Game 5
Opponent: Loyola Maryland Greyhounds (1-3, 0-0 Patriot League)
Date: Saturday, November 14, 2026
Site: SECU Arena, Towson, Md.
Game Time: 5 p.m. ET
Series Record: Loyola Maryland leads the series 11-6
Live Stream: FloCollege | Live Stats: www.towsontigers.com
Coaches: MSU -Kevin Broadus (98-110, 8th yr) • Josh Loeffler 25-42 (3rd)
Websites: www.morganstatebears.com | www.loyolagreyhounds.com 

SETTING THE STAGE
• The Morgan State men's basketball team (3-1) heads crosstown Saturday evening, looking to bounce back when it faces the Loyola Maryland Greyhounds (1-3) in a nonconference matchup. Tipoff is scheduled for 5 p.m. at SECU Arena, with live coverage available on FloCollege.

• Saturday's contest will serve as the consolation game of the inaugural 410 Invitational powered by Under Armour, a planned multi-year event featuring the men's and women's basketball programs from Morgan State, UMBC, Towson and Loyola. The event celebrates Baltimore-area college basketball while providing a competitive platform for the region's programs.

• Morgan State enters Saturday's matchup following an 85-70 loss at UMBC on Thursday, which snapped the Bears' three-game winning streak and dropped them to 3-1 on the season. Morgan will look to regroup, rediscover its offensive rhythm, and shoot better against the Greyhounds.

• Reigning MEAC Coach of the Year Kevin Broadus will lead the Bears into the upcoming season, with All-MEAC guard Alfred Worrell Jr. and newcomer point guard Keith Richard named to the conference's Preseason Watch List.

• Worrell Jr. emerged as Morgan State's leading scorer during the 2025-26 season, averaging 17.4 points and 3.8 rebounds in 30 games, including 26 starts. He scored in double figures 23 times, including 13 games with 20 or more points. Worrell shot 38.8% from the field, 36.3% from three-point range and a MEAC-best 88.5% from the free-throw line. He ranked fourth in the conference in scoring and second in three-point shooting percentage. He earned All-MEAC recognition and BOXTOROW All-American honors last season. He was also selected to the 2026 Black College Sports Page "Baad Team."

• Keith Richard, a 6-foot guard from Dallas, Texas, joins Morgan State from South Plains College, where he started 19 of 27 games. He averaged 10.4 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.3 assists in 25.5 minutes per game, shooting 41 percent from the field and 39 percent from three-point range. His addition provides the Bears with another backcourt option heading into a demanding 2026-27 campaign.

• Morgan's biggest challenge is replacing the production and leadership of All-MEAC performer Elijah Davis, along with guards Rob Lawson and Walter Peggs Jr. The trio was instrumental in Morgan State's run to second place in the MEAC standings. Davis was one of the conference's top point guards, averaging 13.8 points, 5.9 assists, and 3.3 rebounds per game.

SCOUTING LOYOLA MARYLAND
•  Josh Loeffler, a coach who won 80 percent of his collegiate games at two NCAA institutions, was named the 22nd head men's basketball coach of the Greyhounds, Assistant Vice President and Director of Athletics Donna M. Woodruff announced on March 30, 2024. Loeffler was most recently an assistant coach in 2023-24 at the University of Cincinnati after a highly successful run as the head coach at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to his time at Loyola's Charles Street neighbor, he was an assistant for the Greyhounds from 2013-17.

• Loyola Maryland posted a 12-20 overall record in 2025-26. The Greyhounds finished 8-10 in Patriot League play and lost to Colgate, 90-77, in the Patriot League Championships in Hamilton, N.Y.

• Last season, the Greyhounds compiled an 8-10 home record, went 3-13 on the road, and were 1-1 in neutral games. 

• 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

• The Greyhounds feature multiple scoring options, with Leo Ricketts averaging 18.3 points and shooting 41 percent from the three, while Sebastien Emenalo is averaging 9.3 points and 8.3 rebounds, and D'Andre Harrison is averaging 8.5 points and 5.3 rebounds. 

• Loyola Maryland enters Saturday's contest averaging 70.3 points per game through its first four outings. The Greyhounds are averaging 11.0 three-pointers per game and are shooting 38.9 percent from the field.

• Last time out: Leo Ricketts scored 20 points, and D'Andre Harrison added a career-high 14 on Thursday night, but a late first-half run helped Towson University pull away from Loyola University Maryland for a 90-60 non-conference victory in the teams' first game of the 410 Invitational powered by Under Armour.

THE SERIES
• Loyola leads the series, 11-6, and is currently enjoying the longest winning streak of either team, having won six straight. 

• Only two of the meetings in the last 35 years have not come in tournament play, squaring off six times during incarnations of the "Battle of Baltimore" which took place on campus sites and once in the 1979 ECAC Southern Regional Tournament, played at and won by Loyola.

• Loyola Maryland won the first matchup in the series, leading the series, 65-63, on February 12, 1952.

• Nov. 29, 2010 --  Sophomore guard Robert Olson scored nine of his 11 second-half points during a stretch of 1:23 late in the second half to give the Greyhounds a lead they would not give back as Loyola posted a 73-67 road win at Morgan State Monday night at Hill Field House. For Morgan State, Jackson led all scorers with 19 points, and Kevin Thompson posted a double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds. Ameer Ali came off the bench to snare 10 rebounds.

• Morgan's last win against the Retrievers was Dec. 2, 1978, at Loyola in a 67-58 victory. 

65 POINTS, OR FEWER
In his eighth season as Morgan's head coach, Broadus has guided the Bears to a 32-8 (.780) record when the Bears have held their opposition to 65 points or fewer. Morgan was 5-2 during the 2023-24 season (allowing 65 or fewer points), and was mirrored in 2022-23 with another 5-2 record. They went 4-0 in 2021-22, went 3-1 in 2020-21, and were 9-3 in 2019-20. The Bears are off to a 1-0 start this season.

TWO BEARS CAPTURE WEEKLY MEAC ACCOLADES
Morgan State men's basketball standouts Alfred Worrell Jr. and Ibrahima Traore have been recognized by the MEAC for their outstanding performances. Worrell averaged 22.3 points and 6.3 rebounds per game, helping Morgan State go 3-0 for the first time since the 2009-10 campaign, when the Bears finished 26-10 overall. Traore, a newcomer to the Bears' frontcourt, made an immediate impact on both ends of the floor. Across Morgan State's first three games, the forward averaged 8.0 points, 8.0 rebounds, and 2.0 blocked shots per game.

BROADUS CLOSING IN ON 100 WINS
Head coach Kevin Broadus enters the contest with a 98-110 career record at Morgan State and is just two victories away from reaching the 100-win milestone. Associate Head Coach Chretien Lukusa earned his first career victory as acting head coach on Feb. 21, 2026, guiding the Bears to an 82-68 MEAC victory over Delaware State at Hill Field House while Broadus was sidelined due to illness. That victory is credited to the program but not to Broadus' individual coaching record.


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ABOUT MORGAN
Morgan State University, founded in 1867, is a Carnegie-classified high research (R2) institution offering more than 150 baccalaureate, master's degree, doctorate, and certificate programs. As Maryland's Preeminent Public Urban Research University and the only university to have its entire campus designated as a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Morgan serves a multiethnic and multiracial student body and seeks to ensure that the doors of higher education are opened as wide as possible to as many as possible. For more information about Morgan State University, visit www.morgan.edu.