Game Information
Opponent	Boston University Terriers
Date	Friday, January 4, 2018
Time	7:00 p.m.
Location	Baltimore, Md. | Reitz Arena
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Watch	Patriot League Network
Live Stats
Game Notes	Loyola

Quick Hits About The Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland men's basketball returns to Reitz Arena on Friday, January 5, to face Boston University.
• The Greyhounds will take on the Terriers in a 7 p.m. game on the Patriot League Network.
• Loyola shot 60 percent from the field (27-45) against Navy in its Patriot League opener. It was the Greyhounds' best percentage since shooting 60.4 percent in 2013 against Marist.
• Cam Gregory is 18th in all of NCAA Division I and leads the Patriot League in offensive rebounds per game (3.5). He also leads the Patriot League and is 31st nationally in overall rebounding (9.3).
• Five Loyola players - Andre Walker, Cam Gregory, Andrew Kostecka, Chuck Champion and Isaiah Hart - have scored 20 or more points in a game this year. Champion and Walker each have two games of 21-plus.
• Champion has tallied 11 or more points in all eight games he has played this year.
• Isaiah Hart's 26 points on December 2 at Mount St. Mary's were the most by a Loyola freshman since Jamal Hunter tallied 27 in a 1998 game at Iona College.
• Hart is averaging 15.4 points over the Greyhounds last seven games and 12.4 since joining the starting lineup 10 games ago.

Series History Versus Boston University

• Loyola and Boston U. will meet for the 12th time in seven years and 13th overall when they take the hardwood on Friday night. The Greyhounds won games in 2012 and 2013, but the Terriers are 7-3 against Loyola since both teams joined the Patriot League in 2013-2014. The teams met in the Patriot League Championships Quarterfinal Round last year, a game that the Terriers held on to win, 64-60, on March 2, 2017.
• Boston U. won both games the first year the teams were Patriot League members, and the teams split the series in 2014-2015 with each winning on its respective home court. In 2015-2016, the Terriers posted a pair of wins, but they again split the regular-season games in 2016-2017. Boston U. now leads the all-time series, 7-4.
• Loyola won the first regular-season meeting last year, 77-69, behind a career-high 35 points from Andre Walker. The Terriers rebounded with a 78-63 victory in Boston in the year's second meeting.
• Walker scored 20 of his game-high 27 points in the second half, leading a Loyola comeback from a 16-point deficit, but Boston University held on late for a 64-60 victory the Patriot League Championships Quarterfinals.
• The Terriers took 16-point leads on two occasions in the second half, the second coming with 16:18 left on a Will Goff 3-pointer. Walker and Andrew Kostecka hit threes on consecutive possessions, and Cam Gregory caught a Matt Staubi bounce pass in the paint for an emphatic dunk, and Loyola was within eight, 41-33, with 14:38 on the clock.
• Gregory had two offensive rebounds and scored after the last with 1:46 remaining to make the score 60-56. Loyola forced a 3-point miss by the Terriers, and Chuck Champion came down with the rebound for the Greyhounds. Andre Walker immediate took the ball to the basket and was fouled. He made both free throws, and it was a two-point game, 60-58, with 85 seconds left in regulation.
• Boston University threw the ball into Justin Alston on the left block, and he turned for a hook that found net, and the Terriers had a two-point lead at 1:05. The ball was again in Walker's hands for the Greyhounds, and he made a right-handed layup off a drive with 51.1 seconds left on the clock, and Loyola called a timeout down 62-60.
• Boston University used most of the shot clock, but a 3-pointer rimmed out, and Gregory pulled down the rebound. Walker drove on the baseline from the left side, but his layup was off the mark. Jones got the offensive board and had a chance for a tip-in, but it too missed. Kyle Foreman grabbed the loose ball for the Terriers, was fouled and hit two game-sealing free throws.

Last Time Out

• Loyola took a 56-55 lead with more than 12 minutes to play in regulation Tuesday night, but Army West Point scored the next five points to take a lead it would not relinquish, and the host Black Knights went on to an 86-75 victory Tuesday night.
• After Isaiah Hart scored off an Andre Walker assist at 12:23 to push the Greyhounds up a point, Tucker Blackwell accounted for five-straight Army West Point tallies, hitting a pair of free throw before he made a jumper, was fouled and hit the free throw to give his team a 60-56 advantage at 11:43.
• Hart scored for Loyola to get the Greyhounds within a pair, but Blackwell answered for Army West Point with another basket. He finished with 13 points as one of four Black Knights in double figures. Chuck Champion knocked down a baseline jumper for the Greyhounds at 9:09, making it 62-60 Army West Point, but Tommy Funk converted two free throws, and Jordan Fox hit a 3-pointer that extended the Black Knights' advantage to seven, 67-60, with 7:27 left.
• Andrew Kostecka made two free throws for Loyola at 6:53, getting the Greyhounds within five, and after a Funk layup, he converted a 3-point play by knocking a 21-foot jumper and making a foul shot after drawing contact. His effort got Loyola to a 69-65 deficit, but that was as close as it would come in the final 5:27.
• Walker led all players with 22 points, and he also had a team-high four assists. Hart added 16 points, and Champion had 15 for the Greyhounds. KaVaughn Scott grabbed a team-high eight rebounds, while Kostecka had seven and Sam Norton and Cam Gregory six each. Alex King scored 18 off the bench to lead Army West Point, while Matt Wilson added 15.

Slick Shooting

• Loyola made 24 of 47 shots from the field against Navy in the Patriot League opener, checking in with a 60 percent mark. The field-goal percentage was the Greyhounds best since making 60.4 percent of their shots in a January 2013 win over Marist College.
• The Greyhounds' 47 shots were their fewest in a game this year, and they limited Navy to 21 rebounds in the contest. The Midshipmen came into the game averaging 35.5 boards per game while holding opponents to 43.9 percent from the floor.

Opening Patriot League Play Big

• Andre Walker scored 12 of his 18 points after halftime, including seven-straight Loyola points over a late two-minute stretch, to lead scorers against Navy. It marked the first time since November 14 at Fairfield - and his return from an injury that saw him miss two-plus games - that he led the team in scorers.
• Walker made all five of his free throws in the last 4:08 of the game, and he hit has last three field goals.
• In the final 4:08, Loyola held Navy to just one field goal, outscoring the Midshipmen 14-5. The Greyhounds also did not allow Navy to grab a rebound during that run.
• Walker again led Loyola in scoring on Tuesday against Army West Point, tallying 22 points with 16 coming in the first half.
• In 56 career Patriot League games, Walker has scored 795 points, an average of 14.2 per game.

Norton Big Off Bench

• Sam Norton scored a career-high nine points, and he matched his previous best with five rebounds, in the win over Navy. Norton, a junior walk-on, saw 19 minutes of action, his most since a wrist injury on November 28 forced him to miss four games. He made all three of his field goals and all three free throws he attempted against the Navy, scoring all of his points in the game's final 17 minutes.
• He then played a career-high 28 minutes at Army West Point and grabbed a career-best six rebounds.

Returning To Health

• Loyola's December 21 game saw the Greyhounds have its most healthy and active players of the season with just one ( Chancellor Barnard) missing due to an injury.
• The Greyhounds used the same starting lineup from its previous game for the first time since November 28. Loyola has used six different starting lineups this year, and Greyhounds players have missed a combined 43 games because of illness or injury through January 2.

5x20

• Five Loyola players have scored 20 or more points in a game this season.
• Andrew Kostecka tallied 22 in the season-opener at Northwestern, and Andre Walker had 27 (the most by a Greyhounds player this year) against Fairfield. Cam Gregory scored a career-best 22 at Dartmouth, a game in which Chuck Champion put up 26. Isaiah Hart is the most-recent member of the 20-plus club, scoring 26 on Saturday at Mount St. Mary's. Champion then scored 21 against Drexel, and Walker had 22 at Army West Point.

Hart Heats Up

• Isaiah Hart made 7 of 12 second-half shots December 2 at Mount St. Mary's and tallied 16 of his team-high 26 points after the break. Hart's 26 points were the most by a Loyola freshman since Jamal Hunter scored 27 points in a March 1, 1998, game at Iona College.
• He followed that performance with a 15-point game at Florida State, 13 against Binghamton and 10 versus Drexel despite foul trouble. Over the last seven games, Hart has averaged 15.4 points over, and since joining the starting lineup on November 21 against Goucher, he has averaged 12.4 points.

Top-10 Territory

• Cam Gregory moved into Loyola career top-10 in rebounds at Dartmouth, grabbing 11 to pass Erik Etherly's 667 during the 2010-13 seasons. Versus Drexel, Gregory's career-high 16 rebounds moved him past B.J. Pendleton (1991-95) into eight on the school's career list. With 742 career boards, he is closing in on Roderick Platt (745, 1995-99), Ed Butler (747, 1969-73) and Jimmy Smith (749, 1972-76) for seventh, sixth and fifth, respectively.
• Gregory is also the school's career leader in field-goal percentage (58.5).

Champion Debuts

• Chuck Champion missed the first five games of the 2017-2018 season before debuting at Dartmouth. He opened in a big way, scoring a career-high 26 points while making 12 of 15 shots from the field. Champion tallied 15 of his points in the first half after checking in four minutes into play, and he missed only misfired on one of his eight attempts from the field before the break.
• Champion was playing his best at the end of his freshman campaign as the 26 points eclipsed his previous high of 18 set in the CBI Quarterfinals at Coastal Carolina. He also had four rebounds, three steals and two assists against the Big Green.
• Champion has scored 11 or more points in all eight games he's played this year, and he has posted 15 or more in each of Loyola's last six contests to lead the Greyhounds with 17.3 points per game.

Crashing And Scoring

• Cam Gregory has been dominant on the offensive glass this season for the Greyhounds, moving up to No. 18 in NCAA Division I with 3.5 offensive rebounds per game. Overall, he is nearly averaging a double-double with 13.2 points and 9.3 rebounds per game, and he tops the team with a 60.6 and 76.9 percent marks from the field and the free-throw line, respectively.
• Gregory pulled down a career-best 16 rebounds, 13 coming on the defensive glass, against Drexel. His 16 boards are tied for eighth in school single-game history and are the most since Erik Etherly had 15 in a 2011 game at George Washington.

Record Book Entries

• Loyola set a school record for rebounds in a game on November 21, pulling down 52 in its win over Goucher. The Greyhounds have tallied 49 rebounds three times in their recorded history, most recently in a 2010 game against Manhattan. (Note: a previously published record of 122 rebounds in a 1955 game has been disproved via newspaper archives)
• The Greyhounds' 52-point margin of victory was the second largest in school history. Loyola defeated Gallaudet, 82-27, in February 1947 for the biggest spread.
• Loyola's 24 assists were tied for sixth-most and the most since it had 25 against Canisius on January 5, 2000.

Clutch Late

• Andre Walker's game-winning layup with 27.3 seconds left against Lehigh on Feb. 1, 2017, was his third game-winning basket of the season and second against the Mountain Hawks. He hit a three with three with eight-tenths of a second left on Jan. 5 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to push Loyola in front for an 84-83 win the first time the teams met last season.
• Earlier in the year, Walker hit a winning layup with five-tenths of a second remaining at Stony Brook, giving the Greyhounds a 71-70 road win. He then came up defensively at American, keeping the Eagles' Sa'eed Nelson from driving and blocking his 3-pointer at the buzzer.
• Walker now has scored game-winning points six times during his career. In 2015-16, he scored on a drive to the basket with less than five seconds left at home against Lehigh, and he hit two free throws with just over three ticks on the clock for a win at the U.S. Military Academy. As a freshman in 2013-2014, he made two free throws with 6.9 seconds left to beat Colgate University in triple overtime.
• At Florida State, he became the 17th player in school history to score 1,300 or more points. With 1,368 points, Walker is 14th in school history. Against Lafayette in the 2017 Patriot League First Round, he became the 10th player in school history with 300-plus assists and is ninth with 347. His 158 steals rank sixth all-time.

Chart Climbing

• Andre Walker and Cam Gregory are both moving up various Loyola career record lists:

Up Next

• The Greyhounds head on the road for their next two Patriot League games. First, they travel to Worcester, Massachusetts, to face College of the Holy Cross at 7 p.m. on Monday, January 8.
• Loyola then heads to Washington, D.C., for a Thursday, January 11, contest at American University.