Game Information
Opponent	Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Date	Saturday, February 23, 2019
Time	2:00 p.m.
Location	Piscataway, N.J. | HighPoint.com Stadium
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Watch Online	BTN2Go
Television	Big Ten Network (Tape Delayed, 4 p.m.)
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Game Notes	Loyola

Quick Hits About The 'Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse plays the middle game of a three-game road swing on Saturday, February 23, at Rutgers University.
• Faceoff is set for 2 p.m. on at HighPoint.com Stadium. 
• The game will air tape-delayed on the Big Ten Network at 4 p.m. (EST) Saturday. Fans can watch live on BTN2Go online.
• Dating back to March 23, 2016, Loyola is averaging 12.5 goals over its last 47 games. The Greyhounds have scored less than 10 only six times in that span.
• Pat Spencer now holds the Patriot League career records in both assists (172) and points (280). In the 2018 Patriot League title game, he broke the Loyola career assists mark.
• Kevin Lindley finished his freshman season ranked fourth in NCAA Division I, converting 52.1 percent of his shots in 2018. He has converted 9 of 14 shots this year, good for 64.3 percent.
• Jacob Stover had made 425 career saves, ranking seventh on the NCAA's active leader board.
• Pat Spencer has recorded two or more points in all but two of the 53 games to start his collegiate career, and he has 32 multi-goal and 42 multi-assist games. He has scored a point in all 53 outings.

Last Time Out

• Loyola scored five-straight goals in the first quarter and later tallied the first six of the third to go on to an 18-12 non-conference victory over Johns Hopkins at Homewood Field on Saturday.
• Pat Spencer had three goals and four assists, Chase Scanlan had four and two, Kevin Lindley scored four times, Alex McGovern added two goals and a pair of assists and John Duffy scored three times for the Greyhounds.
• Jacob Stover made 12 saves in goal, giving him 49 in his last three games.
• The Blue Jays took a 1-0 lead 5:04 into the game on Brett Baskin's goal, but Scanlan tallied his first of four just 24 seconds later to start the 5-0 Loyola run.
• John Duffy and Logan Devereaux added unassisted goals at 8:12 and 6:55 before Spencer threw a behind-the-head goal to Lindley for a goal at 5:30. Lindley tallied another goal off a McGovern assist at 4:34, making it 5-1 Greyhounds.
• That margin would shrink to three at the break as Marr connected on extra-man with 27 ticks on the first-half clock, and he scored again 10 seconds later off a  face-off win. Loyola, however, came out and scored six in a row to open the second half and break the game open.

In The Polls

• Loyola moved up to five in both the USILA Coaches Poll and the Inside Lacrosse media version, its highest ranking since the Greyhounds spent the last seven weeks of 2014 ranked No. 1.
• Rutgers is 18th in the coaches poll, 19th in the media.

Series History

• The Greyhounds and Scarlet Knights, former ECAC Lacrosse League foes from 2005-10 will meet for the 11th time in series history when they take the field Saturday. Loyola has won two in a row in the series and nine out of the 10 overall meetings.
• Loyola won the last meeting, 12-9, at Rutgers on April 4, 2009. Mike Sawyer, a future All-American who was on his way to being named the 2009 ECAC Rookie of the Year, scored four goals to lead all players in the game, while Shane Koppens  and Collin Finnerty, another two who would earn All-America honors for the Greyhounds, scored twice. John Schiavone dominated at the 'X,' winning 16 of 19 face-offs with eight ground balls.

Watch The Action

• Saturday's game will be broadcast tape-delayed on the Big Ten Network with Scott Sudikoff calling the play-by-play and Mark Dixon providing the analysis. The game will air at 4 p.m. (Eastern) on Saturday, but fans can also watch live digitally on BTN2Go.

Preseason Prognostications

• Loyola was picked as the Patriot League favorite for the sixth time in as many years since joining the conference in 2014, picking up all of the available first-place votes.
• Pat Spencer was named the Patriot League Preseason Offensive Player of the Year, and he was joined on the Preseason All-Patriot League Team by John Duffy and Jacob Stover.
• Spencer was also named the Preseason National Player of the Year by Inside Lacrosse's Face-Off Yearbook  and Lacrosse Magazine. He was named the Face-Off Yearbook Preseason All-America First Team, while Stover and long-stick midfielder Ryan McNulty earned honorable mention.

Conference And National Honors

• Following the Greyhounds' eight-goal win over Virginia in the 2019 season-opener, three players were honored by the Patriot League, two of whom were named to the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) Team of the Week.
• Pat Spencer scored five goals and had two assists, earning Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week recognition, and Jacob Stover was tabbed the Goalkeeper of the Week after making 18 saves. Cam Wyers earned Defensive Player of the Week honors following his collegiate debut in which he had six ground balls, a caused turnovers and held All-American Michael Kraus to one goal and three assists (two of the assists came on extra-man).
• Spencer and Stover both earned spots on the 10-player USILA Team of the Week after the Virginia game, and Spencer earned a spot on the team after the Johns Hopkins game.

Alone At The Top

• Pat Spencer set the Loyola single-season assist and points records during the 2018 NCAA First Round win over Virginia. He assisted on a Kevin Lindley goal in the first two minutes of the second quarter, breaking his own assist record of 55 set last season. His assist on a Lindley goal to start scoring in the second half was his 90th point of the year, breaking the record of 89 set in 1981 by Gary Hanley and matched in 2016 by Spencer. He finished the year with 35 goals, 59 assists and 94 points.
• Spencer became Loyola's all-time leader in assists (now 172 in 53 career games) during the 2018 Patriot League Championship Game, breaking the mark of 160 set by Hanley in 1981.
• In the Patriot League Semifinals, Spencer set the Patriot League record for career points (now with 270), passing Bucknell University's Chris Cara (2002-05). Earlier in the 2018 season, he set the Patriot League's all-time assist record.

Closing In On Loyola Marks

• In addition to his career assist record, Spencer is second all-time at Loyola in points (280) behind Gary Haley's career total (311, 1978-1981).
• Spencer has 108 goals through 52 career games, a total ranked ninth all-time at the school. In the 2019 opener, he passed his former teammate Zach Herreweyers (2013-16), and he is tied with Chris Colbeck (1988-91) for eighth.
• A 2017 and 2018 Tewaaraton Award finalist, he is first among active NCAA Division I players in assists (172) and points (280).
• Against Virginia in the NCAA First Round game, Spencer moved into the top-10 of NCAA Division I history in assists. He is currently eighth all-time with 172, two back of tying Princeton University's Kevin Lowe (1991-94) for seventh. Spencer is also tied for 22nd in NCAA Division I history in career points (280) with North Carolina State University's Stan Cockerton (1977-80). Syracuse University's Tim O'Hara (1977-80) is 21st with 282, and the University of Vermont's Scott Montgomery (1983-86) is 20th with 283.

Veteran In Goal

• Jacob Stover returns for his fourth season as a starter at Loyola, having played 2,548 minutes between the pipes for the Greyhounds. The 2018 Patriot League Goalkeeper of the Year 2019 Inside Lacrosse Face-Off Yearbook  Preseason All-American has a career 8.19 goals-against average in 49 games.
• Stover has made saves on 55.0 percent of the shots on goal he has faced and has a 34-10 career record for the Greyhounds.
• He closed the 2018 season with one of the best performances of his career. Stover made a career-best 19 saves against Yale University in the NCAA Quarterfinals while yielding only eight goals to the Bulldogs.
• He has picked up where he left off, making 18 saves in 2019 season-opener against Virginia and 12 versus Johns Hopkins to give him 49 in his last three games.

Trying Something New

• Kevin Lindley finished his freshman season in 2018 with 37 goals, all but five of which were unassisted. Three of those unassisted goals came after Lindley picked up ground balls on rebounds of saved shots and scored immediately.
• In the 2019 season-opener against Virginia, Lindley scored five goals, three unassisted off dodges.

Freshman Fire Up

• A pair of freshmen have started 2019's first two games, midfielder Chase Scanlan and defender Cam Wyers, and two others – short-stick defensive midfielder Payton Rezanka and long-stick midfielder Scott Middleton – have each seen considerable action.
• Wyers was named the Patriot League Defender of the Week after his debut when he had six ground balls and a caused turnover against Virginia.
• Scanlan has scored six goals to go with a pair of assists in two games. He had four goals and two assists in the victory at Johns Hopkins.

Duffy Increases Production

• John Duffy set a career-high with five points in the 2018 Patriot League Championship Game, matching his career-highs in goals (three) and assists (two) along the way. Prior to the April 29 game against Lehigh, he had three games with three goals, and two four-point outings.
• Overall, Duffy had 11 multi-point games in 2018, and he has two through the first two games of this season.
• Duffy had 26 goals and nine assists last season, career-highs in both categories in 17 games. In 2017, he had 13 goals and four assists in 16 outings.

Not Freshmen Anymore

• Loyola attackers Kevin Lindley and Aidan Olmstead formed the only first-year teammates in NCAA Division I to have logged 35 or more points last season. Lindley finished the year with 41 points this year, including a Loyola freshman-record 37 goals; Olmstead was right behind with 19 goals, 21 assists and 40 points.
• Lindley's 37 goals last season were tied for third among Division I freshmen, and his 2.18 goals per game are also third among freshman and 46th overall. Olmstead was seventh among freshman with 21 assists.
• Lindley set a Patriot League and Loyola freshman scoring record March 4, 2018, at Holy Cross by tallying eight goals in a 13-5 win over the Crusaders. His eight goals were one off the school record of nine set in 1986 by John Carroll against Washington & Lee University. It also matched the No. 2 mark in Patriot League history, held by six other players. The eight goals were the most by a Loyola player since Gavin Prout scored eight against Hobart College in 2001.
• Olmstead was twice named the Patriot League Rookie of the Week last season. He picked up his first recognition after a four-goal game at Navy, a contest he followed with a six-point outing (two goals, four assists) versus Bucknell. Olmstead then matched his career highs in points and goals with four goals and two assists versus Boston University in the regular-season meeting of the teams.

Shot Selection

• Loyola finished the 2018 season with a .351 shooting percentage this season marking just the third time the Greyhounds have shot 30 percent or better in the last 10 seasons (.312 in 2014; .301 in 2017). Loyola's shot percentage led the Patriot League and was sixth in NCAA Division I. Of the players on Loyola's starting attacker and first and second midfields, all nine shot .271 or better, and six of that group were at .325 or higher.
• In the first two games of 2019, the Greyhounds have shot .425 or better and are at .427 overall.

Putting The Ball On The Ground

• In 17 games last season, Loyola ranked second nationally in caused turnovers per game, averaging 9.65 per game. Foster Huggins topped all individuals with 3.06 per contest, an average buoyed by his seven against Johns Hopkins on February 17 and six at Colgate on March 31. Huggins had three or more caused turnovers in 11 of the Greyhounds' 17 games. His 52 caused turnovers last year were a Patriot League single-season record.
• In 2017, the Greyhounds finished fifth in NCAA Division I with 9.31 per game.

Defense Making A Stand

• Over the last 29 games (10 in 2017, 17 in 2018, 2 in 2019) – beginning with a March 18, 2017 win over the U.S. Naval Academy – Loyola's defense has allowed just 7.90 goals per game, limiting opponents to an average of 32.1 shots in the process. The Greyhounds also have an advantage of 348-463 in turnovers (12.0-16.0) as they have gone 22-7 during the stretch.
• Of its opponents 463 turnovers in the last 29 games, Loyola has caused 282. 

Toomey's Team

• Charley Toomey is in his 14th year as the head coach at Loyola and his 23rd as a member of the Greyhounds' coaching staff. Overall, he is in his 27th year on the Evergreen campus, including his four seasons as a student-athlete from 1986-90.
• Toomey has directed the Greyhounds to 90 wins, an average of 12.6 per season (not including this season) since 2012, and has a 136-64 career record. Early in the 2016 season, Toomey became the second coach in program history to reach and cross the 100-win plateau; he stands second on the program's all-time wins chart behind his college coach, Dave Cottle (181-70, 1983-2001).
• As a head coach, Toomey has coached 38 USILA All-Americans, 71 all-conference selections, 18 conference positional or players or rookies of the year, four Tewaaraton Award finalists and 13 USILA Scholar All-Americans.
• In January 2019, Toomey was named to the coaching staff of the U.S. Men's National Team as an assistant coach. He will serve with Team USA in preparation for, and competition in, the 2022 World Championships in British Columbia. He was also enshrined in the USLacrosse Chesapeake Chapter Hall of Fame in January 2019 for his accomplishments as a player and a coach.

Get To Ten

• Since Charley Toomey became head coach at Loyola in 2006, the Greyhounds have scored 10 or more goals on 121 occasions; Loyola has won 81.0 percent of those games (98-23).

Up Next

• Loyola wraps-up its three-game road-trip on Wednesday, February 27, when it makes the short trip to Towson University to play the Tigers at 6 p.m.