BOSTON – The Boston University men's basketball team had a second-half rally come up short on Friday evening at Case Gym, as visiting Loyola Maryland held on for a 66-58 victory.

The Greyhounds (8-6, 2-1, PL) shot 52.9 percent from the field and scored eight of the game's final 10 points over the final 2:30 to defeat the Terriers (10-6, 1-2 PL), who went 7-of-16 from behind the arc in the second half after going 1-of-13 in the first.. 
 
Graduate students Sukhmail Mathon (19 pts.) and Javante McCoy (15 pts.) led the way in scoring for BU and shared the lead in rebounds with six. Senior Walter Whyte added six boards as well and recorded nine points to become the 40th player in program history to reach the 1,000-point milestone.
 
Loyola's Cam Spencer led all players with 19 points, while Jaylin Andrews contributed 12. Directing the offense with five assists, Kenneth Jones contributed two 3-pointers en route to 10 points. Jones, Spencer and Alonso Faure all had two blocks apiece with Golden Dike adding the seventh block alongside a game-high nine rebounds that helped Loyola win the battle at the boards, 39-30.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• BU started the game cold and only managed to net its third field goal at 7:24 off senior Fletcher Tynen's layup but only trailed 15-8.
• Never trailing in the contest, the Greyhounds grabbed their first double-digit lead at 4:37 on Faure's jumper, 21-11.
• Whyte's layup on BU's final possession of the half cut the deficit to 27-17 entering the locker room.
• The Greyhounds grabbed their largest lead on Spencer's 3-pointer at 19:36, but the Terriers scored six straight off buckets from Mathon, Tynen and Whyte over the next two minutes.
• Junior Ethan Brittain-Watts pulled BU even closer, 39-35, on a 3-pointer at 12:57, but the Greyhounds scored seven straight off Faure's hook shot, Wade Jackson 's 3-point play and then Spencer's jumper at 10:17.
• Mathon sparked a quick 7-0 spurt with a quick hook shot at 9:54 in what proved to be the final two-point field goal of the game for the Terriers.
• Facing a 56-47 deficit with 4:03 remaining, BU scored from behind the arc over the next three possessions with Harper flushing a pair of treys and McCoy adding the third to pull within two, 58-56, at 2:37.
• Spencer came out of a called timeout with a contested floater, and Dike earned a game-changing block on Mathon's layup attempt that led to Andrews' driving layup.
• BU missed its last four field goal attempts in the loss.

GAME NOTES

• Whyte ended the game tied with Arturo Brown ('82) for No. 39 all-time in the program-record book at 1,007 points.
• McCoy just needs 12 more points to become the seventh Terrier to reach 1,600, while Mathon is now only 28 rebounds away from becoming the ninth to reach 700.
• The Terriers were held to a season-low 33.9 FG% with Brittain-Watt's 3-pointer the only points off the bench.
• Loyola cut BU's lead in the series to 13-7 by earning its first-ever road win.

UP NEXT

• The Terriers will visit American on Monday (Jan. 10) with the CBS Sports Network broadcast set for 7 p.m.
• BU won the last meeting at home, 64-60, in 2020 and will try to snap a three-game losing streak at Bender Arena.