so proud of the team from Loyola-Chicago for keeping it together and getting the win yesterday over Miami!!!!
a bit of history... Loyola is the ONLY Illinois school to ever have won a National Championship in the NCAA Tournament. It was 55 years ago, 1963 and their first round game was played in East Lansing, MI on March 15, 1963 - so yesterday was the 55th anniversary of that win. What was especially notable about that game was that the team they played, Mississippi State, had defied a state injunction against playing in the tournament because the Loyola team was integrated and all Mississippi schools were forbidden from playing any team with an African-American player.
here's a wonderful story about that game:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...ent-championship-50-year-anniversary/1973795/
It's more than a "Cinderella" story, it's sort of a moral for our times.
fyi, they won the National Champions by beating the top-ranked Cincinnati Bearcats in overtime, 60-58, on a buzzer beater put-back