Game Information
Opponent	Lehigh Mountain Hawks
Game Notes	Loyola
Date	Saturday, February 17, 2024
Time	2:00 p.m.
Location	Bethlehem, Pa. | Stabler Arena
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Quick Hits About The Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland men's basketball returns to the Lehigh Valley for its second game in the area in four days when it heads to Lehigh University for a Saturday, February 17, game.
• The contest is slated for 2 p.m. and will stream live on ESPN+.
• Golden Dike is second in the Patriot League in field-goal percentage this season, shooting 56.3 percent from the field (85 of 151) through 26 games.
• Dike is also second in the conference in rebounds per game (7.0).
• Deon Perry tops the Greyhounds with a 16.6 points per game average, a mark that also leads the Patriot League this year. His 20.5 points per game through 13 conference games thus far tops the League, too.
• Perry has now played in 31 Patriot League regular-season games and is averaging 16.4 points in those contests (513 total).
• Perry is averaging 22.1 points per game in Loyola last eight outings, scoring at least 15 in each of those contests.
• Jordan Stiemke has started each of the last four games for the Greyhounds and has seen his production increase exponentially. He has scored career-highs in the last two games with 18 coming in the February 14 game at Lafayette.

Watch The Action

• The Loyola-Lehigh game will stream live on ESPN+.

Series History Versus Lehigh

• Loyola and Lehigh will meet for the 31st time in series history and the 22nd time since the Greyhounds joined the Patriot League in 2013-14.
• The Greyhounds have won three of the last five against Lehigh, but the Mountain Hawks took this year's first meeting, 88-76, in Baltimore on January 6.
• Last year, 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.
• The teams have evenly split the 30 games in the series with each winning 15. Loyola has a 7-6 advantage in games played in Bethlehem.

Last Time Out

• Golden Dike scored a career-high 21 points, and Deon Perry added a game-high 22, as a depleted Loyola topped Lafayette, 79-64, on the road at the Kirby Sports Center Wednesday night.
• The Greyhounds opened the game with only six scholarship players against the Leopards who entered as the second-place team in the Patriot League.
• Led by Perry and Dike, four Greyhounds scored 11 or more points. Jordan Stiemke logged a career-high for the second game in a row, going 6 of 11 from the field, 3 of 5 from 3-point range, to finish with 18 points.
• Tyson Commander scored 11 points with his last three coming in the final three minutes on free throws to help secure the win.
• Dike had his eighth career double-double with a game-high 13 rebounds. The 21 points eclipsed his previous best of 18 that came in his fourth career game. He had 18 on November 17, 2019, against Fairfield.
• Loyola took a double-digit lead less than eight minutes into the game after Perry came up with a steal and hit a 3-pointer in transition. 
• Lafayette pulled within five on a basket with 7:10 left in the first half, but the Greyhounds did not allow it to draw closer. Perry made a three with 2:37 remaining in the half, and then Stiemke connected on a three at 1:06 to make it a 31-17 lead. 
• Dike scored in the paint with 22 ticks on the clock, and the Greyhounds denied Lafayette a basket before the halftime horn to lead 33-17 at the break.
• Stiemke scored the first five points of the second half, wrapped around a Lafayette basket by Devin Hines, and Loyola's lead was 19, 38-19.
• The Greyhounds held a lead of 11 or more for the majority of the half until Lafayette's Eric Sondberg made a three at 2:10 to cut the gap to eight, 69-61.
• Stiemke made three free throws over the next 50 seconds, however, as Loyola was 9 of 10 from the line in the final two minutes to secure the win.
• Loyola had a 40-30 advantage on the glass. After Dike's 13, Stiemke had a career-high eight, and David Brown III grabbed seven.

Conference Boards

• Loyola has been the best rebounding team, statistically speaking, in the Patriot League during conference play, posting a plus-4.2 rebounding margin that is a full rebound higher than Colgate's second place plus-3.2.
• Three Loyola players – Golden Dike (5.4), Alonso Faure (5.4) and Milos Ilic (5.1) – are averaging more than five rebounds per game in League play.
• The Greyhounds have outrebounded their opponents in 10 of 13 Patriot League contests to date.

Stiemke Spark

• Jordan Stiemke drew his first starting assignment for Loyola on February 3 against Holy Cross and scored five points in 17 minutes of action. He then upped his playing time to 25 minutes on February 7 at American, converting a layup and free throw for the game-winning points while finishing with six points and six rebounds.
• He then saw 32 minutes of action against Colgate on February 10, scoring 12 points for career-highs in both categories. The freshman from Bel Air, Maryland, came up with another career high four days later at Lafayette, going for 18 points in 38 minutes of action.
• As a starter in four games, Stiemke is shooting 51.7 percent (15 of 29) from the field, and he is 7 of 15 (46.6 percent) from behind the arc.

A Golden Career High

• Golden Dike logged a career-high 21 points on Valentine's Night at Lafayette, eclipsing his previous best of 18 which had stood for the last 132 games he'd played.
• Dike scored 18 points on February 17, 2019, against Fairfield in his fourth career game, but he had not gotten past that mark since.

A Win Is A Win

• Loyola's victory at American on February 7 came with some interesting statistics based on the low scoring numbers.
• Loyola's winning total of 44 points is the lowest for a victorious team in NCAA Division I by four points this year. Three teams – Eastern Illinois (48-46 vs. Coppin State), Southeastern Louisiana (48-47 vs. Grambling) and Seattle (48-46 vs. California Baptist – have won with only 48 points in 2023-24.
• Loyola shot 29.4 percent from the field, the fifth-lowest winning mark in Division I this season and the lowest by a Patriot League team.
• The 44 points were the lowest total in a Loyola win since the Greyhounds beat Marist, 43-41, on February 23, 1984.

Notes On 30

• Deon Perry scored 30 against Navy on January 27, marking the second time this season he has reached that mark. He is one of 90 players in NCAA Division I to score 30 twice this season (per Sports Reference), and he is the only Patriot League player to turn the feat.
• His first 30-point effort came on January 10 at Army West Point and set his career high that he tied at Navy.
• Perry is the fifth Loyola player to post 30 or more points twice in a season in the last decade; he is the first since Santi Aldama did so three times in 2020-2021.

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 24 of 25 games  averaging 26.4 minutes, 7.7 points and 5.1 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 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.
• In Patriot League games, Ilic is third on the team in scoring (7.7 points per game) and second in rebounding (5.1).

Perry's Last 15

• Deon Perry has increased his scoring output over the last 15 games – including nine games of 20 or more with matching career-highs 30 coming at Army West Point and at Navy – to average of 20.3 over the stretch.
• The 2022-23 Patriot League All-Rookie guard has shot 39.2 percent from 3-point range during the 15 games, averaging 3.2 made threes per game.
• Prior to the last 15 games, Perry was 22 of 76 from 3-point range (28.9 percent) in the season's first 11 games.
• The 15 games have boosted his scoring average by more than two points to 16.6, and he now leads the Patriot League in scoring and free-throw percentage (90.0 percent)
• Perry has raised his career mark to 13.8 points.

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. 

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, and at Holy Cross, he became the fifth with 800 or more. At Lafayette on Valentine's Day, he grabbed 13 boards and moved past . Mark Rohde (1972-76) into fourth in school history with 841. Cam Gregory (2014-18) is third at Loyola with 871 rebounds.
• Dike has also risen the Patriot League's all-time charts and checks in 10th all-time with his 841 boards. Army West Point's Matt Wilson (2016-20) is ninth with 852.

Twenty Or More For Deon

• Deon Perry's 22-point effort at Lafayette marked the 16th time in his 59 collegiate games that he has scored 20 or more. Since 2011-12, five Loyola players have scored 20 or more points 16 or more times.
• Three-pointers have been the spark to Perry's 20-point games. He has shot 63 of 138 from 3-point range in those 15 games, good for 45.5 percent. In his other 41 games at Loyola, Perry is 78 of 223 (34.9 percent) from behind the arc.
• Loyola is 11-5 all-time when Perry scores 20 or more points.

On The 3-Point Charts

• Deon Perry has already made 143 3-pointers in his 59 career games at Loyola, good for 11th in school history. With three more from behind the arc, he'll move into the top-10 at Loyola in threes made, passing Tracy Bergan's 145 from 1989-94. Perry is currently 13th all-time with 373 attempts, and his 38.3 percent is 10th.

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 26 games, he is second in the Patriot League in shooting percentage at .563 (85 of 151).
• 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 Lafayette game. 
• His four games with 14 or more points, through 26 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.

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. Faure was two off his career-high with 16 points to go with 11 rebounds – for his third career double-double – at Holy Cross, and he is now averaging 7.0 points per game, and his field-goal percentage is 50.3 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 53.7 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 44 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.

Up Next

• Loyola returns to Baltimore and Reitz Arena to host the U.S. Naval Academy on Wednesday, February 21.