Game Information
Opponent	Fairfield Stags | Mahoney Classic presented by Nivea Men
Game Notes	Loyola
Date	Sunday, November 16, 2025
Time	2:00 p.m.
Location	Fairfield, Conn. | Leo D. Mahoney Arena
Tickets	Purchase
Getting There	Directions
Online Media	ESPN+ | Live Stats | International Video Stream

Quick Hits

• Loyola University Maryland men's basketball will play its second game in as many days on Sunday, November 16, when it closes the Mahoney Classic presented by Nivea Men against Fairfield University.
• Tipoff for Sunday's game is slated for 2 p.m. at Leo D. Mahoney Arena.
• The game will stream live on ESPN+.
• Loyola is averaging more than four points more in the second half than the first of its first four games (38.5-34.0).
• 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 Fairfield will meet for the 63rd time in series history on Sunday afternoon.
• The teams spent 23 years as Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference foes when the Greyhounds were a member of the conference.
• Fairfield leads the all-time series 38-24, but the Greyhounds have won the last two meetings between the programs, including a 75-70 decision on November 28, 2021, in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
• Loyola has won eight of the last 10 games between the two teams, dating back to March 5, 2012, when the Greyhounds scored a 48-44 decision in the MAAC Championship Game.

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

• Jacob Theodosiou had steals on three-straight possessions in the second half, scoring fast-break layups on the other end, helping spur Loyola to a 74-63 win over Stonehill on Saturday.
• Hermann Koffi knocked down a three for the Skyhawks with 17:11 to play in regulation, tying the score at 44-44, but Theodosiou had three of his career-high tying five steals on as many Stonehill possessions. Theodosiou converted on the other end with layups, six of his season-best 21 points.
• He tied backcourt mate Braeden Speed for team-high honors with 21 points apiece, a total that Koffi matched for the Skyhawks.
• Troy Cicero Jr. and Sam Springer gave the Greyhounds four players in double figures, both finishing with 10.
• Stonehill had a 38-37 halftime lead that it extended to four, 41-37, on a Rex Sunderland layup, but Springer knocked won a three at 18:28, and Loyola was within one. 
• Theodosiou scored his first points of the second half with a second-chance layup 24 seconds later, and he then had his first of four second-half steals and flipped a behind-the-back pass to Speed for two in transition.
• That basket gave Loyola three-point lead, but Koffi would tie it with his 3-pointer.After Theodosiou's three-straight steals and layups gave Loyola a six-point lead, Stonehill twice brought the deficit back to two. 
• Two Jonas Sirtautas gave Loyola a 64-57 lead with a free throw at 7:22, but just over a minute later, Chas Stinson's two got the Skyhawks within three. 
• Theodosiou came back with a three 22 ticks of the clock later, stretching the advantage to 67-61 with 5:46 on the clock.
• The three were the first points of a 7-0 Loyola run, during which the Greyhounds held the Skyhawks scoreless for five-minutes, 22 seconds. During the run, Stonehill was 0 for 6 with a turnover.

Second Half Sparks

• Through four games this year, the Greyhounds' offense has been better during the second half of games, averaging 38.5 points to 34.0 in the first half of games.
• Loyola has shot .474 from the field after the break, compared with .397 in the first; 3-point shooting is also better at .341 from .321. The Greyhounds had their best shooting half.
• On the defensive end, Loyola has limited opponents to 30.3 points after halftime, compared to 33.3 in the opening 20.

Guards Pop Off Against Skyhawks

• Braeden Speed and Jacob Theodosiou each took control of the scoring in a respective half on November 15 against Stonehill, and the pair both finished with 21 points in the Loyola win.
• Speed did the bulk of his scoring in the first half, tallying 15 of Loyola's 37 before the break en route. The 15 points in the first 20 minutes matched his previous career-high, and he finished with 21.
• Theodosiou then put up 17 of Loyola's 37 in the second half of the game, also totaling with 21. Theodosiou had a stretch of steal and fast-break layups over three-straight possessions early in the second half, and the 2024-25 Patriot League leader in steals tallied a career-high five in the game.

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 12.7 minutes per game off the bench.
• Cicero leads Loyola from 3-point range, going 9 of 16 (.563) in the first three games. He made three from behind the arc versus both Penn State Abington and NJIT, and he had two more against Stonehill. Prior to this year, he had made only four threes in his career on 15 attempts.

Field Goals In Bulk

• Jacob Theodosiou (10) and Braeden Speed (9) combined for 19 made field goals against Stonehill, marking the first time since the 2017-18 season that two Loyola players had nine or more in a game. The last time it occurred was on January 24, 2018, in a 91-88 win over Lehigh when Andre Walker scored 32 on 11 of 30 shooting, and Cam Gregory added 24 while making 9 of 15. 
• Speed and Theodosiou went 9 of 14 and 10 of 18, respectively, and shot a combined .594 against the Skyhawks.

Theodosiou's Thievery

• Jacob Theodosiou had a career-high five steals on November 15 against Stonehill, four which came in the second half and three on back-to-back-to-back possessions that led to his fast-break layups.
• He led the Patriot League in steals per game a year ago, averaging 1.7 with 54 total steals. This year, he has 10 swipes in four games and is second in the conference at 2.5 per game.

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 four games Sirtautas is 13 of 20 from the field, and his .650 field-goal percentage is third in the Patriot League.

Perimeter Defense

• The Greyhounds have yielded just 16 made 3-pointers in three games with opponents shooting .222 (16 of 72) 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. Stonehill was 6 of 24 (.250).
• Loyola's 3-point percentage defense leads the Patriot League and is 12th nationally.

Board Work

• 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).

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 11.6 points over the Greyhounds' last 43 games.

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.

Up Next

• Loyola will stay on the road for its next two games, a pair of contests at Duquesne and Kentucky.
• The Greyhounds will play at Duquesne on Wednesday, November 19, before heading to Rupp Arena for a Friday, November 21, game against the Wildcats.