PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's lacrosse team is ready to get things started for the 2020 season, and the sixth-ranked Quakers will get right into it on Saturday as they face No. 4/4 Maryland in College Park. Faceoff is 1 p.m.
 
GAME 1 – #6/6 PENN (0-0, 0-0 Ivy League) at #4/4 MARYLAND (2-0)
Saturday, Feb. 15 | 1 p.m.
Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium | College Park, Md.
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The Penn-Maryland Series
*The Terrapins have won all 15 of the matchups between these two programs in a series that dates back to the 1924 season.
 
*Penn's best chance at a victory came just last year, when the Quakers hosted Maryland to open the season and fell to the Terps in overtime, 13-12. It was the first of three straight losses to start the season, before Penn ripped off 12 consecutive wins en route to the Ivy League regular-season and Tournament titles and a run to the NCAA quarterfinal round.
 
*Saturday's game marks the fifth meeting between these two programs over the last six seasons.
 
Stuff You Should Know
*Penn went 12-4 last year, tying the program record for wins in a season (also 1984). After an 0-3 start, the Quakers ripped off 12 wins in a row before falling to Yale in the NCAA quarterfinal round.
 
*Penn went 6-0 in the Ivy League regular season last year, just its second unbeaten campaign (the other coming in 1984); the Quakers then beat Brown and Yale to win the Ivy League Tournament, becoming just the third team to go 8-0 through an Ivy campaign (also Cornell in 2011 and Yale in 2017).
 
*Sophomore Sam Handley was the Inside Lacrosse National Freshman of the Year as well as a unanimous choice as Ivy League Rookie of the Year last season. In IL's preseason pick of the top 10 Tewaaraton Award candidates for 2020, Handley was listed fifth.

*On Thursday night, Handley was one of 50 men's lacrosse players named to the intital Tewaaraton Award Watch List for 2020.
 
*Penn head coach Mike Murphy was recipient of the F. Morris Touchstone Division I Coach of the Year award presented by the USILA last year, as well as the Ivy League Coach of the Year.
 
*After playing the Ivy League Tournament at Columbia the last two years—a neutral site, as the Lions do not field a varsity men's lacrosse program—the ILT will move to Hofstra's James M. Shuart Stadium this May 1 and 3.
 
*Penn's captains for the 2020 season will be senior attackman Adam Goldner and senior defenseman Kyle Thornton.
 
Penn Men's Lacrosse by the Numbers
2 • Penn players who were named to the Preseason USILA All-America Teams, sophomore Sam Handley on the first team and senior FOGO Kyle Gallagher on the second team.
 
3 • Penn players who were named to the Preseason Inside Lacrosse All-America Teams: Handley (first team), Gallagher (second team), and senior defenseman Mark Evanchick (third team).
 
4 • Penn players who were named to the USILA All-America Teams following last season: Handley (first team), Gallagher (third team), Evanchick (third team), and senior attackman Adam Goldner (honorable mention).
 
5 • Penn's preseason rank by Inside Lacrosse.
 
6 • Penn players who received All-Ivy honors last season: Handley (first team), Evanchick (first team), Goldner (second team), Gallagher (second team), senior defenseman Kyle Thornton (honorable mention) and sophomore LSM BJ Farrare (honorable mention).
 
9 • Consecutive regular-season wins by Penn entering the 2020 season.
 
10 • Penn's preseason rank by Lacrosse Magazine.
 
13 • The number of returning players who scored at least one goal last year.
 
22 • The number of Penn wins over USILA ranked teams under head coach Mike Murphy.

25 • Consecutive games in which Goldner has recorded at least one goal/point, dating back to the 2018 season.
 
36 • Points scored last season by junior midfielder Sean Lulley (19g/17a).
 
56 • Goals scored by Goldner last season, a program record for a single campaign; he enters the 2020 season with 95 career goals, seventh on Penn's all-time list and three behind sixth-place W. Kelso Morrill (98 from 1982-85).
 
62.5 • Gallagher's faceoff win percentage last year, as he won 270 out of 432 draws on the X and came up with 169 ground balls which was three shy of the program's single-season record. (Chris Flynn had 172 in 1988.)
 
75 • Wins at Penn by Coach Murphy; he is the winningest coach in program history, surpassing the legendary Tony Seaman with the Quakers' NCAA Championship first-round win over Army last season.
 
124 • Combined points scored last season by Goldner (63) and Handley (61); Goldner's total is third on Penn's single-season list, while Handley's is fifth.
 
239 • Penn's goal total over 16 games last season, shattering (by 51!) the program record of 188 which was set over 15 games by the Quakers' 1988 NCAA semifinal team.