Game Information
Opponent	George Mason Patriots
Game Notes	Loyola
Date	Sunday, December 21, 2025
Time	2:00 p.m.
Location	Fairfax, Va. | EagleBank Arena
Tickets	Purchase
Getting There	Directions
Online Media	ESPN+ | Live Stats

Quick Hits

• Loyola University Maryland's men's basketball team kicks off a two-game road trip to close the 2025 calendar on Sunday, December 21, when the Greyhounds head to Fairfax, Virginia for a game at George Mason University.
• Tip-off in the Greyhounds' final non-conference game of the regular-season is set for 2 p.m. at EagleBank Arena.
• After playing nine games in November, Loyola will play five games in the final month of the calendar.
• 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 George Mason will meet for the 16th time in series history on Sunday and the second time in three years.
• The Patriots have won six of the last seven games between the teams and have a 9-6 advantage in the all-time series.
• In the last meeting on December 16, 2023, Alonso Faure's traditional 3-point play with 8:44 left in regulation capped a 10-0 Greyhounds' run and gave Loyola a 44-42 lead, but the Patriots scored the next six points. George Mason would go on a 12-1 run and pull away for a 62-54 victory at EagleBank Arena.
• Loyola and George Mason first met during the 1972-73 season, the Patriots' first year in the Mason-Dixon Conference. The Greyhounds won that first meeting, 99-80, and were winners in four of the first six.

Watch The Action

• Sunday's game will stream live on ESPN+.
• All Loyola home games this season will also stream live on ESPN+ and be available internationally on Sidearm.

Last Time Out

• Sam Springer converted a layup for Loyola 2:17 into the second half to give the Greyhounds a 43-42 lead, but visiting Mount St. Mary's scored 12 of the next 14 points to stretch out a lead that would hold in an 81-73 Mountaineers win at Reitz Arena.
• A Jordan Stiemke three for the Greyhounds with 9:19 left in regulation made it a four point game with Mount St. Mary's up, 64-60, but Xavier Lipscomb responded in kind with a three at 8:47 for the Mountaineers.
• The lead remained seven or more for the remainder of the game.
• Jordan Stiemke led all players with 22 points for the Greyhounds, his second game with 20 or more this year, both of which have come in Loyola's last four outings. He tied his career-high with five 3-pointers made in the game. 
• Jacob Theodosiou added 15 points, a team-high seven assists and three steals; Braeden Speed scored 10 and led Loyola with four steals to go with four assists. Emmett Adair scored nine and had a team-high seven rebounds.
• Lipscomb and Arlandus Keyes scored 16 to lead Mount St. Mary's.

Second Half Sparks

• Through 12 games this year, the Greyhounds' offense has been better during the second half of games, averaging 41.8 points to 33.8 in the first half.
• Loyola has shot .485 from the field after the break, compared with .415 in the first.
• On the defensive end, Loyola has limited opponents to 37.2 points after halftime, compared to 39.1 in the opening 20.

Adair Up There

• Emmett Adair had the best game of his young career against Coppin State making 11 of 17 shots from the field, 3 of 6 from 3-point range, en route to scoring 29 points. He was named Patriot League Rookie of the Week after that game and a 10-point, 7-rebound performance against Washington College.
• He is one of just 14 freshmen in NCAA Division I to score 29 or more points in a game this year (per Stathead). His 29 points are second-most by a Patriot League player this season.
• Adair had the second 20-plus point game of the season on December 9 at VMI, making 10 of 18 from the field to finish with 21 points.
• Adair missed the first five games of Loyola's season with an illness, but he's been a key contributor since making his debut November 19 at Duquesne. The Sydney, Australia, native has averaged 12.7 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists in his six games played while averaging just 23.1 minutes.
• Adair, who played for the Australian Senior National Team this summer as it went 6-0 to qualify for in FIBA Asia Cup qualifying, has shot 46.1 percent from the field in those games.

Back To Speed

• Braeden Speed is third on the team in scoring at 11.9 points per game, a mark that is up almost a point after Loyola's last three outings.
• The sophomore guard from Arizona had a stretch of five-straight games with 11 points or more (Nov. 6-19) snapped when he finished with five at then-No. 12 Kentucky, a game that started a three-game stretch where he totaled just 20 (six in limited action versus Washington College and nine against Coppin State).
• Since then, Speed has scored 14 at Hampton and his second-best total of the year, 17 at VMI, before finishing with 10 against Mount St. Mary's.

Stiemke's Shots Fall

• Jordan Stiemke had his best shooting performance of the season thus far on Sunday night against Coppin State, making 7 of 10 shots overall and 5 of 8 from 3-point range to score a season-high 21.
• The junior wing followed that with a 16-point performance on December 3 against Hampton, followed by 11 on December 9 at VMI. He topped the 20-point mark for the second time this season and fifth in his career on December 13 with a 22-point effort against Mount St. Mary's. He made five 3-pointers in that game for the second time this season.
• Over Loyola's last five, Stiemke has scored at least 10 points in each outing and is averaging a team-best 16.0 while shooting an even 50 percent from the field. He is 16 of 37 (43.2 percent) from 3-point range in those games.

Theodosiou's Last Nine

• Jacob Theodosiou put together the best pair of games, statistically, in a three-game stretch against Stonehill, Fairfield and Duquesne, averaging 23.0 points, 4.7 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 3.3 steals, but his numbers have been robust over the last six. 
• The junior guard scored 21 on November 15 against Stonehill before posting 27 the next day versus host Fairfield. He was named Patriot League Player of the Week following those games before scoring 21 against Duquesne on November 19.
• 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.
• Over Loyola's last nine games, Theodosiou has averaged 16.6 points, 4.6 assists, 4.3 rebounds and 2.3 steals.

On The Offensive Glass

• Loyola is up to second in the Patriot League in offensive rebounds per game, averaging 11.4 through 12 outings. 
• Emmett Adair has played in just seven games thus far, but he is tied for fifth in the conference with 22 pulls off the offensive glass. In those seven games, Loyola is averaging 12.6 offensive rebounds after averaging 9.8 in the year's first five.

Shots Were Falling

• Loyola has made 69 of 121 shots over a two-game stretch, a pair of wins against Washington College and Coppin State, good for a .570 mark from the field.
• The Greyhounds shot .576 (38 of 66) against the Shoremen before going 31 of 55 Sunday night against Coppin State. It is the first time Loyola has made 55 percent or better of its shots in back-to-back games since December 5-8, 2018, when it shot .579 in a loss at Drexel and .552 in a win at Binghamton.
• The hot shooting came to an end in the first-half at Hampton, however, when Loyola made just 8 of 25 (.320). The Greyhounds did come back to shoot .469 in the second half against the Pirates. Loyola then shot .439 at VMI, .467 in the second half.

Ninety-Five Plus

• Loyola's two games with 101 points (Washington College) and 95 (Coppin State) represent the first time since January 1989 that the Greyhounds have posted 95 or more points in consecutive games. In that stretch, they beat LIU Brooklyn, 104-93, and Monmouth, 97-77.

Inside The Arc

• Jacob Theodosiou has shot 44.9 percent from the field this year and is third the Patriot League with 62 field goals made through 12 games.
• He has been particularly efficient in converting inside the 3-point line, scoring 2-point field goals at a 56.3-percent clip.
• The Greyhounds have two players ranked in the top 11 of the Patriot League in two-point field-goal percentage with Jonas Sirtautas leading the conference at 81.6-percent. Sirtautas has made 31 of 38 shots from inside the arc.
• As a team, the Greyhounds are third in the conference in 2-point percentage, making 55.6 percent through nine games. That is the best 2-point percentage for the program in at least 45 years (per Stathead).

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 22 swipes in nine games and leads the conference at 2.2 per game. He is 33rd nationally in total steals.

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). 

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 262 NBA games through December 17 and is averaging 12.9 points and 6.5 rebounds in 27 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 12.0 points in 26 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 64 games over the last three years for Golden State. This year, he's averaging 7.4 points and 3.2 assists in 19 outings. 

Up Next

• The Greyhounds then start their 13th season of competition in the Patriot League on Wednesday, December 31, with a game at American University.