Quick Hits About The Hounds
- Loyola University Maryland men's basketball makes its 2024 home debut on Saturday, January 6, when the Greyhounds host their first Patriot League game of the season.
- The Greyhounds will host Lehigh University in a game scheduled to tip-off at 5 p.m.
Watch The Action
- Saturday's game will stream live on ESPN+.
Series History Versus Lehigh
- Loyola and Lehigh will meet for the 30th time in series history and the 21st time since the Greyhounds joined the Patriot League in 2013-14.
- The Greyhounds have won three of the last four against Lehigh after the split the season series a year ago.
- Loyola won the rubber match, 91-82, as Deon Perry scored a to-date career-high 28 points in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Lehigh was a 74-70 winner on the Greyhounds' home floor in the first meeting of the season. The Greyhounds won both 2021-22 games.
- Lehigh has won eight of the 15 meetings between the teams in Baltimore.
Last Time Out
- After a first half that saw the lead change hands 12 times, Colgate started the second with a 23-2 run to build a 55-29 lead with less than 12 minutes to play in what would become a 78-55 victory over Loyola on Wednesday night in Hamilton, New York.
- Deon Perry scored a season- and game-high 25 points, making 9 of 18 field goals and 5 of 10 3-point attempts, to lead the Greyhounds. Perry's 25 were three shy of his career-high 28 from a year ago.
- Nicolas Louis-Jacques made a three for the Raiders 40 seconds into the second half, pushing the lead to 35-27, but Perry scored on a pull-up jumper on the Greyhounds' next possession.
- That was the last basket the Greyhounds would score, however, until he connected on a three with 11:36 left in regulation, ending a 20-0 stretch for Colgate.
- Louis-Jacques finished with 14 points for Colgate, and Braeden Smith scored 16 to lead the Raiders.
- Milos Ilic added nine points for Loyola, and Alonso Faure scored eight. D'Angelo Stines and Golden Dike each grabbed six rebounds for Loyola, and David Brown III had a career-best four assists.
Perry's Last Four
- Deon Perry has increased his scoring output over the last four games, going for 13 at George Mason, 19 against St. Mary's, 18 at St. Joseph's and 25 at Colgate for an average of 18.8 over the stretch.
- The 2022-23 Patriot League All-Rookie guard has shot 42.5 percent from 3-point range during the stretch,averaging 4.25 made threes per game.
- Prior to the last four games, Perry was 19 of 66 from 3-point range (28.7 percent)in the season's first nine games.
- The three games have boosted his scoring average by a point to 13.9.
- Perry is leading Loyola with a 13.9 points per game average this season to boost his career mark to 12.1 points. He is sixth in the Patriot League in points per game this season and assists (3.4).
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 Lehigh game with 764. 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 16th all-time with his 764. Colgate's Tucker Richardson (2018-23) is 15th with 783.
Twenty Or More For Deon
- Deon Perry's 25-point effort at Colgate marked the eighth time in his 47 collegiate games that he has scored 20 or more.
- Since 2011-12, 10 Loyola players have scored 20 or more points eight 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 36 of 77 from 3-point range in those eight games, good for 46.7 percent. In his other 39 games at Loyola, Perry is 74 of 206 (35.6 percent) from behind the arc.
- Loyola is 7-1 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.
Tops In The Nation This Year
- The Greyhounds' performance against St. Mary's, albeit against an NCAA Division III team, was significant in national rankings this year.
- Loyola is the only team to shoot better than 70 percent in a game this season.
- The Greyhounds are also the only team nationally to hold an opponent to fewer than 10 rebounds in a game as the Seahawks finished with nine (h/t Sports Reference).
Stines Scores Off The Bench
- D'Angelo Stines came off the bench for six games from December 2-29, and the junior guard scored 10 or more in four of those contests.
- Stines scored 12 against both La Salle and Mount St. Mary's, and he had 11 at George Mason before going for a career-high 18 against St. Mary's. This season, he has scored 10 or more points in eight of Loyola's 12 games.
- Stines 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 79 of his 136 points this season in the second half of the 14 games. He is shooting 38.2 percent from the field in the second half compared to 27.1 percent in the first. From behind the arc, his number goes from 29.4 to 41.5 after the break.
Shooting In The Second
- Loyola's shooting has been significantly better in the second half of games, going from 40.5 percent in the opening 20 minutes to 44.0 percent in the next 20.
- Scoring-wise, Deon Perry is averaging 7.6 in the second half of games and 6.1 in the first; D'Angelo Stines' scoring goes from 3.5 to 6.1.
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 14 games, he is second the Patriot League in shooting percentage at .571 (44 of 77).
- He entered the season ranked second in school history in field-goal percentage at 55.9 percent, a mark is now at 56.1 after the Colgate game.
- His three games with 14 or more points, through only seven 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.
- Last season, Dike had fewer than nine rebounds only once in the month of February, averaging 9.4 in that period to raise his season average to 6.7 per game, good for fourth in the Patriot League.
Consistent In 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 14 games, averaging 24.9 minutes, 7.9 points and 4.9 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.
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 7.4 points per game, and his field-goal percentage is 50 percent.
- Last season, Faure scored just nine points in his first two games of the year – DePaul and Brown – but he went for 18 in a November 17 game against Washington College. That sparked a five-game stretch in which he scored 60 points and averaged 12 per game.
- Later in the year, he averaged 13.8 points (69 total) in five games between February 11 at Lehigh and the regular-season finale on February 25 versus American.
- 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 54.3 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.
New Faces On The Sideline
- Three new voices have joined the men's basketball coaching staff and will be on the bench with Tavaras Hardy who is in his sixth season as Greyhounds' head coach.
- JerShon Cobb is back for his second year as an assistant coach with Loyola, and he is joined by two new-to-the-Greyhounds assistant coaches and a new director of operations.
- Mike Brennan is not a strange to Patriot League sidelines, but the 1994 graduate of Princeton is in his first season with Loyola. Brennan spent the last 10 seasons as head coach at American where he guided the Eagles to the 2014 NCAA Tournament. Coincidentally, Brennan was an assistant coach at Georgetown before taking the head coaching job at American in 2013-14, and Hardy replaced him on John Thompson III's staff with the Hoyas at that time.
- Matt Miller spent the last five seasons with as an assistant coach at Mount St. Mary's. He has nearly 20 years of experience as a collegiate and high school coach in the DMV area including as the head coach of St. Maria Goretti in the Baltimore Catholic League.
- Ricky Hernandez joined the staff as director of operations following five years on the bench as an assistant coach at nearby Johns Hopkins. He was a part of the 2023 Centennial Conference Coaching Staff of the Year as the Blue Jays reached the NCAA Sweet 16 for the first time since 2015 and tied a school record with 25 wins.
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, Aldama stepped into Memphis' starting lineup early last year at the four spot and is averaged 9.0 points and 4.8 rebounds per game for the Grizzlies in 77 games played. Aldama missed the first six games of the 2023-24 regular season before making his debut on November 5. In 27 games this season, Aldama is averaging 10.9 points and 5.7 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.
Up Next
- The Greyhounds head to Army West Point for a 6 p.m. game on Wednesday, January 10, 2024.
