Game Information
Opponent	Navy Midshipmen
Date	Saturday, February 1, 2020
Time	5:00 p.m.
Location	Baltimore, Md. | Reitz Arena
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Game Notes	Loyola

Quick Hits About The Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland opens the month of February with a home game on Saturday, February 1, 2020, when it hosts the U.S. Naval Academy at 5 p.m.
• The game will stream live on the Patriot League Network.
• Jaylin Andrews and KaVaughn Scott both had double-doubles at Army on January 18, the first time since 2016-17 that Loyola teammates have done it in the same game.
• Andrews is averaging 13.0 points in Loyola's last six games.
• Andrew Kostecka had his 11th game this season with 20 or more points, and the 31st of his career, on January 22 against American when he scored 32; he also has nine games with 25+ this year, and it was his eighth career 30-plus point performance, fourth this season. He has finished with 10 or more 64 times since the start of his sophomore year (2017-18). He has averaged 18.0 points in that span.
• Tavaras Hardy is in his second season on the Loyola sidelines after he was named the 21st head coach in Loyola men's basketball history on March 28, 2018.
• In Hardy's first season, Loyola improved its field-goal percentage from .438 in 2017-18 to .459 in 2018-19, rising from 218th in NCAA Division I in the category to 85th. The Greyhounds' assists per game jumped from 11.6 to 14.0, moving from 309 to 124.

Series History Versus Navy

• With campuses located 26 miles apart (as the crow flies), Loyola and Navy will meet for the 36th time on the hardwood when the teams play Saturday evening.
• The Midshipmen lead the series 27-8 after winning the teams split the 2019-2020 season series, each winning on its own home court.
• When the teams met on February 21, 2019, in Reitz Arena, Loyola led for more than 36 minutes of the game as all five starters scored in double-figured during a 79-70 victory. Andrew Kostecka and Jaylin Andrews each scored 17 to lead Loyola, while George Kiernan had 18 for the Midshipmen.

About The Midshipmen

• Navy brings a 12-8 overall record, and a 6-3 Patriot League mark, into Reitz Arena for Saturday's game. The Midshipmen have won three of their last four with victories over Lehigh, Lafayette, Boston University and Holy Cross.
• Cam Davis leads Navy with 16.7 points per game, while John Carter, Jr., is averaging 11.7. Greg Sumers is close behind with 9.9 points and a team-best 6.7 rebounds per game.

Last Time Out

• Four Loyola University Maryland men's basketball players scored 12 or more points, and a fifth finished with nine, but Boston University earned a 92-77 victory on Wednesday night in Case Gymnasium.
• Jaylin Andrews and Andrew Kostecka led Loyola with 17 points each, while Isaiah Hart had 14, KaVaughn Scott 12 and Golden Dike nine.
• Max Mahoney spearheaded the Terriers' game with a double-double, posting 29 points on 11 of 15 shooting to go with 10 rebounds. Javante McCoy added 24 points, 18 in the second half.
• Boston University went up 10 in the game's first five minutes thanks to a 9-0 run, but threes on consecutive possessions by Kostecka brought the deficit to four, 18-14, for Loyola. A Kenneth Jones three with 9:54 left in the first half made it a 25-20 Boston University lead, and Kostecka knocked down two free throws to pull Loyola within a possession, 25-22, moments later.
• The Terriers, however, used a 10-2 run in which Mahoney scored six, to push the lead back to double-digits; they would lead 44-34 at halftime. Loyola immediately got within seven on an Andrews three to start the second half, but a McCoy three at 18:16 pushed the Terriers' advantage back to 13.
• The lead stayed at 12 or higher until two Dike free throws with 4:34 left cut it to 78-68. A Kostecka steal and dunk with 1:26 on the clock had the margin at 10 once again, 85-75, but it was the last field goal the Greyhounds would have in the game.
• Andrews and Scott tied for the team-lead with seven rebounds, and Hart had a game-high six assists.

Getting To The Line

• Loyola took 46 free throws last Saturday at Bucknell, the most by a Greyhounds team since November 2011 when it had the same number at UMBC. The 46 are tied for sixth-most in school history.
• Overall, Loyola has gone to the line 506 times this season, good for 15th in the NCAA.

Sidelined

• Since the Patriot League opener on January 2, Loyola has missed at least four players and as many as six in its last seven games. The Greyhounds were missing six players due to injury on January 11 against Lafayette, including its top-two scorers – Andrew Kostecka and Cam Spencer. While Kostecka missed just one full game, Spencer has now been out eight-straight.
• Overall, Loyola players have missed 75 games this season due to injury or illness.

Elite Company

• Andrew Kostecka scored 32 points January 22 against American, the eighth time in the last two years he has reached or exceeded 30 points in a game.
• Since the 2010-11 season, only one Patriot League player has scored 30-plus on more occasions; NBA All-Star C.J. McCollum hit that mark 15 times while he was a player at Lehigh. No one else in the League has done it more than five times. (h/t sports-reference.com)
• As a team, Loyola has had 16 occurrences of a player scoring 30 or more points, 14 of those coming since the Greyhounds joined the Patriot League in 2013-14. The 14 times are more than any other Patriot League team except Lehigh.

One And Only

• Andrew Kostecka does a lot of everything for the Greyhounds, and it is reflected in his statistics. He is the only player in NCAA Division I (through games of January 30) who is averaging 20 points, five rebounds (5.0), two steals, two assists (2.5) and half a block (0.8) per game this year.
• This year, Kostecka is 13th in Division I in points per game (21.1), 35th in steals (2.1), 20th in field goals made (155) and 15th in total points (444).

Rounding Into Form

• Jaylin Andrews finished the 2019-20 season by earning Patriot League All-Rookie honors after averaging 8.8 points in conference play. He averaged 12.2 points over Loyola's last five of the season with three games of 12 points or more.
• Andrews had a slow start to the 2019-20 season, averaging just 5.2 points in Loyola's 13 non-conference games, shooting 31.9 percent from the field and 20.9 from 3-point range. Since Patriot League games have started, though, Andrews is averaging 10.7 points while shooting 40.3 percent overall.
• Andrews registered back-to-back season-high scoring numbers in Loyola's two games at Army West Point and versus American, tallying 15 on at the Black Knights before dropping a career-best 25 versus the Eagles. In those games, he has shot 59.1 percent from the field and 36.4 percent from 3-point range; he also had 17 rebounds and four steals in the games.

Stepping Up Scoring

• With injuries up and down the Greyhounds lineup since the start of Patriot League games, Isaiah Hart has increased his scoring output by five points per game. He tied KaVaughn Scott for team-high honors with 17 points at Colgate and then scored a to-date season-high 21 points versus Lafayette, making a career-best four 3-pointers.
• In nine Patriot League games this year, Hart has averaged 12.6 points, up from 6.6 he was averaging in non-conference games. He has played 45 career Patriot League regular-season games and has averaged 11.8 points over those contests. He also has a 9.9 overall career scoring average with 841 total points.

Make It A Double

• Two Loyola players recorded double-doubles January 18 at Army West Point as Jaylin Andrews had a season-best 15 points and a career-high 10 rebounds, while KaVaughn Scott logged 12 and 10.
• The pair was the first Loyola duo since the 2016-2017 season to post double-doubles in the same game. Cam Gregory and Jarred Jones did it twice that year.
• The double-double was the first of Andrews' career and the second for Scott.

Golden's First Double-Double

• Golden Dike re-entered the starting lineup at Lehigh for an injured KaVaughn Scott and logged his first career double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds. He then had his fourth game this season with 10 or more points on January 13 against Boston University, making 5 of 8 shots to score 11 in only 19 minutes.
• The Spanish freshman now leads the Greyhounds with 5.2 rebounds per game, while he is averaging 7.0 points per game. He is second amongst qualified Patriot League freshmen in rebounds per game and third in points.

Moving Up The Charts

• Andrew Kostecka had three steals on Jan. 2 against Holy Cross, moving him past former teammate Andre Walker (2014-18) for second all-time at Loyola. Now with 210, he trails only Jason Rowe (1996-2000) who is the Greyhounds' all-time record-holder with 273. Kostecka is also ninth all-time in the Patriot League in the category.
• Kostecka, a senior from Germantown, Maryland, is also climbing the school and Patriot League all-time scoring charts. Against American, Kostecka scored 32 points to pass Mike Powell (1,580, 1995-98) and reach ninth in school history in points (now 1,619). With 40 points, he will tie Dylon Cormier (1,659, 2010-14) for eighth. Kostecka is 21st in Patriot League history.

Dishing It Out

• Loyola has posted 20 or more assists five times this year through 21 games, making it nine times since Tavaras Hardy took over as head coach in 2018-19 the Greyhounds have had 20-plus. In the eight years prior to Hardy's arrival, the Greyhounds had 20 or more assists just three times and only twice against NCAA Division I teams.
• Last year, Loyola averaged 14.0 assists, up from 11.9 in 2017-2018. This season, it is averaging 16.1, a mark that ranks 22nd in NCAA Division I, while its 354 total dimes are 14th
• Of the Greyhounds' 542 made field goals this year, 61.8 percent of them have been assisted. According to kenpom.com, that percentage is 14th-best in the nation. As recently as two years ago, Loyola ranked 332nd nationally in assist percentage.

30 Last Decade

• Andrew Kostecka's 30-point performance against VCU marked the 15th time since 2010 that a Loyola player scored 30 or more in a game. Kostecka did it six times, more than any other player. Andre Walker scored 30 or more four times, Dylon Cormier did it three times and Erik Etherly accomplished it once.

And, 30 This Decade

• Kostecka also had the first 30-point performance of the 2020s, finishing with 37 on January 2 against Holy Cross. After scoring 32 against American on January 22, he has four games this season with 30-plus and eight in his career.

Shooting Numbers

• The Greyhounds' offense is trending positively in many metrics this season. Two years ago, the Greyhounds were 305th in effective field-goal percentage, and they now rank 46th (52.8) in the category that weights 3-pointers more significantly.
• Loyola has made 54.6 percent of its 2-point field goal attempts this year, good for 20th nationally (h/t kenpom.com).

From Downtown

• Kenneth Jones knocked down all five of his 3-point attempts against Fairfield en route to scoring a to-date career-high 19 points in the overtime win against the Stags, tying for the third-best performance in school history.
• Through 20 games, Jones is 33 of 75 from 3-point range and is first in the Patriot League with a .440 percentage from behind the arc among qualified players (minimum 1.5 made per game).

KaVaughn Converting

• KaVaughn Scott averaged 9.6 points over a seven-game stretch from November 25-December 27, a span that included three 14-point efforts against IUPUI, Binghamton and Delaware State, and a 13-point game versus UMass Lowell. During the stretch, he made 28 of 45 shots (62.2 percent).
• In games at Colgate and against Lafayette, Scott averaged 13.0 points per game with a season-high 17 coming against the Raiders. Overall, in Patriot League games, he's averaging 10.1 points to raise his season average to 8.6. He is also averaging 6.3 rebounds in the league.
• Off the court, Scott has stepped into a leadership role in several areas. He serves as the co-president of Loyola's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, and he is also a member of the school's Green & Grey Society, a group of 14 seniors selected to represent their peers with the university president and administration.

Season For The Books

• Andrew Kostecka had one of the most statistically prolific seasons in Loyola men's basketball history last year when he averaged 21.3 points, scoring 682 in 32 contests. His 682 points were second in program history behind only Andre Collins' 2005-06 total of 731 which is the school record. 
• The All-Patriot League First Team and All-Defensive Team honoree's 152 free throws made were eighth in single-season history, and Kostecka's 85 steals were good for third and are the most since Jason Rowe set the school record with 95 in 1998-99.

Think Globally, Not Just Locally

• Not only did Andrew Kostecka's statistics and play resonate at Loyola, but his 2018-19 campaign stacked up against some of the best in nation.
• He was the only player in NCAA Division I to average 21 points or more and 2.5 steals or more per game last year, and he was also one of only four players – Duke's Zion Williamson, St. John's Shamorie Ponds and Louisiana Monroe's Daishon Smith – to average 20 or more points and two or more steals. Throw in blocked shots, and he was the only player to average 21 or more points, 2.5 steals and 0.9 blocks.
• Overall, he finished eighth nationally in steals per game, 11th in total steals, 27th in points per game, 30th in field goals made and 36th in total points.

In The Patriot League, Too

• In the history of the Patriot League, only two players have averaged 20+ points, 4.5+ rebounds, 2.0+ steals and 2.0+ assists. NBA All-Star C.J. McCollum did it for Lehigh University in both 2010-11 and 2011-12, and Andrew Kostecka did so in 2018-19 and is on pace to do it again this year.

Graduation Success

• Loyola University Maryland tied for the fourth-highest overall Graduate Success Rate (GSR) in the NCAA report released in October, highlighting the Greyhounds success in the classroom. Loyola had a 97 percent GSR marking the sixth time the Greyhounds have had a GSR of 97 or better. Loyola has ranked in the top-25 of the GSR in all 15 years since the report's inception.
• Loyola's basketball program was one of two in the State of Maryland that had a NCAA Graduation Success Rate of 100 percent for the most-recent report.

Up Next

• Loyola heads back to Massachusetts for its next game, a Wednesday, February 5, tilt at College of the Holy Cross.