35 Facts About Foster Loyer

Foster Jacob Loyer was born on June 24,1999 and is an American basketball player.

Foster Loyer played college basketball for the Michigan State Spartans and the Davidson Wildcats.

Foster Loyer's teams have won two Big Ten Conference regular season championships, a Big Ten Tournament Championship, a Final Four entry and an A-10 Conference regular season championship.

Foster Loyer attended Clarkston High School where he was a 2-time Michigan High School Athletic Association state champion, won the 2018 Mr Basketball of Michigan and was a 4-time 1st team All-State honoree.

Foster Loyer served as captain at both Michigan State and Davidson.

Foster Loyer is the Davidson Wildcats single-season free throw percentage, career free throw percentage and consecutive free throws made record holder.

Foster Loyer was born to John and Katie Foster Loyer on June 24,1999, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Foster Loyer's father played basketball at the University of Akron and his mom played volleyball at Indiana University, and was an assistant coach for Purdue volleyball.

Foster Loyer has two younger siblings, Fletcher and Jersey, a 2024 freshman Division I volleyball player at Butler University.

The Foster Loyer family moved for John's National Basketball Association career with the Portland Trail Blazers, Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Nets and Detroit Pistons.

Foster Loyer was an assistant coach for the Portland, Philadelphia and New Jersey before taking on the same role with Detroit in 2011.

Foster Loyer later joined the Los Angeles Clippers as a scout in 2016.

Foster Loyer grew up in and around NBA arenas shooting as a toddler at lowered rims after games in Portland and shadow boxing before games with Allen Iverson in Philadelphia.

Foster Loyer eventually became an NBA ball boy at his father's teams.

Foster Loyer is listed at the top of the record book in three places: career free throws made, consecutive free throws and championship game single-quarter points scored.

Foster Loyer surpassed Dane Fife, his coaches son, for the Clarkston high school career scoring record on the same day that he scored 19 points in the second quarter of the 2018 MHSAA boys basketball Class A championship game to end his high school career with 2,325 points.

Foster Loyer started every game from the beginning of his freshman season.

Foster Loyer was offered a scholarship at Michigan State before he started high school.

Foster Loyer was a Class A first-team all-state selection as a freshman by The Detroit News, which stated his averages were 16 points, 5.5 assists, 3 steals.

On November 22,2016, four-star point guard Foster Loyer committed to Michigan State.

Tillman was a former Amateur Athletic Union teammate of Foster Loyer's and was 2017 Mr Basketball of Michigan runner-up.

On February 27,2018, Foster Loyer had what seemed to be a season ending torn meniscus, but he sat out one game and was back on the court on March 7 playing through the injury, since it was only a partial tear.

On March 19,2018, Foster Loyer, who had a 3.96 grade point average, won Mr Basketball of Michigan with 3,691 points and more than twice as many first-place votes than Michigan Wolverines men's basketball commits East Lansing's Brandon Johns and Detroit East English's Village's David DeJulius who finished 2nd and 3rd, respectively.

Foster Loyer's record-setting high school career total of 634 free throws made surpassed a ten-year-old record of 629 set by Tekonsha's Dustin Orns.

Foster Loyer was named the 2018 Michigan boys' basketball Gatorade Player of the Year.

Foster Loyer's other offers were from Purdue, DePaul, Davidson and Oakland.

Foster Loyer started in place of an injured Cassius Winston and posted a career-high and team-high 16 points, making all four of his three-point shots.

Foster Loyer was named co-captain of the team along with Joshua Langford and Aaron Henry.

Foster Loyer consulted with Izzo extensively regarding his future with the team and his options.

Foster Loyer was the fourth Spartan to enter the portal.

On May 13, with a three-guard Michigan State class of 2021 recruiting class on the horizon, Foster Loyer decided to transfer to Davidson, where he would be eligible to play immediately.

Foster Loyer felt that Michigan State fans had been unduly harsh to Loyer during his time at MSU.

Foster Loyer was elected captain again along with Sam Mennenga and Grant Huffman.

Foster Loyer was named Atlantic 10 player of the week on November 14,2022, after averaging 28.3 points, 6.3 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 1.7 steals per game for the first three games.

Foster Loyer finished the season as an Atlantic 10 Conference All-Conference Second Team selection again.