First Road Test Awaits Men's Lacrosse Squad

#9 SYRACUSE at #2 VIRGINIA
Game Details	Saturday, Feb. 26 \| Charlottesville, Va. \| 12 p.m.
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THE GAME
- Syracuse travels for the first time this season to face No. 2 Virginia. Syracuse will have faced the nation's No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the same week after playing No. 1 Maryland on Sunday.
- The game will be broadcast on ACCN with Chris Cotter (PxP), Paul Carcaterra '97 (analyst) and Quint Kessenich (analyst) on the call. Brian Higgins '04 (PxP) and Kyle Fetterly '09 (analyst) will broadcast the action on TK99/105, Cuse.com and the TuneIn App, while WAER will also carry the game.

THE VIRGINIA SERIES
- Syracuse and UVA square off for the first of two times this season and 39th time in total.
- Syracuse swept the two meetings last year to break a tie, and now own the all-time series lead 20-18.
- Last year's multi-goal wins (10, 2) were outliers in a series that entered last season knotted at 18-18 with both teams having scored an identical number of goals. Heading into this season's matchup Orange have now scored 499 goals, UVA has netted 487.
- The game has been decided by one goal on 17 occasions - including five of the last-seven meetings. Seven of those one-goal games went to overtime.
- This is Syracuse's second-straight trip to Charlottesville, having last played there in April of last year. UVA will make its way to the Dome later this season.
- Jakob Phaup has been the key of late for Syracuse. In last year's two meetings, he won 46-of-60 faceoffs (including 24-of-27 at Klockner) and picked up 17 ground balls to control possessions for SU.
- Bobby Gavin spent last season at a member of the Cavaliers NCAA title squad, playing in eight games before transferring to Syracuse this winter.

ORANGE IN BOUNCE-BACK GAMES
- The Orange are 74-26 in games following a loss during a season (this record does not include the season opener following season-ending losses) in their last-100 tries.
- Since the team won its first NCAA Championship in 1983, 'Cuse has only had 14 "losing streaks" (two or more consecutive losses) in 40 seasons.

5-SPOT
- Tucker Dordevic has tied his career high with five goals in back-to-back games, which coincide with his first two collegiate starts on attack.
- He is the first Syracuse player to score 5+ goals in back-to-back games since 2015. The last player to do so was attackman Dylan Donahue, who scored five goals in a 19-7 win over No. 4 Duke (3/22/15) and followed it up with a seven-goal performance in a 13-12, double overtime loss at then No. 2 Notre Dame (3/28/15).
- Donahue finished that season with a team-high 50 goals and was second on the team with 71 points. Only Kevin Rice (84) had more that season. Donahue's 50 goals were the seventh-most by a Syracuse player in a single season ever.

A GAUNTLET LIES AHEAD
- Syracuse will play the top-two teams in the USILA Poll in the span of seven days after hosting Maryland on Sunday and then hitting the road to face Virginia this Saturday.
- Every opponent except one (UAlbany) left on the Orange's 2022 schedule is at least receiving votes in this week's USILA Poll.

STRONG IN LEAGUE
- Since joining the ACC, Syracuse has the second-best record in regular season league games (18-13) and also has two ACC Tournament titles. Duke holds a 19-12 record in that time to lead all teams. Notre Dame (16-15), North Carolina (16-15) and Virginia (8-23) make up the remaining records.

PHAUP COMING ON
- Jakob Phaup enters 2022 as one of the nation's most experienced faceoff men, having taken 625 faceoffs in his career.
- Only Petey LaSalla (997) and Zach Tucci (815) have more in the ACC, with Phaup ranking 12th nationally in most faceoffs taken among active players. His 375 wins ranks 11th.
- He won .652 percent of his faceoffs thus far in 2022, a mark that ranks sixth nationally.

A WIN AGAINST VIRGINIA WOULD...
- Give Gary Gait a 1-0 record in ACC play as a men's lacrosse coach. Gait was 73-23 in league play as a women's coach.
- Be the program's 926th victory, second all-time behind Johns Hopkins.
- Be a third-straight victory against Virginia, extending the all-time series to a three-game advantage in favor of SU (21-18). That would be Syracuse's largest advantage in the series ever, and neither team has ever had more than a four-game advantage in the series.

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Players Mentioned

Tucker Dordevic

Bobby Gavin

Jakob Phaup

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