Game Information
Opponent	Navy Midshipmen
Game Notes	Loyola
Date	Saturday, January 31, 2026
Time	4:00 p.m.
Location	Annapolis, Md. | Alumni Hall
Tickets	Purchase
Getting There	Directions & USNA Access
Online Media	ESPN+ | Live Stats | International Video Feed

Quick Hits

• Loyola University Maryland's men's basketball steps away from Reitz Arena for its next game but stays in the State of Maryland to play at the U.S. Naval Academy on Saturday, January 31.
• Saturday's game is slated to start at 4 p.m. at Alumni Hall.
• The game is on outlier of five of seven, at home for the Greyhounds.
• Wednesday's game will mark the first of the second half 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 Navy will meet for the 51st time in series history, and the 27th time since the Greyhounds joined the Patriot League in 2013-14, when the teams take the floor on Saturday.
• Navy holds a 37-13 lead in the all-time series after the teams split the regular-season series a year ago, each winning on its own home floor.
• Braeden Speed grabbed an offensive rebound and scored in the paint with 3.1 seconds left on January 11, 2025, in Reitz Arena to lift Loyola to a 75-74 victory in the first meeting of the year.
• Jacob Theodosiou scored what was at the time a career-high 27 points, making 6 of 11 from 3-point range. Veljko Ilic added 18 points, making 7 of 9 from the field.
• In the second meeting in Annapolis on March 1, 2025, Speed made a three with 9:59 left in regulation to tie the score, but Navy went on a 14-2 run to break open the final game of the 2024-25 regular-season for an 81-68 victory.
• Milos Ilic scored 15 points, and his twin brother, Veljko, added 10 and nine rebounds, for Loyola.
• The teams first met during the 1910-11 season making Navy the first-ever current Patriot League team that Loyola faced.

Watch The Action

• Saturday'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 a career-high 30 points Wednesday night to propel Loyola to a 77-68 win over visiting American in Patriot League play at Reitz Arena.
• The sophomore guard from Phoenix got to the free-throw line 14 times and made 11, and he knocked down nine field goals to score 15 in each half.
• Carter Berg-McLean just missed a double-double off the bench with career-bests of 12 points and nine rebounds, and Jordan Stiemke hit three early 3-pointers to help the Greyhounds take a lead in the first six minutes that they would not relinquish; he also added a season-high three blocked shots.
• Loyola led by eight, 33-25, with 1:55 left in the first half, but the Greyhounds scored nine of the next 12 points for a 42-28 halftime lead. The Eagles (13-9, 6-3) rallied early in the second half, trimming their deficit to five, 45-40, on a Geoff Sprouse three less than four minutes into the second half.
• The Greyhounds rallied immediately with Speed making one of two at the line and Sebastien Emenalo knocking down a left-corner three at 15:06. After a missed shot by American, Speed pulled up from 15 feet to hit a jumper that pushed the lead to 11, 51-40, at 14:30.
• American got it back to six, 51-45, on a Madden Collins traditional 3-point play, but again Loyola would get the margin into double digits within three minutes.
• The Greyhounds' lead ballooned to 18, 68-50, on two Speed free throws with 4:01 left, but American went on a 15-2 run and pulled within five when Collins drove and scored at 1:33.
• Speed was fouled on the next two Loyola possessions that wrapped around a defensive stop, and he made three of four from the line to move the gap back to eight. Sprouse, however, hit a closely-defended three with 32 ticks of the clock left, and it was again a five-point game, 73-68.
• Those were the last points the Eagles scored, however, and Speed and Berg-McLean each made two free throws before Stiemke had a steal in the final eight seconds to seal the win.

Back To Speed

• Braeden Speed leads the team in scoring at 15.3 points per game, a mark that is up a full four points since the start of December over Loyola's last 13 games. He has led the Greyhounds in scoring in eight of the last 10 games, including seven of nine 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 13-straight outings with five 20-plus games and eight with 15 or more mixed in. He dropped his first 30-point game of his career on January 28 with 30 in a win over American.
• 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 13 outings, Speed has averaged a team-high 18.0 points per game to go with 4.7 rebounds and a team-best 3.1 assists. He has shot 44.7 percent from the field, making 40.6 percent (28 of 69) from 3-point range. Overall this year, he is also first on the team in total rebounds (99) and assists (70).

Speed In The League

• Braeden Speed is the Greyhounds' leading scorer in Patriot League games, averaging 18.8 over nine 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 (58) and is first in free throws attempted (69) during conference games (.841). 

Second Half Sparks

• Through 22 games this year, the Greyhounds' offense has been better during the second half of games, averaging 40.2 points to 34.2 in the first half.
• Loyola has shot .462 from the field after the break, compared with .411 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 16 more shots after halftime this season and is averaging 9.7 following the break to 5.4 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-50, an average of plus-2.38 per game. He is averaging plus-2.9 per game in League play. Emenalo leads the Greyhounds in League play while averaging plus-3.0.
• Since December 31 when Patriot League play started, Berg-McLean has averaged 18.9 minutes compared to 6.9 in non-conference games. Emenalo jumped to 17.1 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 11.4 points, a team-high 4.8 rebounds and 1.1 assists in his 17 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 46.4 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 35.8, 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 (4.5) – average 4.0 or more rebounds per game, and three others – Jonas Sirtautas (3.6), Jordan Stiemke (3.3) and Sebastien Emenalo (3.0) – average more than three per game.

On The Offensive Glass

• Loyola is second in the Patriot League in offensive rebounds per game, averaging 11.1 through 22 outings. 
• Emmett Adair has played in 17 games thus far, but he is tied for fourth in the conference with 41 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 2.4 per.
• The Greyhounds held American to just two offensive rebounds on January 28, the fewest by a Loyola opponent since limiting Holy Cross to two in January 2024. It was the 19th time the Greyhounds have held a Patriot League opponent to three or fewer offensive boards since joining the conference in 2013-14.

Helping Trains Run On Time

• Tyson Commander's stats do not pop off the sheet as he's averaging a modest 3.4 points and 2.4 rebounds per game this season, but his contributions to Loyola's efficiency come on the court.
• The senior has started the last seven games for Loyola, contests in which the Greyhounds' KenPom offensive efficiency is 108.23, almost five points higher than its season average of 103.4. Loyola's defensive number is 103.59, more than 14 points less than the season average of 118.1.
• Commander has shot 57.1 percent from 3-point range as a starter and averages 5.1 points and 3.1 boards.

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 6.0 points and 4.4 rebounds in 17.1 minutes over nine conference games; he is fifth on the team in points per game in League games and third in rebounds. Throughout the season, in 1 appearances, Emenalo is averaging 4.1 points, 3.0 rebounds and 13.8 minutes per.
• In the League games, he has shot 48.8 percent from the field, while he has shot 45.2 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 18.9 minutes in nine 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 24 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 42 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 11.7 points and 5.7 assists in 44 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 78 games over the last three years for Golden State. This year, he's averaging 5.2 points and 2.9 assists in 33 outings.