BOSTON – Riding a season-high five-game win streak, the Boston University men's basketball team will visit Loyola Maryland on Monday night with the CBS Sports Network broadcast slated to begin at 7 p.m. The matchup will be the first of three in six days, as the Terriers will later host Colgate on Wednesday (Jan. 18) and then visit Bucknell on Saturday (21).
TERRIER TIDBITS
- Sixth-year head coach Joe Jones is one win away from becoming the third ever to lead the Terriers (10-7, 5-0 PL) to 100 victories ... He last led BU to a 6-0 start in conference play in 2013-14 en route to the program's first conference regular season title since 2003-04.
- After opening 0-6 on the road, the Terriers have won two straight at Navy (71-53) and Lafayette (91-75).
- BU is shooting 45.0 FG% overall but is shooting a lower percentage on the road at 42.3 FG%.
- The Terriers are shooting 41.9 3FG% at home and just 33.6 3FG% on the road ... They have yet to win a game (0-5) when shooting below 30 3FG% this season and are a perfect 8-0 when finishing with higher number of made 3-pointers than opponents.
- During the five-game win streak, BU is averaging 74.8 ppg at 45.7 FG% and is holding opponents to 62.0 ppg and 38.1 FG%, respectively.
- During the same stretch, three Terriers have been averaging double figures ... Junior Cedric Hankerson has scored 21 points in back-to-back games to average 13.8 ppg ... He needs 119 points to join senior Eric Fanning in reaching the 1,000-point milestone.
- Fanning is averaging 12.6 ppg and 6.8 rpg in conference play, while senior Justin Alston is averaging a team-high 8.6 rpg with 12.0 ppg ... Freshman Tyler Scanlon is close behind in scoring at 9.8 thanks to 15 3-pointers off 27 attempts (.556).
- Sophomore Kyle Foreman ranks second in the PL in assists at 5.1 apg and owns a 2.6 assist-to-turnover ratio in conference play while also averaging 2.8 spg over the last five contests.
SCOUTING LOYOLA MARYLAND
- Loyola (8-8, 2-3 PL) is averaging 66.8 ppg while shooting 40.7 FG% ... The Greyhounds are 5-0 this season when scoring at least 70 points, while the Terriers are 2-6 this season when allowing at least 70 points.
- The Greyhounds are 4-2 at home but both losses came against PL members Lafayette (78-69) and Navy (75-62), who BU beat on the road ... The four wins came against Fairfield (81-66), Mount Saint Mary's (64-57), UMass Lowell (69-60) and Millersville (79-66).
- Loyola shared two non-conference opponents with the Terriers, first falling at LIU Brooklyn (65-61) and then winning at home against UML.
- The Greyhounds rank second in the PL defensively in holding opponents to 32.2 3FG% and just an average of 5.6 made 3-pointers per game.
- Jarred Jones is averaging a team-high 16.1 ppg while shooting 46.7 FG% and 6.9 rpg ... In conference play, he is averaging 18.0 ppg on 53.3 FG%.
- Andre Walker is the second Greyhound in double figures at 14.9 ppg with 3.8 apg.
- Cam Gregory is second on the team in rebounding at 6.2 rpg and is also averaging 6.9 ppg ... In conference play however, he is averaging 11.2 ppg on a stellar 72.4 FG%.
SERIES HISTORY
- BU leads the all-time series, 6-3, with a 2-3 mark on the road and is 5-1 since joining the PL in the summer of 2013 ... BU won the first meeting in 1996 on a neutral court in FL and then dropped the next two at Loyola in the 2012 BracketBusters and 2013 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tourney.
- Teams will meet for third time in four years on Martin Luther King Jr. Day ... MLK earned his Ph.D. at BU in 1955 ... BU won both meetings at home, 72-58 (2014) and 87-84 OT (2016).
- They have gone to OT each of the last two years.
- In 2015 at home, Loyola pulled out a 91-86 OT win ... The game was one to forget for BU due to 13-of-31 FT (.419) in regulation ... Missed pair of FTs with under a second left to go to OT.
- Last year, free throws played a role again at BU ... Down by as many as 14 (68-54) at 8:45, BU rallied back and went 1-of-2 FT at both 10s and 3s in regulation to send the game to OT, thanks in part to Loyola missing both FTs at 8s ... Fanning made all four FTs in the final 35s of OT to seal 87-84 victory.
- BU followed up on the road with 73-65 win despite seeing 12-point lead cut to three at 2:35.
- Fanning first scored a career-high 37 pts. and then had 14 points and career-high 15 rebs.
- Hankerson had his breakout game at Loyola in 2014 by reaching 20 points for the first time ever off 5-of-6 3FG & 5-of-6 FT performance.
