CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Beginning its Ivy League bye week with a challenging matchup, the No 3 Harvard men's lacrosse team will make the short trip across the Charles River to battle No. 20 Boston University this week. The Crimson (7-0, 2-0 Ivy) and the Terriers (5-3, 3-1 Patriot) will meet at Nickerson Field on Tuesday (Mar. 24) in the second edition of the Charles River Rivalry that pits the only two Division I lacrosse teams in Boston against one another. The ranked regional foes will face off at 7:00 PM on Tuesday in what is a key game for both sides as we approach the final month of the regular season.
 

What to Know

Who: No. 3 Harvard at No. 20 Boston University
When: 7:00 PM EST, Tuesday, March 24
Where: Nickerson 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 7-0 on the season with a 17-14 victory over Dartmouth on Friday.
• Harvard is 7-0 for the first time since 1990 and is off to its best start under the Frisbie Family Head Coach for Harvard Men's Lacrosse, Gerry Byrne.
• Logan Ip was named the Ivy League's Offensive Player of the Week after recording a career-best six points against Dartmouth.
• Harvard is 25-7 in home games under Byrne after the win over the Big Green.
• With a shooting percentage of .376, Harvard ranks first in the nation.
• The Crimson has posted an average win margin of 5.86 goals, the fifth highest clip in the country.
• Teddy Malone leads the team with 23 goals and 31 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.
• The Crimson is ranked seventh in the latest NCAA RPI Poll.
• Nathan Cobery and Logan Ip are two of the most accurate shooters in the nation, scoring on 55.6 and 50.0 percent of their shots to rank second and fourth in the nation, respectively.
• Harvard's man-down defense ranks third nationally, stopping opponents on 85-percent of their man-up situations.

 

By the Numbers

3 – Harvard teams that have posted a 7-0 record or better in the nearly 150-year team history.
4 – Players with 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 – Players with 20 or more points on the Crimson.
6 - Teddy Malone's national ranking in goals per game (3.50)
6 – Ivy League weekly awards for Harvard this season.
8 – Times Harvard has allowed one or fewer goals in a quarter this season.
9 – Times Harvard has scored five or more goals in a quarter this season.
9 – Program wins for Harvard against Boston University.
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.
22 – Points in the last five games for John Aurandt IV.
23 – Goals for Teddy Malone in 2026, the most on the team.
50 – Percent shooting percentage for Logan Ip this season, the fifth best clip in the country.
64 – Goals allowed by the Harvard defense through six games.
100 – Career goals for Teddy Malone.
105 – Goals scored by the Harvard offense this season.
 

In the National Rankings

• NCAA RPI – 7
• USILA Coaches Poll – 3
• Inside Lacrosse Media Poll – 3
• USA Lacrosse Magazine Rankings – 3
• Lacrosse Reference LaxELO – 11
• NEILA Coaches Poll – 1 

Scouting Boston University

• BU comes into the matchup with a 5-3 record and a No. 20 National Ranking.
• The Terriers are 4-0 on its home field in 2026.
• Coach Polley's group has posted wins over Siena (Feb. 6), Dartmouth (Feb. 15), No. 20 Navy (Feb. 28), Lehigh (Mar. 7) and No. 13 Army (Mar 14).
• BU fell to Colgate in its last contest, 12-14, in Hamilton.
• Timothy Shannehan has lit up the scoreboard this season, posting 25 goals and 19 assists in eight games played.
• Peyton Forte (19 goals) and Jimmy Kohr (20 goals) round out the formidable Terrier attack unit.
• Senior defender Connor Kehm leads the close defensive unit for the Terriers with a team-high 36 ground balls and 17 caused turnovers.
• Madden Murphy is the team's primary faceoff specialist and has posted a 55.8-win percentage and grabbed 33 ground balls on the year.
• Sophomore Connor Phillips leads the goaltending effort with a 10.57 GAA and a .518 save percentage.
• The Terriers have posted 13.13 caused turnovers per game to rank first nationally and its 37.0 ground balls per game rank fifth in the nation.
• BU has the best ride in the country, holding opponents to a .678 clear percentage.
• The team's scoring offense (13.0 goals per game) ranks 12^th and its scoring defense (10.75 goals allowed per game) ranks 39^th in the country.
• The Terriers have one of the deepest lineups in the country, averaging 27.8 contributors per game.
• The BU offense likes to play fast and has posted an average possession length of 32 seconds, the fourth fastest clip in the nation. It's offense has scored on 29-percent of its possessions to rank 39^th in the NCAA.

Crimson vs. Terriers - Series History

• The Crimson and the Terriers have met 12 times in the series history.
• Harvard leads the all-time series with a 9-3 record.
• The first meeting between the schools came back in 1932, a 10-0 win for Harvard.
• The Crimson has posted 1-2 record on the road against Boston University
• Harvard has outscored BU 71-61 in the past five meetings.

Player History vs. Boston University

• Teddy Malone leads the squad with 6 points (4g, 2a) against the Terriers.
• Jack Speidell led the squad in the 2025 matchup with six goals.
• Graham Stevens allowed just seven goals in the 2025 matchup.
• Charlie Muller has caused four turnovers and scooped seven ground balls against BU.

 

Active Stat Leaders vs. Boston University

• Points: Teddy Malone (6), Jack Speidell (5)
• Goals: Jack Speidell (5), Teddy Malone (4)
• Assists: Teddy Malone (2), Logan Ip (2)
• Shots: Teddy Malone (9), Jack Speidell (9), Andrew Perry (9)
• Shots on Goal: Teddy Malone (8), Jack Speidell (7)
• Ground Balls: Charlie Muller (7), Logan Ip (4)
• Caused Turnovers: Charlie Muller (4), Logan Ip (1)

 

Against the Patriot League

• Against Patriot League Opponents, Harvard is 62-56-1 in its history.
• Since Coach Byrne took over in 2020, the team owns a 5-3 record.
• Last season, the Crimson finished 1-1 against the Patriot League.

 

Lacrosse Reference Metrics

• Harvard is ranked 11th 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 13th nationally, allowing goals on just 25.8= percent of defensive possessions.
• Harvard's shooting percentage of 37.8 ranks first in the country.
• It's cumulative efficiency of 43.4-percent ranks first in the NCAA.
• Harvard has posted efficiency clips of 42.3 and 45.0 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 fourth in the nation with a 75.1 percentage.
• The team's strength of record – +1.45 expected wins – is the third 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 40-24 record and a 13-13 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 7-4 against opponents ranked 16-20 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 (1st), 23.14 points per game (7th), and 15.0 goals per game (4th). Harvard has scored 105 goals this season to post the third best scoring start in program history. The total is second to only the 2024 team (116 goals) and the 1961 team (109 goals) for its pace through seven 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 (Mar. 7), 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!

The most accurate team in the nation, Harvard owns a shooting percentage of 37.6 on the season which is the best clip in the country. Led by two of the most consistent shooters in the NCAA, Nathan Cobery (2^nd, 55.6-percent) and Logan Ip (4^th, 50.0-percent), Harvard has word down opposing goaltenders with its ability to get shots on target. 64.9-percent of Harvard's shots have been on cage this season, one of the best marks in the country.
 
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.
 

The Crimson Shield

Through six games, Harvard has allowed just 64 goals to its opposition which represents the lowest total through seven contests for the Crimson since 1980 (54 GA). The team has forced 117 turnovers and caused 58 of those turnovers this season in seven relentless defensive efforts. Harvard has hit the ground often as well, grabbing 228 ground balls compared to only 197 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.
 

Logan Ip: Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week

For the second time in his career, Logan Ip was awarded the Ivy League's Offensive Player of the Week award. The senior captain earned the honor by notching a career-best six points with four goals and two assists against Dartmouth. Ip scored two of his goals late in the fourth quarter to help Harvard pull away.
 
Harvard leads the league with seven weekly honors – two awards each for Stevens, Malone and John Aurandt IV along with this week's award for Ip– this season.
 

Teddy Reaches the Century Mark

Senior attack Teddy Malone passed the 100 career goals milestone in the last matchup against Dartmouth. A senior attack, Malone becomes just the 12^th player in program history to score 100 goals and is currently tied for 10^th on the Crimson's all-time scoring list. The Delaware native currently leads the team with 31 points and 23 goals on the season.
 

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 10 assists. A Team 91 LI alum, Speidell now owns 27 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 58-percent clip and allowing just 9.26 goals per game. The metrics rank seventh and 17th in the country, respectively. Stevens has made 12.6 saves per game, a number that ranks in the top 20 nationally.
 
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 third team in program history to reach the 7-0 mark and just the second team to do so in the NCAA era. The other teams to accomplish the feat included the squads in 1990 (7-0) and 1961 (10-0). 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 prepare for a trip to Baltimore to battle the No. 4 North Carolina Tar Heels in a neutral site clash between top-five teams. The 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.