Game Information
Opponent	Duquesne Dukes
Game Notes	Loyola
Date	Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Time	7:00 p.m.
Location	Pittsburgh, Pa. | UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse
Tickets	Purchase
Getting There	Directions
Online Media	ESPN+ | Live Stats

Quick Facts

• The Loyola University Maryland men's basketball team continues a four-game road trip on Wednesday, November 19, when it plays at Duquesne.
• Tipoff for Wednesday's game is slated for 7 p.m. at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse.
• The game will stream live on ESPN+.
• Loyola is averaging more than seven points more in the second half than the first of its first five games (40.8-33.6). On the defensive side, Loyola is holding opponents to 33.6, compared to 34.6.
• 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 Duquesne will meet for the fourth time in series history on Wednesday night and the first time since the opening game of the 2016 season.
• The Dukes hold a 2-1 advantage in the previous three meetings after a 65-60 win on November 11, 2016. 
• Loyola picked up its win in the series in the first meeting between the programs during the 1924-1925 season, a 29-23 victory. The teams did not meat again until December 6, 2003, when Duquesne was a 70-61 winner in Pittsburgh.

Watch The Action

• Wednesday's game at Duquesne will be streamed live 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 his second big second half in as many days, scoring 21 of his team-high 27 points after the break for Loyola, but host Fairfield held on for an 85-82 victory to close the Mahoney Classic presented by Nivea Men.
• Theodosiou finished the event hosted by the Stags averaging 24 points in the two games after totaling 17 of his 21 in the second half of yesterday's win over Stonehill. He went 10 of 15 from the field, 7 of 9 in the second half, while also making all seven of his free throws.
• Braeden Speed added 16 points, all coming after halftime, while Sam Springer scored 13 and Jonas Sirtautas finished with 10. 
• Fairfield scored the last four points of the first half to lead 40-32 at the midpoint, but Loyola opened the second on a 10-2 run to tie the game at 42-42 with 17:56 on the clock on a Theodosiou jumper.
• The Stags went back with three on their next possession when Deuce Turner hit a three for a trio of his game-high 30 points, but Troy Cicero Jr. used a Theodosiou assist to hit a three for Loyola at 16:48. Braden Sparks responded with a Fairfield three 15 seconds later to regain the lead, but it would never be more than eight.
• Sirtautas' hook shot with 10:11 left in regulation made it a 62-61 Fairfield lead, but the Stags grew it to seven, 69-61, just over two minutes later. Loyola got back within a point, 79-78, when Speed finished a drive with a layup at 2:07. It was then a two-point Stags advantage when Turner made one of two at the line with 1:43 to play, and Sparks converted a stepback jumper at 1:04 to make it 82-78.
• Speed again cut the deficit to a pair with a layup with 47 seconds left, and the Greyhounds forced a turnover with a Jordan Stiemke steal 11 ticks later. Loyola got an open look on the left side for three, but the shot drew the front of the iron.
• Sparks made two free throws after grabbing the rebound for Fairfield, and after Loyola misfired on another three, Declan Wucherpfenning hit one of two after being fouled. Theodosiou got Loyola back within three with his final two points, but the Stags were able to run out the clock.

Second Half Sparks

• Through five games this year, the Greyhounds' offense has been better during the second half of games, averaging 40.8 points to 33.6 in the first half of games.
• Loyola has shot .518 from the field after the break, compared with .406 in the first; 3-point shooting is also better at .340 from .310. 
• On the defensive end, Loyola has limited opponents to 33.6 points after halftime, compared to 34.6 in the opening 20.

Theodosiou's Last Two

• Jacob Theodosiou put together the best pair of games, statistically, in his Loyola career last weekend, averaging 24.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 4.0 steals en route to being named the Patriot League Player of the Week.
• The junior guard scored 21 on Saturday against Stonehill before posting 27 Sunday against host Fairfield. It was the first time in his collegiate career he scored 20 or more in back-to-back games.
• He did so in a very efficient manner, shooting 60.6 percent from the field going 10 of 18 against Stonehill, 10 of 15 against the Stags. The last time a Loyola player had 10 or more field goals in consecutive games came in the 2020-21 season when current Memphis Grizzlies post Santi Aldama had games with 11 and 13 in consecutive outings.

Trending Up

• Loyola started the year by shooting 40.8 percent in its first three games of the year, a number that has gone up over its last two. The Greyhounds are now shooting 45.9 percent after hitting 53.8 percent from the field against Stonehill and Fairfield.
• The Greyhounds' field-goal percentage last season went up to 43.6 percent from 41.7 percent in 2023-24.

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 12.2 minutes per game off the bench.
• Cicero leads Loyola from 3-point range, going 11 of 20 (.550) 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 November 11, and he now has three games at Loyola with multiple blocks.
• His five 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.
• Through five games, he leads the Patriot League with 12 blocks, a total that ranks 12th in NCAA Division I.

Dunks Are Efficient

• Sirtautas was efficient on the offensive end of the floor, thanks in large part to four dunks against the NJIT. He finished 7 of 8 from the field with his .875 shooting percentage tying for 14th in school single-game history.
• In five games Sirtautas is 18 of 26 from the field, and his .692 field-goal percentage is second in the Patriot League.

Perimeter Defense

• The Greyhounds have yielded just 22 made 3-pointers in five games with opponents shooting .237 (22 of 93) from behind the arc.
• Loyola's 3-point percentage defense leads the Patriot League and is 17th nationally.

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). 

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 11.5 points over the Greyhounds' last 44 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.