CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the first time in nearly a month, the No. 4 Harvard men's lacrosse team will play a game on its home turf. The Crimson (6-0, 1-0 Ivy) are set to battle the Dartmouth Big Green (4-2, 0-0 Ivy) under the Friday night lights (Mar. 20) at Jordan Field with first faceoff set for 7:00 PM. The Ivy foes will battle for the 95^th time in program history on Friday night, as Harvard looks to improve its position in the Ivy League standings early in the 2026 league season.
 

What to Know

Who: No. 4 Harvard vs. Dartmouth
When: 7:00 PM EST, Friday, March 20
Where: Jordan Field / Boston, Mass.
Camps: Learn more about the Crimson Lacrosse Academy hosted at the Harvard Athletics Campus by the Harvard Men's Lacrosse Coaches for rising 4th-8th grade boys at Byrne-Method.com
 

Quick Hits

• The Crimson improved to 6-0 on the season with a 12-9 victory over No. 16 Penn.
• Harvard is 6-0 for the second time in the past three seasons.
• Gerry Byrne is the first head coach in program history to lead Harvard to 6-0 starts in two separate seasons.
• The team can match its best start since 1990 with a win over the Big Green.
• With the 12-9 win over No. 16 Penn on Saturday, Harvard secured its first road win over Penn in 20 years.
• The 1961 Crimson team posted the best start in program history with a 10-0 record.
• Teddy Malone and Graham Stevens swept the Ivy League weekly awards after being named the offensive and defensive players of the week.
• Harvard is 24-7 in home games and 3-1 against Dartmouth under Byrne.
• With a shooting percentage of .376, Harvard ranks second in the nation.
• The Crimson has posted an average win margin of 6.33 goals, the fifth highest clip in the country.
• Teddy Malone leads the team with 21 goals and 28 points.
• Led by Offensive Coordinator, Neil Hutchinson, the Crimson offense is the most efficient unit in the nation, scoring on 40.2 percent of its possessions.
• Harvard has only allowed 50 goals through six games which represents the best defensive start since the 2009 season (37 goals allowed).

 

By The Numbers

3 – Players with two Ivy League weekly awards this season (Teddy Malone, John Aurandt IV and Graham Stevens).
4 – Or more opponent scoring droughts of 15 or more minutes for Harvard this season.
5 – Harvard teams that have posted a 6-0 record or better in the nearly 150-year team history.
6 – Players with double digit points on the Crimson.
6 – Ivy League weekly awards for Harvard this season.
7 – Times Harvard has scored five or more goals in a quarter this season.
7 – Consecutive wins for Harvard against Dartmouth on its home field.
8 – Times Harvard has allowed one or fewer goals in a quarter this season.
11 – Four or more goal scoring runs for the Crimson in 2026.
15 – Stops by the man-down defense to give Harvard a .833 penalty kill percentage.
16 – Ground balls from Nathan Cobery this season, the T-4 most in the country per game for an attack.
17 – Points in the last four games for John Aurandt IV.
21 – Goals for Teddy Malone in 2026, the most on the team.
50 – Goals allowed by the Harvard defense through six games.
50 – Percent shooting percentage for Logan Ip this season, the fifth best clip in the country.
88 – Goals scored by the Harvard offense this season.
98 – Career goals for Teddy Malone.
 

In the National Rankings

• USILA Coaches Poll – 4
• Inside Lacrosse Media Poll – 4
• USA Lacrosse Magazine Rankings – 4
• NEILA Coaches Poll – 1

 

Scouting Dartmouth

• The Big Green come into the matchup with a 4-2 record, posting wins over Vermont (Feb. 20), Merrimack (Feb. 24), Siena (Feb. 28) and Fairfield (Mar. 10).
• Dartmouth's losses have come to No. 16 BU (Feb. 15) and Utah (Mar. 7).
• The team will come into its Ivy League opener on 10 days rest.
• Stu Gates and Alex Jessey lead the team with 22 points each.
• Thomas Power and Tyler Juhlin are the team's leading goal scorers with 13 each.
• Spencer Reagan is the primary faceoff specialist for the Big Green and owns a 58.5 win percentage (79-56).
• Thomas Goguen leads the defense with 16 caused turnovers.
• Dartmouth is outscoring opponents 77-66 on the season.
• The Big Green clear the ball at an 80-percent clip, the worst mark in the Ivy League.
• With 12.67 caused turnovers per game, Dartmouth ranks third nationally.
• The Big Green average 21.50 turnovers per game, the second worst clip nationally.
• Dartmouth leads the Ivy League with 35.17 ground balls per game.
• Max Becker leads the goalkeeping effort with a 11.03 GAA and a .526 save percentage.

 

Crimson vs. Big Green - Series History

• The Crimson and the Big Green have met 94 times in the series history.
• Harvard leads the all-time series with a 53-40-1 record.
• The first meeting between the schools came back in 1926, a 17-4 win for Harvard.
• The Crimson has posted seven straight wins on its home turf against Dartmouth

• Harvard has outscored Dartmouth 40-24 in the past three meetings.
• Last season the Crimson jumped out to a 9-0 lead, holding Dartmouth scoreless for nearly 25 minutes, eventually winning 18-7 in Hanover.

 

Player History vs. Dartmouth

• Teddy Malone leads the squad with 10 points (6g, 4a) against the Big Green.
• Jack Speidell (7g, 1a) led the squad in the 2025 matchup with six goals.
• Graham Stevens allowed just seven goals in the 2025 matchup.
• Logan Ip has caused five turnovers against Dartmouth.

 

Active Stat Leaders vs. Dartmouth

• Points: Teddy Malone (10), Jack Speidell (8)
• Goals: Jack Speidell (7), Teddy Malone (6)
• Assists: Teddy Malone (4), John Aurandt (3)
• Shots: Teddy Malone (28), Jack Speidell (17)
• Shots on Goal: Teddy Malone (18), Jack Speidell (12)
• Ground Balls: Matt Barraco (13), Andrew Perry (8)
• Caused Turnovers: Logan Ip (5), Charlie Muller (4)

 

Against the Ivy League

• Against Ivy League Opponents, Harvard is 171-230-1 in its history.
• Since Coach Byrne took over in 2020, the team owns an 12-13 record.
• Last season, the Crimson finished 4-2 in the Ivy League, which marked the first time it secured a better than .500 record in an Ivy League season since 2014 (5-1).

 

Lacrosse Reference Metrics

• Harvard is ranked 11^th in the Lacrosse Reference LaxELO rankings.
• The Crimson owns the most efficient offense in the nation, scoring on 40.2 percent of its possessions.
• In defensive efficiency, Harvard ranks ninth nationally, allowing goals on just 23.7 percent of defensive possessions.
• Harvard's shooting percentage of 37.8 ranks second in the country.
• It's cumulative efficiency of 45.0-percent ranks first in the NCAA.
• Harvard has posted efficiency clips of 44.6 and 45.7 percent on possessions that start with a defensive stop or a ground ball/turnover, respectively. Those marks are both No. 1 nationally.
• The Crimson's game control percentage – the percent of game time where a team owns a win probability of 75-percent of higher – ranks fifth in the nation with a 75.6 percentage.
• The team's strength of record – +1.32 expected wins – is the fourth best mark nationally.

 

At the Helm

• The Frisbie Family Head Coach for Harvard Men's Lacrosse, Gerry Byrne, is in his seventh season at the helm of the program in 2025-26.
• The team has experienced success under Coach Byrne, posting a 39-24 record and a 12-13 mark in Ivy League action.
• Byrne has guided the Crimson to two NCAA Tournaments and last season helped lead the team to a spot in the Ivy League Tournament for the first time since 2016.
• Most recently, Coach Byrne made history, becoming the first head coach to lead his team to a win over a No. 1 ranked team in program history.
• The Crimson has a record of 21-5 against unranked opponents under Byrne.

 

Offensive Firepower

Picking up where it left off in 2025, Harvard's offense – led by the Associate Head Coach and Offensive Coordinator Neil Hutchinson – has continued to turn in impressive performances in 2026. The offense ranks inside the top 10 in the NCAA with a 37.6-percent shooting clip (2nd), 22.83 points per game (8th), and 14.67 goals per game (6th). Harvard has scored 88 goals this season, which is the fifth consecutive season the Crimson has scored 80 or more goals total through six games.
 

A Game of Runs

In its current six-game winning streak, Harvard has shown its ability to pull away from its opponents by going on impressive scoring runs. Most notably in the game against Michigan, Harvard used a 13-2 run in the final 40 minutes of the game to pull away and post a 17-7 victory. The streak featured two scoring runs of six goals. Harvard has posted 11 scoring runs of four or more goals this season.
 

Bullseye!

Harvard posted a 50-percent shooting percentage against Marquette (Feb. 28) with 19 goals on 38 shots. The clip was the highest in a game since the 2023 season when Harvard scored 23 goals on 43 shots against Providence. It was just the fourth time the team has eclipsed the 50-percent shooting clip in a game since 2010.
 
This season, Harvard leads the Ivy League and is seconds nationally with a 37.6-shot percentage.
 

The Crimson Shield

Through six games, Harvard has allowed just 50 goals to its opposition which represents the lowest total through six contests for the Crimson since 2009 (37 GA). The team has forced 98 turnovers and caused 42 of those turnovers this season in six relentless defensive efforts. Harvard has hit the ground often as well, grabbing 192 ground balls compared to only 164 by its opponents.
 
A testament to the team's defensive efficiency and consistency, Harvard has held opponents scoreless for 15-plus minutes four times. The Crimson defense held Michigan scoreless for 15-plus minutes twice in the neutral site game in Texas (Mar. 7). Harvard's defense also did not allow a goal to Michigan in the fourth quarter, the first time the team has shutout an opponent in the final frame since it did so to Bucknell in 2023. The Crimson has posted a shutout in every quarter this season and has allowed one or fewer goals in a quarter eight different times this season.
 

Ivy League Weekly Award Sweep

For the second time this season, Harvard men's lacrosse has swept the Ivy League's weekly awards. Teddy Malone and Graham Stevens were named the league's offensive and defensive players of the week after leading the team to a victory over No. 16 Penn over the weekend. Malone poured in five goals and Stevens made 16 saves in cage to earn the honors, which were the second awards of the season for the duo.
 
Harvard leads the league with six weekly honors – two awards each for Stevens, Malone and John Aurandt IV – this season.
 

Teddy Too Tough

Senior attack Teddy Malone earned his fourth career Ivy League Weekly Honor after being voted at the conference's Player of the Week (Mar. 16). The Haverford School product logged five goals against Penn to lead the offense. Malone now owns 21 goals on the season and is just two away from reaching the 100 career goals milestone.
 
Malone posted a 60-percent goal contribution clip earlier this season against Providence (Feb. 14), factoring in on six of the Crimson's 10 goals in the game against Providence. That percentage is the highest in a game for a Harvard player since 2018, when Morgan Cheek '18 notched 13 points on 19 Crimson goals against Boston University.
 

Spidey and His Amazing Friends

One of the most talented attackmen in the Ivy League, Jack Speidell is picking up where he left off in 2025. A dynamic playmaker, Speidell has shown off his ability as a distributor this season, leading the team with nine assists through six games. A Team 91 LI alum, Speidell now owns 24 points on the year. The St. Anthony's product produced a nine-point outburst against Marquette (Feb. 28) the highest total for a Crimson player since Sam King '25 reached the same total in the 2025 matchup against Marquette.
 

Stevens The Stopper

Sophomore goalkeeper, Graham Stevens, has been excellent in 2026 for the Crimson, saving shots at a 60-percent clip and allowing just 8.46 goals per game. The metrics rank fourth and 10^th in the country, respectively. Stevens has made 12.5 saves per game, a number that ranks in the top 15 nationally.
 
Most recently, the goalkeeper made 16 saves to anchor the defensive effort in the win at No. 16 Penn (Mar. 14). Stevens was on a roll in the win over Michigan (Mar. 7) making a career-high-tying 18 saves in the cage. The New Jersey native also had one of the best games of his young career against Syracuse (Feb. 21) making 14 saves and allowing 12 goals to the former No. 1 team in the nation. The creaseminder previously made eight saves in the win over Marquette (Feb. 28), posted an 11-save performance against Colgate (Feb. 17) and an eight-save, four goals allowed effort against Providence (Feb. 14). The goals allowed mark against Providence was a career-best for the sophomore.
 

It's Not How You Start

The 2026 Harvard men's lacrosse squad recently became just the fifth team in program history to reach the 6-0 mark and just the fourth team to do so in the NCAA era. The other teams to accomplish the feat included the squads in 2024 (6-0), 1990 (7-0), 1961 (10-0) and 1913 (6-0). As the coach of the 2024 and 2026 teams, Byrne becomes the first head coach in HLX history to lead a team to two separate 6-0 starts.
 

Up Next

Harvard will take a brief pause from Ivy League play next week to round out its non-conference schedule. The Crimson is slated to battle a pair of ranked opponents during its Ivy League bye week, starting with Boston University on Tuesday (Mar. 24). The Charles River Rivalry will be renewed at Nickerson Field in Boston, with first faceoff set for 7:00 PM on ESPN+.
 
From there, Harvard will prepare for a trip to Baltimore to battle the North Carolina Tar Heels in a neutral site clash. The top 10 matchup is set for 1:00 PM on Sunday (Mar. 29) at Archbishop Williams School in Maryland. That game will air live on Corrigan Sports Network.