BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – Loyola University Maryland used a 15-5 run over the game's last six minutes, and the Greyhounds held Fairfield University to 1 of 10 from the field during the stretch, to rally for a 75-70 non-conference victory over its former conference rival at Webster Bank Arena at Harbor Yard.
 
A layup by T.J Long with 6:19 left in regulation gave the Stags (3-3 overall) a 65-60 lead, but that was the last field goal the Greyhounds would yield until Long made a three with just over 20 seconds to play.
 
Wade Jackson made a pair of free throws 17 seconds after Long's layup to start the run that would put Loyola back on top. Jaylin Andrews had a free-throw line jumper rattle at 5:24, and Golden Dike converted at the rim 40 seconds later to give Loyola its first lead since the final three minutes of the first half.
 
Neither Loyola, nor Fairfield scored for more than two minutes until Cam Spencer dropped a pass to Kenneth Jones on the right side, and Jones drained a three at 2:28 to make it a four-point Greyhounds lead, 69-65.
 
Spencer scored a team-high 20 points and had three assists, while Jones went for a season-best 16 to go with a team-high five assists.
 
The Stags made a pair at the free-throw line with 2:04 showing, and it was back to a two-point lead, but five seconds later Jones took a long outlet pass and threw to Dike for a transition dunk.
 
Dike scored a season-high 10 points and led Loyola with seven rebounds.
 
The teams traded empty possessions after Dike's dunk before Jackson ripped a steal away from the Stags, and Spencer was fouled. He made both free throws to push the lead to six, and after a Stags turnover, Fairfield called timeout with 33 ticks on the clock.
 
Coming out of the timeout, the Greyhounds had a sideline out-of-bounds deep on the Fairfield side of the court, but Jackson threw over the top of the defense to Jones running toward the Greyhounds' basket. Jones collected the ball for a layup to extend the lead to 75-67.
 
Long made a three with 22 seconds left, the Stags' first field goal since there were more than six minutes of the clock, but Fairfield could not draw closer.
 
Jaylin Andrews scored eight points for Loyola, and David Brown III had seven in his starting debut.
 
Loyola shot a season-best 55.6 percent from the field, and it made 9 of 17 from 3-point range.
 
The Greyhounds jumped out to a 14-7 lead as Jones and Andrews hit threes, and Dike and Spencer each scored four, in the first four minutes. They led much of the first half before Fairfield used a 10-0 run to lead 41-33 at halftime.
 
Fairfield shot 50 percent from the field in the game, but the Greyhounds held the Stags two leading scorers, Jake Wojcik (13.6 points) and Taj Benning (13.4), to a combined nine points on 4 of 17 shooting.
 
Loyola returns to Reitz Arena for its next two games, starting with a 7 p.m. tilt on Wednesday, December 1, against Chicago State University.