PHILADELPHIA – The 12th-ranked University of Pennsylvania men's lacrosse team will conclude the regular season with a pair of non-conference games this week. The first of them happens on Tuesday night, the Quakers hosting city rival Saint Joseph's in a huge game that very much has postseason implications for both squads.

Please note, Tuesday night's game will take place on Ace Adams Field in Penn Park as Franklin Field is offline for the upcoming Penn Relays.
 
#12/13 PENN (6-4) vs. #20/20 SAINT JOSEPH'S (11-2)
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 | 7 p.m.
Ace Adams Field (Penn Park) | Philadelphia
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The Penn-SJU Series
*Tuesday's game is the 18th overall between the Quakers and the Hawks, and while Penn leads the series 15-2 it has been anything but one-sided in recent years.
 
*SJU's wins have come the last two times they came to Penn's campus, a 9-8 decision in 2016 and a 12-11 victory in 2018.
 
*Penn has won the last two meetings, 14-6 in 2019 at Drexel's Vidas Field and then 13-12 early in 2020 before the pandemic shut the season down.
 
*Four of the last six meetings, and five of the last eight, have been decided by a single goal.
 
*Saint Joseph's enters Tuesday's contest a perfect 6-0 in the Northeast Conference and is already set to host that conference's championship tournament in two weeks.
 
Penn Men's Lacrosse by the Numbers
2 * Penn players who were named Inside Lacrosse Midseason All-America: senior middie Sam Handley (first-team All-America) and sophomore defenseman Brendan Lavelle (third-team All-America).
 
3 * Overtime games already this season for Penn: a 14-13 win over Duke on February 26; a 21-20 loss at Princeton on March 19 to open Ivy League play; and a 12-11 loss at Yale on April 2.
 
3 * Goals scored by Penn in the final seconds of games already this season. James Shipley tied the Duke game with two seconds left, then a week later won the Penn State game with one second left. A week after that, Dylan Gergar scored at Villanova with one second left to give the Quakers an 8-7 win over the Wildcats. (For good measure, Gergar scored with just one second on the clock to end the first quarter against Brown on April 9.)
 
3.00 * Assists per game dished out by Handley in Penn's six Ivy League contests, tops among Ivy players.
 
4 * Non-conference games left among the Ivy teams. Penn has two of them, against Saint Joseph's and UAlbany, while the other two will also be played Tuesday night (Bryant at Brown, Quinnipiac at Yale); currently the Ivy League is 35-10 against non-conference foes this season.
 
4 * Penn players who have earned spots on the USILA Division I Team of the Week already this season: Gergar on March 1, Lavelle on March 15, Handley on March 22, and face-off specialist Jamie Zusi on Monday.
 
5 * Penn's national Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) as of Monday. As a sign of how strong the Ivy League is this year, six of this week's top 11 RPIs are held by Ancient Eight teams (Princeton 2, Yale 4, Brown 8, Cornell 9, Harvard 11).
 
5.83 * Points per game recorded by Handley in Ivy play this season, tops among Ivy players.
 
6 * Games this season in which Gergar has at least three goals; that includes each of Penn's last three games, as he netted hat tricks against both Brown and Harvard and then tied a season/career high with six Saturday at Dartmouth.
 
6 * Ivy League teams in this week's USILA Top 20: Princeton (5), Yale (6), Brown (10), Penn (12), Cornell (13) and Harvard (15).
 
8 * Assists by Handley against Princeton on March 19, one shy of the single-game program record held since 1969 by Richard Bennett (set against Drexel).
 
8.67 * Penn's assists-per-game average in Ivy League play, tops among the Ancient Eight programs; the Quakers finished Ivy play with 52 assists on 83 goals in Ivy play, a 62.7-percent ratio.
 
12 * For the second straight week, Penn's ranking in the USILA national coaches' poll.
 
13 * For the second straight week, Penn's ranking in the Inside Lacrosse media poll.
 
13.89 * Average saves per game by senior goalie Patrick Burkinshaw this season, tops among Ivy goalies and sixth nationally.
 
15 * Players who have scored this season for Penn, led by Gergar who has 33 tallies. Handley has 24, Cam Rubin has 18, and Shipley has 12. (Peter Blake became the Quakers' 15th scorer this season when he converted a 70-yard shot to break Harvard's 10-man ride on April 16.)
 
20 * Saves made by Burkinshaw against Harvard on April 16, a career high. He had a staggering .714 save percentage in the contest and was named the Ivy League Player of the Week that Monday.
 
55.1 * Save percentage by Burkinshaw in Ivy play, tops among Ivy goalies.
 
56.0 * Penn's scoring percentage in man-up situations in Ivy League play (14-of-25); the Quakers averaged 2.33 EMO goals per game in league play, tops among Ancient Eight programs.
 
81.8 * Face-off win percentage by Zusi against Harvard on April 16 (18-of-22); overall, the senior has a .538 win percentage on 186 draws this season with a team-leading 46 ground balls.