Ramblers Journey to Dayton – Loyola University Chicago Athletics

CHICAGO – The Loyola University Chicago ladies’s basketball workforce hits the street for an Atlantic 10 matchup at Dayton this Wednesday (Jan. 7). Tip-off inside UD Arena is about for six p.m. CT with the sport streaming reside on ESPN+.

QUICK HITS

• Loyola performs its seventh street recreation of the season when it travels to Dayton. LUC is 3-3 on the street.
• The Ramblers enter Wednesday coming off a 70-58 loss to Rhode Island at house.
• Three gamers scored in double figures for the Maroon and Gold, and Loyola outshot the Rams from the sphere, nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient as Rhody sealed the win on the free-throw line down the stretch.
• Alexa Kinas recorded her first-career double-double with 14 factors and 10 rebounds.
• Alexus Mobley, who notched a season-high for the second consecutive recreation, had 16 factors and three steals.
• Brooklyn Vaughn scored a game-high 17 factors and grabbed seven rebounds. She additionally had a block and a steal.
• Vaughn, Mobley and Kinas mixed to attain 47 of Loyola Chicago’s 58 factors.
• Loyola Chicago pressured 15 turnovers and held Rhode Island beneath 40 p.c capturing. Only give different groups have held Rhody to beneath 40 p.c.
• Loyola Chicago’s scoring heats up all through the sport. This season, Loyola has scored 149 factors within the first quarter, 165 within the second, 202 within the third, and 220 within the fourth.
• The Ramblers have been good on the charity stripe twice this season (at UConn and vs. UMES). Only seven different video games by A-10 members have seen an ideal outing on the line this season.
• Vaughn ranks fifth within the Atlantic 10 in rebounding (7.1 boards per recreation). She’s had three video games with double digit rebounds, all of which have been double-double performances.

2025-26 RAMBLER BITES

• The Ramblers goal to enhance on final season’s 13-17 ledger as Head Coach Allison Guth enters her fourth season on the helm.
• Guth compiled a 34–57 document over her first three seasons at LUC and enters 2025–26 with a 133–131 profession mark after starting her head-coaching tenure at Yale.
• Loyola Chicago returns eight letterwinners from the 204-25 roster. Additionally, Guth added 5 newcomers in the course of the offseason.
• Over the summer season, former Ramblers Thoranna Kika Hodge-Carr (Valur Körfubolti) and Naelle Bernard (AS Aulnoye Basket) signed skilled contracts abroad.
• Five Ramblers have turned skilled beneath Head Coach Allison Guth.
• Since 2010, 9 Ramblers have gone on to signal skilled contracts: Hodge-Carr, Bernard, Sam Galanopoulos, Emma Nolan, Sophia Nolan, Troy Hambric, Taylor Manuel, Bre Hampton-Bey, and Allison Day.

SCOUTING THE DAYTON FLYERS

• Head Coach Tamika Williams-Jeter is 45-59 (.433) in 4 seasons at Dayton.
• This season, UD is 8-6 total and has a 1-2 ledger in A-10 video games.
• Dayton is coming off a 68-61 win over Duquesne this previous Saturday.
• Prior to that although, UD fell, 74-59, at George Mason.
• Senior guard Nayo Lear paced the Flyers in scoring with 15.9 factors per recreation. That mark ranks fifth within the convention.
• Fatima Ibrahim leads the workforce on the glass with 6.6 rebounds per recreation. She additionally ranks second within the A-10 in area objective proportion (.565) and blocks (2.0).
• Nicole Stephens is second in assists per recreation with 4.2.
• As a workforce, Dayton ranks third within the league in area objective proportion (.438).

ALL-TIME AGAINST THE FLYERS

• The Loyola trails 11-16 in its all-time sequence with Dayton.
• The Ramblers’ final win over Dayton got here on Feb. 25, 2024, a 64-61 win over on Senior Day.
• Loyola’s final win over UD on their house flooring occurred Dec. 6, 2006 – a 73-69 triumph for LUC.
• Dayton is 4-1 over Loyola because it joined the Atlantic 10.

LAST TIME OUT
Alexa Kinas posted her first profession double-double and Brooklyn Vaughn and Alexus Mobley additionally scored in double figures, however Loyola Chicago fell to Rhode Island 70-58 on Saturday night time at Gentile Arena. Vaughn led the Ramblers with 17 factors and 7 rebounds, Mobley added 16 factors and three steals, and Kinas completed with 14 factors and 10 rebounds because the trio mixed for 47 factors. Loyola held the Rams to 38.7 p.c capturing and beneath 30 p.c from 3-point vary and matched them with 36 factors within the paint, however Rhode Island capitalized on turnovers with 20 factors and went 17-for-21 on the free-throw line to drag away late.

ATLANTIC 10 PRESEASON POLL

• Richmond is the preseason favourite to win the 2025-26 Atlantic 10 Women’s Basketball title, topping the coaches’ ballot for a second straight yr. The Spiders return All-A-10 stars Maggie Doogan and Rachel Ullstrom after a 28-7 season and their first NCAA Tournament win.
• George Mason ranks second, adopted by Davidson, Rhode Island, and Dayton. Saint Joseph’s, VCU, Duquesne, Saint Louis, and George Washington full the highest 10. Fordham, La Salle, Loyola Chicago, and St. Bonaventure spherical out the ballot.
• Doogan, Ullstrom, George Mason’s Zahirah Walton and Kennedy Harris, and VCU’s Mary-Anna Asare headline the Preseason All-Conference First Team.

RETURNING RAMBLERS

• Loyola Chicago returns eight from the 2024-25 roster: Yasmyn Palmer, Roisin Grandberry, Alexa Kinas, Audrey Deptula, Rosalie Mercille, Kendall Hendrix, Kira Chivers, and Brooklyn Vaughn.
• Key returners embrace senior level guard Kira Chivers who began 25 of 28 video games in 2024–25, main Loyola in steals per recreation (1.1) and rating sixteenth within the A-10 in assists (2.9), with the league’s Tenth-best assist-to-turnover ratio (1.3). She scored in double figures six occasions, highlighted by a career-high 17 factors and 5 rebounds vs. Northwestern, and delivered a season-best seven assists at Eastern Illinois.
• Another key returner, junior guard Rosalie Mercille, appeared in 20 video games in 2024–25, coming back from harm to contribute 9 factors within the Senior Day win vs. Saint Louis. She posted double-digit scoring twice, together with 11 factors at Eastern Illinois, and matched a season-high 4 rebounds 3 times. Mercille additionally recorded three assists in three straight video games early within the season.
• Point guard Alexa Kinas performed in 28 video games with 5 begins as a freshman in 2024–25, logging essentially the most minutes amongst Loyola newcomers. She shot .443 from the sphere, ending second on the workforce in FG proportion, and tied for second in steals (29). Kinas scored seven factors in her debut, posted a season-high 15 factors vs. Richmond, and grabbed a season-best six rebounds twice.

FRESH FACES

• Alex-Anne Bessette is a three-time All-Canadian and AmeriCup silver medalist who helped Team Canada to silver on the 2024 FIBA U18 Women’s Americas Championship. The 6-foot-2 Quebec City native led her prep workforce to the 2025 OSBA title and earned Second Team All-Star honors. She performed on the elite Kia Nurse EYBL circuit.
• Alexus Mobley arrives as a graduate switch from Akron after two seasons with the Zips and two at Danville Community College. The Indianapolis native began 38 video games at Akron, averaging 9.2 factors, 4.7 rebounds, 1.7 assists, and 1.2 steals per recreation. She recorded profession highs of 30 factors and 17 rebounds in the course of the 2024-25 season.
• Daniella Matus is a 1,000-point scorer who averaged 12.4 factors, 3.6 rebounds, and 1.3 assists in her last season at Morris Catholic. She helped St. John Vianney win a fourth straight Shore Conference Tournament title and attain the NJSIAA semifinals. Matus earned Morris County Tournament MVP honors, All-Tournament recognition on the John Wall National Christmas Tournament, and a number of all-conference awards, together with NJAC First Team. She starred for Team Sharp on the AAU circuit and was a 2025 McDonald’s All American Game nominee.
• Nevaeh Dickman is a 6-foot energy ahead from Fishers, Ind., rated a three-star prospect by 247Sports and ranked No. 6 in Indiana. She earned a number of all-state honors, together with IBCA Senior Large School All-State, and HCC First Team All-Conference recognition.
• Clara Djoko, a 6-foot ahead from Entzheim, France, transfers from UC Irvine, the place she appeared in 55 video games over two seasons. She contributed throughout the stat sheet, highlighted by video games with 4 rebounds at Cal State Bakersfield and three steals in consecutive contests as a freshman.
• Assistant Coach Jasmyne Fogle joins Loyola after roles at Quinnipiac, Putnam Science Academy, and Iona. At Quinnipiac, she led operations, journey, logistics, video, advertising and marketing, and scholar assist for 3 seasons. She beforehand assisted with teaching, recruiting, and teachers at Putnam Science Academy and served as a graduate assistant at Iona. Fogle performed collegiately at Franklin Pierce and Post University, incomes All-CACC honors in 2018 earlier than finishing graduate levels from Post and Iona.
• Assistant Coach Alyssa Fisher returns to Loyola after starting her teaching profession at Dartmouth, the place she helped mentor an All-Ivy performer. As a Rambler in 2023–24, she led the workforce in threes, free throws, and steals whereas averaging 13.5 factors per recreation, incomes a range to the WBCA So You Want To Be A Coach program. Fisher beforehand earned twin bachelor’s levels at St. Francis Brooklyn and an MBA at Loyola.
• Assistant Coach Adam Call arrives from George Washington following a four-year stint that included a number of A-10 Championship wins and growth of all-conference and all-defensive choices. His 17-year teaching profession consists of stops at Eastern Michigan, Stony Brook, Washington, Northwestern, TCU, and Oklahoma, the place he contributed to a number of postseason runs. He holds levels from Oklahoma and TCU.

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