Maryland has released its schedule for the 2015 season. Here is a breakdown of what awaits the Terps, who went 13-4 last year and advanced to their third Final Four in the last four springs.
10: Maryland will meet six opponents in the regular season for the first time in more than 10 years. The team will play against Cornell for the first time since 2000, Drexel for the first time since 1943, Princeton for the first time since 1977, Penn State for the first time since 1999, Rutgers for the first time since 1998 and Ohio State for the first time since 1994.
9: Maryland hasn't finished a season with nine wins or less since 2002 when that squad went 9-4. The program's streak of 12 years with at least 10 victories is the longest active streak in Division I.
8: The Terps' longest break of the season is eight days between Ohio State on April 18 and Johns Hopkins on April 26. The team's shortest layoff is three days between Yale on Feb. 21 and Penn on Feb. 24 and North Carolina on March 21 and Robert Morris on March 24.
7: Maryland could return as many as seven starters. That could include its entire close defense of seniors Goran Murray and Casey Ikeda and junior Matt Dunn.
6: The Terps will face six opposing teams that qualified for last spring's NCAA tournament. They open the campaign against Cornell on Feb. 7, play host to Penn on Feb. 24 and Drexel four days later, travel to California for a March 21 date with former Atlantic Coast Conference rival North Carolina, and then welcome Loyola on April 8 and Johns Hopkins on April 26.
5: Maryland will open the season at Byrd Stadium in College Park for the fifth straight year when the Big Red visit on Feb. 7. That is the longest stretch of season openers at home since an eight-year stretch between 1987 and 1994.
4: The Terps could return four players who scored at least 16 goals last season. They are sophomore attackman Matt Rambo (30 goals), senior attackman Jay Carlson (26), senior midfielder Joe LoCascio (20) and junior midfielder Henry West (16).
3: Maryland will play three consecutive games at home twice this spring. That's the longest homestand at Byrd Stadium since 2011 when that squad also played host to three straight home contests.
2: The Terps graduated just two starters in attackman Mike Chanenchuk and goalkeeper Niko Amato. But the team also graduated a pair of defensive starters in long-stick midfielder Michael Ehrhardt and short-stick defensive midfielder Brian Cooper and watched sophomore attackman Connor Cannizzaro transfer to Denver.
1: In the last two seasons, Maryland did not sustain its first loss until late March. But both losses came at the hands of North Carolina, which will tangle with the Terps again in – who would have guessed? – late March.