Fairfield vs. Loyola (MD): Full Game Preview
By on January 10, 2013
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Fairfield
(10-6, 6-5 away)
Loyola (MD)
(11-5, 8-2 home)
Venue: Reitz Arena
7:00PM ET / 4:00PM PT, January 11, 2013
Team Leaders
| Points | Rebounds | Assists | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairfield | D Needham 13.6 | A Sidibe 4.8 | D Wade 4.2 |
| Loyola (MD) | D Cormier 17.7 | A Winbush 7.1 | D Cormier 2.5 |
In their last outing, behind 24 points and 7 rebounds from Erik Etherly, the Greyhounds blew out St. Peter's 74-58 on January 6th. He tallies 16.1 points per game in addition to a team-best 1.4 blocks per game. For the Stags, Colin Nickerson put up 11 points and 5 rebounds in the 71-67 loss to Niagara on January 5th. He is averaging 6.7 points per game in addition to a team-best 1.8 steals per game.
Fairfield StatSmack
- Loyola can actually jump, with more rebounds (37.3 per game vs 31.3 per game) than Fairfield this season.
- Loyola is better under pressure, and has defeated Fairfield in 11 out of the last 17 games decided by 5 points or fewer.
- Anthony Winbush is ranked 8th in the MAAC in rebounds.
- Dylon Cormier is ranked 33rd nationally in points, 10th in the MAAC in rebounds, and 50th nationally in steals.
- Loyola has a much lower out-of-state cost per year according to Kiplinger than Fairfield ($26,855 vs $51,880).
- The Loyola blocks leader (Jordan Latham) has more blocks than the Fairfield blocks leader (Keith Matthews).
- You'll do better on next semester's exams, right? Loyola currently has a higher Academic Progress Rate (966 to 961) than Fairfield, per the NCAA.
- Loyola is bigger. The average weight of the top 8 players on Loyola is 200 lbs compared to 189 lbs for Fairfield.
- Loyola beat Fairfield by 4 points the last time they played (Mar 05, 2012).
- Julius Brooks is ranked 9th in the MAAC in blocks.
- We're so much better than you, we get lazy. Loyola has come back to win after being down at half against Fairfield 3 times since 2010.
| FAIR Players | Mins | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl | Blk | TO | |
| B- | Derek Needham | 33 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| C | Colin Nickerson | 28 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| C | Maurice Barrow | 26 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| C | Keith Matthews | 22 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| C | Desmond Wade | 28 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| C | Amadou Sidibe | 20 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| C- | Josip Mikulic | 16 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| C- | Marcus Gilbert | 19 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| D+ | Coleman Johnson | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| D | Steve Johnston | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D | Justin Jenkins | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| LMDU Players | Mins | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl | Blk | TO | |
| B | Dylon Cormier | 35 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| B | Erik Etherly | 36 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| C+ | Robert Olson | 35 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| C | Anthony Winbush | 33 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| D+ | Jordan Latham | 18 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| D+ | Jarred Jones | 15 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| D | Julius Brooks | 14 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| D | Tyler Hubbard | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| D | Franz Rassman | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| D- | Eric Laster | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| F | Luke Wandrusch | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| F | Chido Onyiuke | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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