Quick Hits About The Hounds
- Loyola University Maryland men's basketball begins a set of two home games over three days on Saturday, January 13, 2024, in Reitz Arena.
- The Greyhounds will host Boston University in a game slated to start at 5 o'clock.
Watch The Action
- Saturday's game will stream live on ESPN+.
Series History Versus Boston University
- Loyola and Boston University will meet for the 25th time in series history and the 22nd time since the Greyhounds joined the Patriot League in 2013-14.
- The Terriers hold a 17-7 lead in the series after having won each of the last four games.
- Boston University took both decisions last year, winning 66-53, on January 21, 2023, in Baltimore before holding on for a 68-67 victory on February 4 on its home floor.
- The Greyhounds are 1-11 all-time in Boston, earning their only victory there in 2022.
Last Time Out
- Deon Perry topped the 20-point mark for the third game in a row, finishing with a career-high 30 on Wednesday night, and the Loyola picked up a road victory at Army West Point.
- Perry was 5 of 8 from the field and 9 of 10 from the free-throw line in the second half to score 20 after the break as Loyola overcame a 39-31 halftime deficit.
- The Greyhounds shot 60 percent (12 of 20) from the field after halftime and finished with a 52.2 percent (24 of 46) mark in the game. Just as importantly, Loyola held the Black Knights to 9 of 25 (36 percent) from the field after the break following a first half in which they made 15 of 25 shots (60 percent).
- Loyola got the eight-point Army West Point lead down to two, 41-39, with a Perry floater at 17:33, but Army West Point pushed its advantage back to five on three separate occasions.
- The Greyhounds had taken a 49-48 lead on a Milos Ilic dunk off a Perry baseline out-of-bounds pass, but T.J. Small responded with two threes on Army West Point's next two possessions, the second making it 54-49 Black Knights with 11:08 on the clock.
- Perry made two free throws on the ensuing Loyola possession, and he converted a Garrett Brennan steal into a driving layup on the next. Alonso Faure then put Loyola in front, 55-54, with a putback at the rim with 9:05 to play.
- Loyola would stretch its lead to seven, 64-57, when Stines drew a goaltending call against Army West Point with 4:44 left in regulation, but Ryan Curry brought the margin back to four with a three for the Black Knights.
- Perry scored for Loyola with a layup at 2:43, and the Greyhounds led 66-60, but Josh Scovens scored his first points of the game for Army West Point on a runner in the lane at 1:40, and Loyola's lead was trimmed to four.
- Army West Point had an shot to get with a possession as Curry got into the lane, but Golden Dike blocked his shot, and kept the Black Knights off the board.
- From there, David Brown III and Perry made sets of free throws around a missed Army West Point three, and after Blake Barker made a three for the Black Knights with 10 seconds left, Perry closed the game by making one of two with eight ticks left.
Perry's Last Five
- Deon Perry has increased his scoring output over the last five games, going for 19 against St. Mary's, 18 at St. Joseph's, 25 at Colgate, 22 against Lehigh and a to-date career-high 30 at Army West Point for an average of 22.8 over the stretch.
- The 2022-23 Patriot League All-Rookie guard has shot 51.2 percent from 3-point range during the stretch, averaging 4.2 made threes per game.
- Prior to the last five games, Perry was 22 of 76 from 3-point range (28.9 percent) in the season's first 11 games.
- The five games have boosted his scoring average by more than two points to 15.4. He is now second in the conference in points per game and sixth (3.4) in assists.
- Perry has raised his career mark to 12.7 points.
Lighting Up The League
- In three conference games, Deon Perry leads all Patriot League players in scoring by averaging 25.7 points per game.
- He has shot 57.1 percent (12 of 21) from 3-point range in those games, good for second in the conference among players averaging two or more made threes per game.
Back To The Line
- Part of Deon Perry's recent success can be attributed to getting back to the free throw line where he excels as a shooter. He was 11 of 12 on January 10 at Army, logging career highs in free throws made and attempted.
- Last year, Perry averaged 16.2 points per game over Loyola's last 16 outings, raising his season scoring average from 6.9 on January 9 to 11.4 by the end of the 2022-2023 season. He did so in part by getting tot he line 53 times during the last 16 games and making 49.
- This year, Perry had gone to the free-throw line just 27 times in Loyola's first 15 games, but after the Army game, he is tops int he conference with an 89.5 percent mark from the line, having made 34 of 38 this year.
Triple-Double Time
- Golden Dike logged the second triple-double in program history, and the first in almost 35 years, on January 6 against Lehigh when he scored 13, grabbed 11 rebounds and had 10 assists.
- His feat was the first for a men's basketball player at Loyola since Dave Wojcik turned in the first on February 4, 1989, during a home win over St. Francis (Pa.) with 14 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists.
- Dike, who had six career double doubles coming into the January 6 game, had a career-best 10 assists in the contest against the Mountain Hawks, eclipsing her previous high of eight. As of January 11, his triple-double is one of 20 in NCAA Division I this year. At 6-foot-10, Dike is tied with UNC Asheville's Drew Pembler as the tallest player to post one this season.
Top 5 On The Boards
- With his ninth and final rebound against Sacred Heart, Golden Dike moved into a tie for 10th all-time at Loyola with 690 rebounds, matching Bernard Allen's total from 2001-05.
- Against Missouri, he became the 10th player in school history to grab 700 or more rebounds in a career. Later, in the game at St. Joseph's, Dike's season-high 14 rebounds vaulted him from ninth in school history to fifth all-time where he sits entering the Boston University game with 787. Mark Rohde (1972-76) is fourth in school history with 836.
- Dike has also risen the Patriot League's all-time charts and checks in 14th all-time with his 775. Army's David Ardayfio is 13th with 788, and Bucknell's Zach Thomas is 12th with 796.
Twenty Or More For Deon
- Deon Perry's 30-point effort at Army marked the 10th time in his 49 collegiate games that he has scored 20 or more. It was also the second time he has scored 20 or more in three-straight games after also doing so during February 2023.
- Since 2011-12, 10 Loyola players have scored 20 or more points 10 or more times. The only player to have done so in fewer games is Santi Aldama who had 14 20-plus point games in 27 Loyola games before he was a first-round draft pick of the Memphis Grizzlies in the 2021 NBA Draft.
- Three-pointers have been the spark to Perry's 20-point games. He has shot 43 of 88 from 3-point range in those nine games, good for 48.6 percent. In his other 39 games at Loyola, Perry is 74 of 206 (35.6 percent) from behind the arc.
- Loyola is 8-2 all-time when Perry scores 20 or more points.
Record-Setting Performance
- Loyola's shooting against St. Mary's on December 22, 2023, was on point as the Greyhounds set a school record by making 71.7 percent of their shots from the field (33 of 46). The program's previous best mark of 70.5 percent (31 of 44) came in January 1978 against Lehigh.
- In the win over the Seahawks, Loyola made 21 of 27 (77.8 percent) of its 2-point field goals while shooting 63.2 percent (12 of 19) from 3-point range. Loyola was 11 of 11 on 2-point attempts in the second half and shot 88.9 percent (16 of 18) overall after the break.
Stines Scores Off The Bench
- D'Angelo Stines has been a solid second scorer for the Greyhounds this season behind Deon Perry, averaging 9.5 points though 16 games this year.
- Stines has scored 10 or more in nine of the Greyhounds' 16 outings.
- He is the first incoming transfer to play for Loyola since Tavaras Hardy has been the head coach (dating to 2018-19). After spending two years at Old Dominion, the Baltimore-area native joined the Loyola program this offseason.
- Stines played in 55 games over two seasons for the Monarchs, making six starts and averaging 12.1 minutes per game. He averaged 2.5 points per game in those two seasons.
- The product of Baltimore Catholic League power Mount St. Joseph's High School made his Loyola regular-season debut at Florida and finished with 13 points, hitting 3 of 7 from 3-point range and 5 of 12 overall. He also had three assists against the Gators in 25 minutes.
- Stines has scored 86 of his 152 points this season in the second half of the 15 games. He is shooting 38.3 percent from the field in the second half compared to 33.3 percent in the first. From behind the arc, his number goes from 27.2 to 40.9 after the break.
Golden Efficiency
- Golden Dike led the Greyhounds in scoring for just the third time in his career at Loyola when he scored 16 points at Florida in the season opener, doing so with efficient fashion.
- Dike made all five shots he took from the field and six of his eight free throws. He then scored 14 points on 7 of 12 shooting in the win at Brown, and he went 6 of 7 for 15 points at UMBC.
- Through Loyola's first 16 games, he leads the Patriot League in shooting percentage at .574 (54 of 94).
- He entered the season ranked second in school history in field-goal percentage at 55.9 percent, a mark is now at 56.2 after the Army game.
- His three games with 14 or more points, through 15 contests, are already more than he's had in any one of his previous seasons. He had two such games as a freshman, sophomore and senior, as well as a one during his junior season.
- Dike is in his fifth year at Loyola and pursuing his M.B.A. in the university's graduate studies program.
Building On His Return
- Milos Ilic missed the entirety of the 2022-23 season while rehabbing a knee injury suffered on January 25, 2022, at Lafayette. His return this season has seen him start all 15 games, averaging 24.9 minutes, 8.6 points and 4.7 rebounds per game.
- After opening with five points at Florida, Ilic has scored nine points at Brown and then 12 against both Binghamton and Sacred Heart. He had four rebounds in each of the first four games before grabbing nine against the Pioneers.
- He had his first collegiate double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds at La Salle, leading the team in rebounds with his first double-digit performance on the boards. He scored a season-high against another Atlantic 10 Conference opponent, registering 13 at St. Joseph's.
- Over the last six games – starting December 16 at George Mason – Ilic is second on the team with an 10.3 points per game average. During the stretch, he is shooting a team-high 59.0 percent from the field to bring his 2023-24 mark to 51.5 percent.
Faure Breaks Out
- Alonso Faure entered the November 25 game at Missouri averaging just 4.4 points per game while shooting 37 percent from the field, but the senior post player went 6 of 7 from the field against the Tigers, was the same from the free-throw line, and he had a game-high 18 points.
- The 18 points matched his career-high output He then led the Greyhounds with 16 points against Delaware State, and he had a team-best 14 at La Salle. He is now averaging 7.1 points per game, and his field-goal percentage is 51.1 percent.
- The native of Alicante, Spain, shot a team-best 58.1 percent from the field last year, making 115 of 198 shots to rank fifth in the conference in field-goal percentage; his 2-point field goal percentage was 63.6 percent (105 of 165). He has a career field-goal percentage of 54.2 percent that ranks fourth in school history.
The Spanish Affair
- Loyola took an eight-day, three-game trip to Spain during August that enabled the Greyhounds to play outside competition while spending time immersed in the culture of a foreign country.
- The Greyhounds visited the cities of Bilbao, Madrid and Alicante while also taking trips to San Sebastian and the town of Loyola, birthplace of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuit order which founded the university.
- On the court, the Greyhounds went 2-1 with a win over a junior team from Bilbao and a professional select group from Madrid. Valencia's juniors edged the Greyhounds by three in their final game. Note: the junior teams were comprised of college-age players in Spain.
- Tyson Commander led the Greyhounds with a 16.0 points per game average in Spain, while D'Angelo Stines put up 14.7 and Deon Perry averaged 12.0. Golden Dike and Alonso Faure both nearly averaged double-doubles with each averaging 9.3 points per game; the former posted 12.7 rebounds per game and the latter 10.3.
At The Next Level
- Former Loyola standout Santi Aldama (SAHN-tee ALL-dah-muh) has made a considerable impact in his second NBA season during 2022-23. Aldama, who played for the Greyhounds from 2018-2020, earning 2019 Patriot League All-Rookie honors and then 2020 All-Patriot League First Team recognition, was a first-round pick of the Memphis Grizzlies in the 2021 NBA Draft.
- After seeing action in 32 games as a rookie, averaged 9.0 points and 4.8 rebounds per game for the Grizzlies in 77 games played. In 29 games this season, Aldama is averaging 10.4 points and 5.5 rebounds per game. He led the Grizzlies with 24 points on November 14 against the Los Angeles Lakers, and he had a double-double with a career-high 28 points to go with 12 rebounds on November 19 against Boston. Aldama had his fourth double-double of the season, and second against San Antonio, with 13 points and 11 boards on January 2.
