Game Information
Opponent	American Eagles
Game Notes	Loyola
Date	Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Time	7:00 p.m.
Location	Baltimore, Md. | Reitz Arena
Tickets	Purchase
Getting There	Directions
Online Media	ESPN+ | Live Stats | International Video Stream

Quick Hits

• Loyola University Maryland's men's basketball team plays its second home game in a row on Wednesday, January 28, hosting American University.
• Wednesday's game in Reitz Arena is slated for a 7 p.m. tip-off.
• The game is the final of a stretch with four out of five games, and five of seven, at home. 
• Wednesday's game will mark the midpoint of the 18-game Patriot League season.
• 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 American will meet for the 110th time in series history on Wednesday, most of any current Patriot League opponent of the Greyhounds.
• American has won seven of the last 11 games and holds a 57-52 lead in the all-time series.
• The Eagles were the first team to sweep the regular-season series since 2019-20 with a pair of wins over Loyola last year. American scored a 73-54 win at the Greyhounds' Reitz Arena on January 13, 2025, before taking a 72-51 decision in Washington, D.C., on February 15, 2025.
• The teams closed the 2025 calendar year on New Year's Eve with a matinee in Washington, D.C., that the Eagles won, 84-69. American used a 25-14 run over nearly eight minutes in the first half of that game to flip a 10-6 Loyola lead in to a 31-24 advantage.
• Braeden Speed scored 13 for Loyola, while Jacob Theodosiou and Emmett Adair each had 11.
• American is 16-11 in 27 meetings since the teams have been members of the Patriot League since Loyola joined the conference in 2013-14.
• The Greyhounds and Eagles, who first played in 1927-28, were previously conference foes. They were both members of the Mason-Dixon Conference concurrently from 1940-66.

Watch The Action

• Wednesday'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

• Braeden Speed scored eight of his team-high 24 in the final three minutes on Saturday to lead the Loyola University Maryland men's basketball team to a 67-62 Patriot League victory over visiting Bucknell University.
• The Bison pulled within a point, 56-55, on a Quinn Berger three with 2:52 on the clock, but Speed hit baseline step-back jumper just 21 ticks of the clock later to make it a three-point Greyhounds' lead.
• Carter Berg-McLean scored two of his eight with a driving layup on Loyola's next possession, and after an Amon Dörries putback for Bucknell, Speed hit another jumper with 56 seconds left.
• Speed made four free throws in the final 30 seconds to seal the win.
• Tyson Commander made a season-high three 3-pointers and scored nine, while Berg-McLean and Emmett Adair each had eight.
• Bucknell's Aleksander Pachucki made a three with 3:53 to play in the first half, tying the score at 21-21, but a Commander three 20 seconds later kicked off a 10-0 Greyhounds run that helped Loyola take a 31-23 advantage at the half.
• The Bison, however, opened the second with a 12-3 run over more than six minutes to go up 35-34 on an Achile Spadone steal and transition basket at 13:49.
• Commander got the lead back for the Greyhounds with another three at 13:30, but less than a minute later Dörries put the Bison up 39-37 with two points in the paint.
• After Spadone forced a 41-41 tie with a basket for Bucknell at 11:03, Speed had a floater in the lane, Troy Cicero Jr. made two free throws, and Speed hit a three in transition at 8:54 to give Loyola a seven-point advantage, 48-41.
• Loyola led by seven twice more over the four minutes before Bucknell chipped away to get with a point on Berger's three.
• The Greyhounds had a 36-30 advantage on the boards with Jonas Sirtautas' six leading the team. Sirtautas also had three blocked shots in the game to help Loyola to a season-high of eight total.

Back To Speed

• Braeden Speed is second on the team in scoring at 14.6 points per game, a mark that is up a full three points since the start of December over Loyola's last 12 games. He has led the Greyhounds in scoring in seven of the last nine games, including six of eight conference 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 in double figures in 12-straight outings with four 20-plus games and seven with 15 or more mixed in.
• He had his first collegiate double-double with 20 points and 10 rebounds against Colgate. The game against the Raiders was the third 20-plus point game of Speed's collegiate career, joining his November 15 game against Stonehill when he had 21 and the December 21 contest at George Mason.
• During the last 12 outings, Speed has averaged a team-high 17.0 points per game to go with 4.6 rebounds and a team-best 3.1 assists. He has shot 44.4 percent from the field, making 42.9 percent (27 of 63) from 3-point range. Overall this year, he is also first on the team in total rebounds (93) and assists (67).

Speed In The League

• Braeden Speed is the Greyhounds' leading scorer in Patriot League games, averaging 17.4 over six contests. Getting to the line has been a big part of helping those scoring numbers. He is holds the conference lead in free throws made (47) and is tied for first in free throws attempted (55) during conference games (.855). 

Second Half Sparks

• Through 21 games this year, the Greyhounds' offense has been better during the second half of games, averaging 40.4 points to 33.9 in the first half.
• Loyola has shot .465 from the field after the break, compared with .410 in the first.
• On an individual basis, Braeden Speed has been the Greyhounds player with the biggest jump in the second half. Speed has taken 21 more shots after halftime this season and is averaging 9.4 following the break to 4.9 in the first 20 minutes.

The Kids Are Alright

• Loyola's freshmen trio of Emmett Adair, Carter Berg-McLean and Sebastien Emenalo have seen their combined playing time increase significantly during Patriot League games, and they have produced.
• When in the lineup together on January 17 against Boston University for 8:05, Loyola outscored the Terriers by 12 points in what became a 17-point victory.
• Emenalo had the highest individual plus-minus of a Loyola player against a Division I opponent this year in the Boston University game at plus-31. Berg-McLean was a plus-15 against Colgate and plus-14 versus the Terriers.
• The three were a plus-7 together against Lehigh despite a seven-point loss.
• This season, Berg-McLean leads Loyola in plus-minus at plus-51, an average of plus-2.55 per game. He is averaging plus-3.0 per game in League play. Emenalo leads the Greyhounds in League play while averaging plus-3.3.
• Since December 31 when Patriot League play started, Berg-McLean has averaged 17.4 minutes compared to 6.9 in non-conference games. Emenalo jumped to 17.5 from 11.4. 

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.
• 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 11.8 points, a team-high 4.8 rebounds and 1.1 assists in his 16 games played while averaging just 22.1 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 46.3 percent from the field in those games, 60.6 percent from 2-point range.

Community Affair

• Loyola is third in the Patriot League in rebounds per game at 35.7, but the Greyhounds do not have any players ranked in the top 15 individually.
• Three Greyhounds – Emmett Adair (4.8), Jacob Theodosiou (4.6) and Braeden Speed (4.4) – average 4.0 or more rebounds per game, and three others – Jonas Sirtautas (3.7), Jordan Stiemke (3.2) and Sebastien Emenalo (3.2) – average more than three per game.

Sirtautas' Return

• Jonas Sirtautas missed 3-1/2 games with an arm injury suffered in the first half of the December 3 game at Hampton before returning to action on December 31 at American.
• In 18 games played this season, Sirtautas is tied for the Patriot League lead in blocked shots per game (1.9), and he is third overall with 34. third in the Patriot League in total blocked shots (31) and second in blocks per game (1.8), and he is second in the conference in two-point field goal percentage (72.3).

On The Offensive Glass

• Loyola is second in the Patriot League in offensive rebounds per game, averaging 11.2 through 21 outings. 
• Emmett Adair has played in 16 games thus far, but he is fifth in the conference with 40 pulls off the offensive glass. He just started to qualify for the league stats (minimum 75 percent of team's games played), and is second with 2.5 per game.

Theodosiou's Last Fifteen

• 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 also been robust over the last 14. He has scored 20 or more six times during a run in which he is averaging a team-best 16.5 points per game. 
• 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 the last 15 games he has played, Theodosiou has averaged 15.8 points, 3.9 assists, 4.3 rebounds and 2.1 steals.

Emenalo Effective

• Sebastien Emenalo has bumped up his output in the Greyhounds five conference games with the best game to-date of his young career coming January 14 against Colgate. He scored 19, making 7 of 8 from the field and all three of his 3-pointers, against the Raiders.
• Emenalo, who played alongside Emmett Adair at the NBA Global Academy in Australia, is averaging 6.4 points and 4.8 rebounds in 17.5 minutes over eight conference games; he is tied for fourth on the team in points per game in League games and second in rebounds. Throughout the season, in 20 appearances, Emenalo is averaging 4.2 points, 3.1 rebounds and 13.8 minutes per game.
• In the League games, he has shot 51.3 percent from the field, while he has shot 46.4 overall this year.

Presence Felt

• Carter Berg-McLean's role has increased since the start of League play with the guard from New Zealand averaging 17.4 minutes in eight conference games after seeing 6.9 minutes in 11 non-conference appearances.
• Berg-McLean's presence has not solely been reflected in the box score, but can be seen in the Greyhounds' plus-minus when he has been on the floor. He was a plus-15 against Colgate (Loyola scored 15 more points than the Raiders during his 15 minutes of action). He is second on the team with 21 assists in conference games with four coming against Colgate and a to-date career-high seven at Lehigh.

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 276 NBA games through January 17 and is averaging 14.0 points and 6.7 rebounds in 41 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 42 games this season.
• 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 75 games over the last three years for Golden State. This year, he's averaging 5.2 points and 2.9 assists in 31 outings. 

Up Next

• Loyola goes on the road, but stays in the State of Maryland, for its next game. The Greyhounds will play at Navy on Saturday, January 31, at 4 p.m.