New Season
• Loyola was picked to finish third in the 2018-19 Patriot League Preseason Poll with 129 points and four first-place votes.
• The Greyhounds are coming off a 2017-18 season in which they went 7-11 in League play and secured the No. 6 seed in the Patriot League Tournament. Loyola earned a first-round bye, but fell to third-seeded Navy, 63-55, in the quarterfinal round.
• Loyola returns its entire starting lineup and 93.3 percent of its scoring from last year. It also gets 2016-17 All-Patriot League First Team guard Bri Betz-White back after an injury year.
• The Greyhounds also welcome back 2017-18 Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year Stephanie Karcz and 2017-18 Patriot League Rookie of the Year Isabella Therien.
Loyola Greyhounds (1-12, 0-2 Patriot League)
• Junior Stephanie Karcz, a Preseason All-Patriot League Team honoree and the 2017-18 Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year, leads the team in rebounding, steals and assists this season. Her 10.4 rebounds per game ranks fourth in the League, while her 57 steals leads the League and her 43 assists rank fourth.
• Karcz is also second in the NCAA in steals per game, averaging 4.38 this season.
• In scoring, sophomore Isabella Therien, the 2017-18 Patriot League Rookie of the Year, leads the squad with 10.4 points per game. Redshirt senior Bri Betz-White, an All-Patriot League First Team guard in 2016-17 who missed last season due to injury, is close behind, at 10.2 points per contest.
Boston University (6-6, 2-0 Patriot League)
• The Terriers are coming off a 70-62 win at Bucknell, the Preseason Patriot League favorite.
• Nia Irving leads the team and ranks fifth in the Patriot League in scoring, with 13.3 points per game. She also ranks sixth in the League rebounding, with 7.7 rebounds per game.
• Head coach Marisa Moseley, formerly an assistant at UConn, is in her first season with BU.
Series History
• Boston leads the all-time series, 6-5, but Loyola leads the series in Baltimore, 3-2.
• The Greyhounds also own the most recent meeting, a 65-62 victory at Reitz Arena in February of last year.
• The two teams did not meet until January 19, 2014, during both teams' inaugural season in the Patriot League.
• The Terriers won the first three games in the series, all in 2014, but the Greyhounds swept the 2014-15 and 2015-16 series meetings to win four-straight games.
• Boston won both meetings during the 2016-17 season and the two teams split last year's meetings, with each winning its respective home contest.
Up Next
• Loyola will hit the road for its next two games, traveling to Holy Cross (Saturday, noon) and American (Wednesday, Jan. 16, 7 p.m.).
