Match Information
Opponent	Delaware State Hornets
Date	Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Time	7:00 p.m.
Location	Baltimore, Md. | Reitz Arena
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Game Notes	Loyola

Quick Hits About The Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland will wrap up a two-game homestand on Tuesday, November 13, at 7 p.m. when it hosts Delaware State University in Reitz Arena.
• The game will stream live on the Patriot League Network.
• Three players – Brent Holcombe (20), Kavaughn Scott (14), Kenneth Jones (1) – had career-high point totals Sunday.
• Tavaras Hardy is in his first season as head coach of the Greyhounds. He was named the 21st head coach in Loyola men's basketball history on March 28, 2018.
• Hardy will be joined on the sidelines by three assistant coaches who are also in this first year at Loyola: A.J. Guyton, Ivo Simović and Brenden Straughn. Kevin Farrell is back for his seventh season as the team's director of operations.
• Five players – Jaylin Andrews, Brandon Bradsher, Kenneth Jones, Casmir Ochiaka and Markese Redding – made their Loyola debuts in the season-opener at St. John's.
• Three players – Isaiah Hart, Andrew Kostecka and Chuck Champion – who started more than half of last year's 30 games return for the 2018-2019 season. 
• Loyola also has three players return who averaged 10.3 or more points per game in 2017-18. Chuck Champion checked in with 11.5 points, Andrew Kostecka had 11.0, and Isaiah Hart added 10.3.

Series History

• Loyola and Delaware State will play for the first time in series history when the teams take the floor Tuesday night. The game is part of a two-year, home-and-home series that will continue next year in Dover, Delaware.
• The Greyhounds are 19-13 all-time against teams from the MEAC.

Last Time Out

• Dartmouth took a 23-8 lead in the first eight minutes of Loyola's home opener on Sunday evening, but the Greyhounds came back to tie the game at 27-27 just under seven minutes before halftime. The Big Green then held off Loyola late for an 82-80 victory in Reitz Arena.
• Brent Holcombe scored a career-high 20 points, while Chuck Champion had his first career double-double with 17 points and a game-high 11 rebounds for Loyola. KaVaughn Scott also matched his career-best with 14 points, and Kenneth Jones came off the bench to score 10 in his second collegiate game.
• Dartmouth was buoyed by strong 3-point shooting as it made 13 of 23 (56.5 percent) from behind the arc in the game after starting 10 of 15 from that range in the first half.
• Adrease Jackson tallied 25 points, making 5 of 8 threes, while Chris Knight had 19 for the Big Green.
• Loyola tied the score three times in the final three minutes, but two James Foye free throws at 1:29 made it an 81-79 Dartmouth lead. The Greyhounds came out without points on their next trip down the floor, but a Guilien Smith turnover gave it back to Loyola with under 27 seconds left in regulation.
• A Sam Norton layup went off the mark, and Brendan Barry grabbed the rebound and was fouled. He made the first of two at the line with six ticks on the clock, but his second free throw drew iron, and Holcombe grabbed the board.
• He sent it ahead to Champion who was fouled by Foye before he was able to get a shot off. With two seconds on the clock and trailing by three, Champion made the front end of the free throws, but intentionally missed the second. The loose ball deflected off a Dartmouth player, and after review, 1.2 seconds were put on the clock with Loyola inbounding underneath the basket. Holcombe took a three that was released in time, but it bounced off, and Dartmouth secured the win.

Champion Doubles Up

• Chuck Champion had his first career double-double Sunday against Dartmouth, scoring 17 points while leading all players with a career-best 11 rebounds.
• The junior guard scored 12 in the first half, including 10 in the final 10 minutes of the stanza. He finished 7 of 12 from the field. In two games (2018 and 2019) against Dartmouth, Champion has averaged 21.5 points against the Big Green.
• His previous career-high in rebounds was nine against Navy last season.

Holcombe Gets Hot

• Brent Holcombe had the best offensive game of his career Sunday against Dartmouth, pouring in 20 points on 8 of 11 shoot. He made two of his three attempts from 3-point range and also pulled down a season-best seven rebounds while blocking two shots.
• He had 13 points to lead the Greyhounds in the first half, all coming in the final 13 minutes of the period. Holcombe was 5 of 7 from the field before halftime.

Trimming Down Turnovers

• An area of emphasis for Loyola after its first game of the year at St. John's was to greatly reduce its 24 turnovers against the Red Storm.
• Tavaras Hardy's team did that by two-thirds versus Dartmouth, giving up the ball only eight times during the game.

More Career-Highs

• KaVaughn Scott matched his career-best with 14 points against Dartmouth, the most he has scored against a NCAA Division I opponent (previous career-high of 14 was versus Millersville University in 2016).
• Scott made five of the seven shots he took from the field and was the Greyhounds' leading scorer in the second half with eight.
• Kenneth Jones also had a career-best in points, albeit in just his second game at Loyola. He hit a pair of threes en route to scoring 10 off the bench.

Exhibition Opener

• Chuck Champion, Andrew Kostecka and Brent Holcombe combined to shot better than 77 percent from the field on Thursday night, as Loyola jumped out to a 19-point lead in the game's first 12 minutes of an 88-69 exhibition victory over John Jay.
• Champion led all scorers with 22 points, making 8 of 12 shots from the field and 4 of 6 from 3-point range; he also had a team-high five assists to go with only one turnover. Kostecka scored more points (18) than minutes played (17), and Holcombe nearly matched that with 16 points to go with a team-high eight rebounds in 18 minutes.
• John Jay scored the game's first points, but Loyola reeled off 25 of the next 29 to lead 25-6 on two Champion free throws at 8:42 in the first half. Less than three minutes later, Jan Dornik knocked down a three from the top of the left perimeter, and an Isaiah Hart transition layup stretched the advantage to 36-13. Kostecka scored in the paint at 2:53, making it a 28-point lead, 42-14, before John Jay got within 23, 48-25, at halftime.
• Loyola had a 45-33 advantage in rebounds during the game as Kostecka and Jaylin Andrews each pulled down seven, and KaVaughn Scott grabbed six to go with seven points.
• Essien Epps had a double-double for the Bloodhounds, scoring 19 with 11 rebounds, but his 19 points came on 6 of 24 shooting.

All-Around Andrew

• Andrew Kostecka earned Patriot League All-Defensive Team honors – the first for a Loyola player since the Greyhounds joined the conference in 2013-14 – last season after finishing second in the conference in steals per game (2.1) and fourth in blocks (1.1). He was the only Patriot League player to rank in the top five of both categories in 2017-18.
• His 29 blocked shots were the most in Loyola history by a non-post player.
• Kostecka was much more than just a defensive player, however, as he scored at every level and averaged 11.0 points per game as a sophomore. He shot .452 overall (.502 from inside the arc and .323 from 3-point range) and .745 from the free-throw line.
• A Maryland native, Kostecka scored 10 or more points 14 times and had a pair of 20-point games in 2017-18 for the Greyhounds.
• Kostecka opened the 2018-2019 regular season with strong outputs at the offensive and defensive ends of the floor. He led Loyola with 17 points, five rebounds and had a game-best four steals.

Consistent Like A Champion

• Chuck Champion missed the first five games of the 2017-12018 season with an injury, but he opened his year with a flourish, scoring a career-high 26 points on 12 of 15 from the floor in a game at Dartmouth College.
• Champion followed that effort with 11 or more points in seven-straight games, scoring 15 or better in his next six.
• Champion was one of the team's most-consistent scorers a season ago, topping the 10-point mark in 16 of the 26 games he played during the year, averaging 11.5 points per game, second-best on last year's squad and the top returning mark.
• Champion is also the team's returning leader in minutes played after averaging 30.7 as a sophomore. This season, he is averaging 37 minutes per game.

Debuting

• Five Greyhounds made their collegiate debuts in the season-opener against St. John's. Kenneth Jones had the highest point total of the quintet, recording seven on 3 of 5 shooting in 14 minutes of action to go with an assist and a steal.
• Jan Dornik knocked down a three, his only shot attempt, and grabbed four rebounds, while Casmir Ochiaka scored on a free throw and had an assist.
• Brandon Bradsher and Markese Redding also saw game action.

Big In The Last Three

• Brent Holcombe played his best basketball of his young career in Loyola's last four games of the 2017-18 season, averaging 11.5 points and 6.8 rebounds in contests against Lehigh, Navy, Army West Point and Bucknell.
• He scored a career-high 18 points on at Navy, knocking down 8 of 15 shots in the regular-season finale, both career highs. The 18 points eclipsed his previous-best of 17 points earlier in February against American. During the second half against Navy, Holcombe scored 11 of his points; nine of those points came over a seven-minute stretch in which he made a three to tie the game at 43-43 and a layup at 10:16 to push Loyola up two. He later passed up a three to assist on a triple by Andrew Kostecka at 6:41 that would give the Greyhounds a three-point advantage. He then converted free-throw line jumpers on consecutive possession to stretch that lead to seven at 4:27.
• In the Patriot League Championships First Round against Army West Point, Holcombe scored eight points, including two free throws with under 25 seconds left. He had his second double-digit rebounding effort of the year with 10.
• He followed that with a his first career double-double, a 12-point, 10-rebound outing against eventual Patriot League champion Bucknell University in the quarterfinal round.

Among His Peers

• Isaiah Hart was among the leaders for Patriot League freshmen last season in both points, steals and assists. His 10.3 points per game ranked fifth with his first-year peers, while his 2.9 assists and 1.0 steals checked in second in the same group. Additionally, Hart's 27.0 minutes played last year ranked fourth among freshmen in the conference.
• Hart led Loyola in assists and was fifth on the team in scoring last year. His 30 total steals were third-most on the team.

Fives Back In '18

• James Fives will return to the Loyola lineup this season after missing the last 21 games of the 2017-18 season.
• Fives made six starts in the first nine games of last year and averaged 5.1 points and 3.9 rebounds in 22.7 minute per game.  As a sophomore in 2016-17, Fives started 30 of 33 games, averaging 6.1 points and 2.6 rebounds per game.

Scholarship For Sam

• After joining the team and playing as a walk-on for the last three years, Sam Norton was awarded a scholarship for his senior season.
• Norton saw increased playing time as a junior, playing in 26 games and starting 10 while averaging 2.7 points and 3.0 rebounds in 17.6 minutes per game.

New To The Hounds

• Five newcomers dot the roster this year: freshmen Jaylin Andrews (Owings Mills, Md./Boys' Latin), Jan Dornik (Kranj, Slovenia/Gymnasium France Peršeren Kranj), Kenny Jones (Hillsdale, N.J./Mater Dei) and Casmir Ochiaka (Enugu, Nigeria/St. Mary's of the Assumption [N.J.]) and sophomore walk-on Brandon  Bradsher (Ellicott City, Md./Boys' Latin).

A Nod To The Past

• Four players graduated from the program a year ago after spending four seasons with the Greyhounds. Andre Walker wrapped up his career sixth all-time at Loyola in points (1,682), second in 3-pointers made (214), ninth in free-throws made (376), fifth in assists (393) and second in steals (195).
• Cam Gregory scored his 1,000th career point late in his senior season, finishing with 1,019 over four years. He also gradated as the school's all-time leader in field-goal percentage (.5819) and third in rebounds (876).
• Chancellor Barnard did not play as a senior due to an injury, but he scored 429 points and had 292 rebounds over three seasons. Matt Staubi saw action in 64 games during his career.

Hounds Abroad

• Several former Loyola players have, or are about to, start professional seasons overseas. Those players include: Denzel Brito '15 (Onsabruecker T.B., Germany), Julius Brooks '13 (Corio Bay, Australia), Cam Gregory '18 (Tromso Story, Norway), Jarred Jones '17 (Lahti, Finland), Jordan Latham '14 (Hawthorn, Australia) Michael Tuck '08 (Sheffield Sharks, England), and Shane Walker '12 (Al-Ittihad, Bahrain).

Up Next

• The Greyhounds play their second game of the GoPrint.com Legends Classic presented by Old Trapper on Friday, November 16, when it heads to Philadelphia to face Temple University.

Patriot League Network

• All of Loyola University Maryland non-televised home men's basketball games will air live on the Patriot League Network for the sixth season.