeyes have also earned top-20 marks nationally in caused turnovers per game (9.00), scoring defense (9.55), faceoff win percentage (.577) and clear percentage (.884).
Ohio State's defense has held four opponents to their lowest scoring performances of the season – including the top-10 scoring offenses of Virginia and Penn State – and six to their second lowest.

Individually...

Goalie Caleb Fyock was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week after stopping 11 shots against Rutgers for his first Big Ten win of his career.
Fyock leads the Big Ten with a 9.40 goals against average, good for seventh nationally. He has earned a .538 save percentage through 10 games this season. The Bowie, Md. native has made double digit saves in six of the last seven games.
Junior Alex Marinier leads the Buckeyes with 23 points on the year. His 22 goals this season are a team-high. He has scored a goal in the last 10 games for the Buckeyes and has recorded multi-goal games in six of the last seven outings. He leads the team with seven points on seven goals in Big Ten play. His five goals against Rutgers tie for the most goals scored by a Big Ten player in conference play this season.
Ed Shean, who is second on the team with 22 points, paces the Buckeyes with a career-high 10 assists in 2024.
Freshman Jack Oldman went 11-of-20 from the faceoff X last week against Rutgers and is 16-of-25 in Big Ten play. Tommy Burke leads the Buckeyes' faceoff unit overall this season, going 94-of-167 (.563). He ranks third in the conference in win percentage.
Burke leads the Buckeyes with 50 ground balls in 2024. Cullen Brown leads non-faceoff players with 37. Burke is third in the league in ground balls per game (5.00) and Brown paces non-faceoff players with 3.36 per game.
Marcus Hudgins' 16 caused turnovers on the year put him at third in the Big Ten with 1.45 per game. Cullen Brown (1.09) and Connor Cmiel (1.00) are sixth and seventh, respectively.
Matt Caputo has recorded multiple points in four of the Buckeyes' last five games. In that stretch, he has eight goals and four assists.

History vs. Maryland

Ohio State is 3-13 in the all-time series against Maryland.
Last season, the Buckeyes took the Terrapins to overtime, ultimately falling, 11-12.
Ohio State's last win over Maryland came in College Park, with the Buckeyes earning the 12-10 win in 2018.
The series started in 1990 at Maryland and the teams have met a total of nine times in College Park since then.

Up Next
The Buckeyes close out the regular season with two home games. Ohio State hosts No. 10 Johns Hopkins April 14 and No. 16 Michigan April 20 at Ohio State Lacrosse Stadium.

Single game tickets for Ohio State men's lacrosse tickets can be purchased HERE.

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