NEW ORLEANS – All 12 players who saw action Wednesday night for the Loyola Wolf Pack men's basketball team scored a point en route to a 83-51 victory over Louisiana Christian in The Den. 
 

Loyola is now 2-1 overall, and it'll travel across town to SUNO for a 5:30 p.m. tip-off on Saturday. 
 

After both teams made baskets in the first 40 seconds, Loyola's coming from a 3-pointer by Markuss Sipko, neither team could find the bottom of the net until Kosta Bjelicic got the Pack on the board near the 17-minute mark. The Wolf Pack actually held the Wildcats off the board for nearly eight minutes while they took an 18-2 lead. Bjelicic had seven points during that run, and Zachary Lee, who was making his season debut, had a dunk off a Kameron Johnson steal. Johnson and Reece Seicshnaydre both got on the board during that run as well. 
 

LCU cut its deficit to eight near the halfway point of the first half, 20-12, but scores by Johnson and Bjelicic, and two 3s from Michael Mouton, quickly pushed the Pack's advantage to 30-12 a couple of minutes later. 
 

Loyola took a 21-point lead, 38-17, after a Seicshnaydre 3-pointer at the three-minute mark. Johnson pushed it to 22, 41-19, with a 3-pointer of his own a minute later. Johnson and Bjelicic were each in double figures by halftime, as the Wolf Pack led 44-24.
 

O'Neill Connolly got on the board with a couple of free throws to start Loyola's scoring in the first half, and Bjelicic scored his final points of the night at the 13:29 mark, 57-35. Cayden Branch checked into the game and hit a 3-pointer, then he added another score to push the lead to 27, 66-39, with less than 10 minutes left. Evan Savoy and Langston Adams Jr. each made 3s down the stretch, and Georgios Vassilakis was the 12th member of the team to score to finish things off. 
 

Pack Facts

• Kosta Bjelicic's 20-point-plus game streak ended Wednesday night, but he did register his fifth career double-double with 19 points and 14 rebounds. 

• Kameron Johnson had a team-high eight assists to go along with this 17 points. He's averaging 6.3 assists per game so far this season. 

• Loyola scored 80-plus points for the third straight game. The team is averaging 91.3 points per game through the first three games of the season. 

• The Wolf Pack also had a winning margin of 25-plus points for the second straight game after defeating Louisiana Christian by 32 points on Wednesday. 

• Loyola's 20-point lead marked the second straight game with a lead that big at the break. 

• The team hit 10 3-pointers on Wednesday two days after making 13 on Monday. The Pack had double digits 3-pointers in 14 games last season. 
   

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