The defending national champs open the regular season in Palo Alto, where they'll play #6 BYU and #10 Stanford on Friday at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday at 9:00 p.m Central. Lewis, ranked #9 and coming off a sweep of #8 UC Irvine in So Cal earlier this week, will also play BYU and Stanford.
Aside from last season, the #2 Ramblers haven't had a lot of success against these two MPSF powerhouses. Loyola beat both teams last year-- BYU at home very early in the season, and Stanford in the National Championship game, also at home-- but prior to last year Loyola was a combined 1-8 all time. The traditional gap between the MIVA and MPSF isn't what it once was, but this meeting between four ranked teams from the two conferences at the site of the 2015 NCAA Tournament should be a great test to see how Loyola is going to cope without last year's senior leadership from Joe Smalzer and Peter Jasaitis.
Loyola Game Notes:
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/loy ... 108aaa.pdfWatch via streaming video here:
http://pac-12.com/videos/stanford-university The Stanford match is also televised on the Pac12 Network.