Game Information
Opponent	Maryland Terrapins
Date	Saturday, February 7, 2026
Time	2:30 p.m.
Location	College Park, Md. | Jones-Hill House
Getting There	Directions
Watch	B1G+
Online Media	Live Stats
Tickets	None - Limited Attendance Due To Indoors
Game Notes	Loyola

Quick Hits

• Loyola University Maryland opens its 84th season of men's lacrosse with a road game at the University of Maryland on Saturday, February 7.
• Faceoff is now slated for 2:30 p.m., and the game will be played indoors at the Jones-Hill House on Maryland's campus.
• This weekend's game was scheduled as the second of the season for Loyola and Maryland, but both teams will instead open 2026 against each other. Due to last weekend's weather, Loyola's scheduled contest against Georgetown was moved to Tuesday, March 17, at 6 p.m., while the Terrapins game at Richmond has been postponed.
• Loyola returns 97.69 percent of its goals scored, 96.55 percent of its assists, 88.89 of its faceoffs won and all of its goalie saves from last year.
• Charley Toomey is in his 21st season as head coach of the Greyhounds. It is also his 30th year as a member of the Loyola staff and 34th with the program, including four as a student-athlete.
• The Greyhounds are in their 17th season of competition at Ridley Athletic Complex, which opened in 2010. The Greyhounds are 76-35 (.684) all-time at the stadium.

Looking Back

• The Greyhounds finished the 2025 season with a 3-11 record, going 3-5 in Patriot League play.
• Loyola finished 3-2 over its last five games, however, and it came with better offensive numbers than in the season's first nine games. 
• Loyola scored 67 goals (13.4 per) with 47 assists (9.4) while shooting .351 in those contests; the Greyhounds were 7 of 17 on extra-man during the five games.
• The 67 goals represented 51.5 percent of Loyola's goals (out of 130) last season. In the first nine games of the year, Loyola shot 21.6 percent (63 out of 291).
• Matthew Minicus led the Greyhounds in scoring and picked up All-Patriot League Second Team honors for the second year in a row. He finished his junior season with 25 goals and 27 assists for 52 points in 14 games. Mason Cook added 17 goals and seven assists, while Henry Haberman had 16 and eight. 
• Max Watkinson started all 14 games and played nearly 800 minutes in goal for the Greyhounds. he finished sixth in the nation in saves per game (13.5), and his 189 stops rank 10th in school single-season history.

Watch The Game

• Saturday's game against Maryland will stream live on B1G+.
• All Loyola home games will be on the ESPN+ platform, and international viewers can watch on Sidearm.

Series History

• Saturday afternoon in College Park will be the 28th all-time meeting between Loyola and Maryland with the Terrapins leading the first 26 meetings, 22-4.
• The game will mark the fifth-straight year that the teams with Maryland going 3-1 in that stretch.
• Kenan Everhart tied the game at 7-7, scoring his second goal of the game with 2.2 seconds to play after restarting from the end-line with 8.1 on the clock. Maryland won the overtime period's faceoff and Matthew Keegan scored 1:04 into the extra period.
• A 5-1 Loyola run in the second and third quarters put the Greyhounds in front, 5-2, on a Brady West goal with 7:34 to play in the third, but Maryland scored four in a row to lead 6-5. Remi Reynolds scored in transition to break the run at 5:31, but Daniel Kelly put the Terrapins up, 7-6, with a goal at 3:11 in the fourth.
• The teams first met during the 1940 season with Loyola picking up a 17-6 win, but the Terrapins won 17 in a row in the series until a 10-8 Loyola win in March 1989.
• Loyola and Maryland met just one more time during the 20th century – a 19-8 Terrapins victory in the 1998 NCAA Quarterfinals – and did not play again until the 2012 NCAA Championship Game. The Greyhounds own that contest, 9-3, to secure the school's first NCAA Division I Championship in any sport.

Learning On The Job Brings Experience

• Entering last season, the Greyhounds roster was significantly different than previous seasons with 19 freshmen and two transfers plus others who would see their first collegiate playing time after season-ending injuries previously in their careers.
• In 14 games this year during 2025, 23 players made their collegiate debuts for the Greyhounds, 18 freshmen and four sophomores who did not play in their first years out of high school.
• That youth brings experience this year as the Greyhounds return nine of 10 players who started the majority of games, as well as a plethora of depth that saw action last year.

Percentage Of Points

• Loyola lost just two players – both on the defensive side of the ball  – who scored goals last year: Remi Reynolds (two goals) and Diego Roman (one). That gives Head Coach Charley Toomey a NCAA Division I leading 97.69 percent of goals scored back on the lineup for 2026.
• Only three players who had assists in 2025 – Reynolds (one), faceoff specialist Sawyer Allen (one) and short-stick defensive midfielder Cole Erickson (one) – departed following the season meaning 96.55 percent of assists are back on the roster this season.
• Max Watkinson (797-plus minutes) and Ben Abel (51) are back as the two goals who saw time in net last year.
• The biggest area of attrition for this year comes at the faceoff 'X' where Allen took 71 a season ago. Carson Hall (231) and Mason Graves (24), however, took a combined 255 at the dot, meaning Loyola has 88.89 percent of faceoffs taken back on the roster.

Alum Returns To Coaching Staff

• A familiar face is back on the Loyola sidelines this season with the return of two-time USILA All-American Justin Ward in a new role on the Evergreen campus.
• Ward joined the Loyola coaching staff in May as the program's newest assistant coach and offensive coordinator. The 2014 graduate of Loyola was a member of the Greyhounds' starting attack during their run to the 2012 NCAA Championship as part of a career that saw him earn All-America honors in 2013 (honorable mention) and 2014 (second team). He finished his four years at Loyola with 57 goals, 120 assists and 177 points. His 120 assists rank third in school career history, and his 177 points enter the 2026 season tied for 10th.
• Ward immediately entered the coaching ranks as an assistant coach at Georgetown from 2015-17 before moving on to Army West Point where he coached for eight years. The Black Knights led the Patriot League in scoring three of the last four years and ranked third in NCAA Division I in 2025 with 14.21 goals per game.

Tops In Points

• Matthew Minicus opened the 2025 season, his junior campaign at Loyola, with a four-point effort against Georgetown, and the multi-point games continued to trend. Through the start of 2026, he has 25 career multi-goal outings and 17 multi-assist performances. 
• Last year, he led Loyola with 52 points on 25 goals and 27 assists, earning All-Patriot League Second Team recognition for the second year in a row. He registered his 100th career point with a first-quarter assist against Rutgers on February 21, 2025. 
• Since he was held without a point for just the third time in his career on March 29, 2025, at Lehigh, Minicus finished 2025 with 26 points (4.8 per game) on 17 goals (3.4) and nine assists (1.8).
• His 52 points and 27 assists ere career highs through three seasons. He had 49 points (33 goals, 16 assists) in 2023 and 43 (28, 15) last season. Minicus has played in 44 games for the Greyhounds and already has 143 points with 86 goals and 58 assists. 

Standing Up In Starting Role

• The 2025 season was Max Watkinson's first as a full-time starter for the Greyhounds in goal; the Baltimore native started two games in 2024 before taking over the job in 2025. 
• He posted solid numbers in 14 games with 10 or more in 13 of the games. Watkinson posted his top save total with a career-high 19 at Rutgers, and he had three other games with 15 or more (at Providence, 15; at Bucknell, 17; at Towson, 17).
• Last season, Watkinson made 189 saves in 14 contests (13.5 per game), with a 55.1 saves percentage; he ranked sixth nationally in saves per game. In the final game of the 2025 regular-season, he moved into 10th in Loyola single-season history, passing his head coach's total of 188 in 1990.

Cook-ing On Attack

• Mason Cook missed the 2025 season's fall practice with an injury, but he got up to speed in his first season at Loyola. He saw an increased role on offense over the Greyhounds' last eight games, making his first collegiate start against the Providence and nailing down a spot in the opening 10 since.
• Cook exploded for 10 points on five goals and five assists against Holy Cross and scored two more against Navy to bring his season totals to 17  goals, seven assists and 24 points. He is the only freshman in NCAA Division I to post 10 points in a game this year, and he is the first Loyola freshman to do so since Pat Spencer had five goals and five assists in the 2016 Patriot League Championship Game against Army West Point.
• In the last five games (since Bucknell) of the year, Cook had 12 goals and five assists, while shooting .363 (12 of 33).

Brady Building On Offense

• Brady Quinn took two shots in four games as a freshman in 2024, but last year he developed into a starting midfielder for the Greyhounds as a member of the first midfield in the last nine games of the year, with nine goals and 14 points during that stretch.
• Quinn took just 28 shots last season, but he converted on 42.9 percent of those attempts for 12 goals to go with seven assists. He had a career-high four points with three goals and an assist at Bucknell.

Houlihan Holding Steady On Close D

• Joe Houlihan has been a steady part of the Loyola close defense since the 2023 season. He moved into a starting role that year before missing the last several games with an injury, but he has started every game the last two seasons.
• The Long Island native eclipsed his previous season-high for caused turnovers (19) and ground balls (34). He was named Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week for the first time in his career on April 21 after having three of each against Navy.

Toomey's Team

• Charley Toomey is in his 21st year as the head coach at Loyola and his 30th as a member of the Greyhounds' coaching staff. Overall, he is in his 34th year on the Evergreen campus, including his four seasons as a student-athlete from 1986-90.
• Toomey has a 187-112 career record. Early in the 2016 season, Toomey became the second coach in program history to reach and cross the 100-win plateau; he became the school's all-time leader in wins in 2024, passing Dave Cottle's 181.
• In January 2019, Toomey was named to the coaching staff of the U.S. Men's National Team as an assistant coach. He was an assistant for the gold-medal-winning team at the 2023 World Championships in San Diego. Toomey will again be an assistant for Team USA in preparation for and competition at the 2027 Championships in Japan.