Game Information
Opponent	Towson Tigers | Wellpoint Hall of Fame Series Baltimore
Game Notes	Loyola
Date	Monday, November 3, 2025
Time	9:00 p.m.
Television	Monumental Sports Network
Location	Baltimore, Md. | CFG Bank Arena
Tickets	Purchase
Getting There	Directions & Parking
Online Media	Live Stats

Quick Hits

• The 113th season of Loyola University Maryland men's basketball begins on Monday, November 3, 2025, when the Greyhounds play Towson University.
• Monday's game will be played at CFG Bank Arena as part of the Wellpoint Hall of Fame Series Baltimore.
• The Greyhounds and Tigers will top-off at 9 p.m., following the conclusion of the Maryland-Coppin State game at CFG. Loyola-Towson will be broadcast live on Monumental Sports Network.
• Josh Loeffler is in his second year as the Greyhounds' head coach after taking the position as Loyola's 22nd all-time head coach in March 2024. Last year, he led the Greyhounds to a five-win improvement over the 2023-24 season.
• Loyola returns nine players to its roster from a year ago and features three seniors, four juniors, four sophomores and four freshmen.

Downtown Hoops

• As a program, Loyola men's basketball is no strange to the facility now known as CFG Bank Arena, although it will be the Greyhounds first game in the building under that name and first overall since 1995.
• The Greyhounds have played 10 previous games in what was formerly known as the Baltimore Civic Center or the Baltimore Arena, among other corporately-sponsored titles. Loyola first took to the floor in the venue on February 4, 1965, for an 85-84 overtime win against Mount St. Mary's.
• Overall, Loyola is 2-8 in the building having played Mount St. Mary's (2-2), Maryland (0-3), Towson State (0-1), St. Joseph's (0-1) and Notre Dame (0-1).
• The Greyhounds last played there on December 9, 1995, in a 70-62 loss to the Fighting Irish. Loyola has played the Tigers once in the building, a 72-58 win on February 1, 1975, by then-Towson State.

Series History

• Loyola and Towson will meet for the 76th time in series history on Monday. The Tigers are the Greyhounds' eighth most-played opponent, following: Mount St. Mary's (178), Western Maryland (now McDaniel, 126), Washington College (115), Johns Hopkins (110), Catholic (88) and Saint Peter's (78).
• The Greyhounds first played Maryland State Teacher's College during the 1934-35 season and posted a 55-15 victory as the first of 20-straight wins for Loyola to open the season.
• The teams were Mason-Dixon Conference opponents from 1940-77.
• After Loyola won meetings in 2011 and 2012, the Tigers have won four-straight against the Greyhounds with an 85-69 victory on November 25, 2018, in Towson the most-recent meeting between the two.

Watch The Action

• The Loyola-Towson game will be televised live on Monumental Sports Network. The network, which is home to the Washington Capitals (NHL) and Washington Wizards (NBA), reaches almost five-million homes in the MId-Atlantic region.
• Spiro Morekas will call the play-by-play of the game, and former Loyola Head Coach Jimmy Patsos will provide the analysis and commentary.

Back For More

• Loyola returns more than just its 2024-25 core, Head Coach Josh Loeffler and the Greyhounds welcome back nine players who accounted for 62.6 percent of minutes played and 58.7 percent of Loyola's points last year.
• The Greyhounds did graduate five players from their program, all who earned their Bachelor's Degrees and were Patriot League Academic Honor Roll players during their final season: David Brown III, Milos Ilic, Veljko Ilic, Chris Kuzemka and Samuel Gibbs.

Backcourt Building

• Of the Greyhounds' returners, players who combined for 91 starts at the guard spots are back on this year's team.
• Jacob Theodosiou was one of two players (Milos Ilic) who started all 31 games last year, while Braeden Speed opened 30, starting every game but Senior Day. Tyson Commander was in the starting five for 19 games, and Jordan Stiemke started 11 games after playing the role of super sixth man for a large part of the season.
• This group also represented Loyola's top-four returning scorers.
• Theodosiou was second on the team last year with 13.0 points per game, while Stiemke (12.1), Speed (8.0) and Commander (5.7) were third, fourth and sixth.

Progress Made

• Loyola picked up its seventh win of the 2024-25 season in its 15th game, matching the Greyhounds' win total from the 2023-24 season (32 total games). Loyola then eclipsed the previous year's total in its 17th game this season. Through 31 games, the Greyhounds made a five-win improvement over 2023-24.
• In Josh Loeffler's first year as Loyola's head coach, the Greyhounds saw improvements in just about every statistical category from the season prior, notably: field-goal percentage (.436 from .417), scoring offense (69.2, 64.0) and scoring margin (-1.9, -7.9).

Roster Management

• Nine players return to the Greyhounds locker room this season from last year's squad, including seven scholarship players. 
• The Greyhounds added four freshmen and a pair of transfers to the roster during the offseason.
• Emmett Adair, a 6-9 forward, comes to Loyola from Australia where he played at the NBA Global Academy and was a member of the Australian Senior National Team that went 6-0 at the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup Qualifiers.
• Everett Barnes helped Father Judge High School win the 2024-25 Philadelphia Catholic League and Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association 6A Championships a year ago. The 6-10 forward earned All-Philly Catholic League honors after the season.
• Carter Berg-McLean joins Adair as a new Greyhounds player from the Southern Hemisphere. A 6-3 guard originally from Wellington, New Zealand, Berg-McLean spent the last two years at Georgetown Prep in Maryland's Montgomery County.
• Sebastien Emenalo was a teammate of Adair's at NBA Global Academy after competing as a student in his native England. The 6-6 guard averaged more than 12 points per game for NBA Academy last year.
• Jonas Sirtautas comes to Loyola after spending the 2024-25 season at Radford where he played in 25 games, averaging 2.3 points and 1.9 rebounds for the Highlanders. The 6-10 forward helped his native Lithuania earn bronze at the 2025 World University Games.
• Sam Springer joined the Greyhounds after averaging 3.1 points in 18 games for Air Force as a freshman in 2024-25. The Cleveland native led St. Ignatius to the 2024 Ohio state title as a 6-7 forward.

From Afar

• Loyola's roster of 15 players will represent six different nations by nationality this season: Australia (Emmett Adair), Canada (Jacob Theodosiou), England (Sebastien Emenalo), Lithuania (Jonas Sirtautus), New Zealand (Carter Berg-McLean) and the United States.
• In addition to the six countries represented, Loyola players hail from seven different states in the U.S.: Arizona (Braeden Speed), Connecticut (Peter Sposito), Illinois (Troy Cicero Jr.), Maryland (Tyson Commander, Jordan Stiemke), New Jersey (Everett Barnes), Ohio (Ben Menker, Sam Springer) and Virginia (Garrett Brennan, Goap Kodi).

Contributions In Many Areas

• Jacob Theodosiou led the team last in minutes (31.1) as a first-year player on the Greyhounds' roster.
• The native of Waterloo, Ontario, put up a new high of 27 points in a one-point win at home over Navy, going 6 of 11 from 3-point range and 7 of 8 at the free-throw line. His 22-point game at Bucknell marked his fourth with 20 or more this year, and he set a new career-best with 32 on February 8, 2025, at Colgate.
• He finished second on the team in scoring (13.1) and assists (2.7), was first in steals (1.8) and third in rebounds (4.0). 

Preseason Recognition

• Theodosiou was named to the five-player Preseason All-Patriot League team prior to the 2025-26 season. He entered the year as the second-leading returning scorer in the conference after averaging 13.1 a year ago.

Not Just A Bench Scorer

• Jordan Stiemke was the top scorer off the bench in the Patriot League this season, averaging 12.1 points per game in 31 Loyola contests to lead conference players who have started 12 or fewer games.
• Nationally, he ranked 12th in points per game among NCAA Division I players who have played in 30 or more games and have 12 or fewer starts per stathead.com.
• The native of Bel Air, Maryland, was Loyola's second-leading scorer in the last 10 games of his freshman season (2023-24), averaging 10.3 points. Prior to that, he had scored just 34 points in 15 games.
• Between that stretch to finish his freshman year, and his 12.1 points per game as a sophomore, Stiemke has averaged 11.9 points over the Greyhounds' last 41 games.

Magic Numbers

• Scoring defense was a staple of the Greyhounds 12 wins last season, games in which they yielded just 63.0 points per game compared to a 31-game average of 71.1.
• Loyola went 9-2 in games when it held its opponents to 69 or fewer points with the outliers being Army West Point's 64-60 win on February 12 and Boston University's win on February 19.
• Its two wins that came with the opponents scoring 70 points or more were a 75-74 win in January over Navy and a 77-73 Patriot League Championships First Round victory against Lehigh.

Tops In Swipes

• Loyola led the Patriot League in steals per game (7.2) and Jacob Theodosiou was first in both steals per game (1.74) and total swipes (54).
• Theodosiou averaged 2.0 steals per game in conference contests after averaging 1.36 in non-conference outings.
• He lead the Patriot League in games with two or more steals with 17 last season, per stathead.com. 
• Theodosiou was the fourth Loyola player to lead the Patriot League in steals per game, joining R.J. Williams (2.2, 2013-14), Andrew Kostecka (2.6, 2018-19) and Cam Spencer (2021-22, 2.3).

Stiemke Of Swats

• Jordan Stiemke had a modest eight blocked shots through last season's first 16 games, but he was one of the Patriot League's top shot blockers after that.
• Over the final 15 games, though, Stiemke had 24 blocked shots. He had seven games with multiple blocks during the stretch and finished fifth in the League with 1.0 per game.
• The Maryland native tied for 10th in NCAA Division I in total blocks (28) by players 6-foot-5 or shorter. He topped the Patriot League with that filter.

Theodosiou Turned It Up

• Jacob Theodosiou finished Loyola's 11-game non-conference schedule with 128 points, an average of 11.6 per game, but his scoring average finished the year a point-and-a-half higher (13.1) thanks to averaging 13.6 per game in Patriot League contests.
• He shot 3-pointers at a better clip in conference games, .351 to 318, and his non-scoring numbers rose, too. Theodosiou averaged 4.8 rebounds per game in Patriot League games (3.1 non-conference), and he had a 1.24 assist-to-turnover ration in League games compared to a 0.73 mark out of conference.

At The Next Level

• As a school of less than 4,000 undergraduate students, Loyola University Maryland boasted three former student-athletes on NBA rosters as players last month on opening night. Two members of the men's basketball incoming class of 2019, Santi Aldama (SAHN-tee ALL-dah-muh) and Cam Spencer are on the Memphis Grizzlies' roster, and four-time men's lacrosse All-American Pat Spencer is a member of the Golden State Warriors.
• Aldama was a first-round draft pick in the 2021 NBA Draft after leading the Patriot League in scoring and rebounding in 2020-21, and Cam Spencer led the conference in scoring the following season. He has played in 240 NBA games through October 31 and is averaging 11.0 points and 7.8 rebounds in five outings this season after signing a four-year contract during the summer. He has starred for his native Spain, earning TISSOT Most Outstanding Player honors at the 2024 Olympic Qualifying Tournament before averaging 17.7 points and 9.3 rebounds in three games during the Olympics.
• Cam Spencer, who was a three-year starter for the Greyhounds from 2019-22, and won an NCAA Championship at Connecticut in 2023-24, made his NBA debut on November 20, 2024 for the Grizzlies and is averaging 6.8 points in five games this year.
• Pat Spencer holds the Loyola men's lacrosse records for career assists and points and was the 2019 NCAA Division I Player of the Year for the Greyhounds. He switched to basketball after graduating from Loyola and has seen action in 48 games over the last three years for Golden State.

Up Next

• Loyola will make its home debut on Thursday, November 6, when it hosts its first-ever Field Trip Day. The Greyhounds will take on Penn State Abington in an 11:30 a.m. tipoff in Reitz Arena.
• The Greyhounds then play their next game at home on Tuesday, November 11, with a 7 p.m. contest against NJIT.