DORDEVIC IS THE HEADLINER. His six-goal effort in a 19-17 defeat of Yale in the first round gave him 63 on the year, a single-season Hoyas record previously held by Daniel Bucaro (61 in 2019). Brian Minicus is the sneaky-good addition from Colgate who has 31 goals and 23 assists.
Bundy and Declan McDermott are the two holdovers, multi-year mainstays for a team that underwent an extreme makeover.
But the avatar of Georgetown discovering its offensive identity is arguably Nicky Solomon, who joined former North Carolina teammate Jacob Kelly in making the move to Washington, D.C., as a graduate transfer.
Solomon was mostly an attackman with the Tar Heels but toggled to midfield late last season. That’s where he landed with the Hoyas, splitting time between the team’s top two lines.
The reality was that Georgetown wanted to play as much position-less offense as it could. Being in a midfield spot at the start of the possession doesn’t mean a guy will be stationary. Bundy, Dordevic, Kelly, Minicus and TJ Haley also moved around the field.
Still, there’s a reason it was easy to lose track of Solomon. Through nine games, he had seven goals on 30 shots, a complementary piece on a team finding its stride.
Then he had a hat trick against Marquette and a four-goal effort at Loyola three days later. He hasn’t cooled off, scoring 26 goals on 38 shots (68.4 percent) over the Hoyas’ last seven games.
Put another way: Solomon was shooting 23.3 percent through nine games, better than only one player in Georgetown’s top seven. He now checks in at 48.5 percent, good for seventh in all of Division I.
“He understood what his role was and going, ‘OK, this is what this team needs me to do, let me do it and let’s see what happens,’” Warne said. “He’s done a hell of a job the last three or four weeks. He’s been on fire. We’re not asking him to do anything he can’t do. He finishes the ball really well, and we put him in spots and he puts himself in spots and guys are finding him.”
And as Solomon has found his footing, it’s only helped everyone else. Solomon has thrived in part because of the attention Dordevic and Minicus have commanded. Now Solomon is starting to draw a pole like in his North Carolina days, which in turn frees up opportunities for others.
“We definitely didn’t fit the pieces together early on, as you could see,” said Solomon, who made his first start of the season against Yale. “At the end of the day, it’s playing lacrosse and getting comfortable with each other and the team. We’ve done a great job of putting the puzzle together, and I think we could still do a better job.”