Game Information
Opponent	No. 13 Kentucky Wildcats
Game Notes	Loyola
Date	Friday, November 21, 2025
Time	7:00 p.m.
Location	Lexington, Ky. | Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center
Tickets	Purchase
Getting There	Directions
Online Media	SEC Network+ | Live Stats

Quick Facts

• Loyola University Maryland men's basketball wraps up a four-game road trip on Friday, November 21, when it plays No. 12/13 Kentucky at Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center.
• Friday's game is scheduled for 7 p.m.
• The game will stream live on SEC Network+.
• The Greyhounds started the trip with a two-game multi-team event at Fairfield last weekend and then played Wednesday at Duquesne.
• 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 Kentucky will meet for the second time in series history on Friday.
• The teams first met on December 22, 2011, in Rupp Arena. The Greyhounds trimmed a six-point Kentucky halftime lead to four, 45-41, on the first possession of the second half, and the margin was five with 17:45 to go in regulation before a Kyle Wiltjer three kick started an 11-2 Wildcats run.
• Wiltjer came off the bench to score a game-high 24 points, while Anthony Davis had a double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds, and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist added 15 points, and then-No. 3 Kentucky went on to an 87-63 win.
• Both teams would go on to reach the 2012 NCAA Tournament with Wildcats winning their eighth, and most-recent, national title.

Watch The Action

• Friday's game will stream live on SEC Network+.
• 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

• Five Loyola players scored 10 or more points on Wednesday night, but host Duquesne built a 16-point lead in the game's first eight minutes and despite several Greyhounds runs, the Dukes took a 92-76 non-conference victory at the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse in Pittsburgh.
• Jacob Theodosiou led the Greyhounds with 21 points, his third-straight game with 20 or more points.
• Braeden Speed, Jordan Stiemke and Emmett Adair all had 11, and Jonas Sirtautas added 10. Adair's 11 came on 4 of 7 from the floor and 3 of 5 from 3-point range in his collegiate debut.
• A 15-2 Dukes run made it 19-4 less than five minutes in, and a Cam Crawford basket in the paint pushed the Duquesne (4-1) advantage to 16, 24-8, with 13:20 on the first-half clock.
• Loyola was then down 14 with 7:46 to go before Adair scored the next five points and Tyson Commander knocked down a corner three at 6:14 to make it a six-point game, 34-28.
• Later in the half, a Stiemke three and a Commander floater in the lane got the game within six again, but Duquesne pushed ahead for a 47-36 halftime lead.
• Loyola shot 48.3 percent from the field, but the Dukes finished at 55.2 percent.

Second Half Sparks

• Through six games this year, the Greyhounds' offense has been better during the second half of games, averaging 41.0 points to 34.0 in the first half.
• Loyola has shot .509 from the field after the break, compared with .421 in the first; 3-point shooting is also better at .350 from .313. 
• On the defensive end, Loyola has limited opponents to 35.5 points after halftime, compared to 36.7 in the opening 20.

Theodosiou's Last Three

• Jacob Theodosiou put together the best pair of games, statistically, in Loyola's last three, averaging 23.0 points, 4.7 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 3.3 steals against Stonehill, Fairfield and Duquesne. 
• The junior guard scored 21 last Saturday against Stonehill before posting 27 Sunday against host Fairfield. He was named Patriot League Player of the Week following those games before scoring 21 against Duquesne on Wednesday evening.
• The three games represent the first time in his career that he's scored 20 or more in three-straight games and the first time a Loyola player has done so since Deon Perry did in January 2024.
• He has done his scoring in an efficient manner, shooting 58.7 percent from the field and 86.7 percent from the free-throw line. He made 10 field goals in both the Stonehill and Fairfield games. 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.

Emmett's Entrance

• Freshman post player Emmett Adair missed the first five games of Loyola's season with an illness, but he entered the lineup and made his Loyola debut early in the first half Wednesday at Duquesne.
• The Australian, who played for his home country's senior national team over the summer in FIBA Asia Cup Qualifying, ended up playing almost 18 minutes against the Dukes, scoring 11 on 4 of 7 from the field and 3 of 5 from 3-point range.

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 46.3 percent after hitting 52 percent from the field against Stonehill, Fairfield and Duquesne.
• 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 12 of 22 (.552) in the first six 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 15 swipes in six games and leads 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 six games, he leads the Patriot League with 12 blocks, a total that ranks 17th in NCAA Division I.

Perimeter Defense

• The Greyhounds have yielded just 30 made 3-pointers in five games with opponents shooting .259 (30 of 116) from behind the arc.
• Loyola's 3-point percentage defense leads the Patriot League and is 33rd 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 45 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 250 NBA games through November 19 and is averaging 12.5 points and 6.8 rebounds in 15 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 9.1 points in 15 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 55 games over the last three years for Golden State. This year, he's averaging 5.5 points in 10 outings.

Up Next

• Loyola will return home for its next two games, first hosting Washington College (Maryland) on Tuesday, November 25, before playing Coppin State on Sunday, November 23.