The 2025 college lacrosse regular season is just about wrapped up, as most teams are playing their final game or are already looking ahead to their conference tournament. The 2025 college lacrosse season has been interesting, to say the least, with much of the lacrosse community surprised by how the season unfolded. It’s remarkable how short the season is in actuality, but how long it feels for players, coaches, and fans alike. Looking back at some of the early February games, it feels like they happened a millennium ago.
I wanted to take a moment to break down some of the craziest developments from the 2025 college lacrosse season. My list is long, and I didn’t want to fit it all into one article, especially with postseason play on the horizon. I’m looking to do a second and possibly a third part at the end of the season. But for now, here are three of the craziest storylines to come out of the 2025 college lacrosse season.
Johns Hopkins Falling Apart
What an unfortunate year it has been for the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays. Starting the year as one of the favorites to win the Big Ten and a team certainly competing for a national championship, Johns Hopkins wraps up the regular season with a 0-5 conference record. Regardless of your feelings about Johns Hopkins lacrosse, I can assure you no one saw this coming. The lacrosse community was hopeful following a solid 11-5 season last year, where they were just an overtime loss away from making a Championship Weekend appearance. The pieces were still in place, and the team had shown resilience, making everyone feel fairly optimistic about the Blue Jays in 2025.
A 6-7 regular-season record was certainly not on my bingo card, and this 2025 college lacrosse Hopkins collapse deserves to be studied on its own.
Towson Turning Their Season Around
I remember Towson opening their year 0-4 and feeling like this was going to be a really rough down year for the Tigers. A close loss to Johns Hopkins and a blowout against Syracuse certainly weren’t the end of the world, but bad losses to Navy and St. Joseph’s really had the lacrosse community feeling like Towson was out of the CAA race this year. The Tigers entered the 2025 season as CAA conference favorites, but many fans felt heading into March that Towson’s season had ended in February.
That couldn’t have been farther from the truth. Towson is currently on a seven-game winning streak and is 6-0 in conference play. I’m not sure how they did it, but the Tigers’ coaching staff deserves a lot of credit for keeping that locker room intact and growing despite the rocky start.
Virginia Falling Short
Virginia was my favorite to win the NCAA National Championship this season. Lars Tiffany is one of the best coaches in the game, and the Cavaliers’ recruiting over the past few years has been on an entirely different level. It seemed like this year Virginia was going to break through and easily secure a spot at Championship Weekend. However, as I sit here writing this in late April, the team is 6-7? Impossible.
An early loss to Richmond and Ohio State really showed that this Cavalier team was not what we thought it would be coming into the 2025 season. The team has yet to win a conference game this year, and many of their wins have come against mid-tier Division 1 programs. I don’t know what Coach Tiffany is going to do this offseason, as I’m still not sure how this team collapsed so badly given their talent and expectations.
