Game Information
Opponent	Towson Tigers | 410 Invitational powered by Under Armour
Game Notes	Loyola
Date	Thursday, November 12, 2026
Time	7:00 p.m.
Location	Towson, Md. | SECU Arena
Tickets	Purchase
Getting There	Directions
Online Media	Flo College | Live Stats

Quick Hits

• Loyola University Maryland men's basketball begins play in the 410 Invitational powered by Under Armour on Thursday, November 12, with a first-round game in the tournament.
• The Greyhounds will play at Towson in a tip-off scheduled for 7 p.m. 
• Thursday's game is slated to stream live on Flo College.
• The game at Towson is the fourth of 13 on the non-conference slate for Loyola.
• Carter Berg-McLean ranks in the top 50 nationally in assists and assists per game thus far in 2026-27. His 18 assists rank 35th, and the 6.0 per game check in tied for 48th.
• Josh Loeffler is in his third year as the Greyhounds' head coach after taking the position as Loyola's 22nd all-time head coach in March 2024. In his first year, he led the Greyhounds to a five-win improvement over the 2023-24 season.

Series History

• Loyola and Towson will meet for the 77th time in series history on Thursday night. The Tigers are the Greyhounds' eighth most-played opponent, following: Mount St. Mary's (180), Western Maryland (now McDaniel, 126), Washington College (117), Johns Hopkins (110), Catholic (88) and Saint Peter's (78).
• The Greyhounds first played Maryland State Teacher's College during the 1934-35 season and posted a 55-15 victory as the first of 20-straight wins for Loyola to open the season.
• The teams were Mason-Dixon Conference opponents from 1940-77.
• Towson and Loyola met last season in the opening game of the 2025-26 campaign at CFG Arena as part of the Hall of Fame Series Baltimore. The Tigers used a 20-6 run midway through the second half to pull away for a 67-55 victory after the score was tied, 28-28, at halftime.
• Loyola leads the all-time series 44-32.

Watch The Action

• Thursday's game will stream live on Flo College.

Playing In The 410

• This year will be the first installment of the 410 Invitational powered by Under Armour. The Baltimore apparel anchor and its four outfitted schools in Baltimore City and County – Loyola, Morgan State, Towson and UMBC – will compete in the event that is set for play in 2026 and 2027.
• The winner of the Loyola-Towson game will face the winner of UMBC-Morgan State, a game which is being played in Catonsville, Maryland, at the home of the Retrivers at 6 p.m. on Thursday.
• The 410 Invitational's consolation game will take place on Saturday, November 14, at 5 o'clock with the championship game participants meeting at 7:30. Both games on Saturday will be held at Towson's SECU Arena.

Last Time Out

• Leo Ricketts and Carter Berg-McLean scored a career highs 28 and 17 points, respectively, and Loyola set a school record for 3-pointers in a game on Monday night during a 106-64 victory over visiting Washington College in Reitz Arena.
• Ricketts made 7 of 13 shots from the field and connected on all nine of his free-throw attempts, while Berg-McLean matched his five 3-pointers made in the win.
• Loyola never trailed in the game and scored its fourth-most points ever in a game in Reitz Arena. 

Youth Being Served

• With Loyola's roster featuring 10 players new to the program this season, it reasons that the Greyhounds are one of the less experienced teams in college basketball. 
• KenPom.com measures Division I experience across the nation, and the Greyhounds check in ranked 343rd out of 362 schools in terms of experience.
• Through three games, Loyola's freshmen have played 21.3 percent of the available 600 minutes. Robbie Long III is averaging 20.0 per game and Gage Howard Jr. 18.7.

Records For Threes Fall

• Loyola broke both the school records for 3-pointers made and attempted in Monday's win over Washington College. The Greyhounds went 19 of 42 from behind the arc in the game breaking the threes made mark of 18 from a January 2008 game against Siena and the 42 attempts record from a November 2001 contest against Coppin State.
• The Greyhounds' 106 points were the 14th-most in school single-game history and the fourth-most they have scored in Reitz Arena.
• Loyola's 19 threes made were the fourth-most by a Patriot League team in a game since 2004.
• Leo Ricketts and Carter Berg-McLean both made five threes in the game, the first time two Loyola players have knocked down five or more in the same game since January 7, 2011, when Robert Olson and J'hared Hall each had six at Manhattan in an 82-67 win.

Still Shooting High Numbers

• Leo Ricketts was one of the top junior college shooters nationally last year when he led the Citrus College to the semifinals of the California Community College Athletic Association (3C2A) Championships.
• Ricketts led all 3C2A players with 115 3-pointers made after shooting 47.5 percent from distance; he averaged 19.7 percent in 32 games while also shooting 48.8 percent from the field and 82.5 percent from the free-throw line.
• Through three games this year, Ricketts leads Loyola with 17.7 points per game. He has made 10 of 18 3-pointers (.556), 16 of 31 from the field (.516) and 11 of 12 free throws (.917).
• He has led the Greyhounds in scoring in each of their first three games with 10 at Georgetown, 15 at Mount St. Mary's and 28 against Washington College.
• Ricketts did not score in his first half of Loyola basketball, going 0 of 1 from the field in the opening 20 minutes against the Hoyas, but since then he is 16 of 30 (.533).

Sophomore Stat Stuffing

• Carter Berg-McLean and Sebastien Emenalo made their first career starts on November 2 in the Greyhounds' season opener at Georgetown and each led the team statistically in various categories.
• Emenalo finished one off his career-high with eight rebounds, three on the offensive glass.
• Berg-McLean had a game-high seven assists while only committing one turnover. The seven assists tied a career-high, and his 7:1 assist-to-turnover ratio were tied for 10th best in the nation on opening night. Berg-McLean's previous career-high of seven assists also came on a low turnover night. He had seven dimes without a turnover in a  January 19, 2026, game at Lehigh.
• They continued to be the team leaders in rebounds and assists at Mount St. Mary's where Emenalo pulled down another eight boards, and Berg-McLean had six assist.

Kiwi Point

• Loyola's offense has flowed through sophomore point guard Carter Berg-McLean this year with the New Zealander topping the Patriot League early with 18 assists through three contests.
• Berg-McLean leads the team with 29.1 minutes per game this season after seeing his playing time grow exponentially during Patriot League action last year.
• He averaged just 6.9 minutes per game in the opening 13 games of the non-conference slate in 2025-26, but he was then saw 18.2 minutes per game in League play and was second on the team with 35 assists during Patriot League games.
• He continues to take good care of the ball after leading the team with a 2.3:1 assist-to-turnover ratio during 2025-26  conference games. This year, he is right at the same mark through three.

No Charity To The Stripe

• Loyola did not make a free throw in its first game of the season and only went to the line twice during the entire game. The Greyhounds were one of two NCAA Division I teams to not make a free throw in a game so far this season (Niagara at West Virginia, 11/2/26), and it was the first time the Greyhounds did not make one from the charity stripe since going 0-2 in a 56-55 loss at home to Navy on February 5, 2022.
• The Greyhounds were awarded only two free throws – both on one first-half shooting foul – despite taking 29 shots inside the paint (making 14) versus the Hoyas. Georgetown, meanwhile, took the same number of shots inside the painted area and went to the line 17 times.

Six Back

• In an era of significant roster turnover, Loyola did feel the effects during the offseason, but a core of six returners who have all played significant minutes are back for Head Coach Josh Loeffler.
• Four players return after seeing more than 400 minutes of game action a year ago, led by Sam Springer who started 31 of 32 games (only non-start was senior day) and averaged 16.9 minutes per game.
• Sebastien Emenalo and Carter Berg-McLean averaged 14.5 and 14.0 minutes per game, respectively, in their first collegiate seasons, while Troy Cicero Jr. averaged 13.9. 
• Everett Barnes made five starts for the Greyhounds in the post, and Goap Kodi returns, too, after missing the 2025-26 season with an injury.

New Faces

• The Greyhounds' roster is dotted with 10 players new to the program: four freshmen and six transfers.
• Gage Howard Jr., Robbie Long III, Ezekiel Walker and Seamus Bieg are first-year students, Mason Hagedorn and Leo Ricketts are junior transfers, while Abdullah Amzil, D'Andre Harrison, Alex Huguet and Max Ortega are sophomores.

Far & Wide

• Loyola's roster represents 10 states and five countries; players hail from all four mainland United States time zones.
• Carter Berg-McLean is the furthest from home when he is on Loyola's Charles Street campus. He is in his fourth year in the United States after spending two years at Georgetown Prep outside Washington, D.C., and 2025-26 at Loyola, but the Evergreen campus is 8,794 miles from Berg-McLean's hometown of Wellington, New Zealand.
• Sebastien Emanelo's hometown of Walton-on-Thames, England is 3,623 miles away, Alex Huguet checks in at 4,098 miles from Portol, Spain, on the island of Mallorca, slightly closer than Abdullah Amzil's hometown of Helsinki, Finland at 4,273 miles away.
• Leo Ricketts and Ezekiel Walker give the Greyhounds a set of teammates from the same home state. Both hail from Northern California. Robbie Long III is also from the Pacific Time Zone and Portland, Oregon. Everett Barnes and Seamus Bieg are also teammates from New Jersey.
• D'Andre Harrison represents the Mountain Time Zone and the Grand Canyon State after coming from the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert, Arizona.
• Troy Cicero Jr. is the lone Central Time Zone player out of Joliet, Illinois.
• Gage Howard Jr. is the Greyhounds player closest to home, with his address just over eight miles from the Loyola campus. 

Cicero With Seniority

• Troy Cicero Jr. is the Greyhounds lone senior in 2026-27 but he brings a presence that helps represent Loyola and the Patriot League on the national level.
• Cicero serves as a Patriot League representative on the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Student-Athlete Engagement Group. The committee gives current players a direct channel to provide feedback to NCAA decision-makers on rules, policies and issues affecting their sport.
• He is also a student-athlete representative  to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Playing Rules Subcommittee. This group focuses on playing rules, reviewing officiating issues and considering experimental rules.
• On the court, Cicero missed all but four games of his freshman campaign due to injury, but he has played in 50 over the last two years for Loyola including all 32 last year.
• He shot 37.4 percent from 3-point range in 2025-26 and is the team's leading returning scorer at 5.8 points per game.

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 play for the Dallas Mavericks and Memphis Grizzlies, respectively, and four-time men's lacrosse All-American Pat Spencer is a member of the Phoenix Suns.
• 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 278 NBA games and averaged 14.0 points and 6.7 rebounds last season with Memphis after signing a four-year contract during the summer of 2025. 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 averaged 11.1 points and 5.6 assists in 72 games last 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 played in 111 regular-season, plus eight playoff, games from 2023-2026 with the Golden State Warriors. He made his Suns debut on opening night.
• The trio comprise three of the five former Greyhounds who have played in the NBA. Mike Morrison was a second-round pick of the Suns in 1989 and played in 36 games as a rookie for Phoenix. Andy O'Donnell played for the 1949-50 Baltimore Bullets in the precursor to the current NBA. 
• Another former Greyhounds player, Michael Malone, '94, was a head coach for 12 years in the NBA, leading the Denver Nuggets to the 2022-23 World Championship. He is now in his first year as head coach at the University of North Carolina.

Up Next

• Loyola will take nearly a week off of competition after the 410 Invitational powered by Under Armour before playing at sixth-ranked University of Virginia on Friday, November 20.