Game Information
Opponent	Penn State Abington Nittany Lions
Game Notes	Loyola
Date	Thursday, November 6, 2025
Time	11:30 a.m.
Location	Baltimore, Md. | Reitz Arena
Tickets	Free Admission For Field Trip Day!
Getting There	Directions
Online Media	ESPN+ | International Video Stream | Live Stats

Quick Hits

• The Loyola University Maryland men's basketball team makes its home debut on Thursday, November 6, with the program's first-ever Field Trip Day in Reitz Arena!
• Loyola will host Penn State Abington in an 11:30 a.m. game with free admission to all fans, including many schools from around the Baltimore area!
• The game will stream live on ESPN+ with Gary Lambrecht and Jim Chivers calling the game.
• 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 Penn State Abington will meet for the first time when the teams take the floor on Thursday.
• The Nittany Lions are a member of the United East Conference, an NCAA Division III league.

Watch The Action

• 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

• Towson used a 20-6 run midway through the second half to take an 18-point lead and pull away for a 67-56 victory over Loyola at CFG Bank Arena in the Wellpoint Hall of Fame Series Baltimore.
• Braeden Speed broke a 28-28 halftime tie with a basket 45 seconds into the second half Monday night to give the Greyhounds a two-point edge, but then Towson scored the next six.
• Jonas Sirtautas got the Greyhounds back within a pair, 34-32, with a basket at 16:40, but Chike Ndefo scored to start the run that would cover more than nine minutes of second-half play.
• Jordan Stiemke scored four-straight Loyola points, and Sebastien Emenalo had a steal and transition dunk for his first collegiate points at 5:42, getting Loyola back within 14, 58-44. The Greyhounds cut their deficit to 11 on three occasions but did not draw closer.
• Loyola led by as many as six in the first half, going up by that margin a second time with 3:53 to play in the frame on a traditional 3-point play by Jacob Theodosiou, but the Tigers scored eight of the half's last 10 points to tie the score at the break.
• Theodosiou finished with a team-high 13 for Loyola, while Speed, Stiemke and Sam Springer all had nine. Sirtautas grabbed a team-best eight rebounds and blocked three shots.

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).

Debuting

• Six Greyhounds made their Loyola debuts on Monday night against Towson: Everett Barnes, Carter Berg-McLean, Sebastien Emenalo, Ben Menker, Sam Springer and Jonas Sirtautas.
• Barnes had a starting role in his first game as a collegian, and Sirtautas came off the bench to play a career-high 27 minutes while leading Loyola rebounds (eight) and blocked shots (three).

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.

Up Next

• Loyola will take the weekend off from competition before hosting NJIT on Tuesday, November 11, with a 7 p.m. game in Reitz Arena.
• The Greyhounds then travel to Fairfield, Connecticut for the Mahoney Classic presented by NIVEA Men. They will play Stonehill on Saturday, November 15, at 2 p.m. before facing host Fairfield the next day at the same time.