NEW ORLEANS – The No. 14 Loyola Wolf Pack men's basketball team took on an NCAA Division-I opponent in an exhibition matchup Saturday, falling 90-65 to LSU New Orleans and former Loyola head coach Stacy Hollowell at Lakefront Arena. Loyola remains 4-1 in regular-season play. 

The Wolf Pack will begin Southern States Athletic Conference play next week, traveling to Mobile on Thursday for a 7:30 p.m. matchup before facing William Carey in Hattiesburg, Miss., at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

This was the Wolf Pack's first matchup against a team led by Hollowell, who was with Loyola from 2009 through the Pack's national championship season in 2022. Current Loyola head coach Trey Lindsey served as an assistant under Hollowell during the 2017-18 season, as well as during Hollowell's first season leading the Privateers in 2023-24. 

The Privateers scored the first seven points of the game, but an old-fashioned three-point play by O'Neill Connolly got Loyola on the board, and a 3-pointer by Reece Seicshnaydre helped the Pack get within three, 13-10, near the 15-minute mark. LSU New Orleans eventually extended its lead to 14, 34-20, with less than seven minutes until halftime, but the Wolf Pack scored nine of the next 11 points, highlighted by Seicshnaydre's third 3-pointer of the half, to cut the deficit to seven, 36-29. 

Seicshnaydre scored again in the final minute of the first half, but the Privateers converted a four-point play in the closing seconds to take a 42-31 lead into the break.

Loyola got off to a good start in the second half, as baskets by Kameron Johnson, Kosta Bjelicic and Zachary Lee cut the deficit to seven, 44-37, in the first four minutes. The Privateers answered by scoring 19 of the next 25 points, though, extending their advantage to 63-43 near the halfway point of the period. Seicshnaydre hit his fourth 3-pointer of the game, and Michael Mouton, Markuss Sipko and Cayden Branch also connected from long range in the second half, but LSU New Orleans continued to pull away for the 90-65 win.

Pack Facts

• Reece Seicshnaydre led Loyola in scoring with 14 points off the bench, shooting 4-of-8 from 3-point range. He scored 11 of those points in the first half. 

• Zachary Lee and Kosta Bjelicic each finished with 11 points. 

• As a team, Loyola shot 9-of-24 from long range, with Michael Mouton and Markuss Sipko each making two. 

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