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Johns Hopkins Ranked Number One
March 2, 2004
Blue Jays Host Fifth-Ranked Princeton
Saturday
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| Chris Watson and the Blue Jays are ranked number
one in the nation. |
BALTIMORE, Md. -- The Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse team
is ranked first in the inaugural 2004 GEICO-STX/USILA
Division I Men's Lacrosse Coaches Poll, which was released
Monday. The Blue Jays picked up seven first-place votes
and 193 points to out-distance second-ranked Maryland,
which picked up two first-place votes and 189 points.
The Blue Jays will host fifth-ranked Princeton on Saturday
afternoon at 1:00 pm. Nine of JHU's 12 opponents this
season are ranked in the top 20 and the Blue Jays are
scheduled to play every team that is ranked second through
seventh this week.
Johns Hopkins, which has won 26 of its last 28 regular
season games and 20 consecutive games at home, picked
up a hard-fought, 10-9 win over Penn in its season-opener
last Saturday at Homewood Field. The Blue Jays got three
goals and three assists from senior attackman Conor Ford
and four goals and one assist from junior attackman Kyle
Barrie to fuel the victory.
The Blue Jays ended the 2002 and 2003 regular seasons
ranked number one and have now been ranked first in the
nation in 13 of the last 21 weekly polls (for reference,
the Johns Hopkins Sports Information Office uses this
poll as the official poll when listing the team's ranking).
Prior to this run, the Blue Jays had been ranked number
one for a total of one week from 1996-2001.
GEICO-STX/USILA Rankings
March 1, 2004 * ( ) - First place votes
Rank School 2004 Record Points
1. Johns Hopkins (7) 1-0 193
2. Maryland (2) 1-0 189
3. Syracuse (1) 1-0 182
4. North Carolina 1-0 163
5. Princeton 1-0 157
6. Duke 1-0 140
7. Loyola 1-0 121
8T. Notre Dame 1-1 119
Rutgers 1-0 119
10. Cornell 1-0 117
11T. Denver 2-0 80
Georgetown 0-1 80
13. Massachusetts 0-1 75
14. Air Force 2-0 70
15T. Ohio State 1-1 53
Virginia 1-2 53
17. Towson 0-1 34
18. UMBC 0-1 27
19. Hofstra 0-1 26
20. Penn State 1-1 25
Others Receiving Votes (in order): Army, Penn, Delaware,
Navy, Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Bucknell
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