Game Information
Opponent	Navy Midshipmen
Game Notes	Loyola
Date	Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Time	7:00 p.m.
Location	Baltimore, Md. | Reitz Arena
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Quick Hits About The Hounds

• The Loyola University Maryland men's basketball team opens a stretch of three out of four games at home when it hosts the U.S. Naval Academy on Wednesday, February 21, in Reitz Arena.
• The contest is slated for 2 p.m. and will stream live on ESPN+.
• Golden Dike leads the Patriot League in field-goal percentage this season, shooting 56.8 percent from the field (92 of 162) through 27 games.
• Dike is also second in the conference in rebounds per game (7.9).
• Deon Perry tops the Greyhounds with a 17.4 points per game average, a mark that also leads the Patriot League this year. His 21.5 points per game through 14 conference games thus far tops the League, too.
• Perry has now played in 32 Patriot League regular-season games and is averaging 17.1 points in those contests (546 total).
• Perry is averaging 23.3 points per game in Loyola last nine outings, scoring 21 or more points in seven of those games.
• Jordan Stiemke has started each of the last five 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-Navy game will stream live on ESPN+.

Series History Versus Navy

• Loyola and Navy will meet for the 37th time in series history on Saturday and the 24th time since Loyola joined the Patriot League for the 2013-14 season.
• The Midshipmen hold a 34-12 all-time lead in the series after Loyola took a 74-70 decision on January 27 in Annapolis, Maryland.
• Deon Perry scored 30 points in the game, and Garrett Brennan added a career-high 15 points in his first collegiate start, in the game last month.
• Loyola outrebounded the Midshipmen, 41-25, as Alonso Faure had nine, Milos Ilic finished with eight and Perry grabbed a career-high seven.
• Navy has won seven of the last 10 games between the teams with the outliers being Loyola's win this year, last year and in the 2021 Patriot League Championships Quarterfinals.

Last Time Out

• Deon Perry scored a career-high 33 points on Saturday afternoon, but Lehigh held off the visiting Greyhounds for a 75-70 Patriot League victory at Stabler Arena.
• Alonso Faure added third double-double of the season, and sixth of his career, with 13 points and a season-best 12 rebounds.
• Perry's 33 eclipsed his previous high of 30 in games earlier this year at Army West Point and Navy.
• Lehigh built the largest lead for either team with 10:39 to play in regulation when Tyler Whitney-Sydney made two free throws to put the Mountain Hawks up eight, 54-46.
• A Tyson Commander layup and back-to-back dunks by Faure brought the Greyhounds to within four just over a minute later. Perry would put Loyola back in front, 66-65, with a jumper at 3:04, but Cam Gillus hit a right-corner three for the Mountain Hawks 24 ticks of the clock later, and Lehigh led by two.
• Dominic Parolin made a pair of free throws with 1:02 on the clock, and Whitney-Sydney converted three of his four attempts from the charity stripe in the final minute to help seal the Lehigh win.
• Whitney-Sydney had 16 points, while Parolin added 15.
• Golden Dike made 7 of 11 shots for the Greyhounds and finished with 14 points. Perry also had four assists and three steals for Loyola.

Perry Pushes Past 30

• Deon Perry had set a career-high of 30 points in a pair of road games this year, scoring that total at Army West Point, but he moved his best higher on February 17 at Lehigh when he scored 33.
• Perry became the first player in the Patriot League this year and the 33rd in NCAA Division I to have three games with 30 points or more in a game. Perry's games with 30 or more points are three of the 11 Loyola men's basketball players have posted in Patriot League contests since joining the conference in 2013-14.
• Perry is the third Loyola player to post 30 or more points three times in a season in the last decade, joining Andrew Kostecka (4 each in 2018-19 and 2019-20) and Santi Aldama (2020-21).

Conference Boards

• Loyola has been the best rebounding team, statistically speaking, in the Patriot League during conference play, posting a plus-4.0 rebounding margin that is a full rebound higher than American's second place plus-2.8.
• Three Loyola players – Golden Dike (6.3), Alonso Faure (5.8) and Milos Ilic (5.1) – are averaging more than five rebounds per game in League play.
• The Greyhounds have outrebounded their opponents in 11 of 14 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 five games, Stiemke is shooting 47.1 percent (16 of 34) from the field, and he is 8 of 16 (50 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.

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 16

• Deon Perry has increased his scoring output over the last 16 games – including 10 games of 20 or more and three games with 30-plus – to average of 21.1 over the stretch.
• The 2022-23 Patriot League All-Rookie guard has shot 38.1 percent from 3-point range during the 16 games, averaging 3.2 made threes per game.
• Prior to the last 16 games, Perry was 22 of 76 from 3-point range (28.9 percent) in the season's first 11 games.
• The 16 games have boosted his scoring average by almost four points to 17.4, and he now leads the Patriot League in scoring and free-throw percentage (90.7 percent)
• Perry has raised his career mark to 14.1 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 846. 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 846 boards. Army West Point's Matt Wilson (2016-20) is ninth with 852.

Twenty Or More For Deon

• Deon Perry's 33-point effort at Lehigh marked the 17th time in his 60 collegiate games that he has scored 20 or more. Three-pointers have been the spark to Perry's 20-point games. He has shot 67 of 152 from 3-point range in those 16 games, good for 44.1 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 147 3-pointers in his 60 career games at Loyola and is tied for ninth in school history with Andrew Kostecka (2016-20). 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 387 attempts, and his 38.0 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 27 games, he leads the Patriot League in shooting percentage at .568 (92 of 162).
• 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 Lehigh game. 
• His four games with 14 or more points, through 27 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 53.4 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 plays its final road game of the regular-season on Sunday, February 25, when it heads to Boston University for a 2 p.m. game.
• The Greyhounds return to Reitz Arena for games against Bucknell University on Wednesday, February 28, and the U.S. Military Academy on Saturday, March 2.