Match Information
Opponent	Hampton Pirates | GotPrint.com Legends Classic presented by Old Trapper
Date	Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Time	5:00 p.m.
Location	Detroit, Mich. | Calihan Hall
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Game Notes	Loyola

Quick Hits About The Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland play the second of two games in as many days on Tuesday, November 20, when they take on Hampton University at 5:00 p.m. in the Detroit.
• Monday's and Tuesday's games are part of the GotPrint.com Legends Classic presented by Old Trapper and will steam live on FloHoops.
• 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 Hampton will meet for the first time in series history when the teams take the floor on Tuesday night.

Legends Classic

• Monday and Tuesday's games the final two of the GotPrint.com Legends Classic presented by Old Trapper for the Greyhounds.
• Loyola played at both St. John's University and Temple University in its first two contests in the event.
• The Greyhounds will play either Bowling Green University or Hampton University at 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

Last Time Out

• James Fives hit a three from the corner to put Loyola up one at halftime, but the Detroit Mercy made nine of their first 10 3-point attempts after the break to pull away for a 91-63 victory Monday night in the GotPrint.com Legends Classic presented by Old Trapper.
• Fives' three with less than five seconds to go in the opening half gave Loyola a 38-37 lead, but Detroit Mercy's Antoine Davis scored 17 points and had an assist in the first four minutes of the second half to held the Titans take a 56-46 lead on one of his five threes during that stretch.
• Andrew Kostecka, who scored a career-high 23 points for Loyola (1-4) scored in the paint off a Fives assist at 16:23, making it a seven-point game, but Davis answered with another three, and Derrien King hit one at 15:13 to extend the lead to 59-46.
• Chuck Champion hit a three, and after a Detroit Mercy free throw, Brent Holcombe scored two of his 12 points to make it a nine-point game with 12:22 on the clock.
• The Titans, however, scored the next 10 points, and their lead was at least 14 from that point until the final buzzer.
• Holcombe logged his second-straight double-double, and third of his career, with 12 points and 11 rebounds. Champion added 10, and Kostecka's 23 came on a career-high 10 field goals made.
• Davis, who entered the game ranked third in NCAA Division I in scoring, finished with 42 points on 10 of 14 from 3-point range. King added 17, while Josh McFolley and Tra'Quan Knight had 10 for the Titans.

Holcombe Gets Hot

• Brent Holcombe had the best offensive game of his career November 11 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.
• Two days later, against Delaware State, Holcombe saved his best play for late in the game. He entered the game with just under 15 minutes to play and had seven points, five rebounds and three assists over the next minutes.
• He followed that effort with his second career double-double on Friday night at Temple, scoring 17 on 7 of 11 against the Owls to go with a career- and game-high 12 rebounds. Holcombe also had a team-high four assists and two blocked shots.
• On Monday night at Detroit Mercy, Holcombe logged his second double-double in a row and third of his career with 12 points and 11 rebounds.
• Through four contests, Holcombe is third on the team with 12.6 points and a first with 8.2 rebounds per game.

Passing The Boards

• On paper, rebounding looked to be a bit of a question mark for the Greyhounds this season after the departure of 2018 graduate Cam Gregory who finished third all-time at Loyola with 876 career rebounds.
• Through five games, however, the Greyhounds have answered that question in a positive sense, outrebounding four of their five opponents by an average of 4.0 per game.
• Brent Holcombe leads the Greyhounds with 8.2 per game; KaVaughn Scott has grabbed 3.6 per game, while James Fives and Sam Norton are each averaging 3.4 and 3.0 per game. Loyola's guards have been a large part of the success on the glass with Chuck Champion checking in second on the team with 5.6 per game and Andrew Kostecka third with 4.4.

Kostecka's Career-High

• Andrew Kostecka had career-highs in field goals made (10) and attempted (17) on Monday night at Detroit Mercy, numbers that translated into a career-high in scoring with 23.
• Kostecka scored 15 in the first half against the Titans en route to eclipsing his previous high of 22 in the 2017-18 season-opener at Northwestern.

Champion Doubles Up

• Chuck Champion had his first career double-double November 11 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.
• This season, Champion is second on the Greyhounds with 12.8 points and first with 33.0 minutes per game. He has scored 10 or more points in all five of Loyola's games.

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 was able to do so by two-thirds versus Dartmouth, giving up the ball only eight times during the game. The Greyhounds followed that up with 11 miscues against Delaware State. The number went back up, however, to 22 versus Temple.

Getting To The Stripe

• Loyola has been adept at getting to the free-throw line through the first three games of the season. The Greyhounds have gone to the stripe 105 times, making 76, and rank 66th in NCAA Division I in free-throws made, 72nd in attempts. Both numbers top the Patriot League.

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.
• He has 10 steals in five games this season, a total that ranks 44th in NCAA Division I through Monday night's games. His 15.2  points per game this year leads the team.

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 33 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).

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

• After Tuesday's game Hampton, the Greyhounds will take a short break for Thanksgiving before making a short trip to Towson University for a Sunday, November 25, game at 6 p.m. against the Tigers.

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.