Game Information
Opponent	Lafayette Leopards | Patriot League First Round
Game Notes	Loyola
Date	Saturday, March 5, 2022
Time	12:00 p.m.
Location	Easton, Pa. | Kirby Sports Center
Directions	Click Here | Spectator Information
Watch	ESPN+ | International Video Stream
Online Media	Live Stats

The Matchup

• Loyola University Maryland women's basketball opens the 2022 Patriot LEague Championships this weekend when it travels to Easton, Pennsylvania, for a game at Lafayette College on Saturday, March 3.
• The game will stream live on ESPN+ from the Kirby Sports Center starting at 2 p.m.

Last Time Out

• Sabria Hunter totaled 14 points and 10 rebounds, leading four Army West Point players in double figures during a 63-55 victory over Loyola on Wednesday.
• Lex Therien and Bri Rozzi contributed 12 points each to pace the Greyhounds, who ended the game on runs of 16-3 and 12-0 but ran out of time to complete the comeback.
• Devyne Newman scored all of her seven points in the opening half for the Loyola, the last of which came on a 3-pointer which reduced the visitors' deficit to 16-15 midway through the second quarter. Army, though, ended the frame on a 12-2 run to take a double-digit lead of 28-17 into the intermission.
• That advantage would grow to as large as 60-39 midway through the fourth prior to the Greyhounds' late offensive surge. Kamryn Hall and Natalie Rhine supplied 11 points apiece for the Black Knights, who will enter the conference tournament as the No. 6 seed.
• Therien's 12 points came on 5 for 5 shooting from the floor, as she reached double figures for a 13th time in conference play and a 20th time overall during her debut season. The six-time Patriot League Rookie of the Week also grabbed a team-high six rebounds, and her three steals were tied with Newman for the team lead.
• Emily McAteer added a season-best nine points to go along with four rebounds in 22 minutes off the bench. She additionally recorded one of Loyola's season-high five blocks in the contest.
• Rozzi scored 10+ points for an eighth time on the year, as she hit 5 of 10 shot attempts while chipping in three rebounds and three assists.

Championships History

• Loyola will make its ninth appearance in the Patriot League Championships, starting on Saturday at Lafayette (the Greyhounds joined the conference in 2013-14).
• Overall, Loyola is 4-8 all-time in Patriot League Championships games, and the Greyhounds are 2-2 in the first round.
• Saturday will be the Greyhounds first meeting with Lafayette in the league tournament.
• Loyola's best showing in the Patriot League Championships came in 2015-16 when the third-seeded Greyhounds advanced to the title game.

• Lex Therien was named the Patriot League Rookie of the Year on Friday by a vote of the conference's coaches. She also garnered spots on the All-Patriot League Second Team and the Patriot League All-Rookie Team..
• Therien topped all conference first-year players in points (12.6) and rebounds (10.9) per game
• She is both the second Loyola player and second member of her immediate family to earn Patriot League Rookie of the Year honors. She was preceded in both categories by her older sister, Isabella, who won the award in 2017-18.

• Freshman Lex Therien is climbing the Loyola single-season leader charts with her strong rebounding this season. Therien now has 306 boards this season, good for second in school single-season history. Stephanie Karcz holds the school record of 317 rebounds in a season.
• Therien leads the Patriot League with 10.9 rebounds per game, an average that would be a new school record in front of the mark of 10.6 set in 2017-2018 by Karcz.

• Loyola's Lex Therien was named the Patriot League Rookie of the Year for the sixth time this season in a span of 16 weeks. She posted eight points and tied her career-high with 17 rebounds Wednesday night as the Greyhounds downed Navy. Therien then made 7 of 8 shots from the field and scored 14 points while grabbing 14 rebounds Saturday afternoon versus American.
• Entering this season, Loyola players had earned 15 Rookie of the Week Awards since the Greyhounds joined the Patriot League in 2013-14, a total that is up to 22 with Therien's six and Laura Salmerón's one earlier this year. Five of the previous awards were bestowed upon Therien's older sister, Isabella, the 2017-18 conference Rookie of the Year.
• Therien has received the award more than all but six players in Patriot League history, and her six Rookie of the Week honors are the most since Bucknell's Claire DeBoer earned the recognition eight times during the 2013-14 season.

• Lex Therien became one of 20 players in NCAA Division I this season to have 23 or more points and 17 or more rebounds in a game, per HerHoopStats.com, when she posted those numbers at Colgate on February 12.
• Furthermore, she is the only Patriot League freshman to post those kind of single-game numbers since at least 2009-10 (dating back to the start of HerHoopStats.com's database).

• Lex Therien has made an immediate impact in her debut season, and she now leads the Greyhounds in both points (12.6) and rebounds (10.9) per game.
• Her 10.9 rebounds per game lead the Patriot League and are No. 18 in NCAA Division I this season. She also ranks No. 2 amongst freshmen nationally in rebounds per game, trailing only DePaul's Aneesah Morrow (14.0).
• Per HerHoopStats.com, Therien and Morrow are the only two freshmen in Division I averaging a double-double this season, and they are two of 36 players of all years to do so.
• Looking at HerHoopStats.com's advanced metrics, Therien ranks sixth out of 3,356 players in Division I in defensive rebounding rate. She has grabbed 31.2 percent of available defensive rebounds this season. Her total rebound rate is No. 13 in Division I. Therien is first in the Patriot League in both categories.
• Therien has grabbed 6 or more rebounds in all but one contest this season, and she has 10 or more in 20 of 28 games. She has scored 10 or more points in 20 of 28 , as well.
• She has 14 double-doubles this season, good for 19th in DIvision I. Twelve of those have come in Patriot League games.

• Devyne Newman was in the Greyhounds starting five for the first time since January 17 against Army West Point, and the senior responded with her best statistical output of the season.
• Newman went 4 of 8 from the field and finished with a then-season-high 11 points in 25 minutes of action. She also grabbed seven rebounds, one off her previous season-best.
• Newman has continued her solid play as a starter, averaging 8.8 points over the last nine games. She scored a season-high 15 points on 7 of 11 shooting on February 19 at Lehigh and followed it with 14 on February 23 versus Navy and 11 against American.

• Taleah Dixon's 10.7 points per game are second on Loyola and rank 13th overall in the Patriot League. Dixon scored a season-high 23 points in a Dec. 4 win over Mount St. Mary's.
• In the Greyhounds' last 11 games, Dixon is playing her best since a stretch in late November-early December. With 120 points over the last 11, she is averaging 10.9 points to go with 3.2 assists per game.
• Her averages of 10.7 points, 2.6 assists and 1.3 steals per game this season are career highs for Dixon.
• Dixon also paces the Greyhounds in free throw percentage (87.3, 62-71). She is second among Patriot League shooters.
• Dixon is one of three team captains for Loyola this season, along with Laryn Edwards and Bri Rozzi.

• The Greyhounds got a boost to their rotation on February 2 against Army West Point when Laryn Edwards returned to the lineup after missing the previous 11 games with an injury.
• Edwards saw 13 minutes of action against the Black Knights, her first since December 4 against Mount St. Mary's, and she finished with two points and two steals. She scored six points and grabbed a season-high six boards against Holy Cross. Edwards later scored a season-high 11 against American on February 26.
• Over her career, Edwards has played in 64 games, starting 40, and has averaged 4.4 points and 1.8 assists per game.