1) The Blue Jays rank seventh in the country in offense, averaging 11.3 goals per game. Five players have scored at least 17 goals, and the starting attack of juniors Chris Boland and Steven Boyle, and sophomore Kyle Wharton has combined for 105 points on 69 goals and 36 assists. But Greyhounds coach Charley Toomey is just as concerned about midfielders Michael Kimmel (17 goals and 19 assists) and Brian Christopher (21, 10). "The two of those guys are terrific together and you really have to pick your poison," Toomey said. "We feel like we’ve got a [long-stick midfielder in senior P.T. Ricci] who can play anybody in the country, and the question is, can we defend the other with a short stick or are we going to have to two-pole them as we have in the past?"

2) Loyola isn’t exactly a shrinking violet on offense either, averaging 10.5 goals per contest, which ranks 16th in the nation. Each member of the starting attack – senior Shane Koppens and juniors Cooper MacDonnell and Collin Finnerty – has scored at least 20 goals, and Koppens and Finnerty are 1-2 on the team in assists. In their past five games, Finnerty has recorded 10 goals and seven assists, MacDonnell 14 goals and four assists, and Koppens eight goals and seven assists. That unit will have to produce against a Johns Hopkins defense that has surrendered 9.5 goals per game this season.

3) Watch the battle at the faceoff "X" between the Greyhounds duo of John Schiavone and Michael Atkinson and the Blue Jays pair of Matt Dolente and Michael Powers. ... Johns Hopkins should be riding a wave of emotion as the program honors its senior class and nine new members of the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame. Among the new members are Franz Wittelsberger (Class of 1976), whose 151 career goals stood as a school record until 1995, and Quint Kessenich (1990), who anchored the Blue Jays’ run to the 1987 NCAA championship and is the only Johns Hopkins goalie to earn All-American honors four times in his career. ... Loyola should have plenty of motivation as a win against the Blue Jays would take the suspense out of Selection Sunday and earn the Greyhounds an invitation to the NCAA tournament. "We feel like we hold our cards in our hands in that we need to win the game," Toomey said. "We don’t want it to be a numbers thing. We certainly feel our strength of schedule is a good one and our RPI looks solid right now, but we really would like to take the decision out of the committee’s hands and justify ourselves with a win against Hopkins."