Quick Hits About The Hounds
- Loyola University Maryland men's basketball returns to Reitz Arena for its second-straight Saturday home game. The Greyhounds will host Colgate University on February 10.
- Tip-off is slated for 5:00 p.m. in a game that will stream live on ESPN+.
- Golden Dike leads the Patriot League in field-goal percentage this season, shooting 57.8 percent from the field (74 of 128) through 24 games.
- Dike is second in the conference in rebounds per game (6.8).
- Deon Perry tops the Greyhounds with a 16.7 points per game average, a mark that is tied for tops in the Patriot League this year. His 21.0 points per game through 11 conference games thus far tops the League.
- Perry has now played in 29 Patriot League regular-season games and is averaging 16.4 points in those contests (476 total).
- Perry is averaging 23.3 points per game in Loyola last six outings, scoring at least 18 in each of those contests.
- Milos Ilic has raised his scoring average from 7.2 points per game after a December 16 contest at George Mason to its current point of 7.7. Over the 13-game stretch, Ilic is second on the team with an 8.8 points per game mark.
Watch The Action
- The Loyola-Colgate game will stream live on ESPN+.
Series History Versus Colgate
- Loyola and Colgate will meet for the 24th time in series history on Saturday, the 22nd time since Loyola joined the Patriot League prior to the 2013-14 season.
- The Raiders lead the series 17-6 and have taken the last seven dating back to the 2021 Patriot League Championship Game.
- Colgate won both regular-season meetings last year, posting a 101-67 win on December 30 in Baltimore and a 76-63 victory on January 30 in Hamilton, N.Y. The Raiders then won a 92-73 decision on March 2, 2023, in the Patriot League Quarterfinals.
- Earlier this year, the lead changed hands 12 times in the first half, but then Colgate started the second on a 23-2 run and pulled away for a 78-55 win in Hamilton.
- All six of the Greyhounds' wins in the series have come in Baltimore.
Last Time Out
- Jordan Stiemke drove through the center of the lane, scored and drew a foul before converting the free throw to give Loyola a one-point lead that it would hold onto for a 44-43 win at American on Wednesday.
- Stiemke, who was making the second start of his career, scored the traditional 3-point play with 1:17 left in regulation to tie the game after the Eagles had taken their only lead of the game.
- After Stiemke's basket, Milos Ilic came up with a steal on the defensive end, and the Greyhounds called a timeout with 51 ticks left. Loyola, however, turned the ball over on its offensive end, setting up an opportunity for American to take the lead with under 30 seconds left.
- The Eagles called a timeout at midcourt, but Loyola appeared the bottle up American's Matt Rogers on the baseline. The ball was ruled out off Loyola, however, and the Eagles had possession with 7.2 seconds to play.
- Matt Mayock took a corner three from in front of the American bench, but it rimmed out. Golden Dike got the rebound for Loyola and was fouled with 1.2 seconds left. He missed the front end of one-and-one, but American could not get a shot off before the buzzer.
- Deon Perry led the Greyhounds with 23 points, going 9 of 9 at the free-throw line overall 5 of 5 in the second half. Stiemke and Dike each had six points.
- Loyola had a 36-30 advantage in rebounding with Dike leading the way with seven. Stiemke and Perry both had six. Ilic came up with a career-high four steals.
- The Greyhounds took a 10-point lead, 17-7, just under 10 minutes into the game on a Perry three, and they led by 11 three times before halftime.
- Three in the first four minutes of the second half, Loyola pushed the lead to 13. Perry's jumper from the baseline with 16:01 left in regulation made it 36-23 left, but scoring became a premium from there.
- Loyola did not score for nearly nine minutes until Perry was fouled on a 3-point attempt and made all three free throws to stretch the lead back to five, 39-34 with 7:26 on the clock. He scored a pair of free throws on the next possession, but Loyola's only other points of the second half came on Stiemke's and-one.
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.
Settling In As A Starter
- Garrett Brennan has brought consistency to his starting role for the Greyhounds over the last four games since making his first career start on January 27 at Navy.
- He scored 15 in that game against the Midshipmen, a to-date career-high, and in the four games, he has averaged 7.3 points, 3.8 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.0 steal.
- Brennan is shooting 47.6 percent as a starter, making 10 of 21 shots.
- After his starting debut produced 15 points, he logged double digits for the second time as a collegian, scoring 10 on February 3 versus Holy Cross.
- The Northern Virginia native, who is a second cousin of Loyola Assistant Coach Mike Brennan (Garrett's father, John, is Mike's first cousin), has seen his playing time grow this season after seeing 41 total minutes in five games last year before an injury cut his season short.
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 23 of 24 games averaging 26.2 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 (7.8 points per game) and second in rebounding (5.1).
Perry's Last 13
- Deon Perry has increased his scoring output over the last 13 games – including eight games of 20 or more with matching career-highs 30 coming at Army West Point and at Navy – to average of 20.6 over the stretch.
- The 2022-23 Patriot League All-Rookie guard has shot 41.0 percent from 3-point range during the 13 games, averaging 3.2 made threes per game.
- Prior to the last 13 games, Perry was 22 of 76 from 3-point range (28.9 percent) in the season's first 11 games.
- The 13 games have boosted his scoring average by more than two points to 16.7. He is now tied for the Patriot League lead in scoring with 16.7 points, and he leads the conference in free-throw percentage (89.2 percent)
- Perry has raised his career mark to 13.6 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. As of January 27, his triple-double is one of 22 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, and at Holy Cross, he became the fifth with 800 or more. 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 Navy game with 822. 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 12th all-time with his 822 boards. Lafayette's Stefan Ciosci is 11th with 831.
Twenty Or More For Deon
- Deon Perry's 23-point effort at American marked the 15th time in his 57 collegiate games that he has scored 20 or more. Since 2011-12, six Loyola players have scored 20 or more points 15 or more times.
- Three-pointers have been the spark to Perry's 20-point games. He has shot 60 of 129 from 3-point range in those 15 games, good for 46.5 percent. In his other 41 games at Loyola, Perry is 75 of 212 (33.4 percent) from behind the arc.
- Loyola is 10-5 all-time when Perry scores 20 or more points.
Stines Steps Up As Second Scorer
- D'Angelo Stines has been a solid second scorer for the Greyhounds this season behind Deon Perry, averaging 9.6 points though 23 games this year.
- Stines has scored 10 or more in 13 of the Greyhounds' 23 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.
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 24 games, he leads the Patriot League in shooting percentage at .578 (74 of 128).
- He entered the season ranked second in school history in field-goal percentage at 55.9 percent, a mark is now at 56.3 after the Americangame.
- His three games with 14 or more points, through 20 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 7.3 points per game, and his field-goal percentage is 51.5 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 40 games this season, Aldama is averaging 10.7 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.
- The Loyola-Colgate game will stream live on ESPN+.
