Game Information
Opponent	Stonehill Skyhawks | Mahoney Classic presented by Nivea Men
Game Notes	Loyola
Date	Saturday, November 15, 2025
Time	2:00 p.m.
Location	Fairfield, Conn. | Leo D. Mahoney Arena
Tickets	Purchase
Getting There	Directions
Online Media	ESPN+ | Live Stats

Quick Hits

• Loyola University Maryland men's basketball opens play in the Mahoney Classic presented by Nivea Men on Saturday, November 15, with a game against Stonehill College.
• The multi-team event is hosted by Fairfield University at Leo D. Mahoney Arena. The Greyhounds will play the host Stags on Sunday on their home floor.
• Tipoff for Saturday's game is slated for 2 p.m.
• The game will stream live on ESPN+.
• 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.

Series History

• Loyola and Stonehill will meet for the first time in series history on Saturday.
• The Greyhounds are 41-45 all-time against current members of the Northeast Conference.

Watch The Action

• Both games of the Mahoney Classic presented by Nivea Men will air on ESPN+.
• All home Loyola men's basketball games will be streamed live on ESPN+.
• Fans watching from outside the United States can access the games via Sidearm.

Last Time Out

• Ari Fulton hit a 10-foot pull-up jumper from the left side at the buzzer Tuesday night, and NJIT escaped Reitz Arena with a 66-64 non-conference win over Loyola.
• Loyola led by six, 57-51, with 6:38 to play after two Braeden Speed free throws, but the Highlanders scored the next 10 points to go up 61-57 on a Fulton basket and free throw with 4:18 on the clock.
• Braeden Speed broke the run with a floater in the paint 57 seconds later, and the Greyhounds with back within a point, and then Troy Cicero Jr. knocked down his third 3-poitner of the game at 2:37 to push Loyola up one, 62-61, at 2:37.
• Fulton made the second of two at the line 22 seconds later, and he then converted on a turnaround jumper at 1:48, making it 64-62 for the Highlanders. Speed converted a pair of free throws at 1:34, and it was tied at 64-64, a score that held until Fulton's winner.
• Loyola missed a three with 54 seconds left, but Speed came up with a steal at the 34-second mark and called a timeout three seconds later. His turnaround in the lane rattled out with six seconds left, and NJIT got the defensive board and called a timeout over halfcourt to setup the final play.
• Speed finished with 14 points, four assists and three steals, and Jonas Sirtautas matched his 14 and also had seven rebounds and five blocked shots.
• Loyola had a 37-36 advantage in rebounds, and the Greyhounds shot 39.7 percent from the field to NJIT's 35.7, but the Highlanders made 21 of 26 free throws (80 percent) to Loyola's 12 of 20 (.600).

Sirtautas' Swats

• Jonas Sirtautas blocked five NJIT shots on Tuesday night for his second game in three Loyola outings that he's recorded multiple swats (three versus Towson).
• His three blocks were the most by a Loyola player since Chancellor Barnard had five exactly nine years prior (November 11, 2016, at Duquesne). It is also the seventh time since 2010 that a Loyola player has blocked five or more shots in a game.

Dunks Are Efficient

• Sirtautas was efficient on the offensive end of the floor, thanks in large part to four dunks against the Highlanders. He finished 7 of 8 from the field with his .875 shooting percentage tying for 14th in school single-game history.
• In three games Sirtautas is 12 of 16 from the field, and his .750 field-goal percentage leads the Patriot League.

Perimeter Defense

• The Greyhounds have yielded just 10 made 3-pointers in three games with opponents shooting .208 (10 of 48) from behind the arc.
• NJIT made five 3-pointers, the combined total of Loyola's first two opponents (Towson and Penn State Abington), but the Highlanders shot just .227 while taking 22 attempts.
• Loyola's 3-point percentage defense leads the Patriot League and is 12th nationally.

Troy From Three

• Troy Cicero Jr. has seen the most extended playing time of his career after missing a large part of his first two seasons with injuries. Coming into this season, he had played just 117 minutes 22 games, but this year, he's averaged 11.2 minutes per game off the bench.
• Cicero leads Loyola from 3-point range, going 7 of 11 (.636) in the first three games. He made three from behind the arc versus both Penn State Abington and NJIT. Prior to this year, he had made only four threes in his career on 15 attempts.

Spreading It Around

• Six Loyola players scored 11 or more points in the Greyhounds' win over Penn State Abington, the first time they have had that many over 10 in more than 10 years. 
• The Greyhounds took 71 field goals in the team, but only one player (Jacob Theodosiou) had more than 10 attempts. All 13 players who saw game action took at least one shot and 12 took two or more. 

Quick Turn From Three

• Loyola made just 4 of 22 (.182) shots from 3-point range in the season-opener against Towson, but the Greyhounds quickly reversed that and knocked down 50 percent of its shots (13 of 26) Tuesday against Penn State Abington.
• The Greyhounds' 13 made 3-pointers are tied for fourth-most in school single-game history and are tied for the most in a game since 2008.
• Three players – Sam Springer (4-5), Troy Cicero Jr. and Jordan Stiemke (both 3-4) shot 75 percent or better from 3-point range in the game against the Nittany Lions.

Board Work

• Much like the Greyhounds' field-goal distribution, Loyola had considerable distribution in the rebounding column of the statistics sheet against Penn State Abington. The Greyhounds grabbed 57 total rebounds, tying the school record set on February 13, 2021, at Lafayette.
• Six players had five or more rebounds, and three had seven-plus: Braeden Speed and Sebastien Emenalo (eight each) and Jonas Sirtautas (seven).

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).

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 11.8 points over the Greyhounds' last 42 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 243 NBA games through November 4 and is averaging 11.0 points and 7.1 rebounds in eight 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 7.9 points in eight 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.