Patriot League Regular Season Recap
• The Greyhounds won their last two games of the regular season to move into a tie with Navy for eighth place in the Patriot League standings.
• By virtue of Loyola's regular-season finale win over Boston University, the Greyhounds earned the No. 8 seed a first-round home game in the Patriot League Championships and will host No. 9 seed Navy.
• Loyola swept Lafayette this year and split the season series with Army West Point, Boston University and Navy.
• Navy swept Colgate and split the season series with Holy Cross, Lafayette and Loyola.
All-Patriot League Honors
• Junior Stephanie Karcz was named to the five-member Patriot League All-Defensive Team for a third-straight year, while she also picked up her second-straight All-Patriot League honor, being voted to the third team.
• Freshman Taleah Dixon was also selected to the Patriot League All-Rookie Team, becoming Loyola's fifth all-rookie selection in its six years in the League. Lisa Mirarchi was the first Greyhound honored, being selected for the 2013-14 season, Loyola's inaugural year in the League. Bri Betz-White was then honored in 2014-15, followed by Karcz (2016-17) and sophomore Isabella Therien (2017-18).
Loyola Greyhounds (6-23, 5-13 Patriot League)
• Junior Stephanie Karcz is on the verge of breaking the program's single-season record for steals, as she has 116 this year, just three shy of surpassing Katie Sheahin's 118 steals from the 2010-11 season.
• With 4.3 steals per game, Karcz leads the Patriot League with 44 more steals than Colgate's Rachel Thompson, who's second with 72 and 2.6 per game. Karcz also ranks third in the NCAA in steals and steals per game this year.
• Karcz also ranks fourth in the Patriot League in rebounds (9.5 rpg), and assists (3.4 apg).
• Loyola also has three Greyhounds in the top-26 of the League's scoring leaders, with senior Bri Betz-White ranking 21st with 9.2 points per game, freshman Taleah Dixon, the fourth-ranked rookie in the League, sitting 24th and sophomore Delaney Connolly ranking 26th with 8.6 points per contest.
• In League only games, Dixon ranks 15th in the League with 10.7 points per game.
Navy Midshipmen (10-18, 5-13 Patriot League)
• The Midshipmen are led by freshman Jennifer Coleman, a third-team All-Patriot League selection and Patriot League All-Rookie Team honoree.
• Coleman ranks fifth in the League this season with 13.3 points per game and sixth with 8.3 rebounds per contest. Coleman is also fourth in steals, averaging 1.8 per contest.
• Navy also placed Bianca Roach on the Patriot League All-Defensive Team. Roach leads the Mids with 2.0 steals per game, good for third in the League,
Loyola-Navy Season Series
• This will be the second time the two teams will meet in a span of a week, as the Greyhounds earned a 55-50 victory at Alumni Hall in Annapolis last Saturday.
• Earlier this year, Navy topped the Greyhounds, 58-46, in the Patriot League opener at Reitz Arena.
Series History
• Navy leads the all-time series 21-9, but the Greyhounds own the most recent meeting, as Loyola escaped Alumni Hall with a 55-50 win over Navy last Saturday.
• Of the last 10 meetings, the Greyhounds have won four of them, including a 44-42 win in the quarterfinals round of the 2015-16 Patriot League Tournament. Loyola advanced to its lone Patriot League Championship Game appearance that year.
• In the all-time series, six meetings have been decided by four points or less.
• Since joining the Patriot League, Loyola is 3-3 against Navy when playing at home.
Up Next
• The winner of Saturday's game will advance to the quarterfinal round of the Patriot League Championships and face Bucknell on Monday at 6 p.m. at Sojka Pavilion.
