BALTIMORE – Isaiah Hart scored a season-high 20 points, and Loyola University Maryland held visiting American University to 28.3 percent from the field as the Greyhounds scored a 60-49 Senior Night victory on Wednesday in Reitz Arena.
 
Prior to the game, the Greyhounds honored their six seniors – Brandon Bradsher, Luke Johnson, Hart, Brent Holcombe, Ethan Norton and manager Tristan Richardson – with the players' families joining the celebration via Zoom.
 
Loyola (4-8 overall, 1-3 Patriot League South Division) led nearly the entire game, taking a six-point lead on a Santi Aldama basket in the paint 7:45 into the contest.
 
The Eagles (2-5, 2-5), however, took a 27-25 lead with 25 ticks left in the first half on Ben Lubarsky's second 3-pointer of the stanza. Aldama, however, was fouled with less than three seconds to go in the half, and he made both free throws to knot the game at 27-27 going into the break.
 
Those free throws started a 20-3 run that would span both halves and see the Greyhounds go up 45-30 with 11:38 left in regulation on two Luke Johnson free throws. Hart scored six during the run, and Aldama had seven of his 13 points as he had his seventh double-double in nine games, adding a game-high 10 rebounds.
 
After Johnson's free throws, American would score seven-straight points to get within 45-37 on a Jamir Harris three at 9:45, but jumpers on back-to-back possessions by Hart pushed the Loyola advantage back to double-digits for the rest of the game.
 
American's 28.3-percent from the field was the lowest field-goal percentage by an Eagles team since they shot 23.7-percent in a November 9, 2012, game at the University of Minnesota.
 
The Greyhounds yielded just 15 made field goals, and they forced 18 American turnovers in the game.
 
Meanwhile, Loyola recovered from a poor-shooting first half in which it shot 29.4-percent to shoot 50-percent (13 of 26) from the floor in the second. The Greyhounds also had only nine turnovers in the game.
 
In addition to Hart's 20 and Aldama's double-double, Johnson had eight points, and Alonso Faure added seven off the bench. Jaylin Andrews grabbed nine rebounds, while Johnson, Faure and Golden Dike each had five.
 
Aldama also blocked three shots, had two assists and two steals.
 
Loyola continues Patriot League South Division play on Saturday, February 27, when it hosts the United States Naval Academy at 12 p.m. in Reitz Arena.