Loyola Ramblers men's basketball
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| University | Loyola University Chicago | ||
| Conference | Missouri Valley | ||
| Location | Chicago, IL | ||
| Head coach | Porter Moser (6th year) | ||
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Joseph J. Gentile Arena (Capacity: 4,486) |
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| Nickname | Ramblers | ||
| Student section | Rambler Rowdies | ||
| Colors | Maroon and Gold |
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| NCAA Tournament champions | |||
| 1963 | |||
| NCAA Tournament Final Four | |||
| 1963 | |||
| NCAA Tournament Elite Eight | |||
| 1963 | |||
| NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen | |||
| 1963, 1964, 1985 | |||
| NCAA Tournament second round | |||
| 1985 | |||
| NCAA Tournament appearances | |||
| 1963, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1985 | |||
| Conference tournament champions | |||
| 1985 | |||
| Conference regular season champions | |||
| 1980, 1983, 1985, 1987 | |||
The Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team represents Loyola University Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. The Ramblers joined the Missouri Valley Conference on July 1, 2013, ending a 34-season tenure as charter members of the Horizon League.
In 1963, Loyola won the 1963 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament (then the "NCAA University Division") men's basketball national championship under the leadership of All-American Jerry Harkness, defeating two-time defending champion Cincinnati 60-58 in overtime in the title game. All five starters for the Ramblers played the entire championship game, without substitution.
Surviving team members were honored on July 11, 2013 at the White House to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their victory. The entire team was inducted in November of that year in the College Basketball Hall of Fame. As of 2017, Loyola remains the only school from the state of Illinois to win a men's Division I basketball national championship. And a first-round regional victory by Loyola on March 11, 1963 over Tennessee Tech remains a record margin of victory (69 points) for any NCAA men's basketball tournament game.
The Loyola University Chicago teams of the early 1960s, coached by George Ireland, are thought to be responsible for ushering in a new era of racial equality in the sport by shattering all remaining color barriers in NCAA men's basketball. Beginning in 1961, Loyola broke the longstanding gentlemen's agreement (not to play more than three black players at any given time), putting as many as four black players on the court at every game. For the 1962-63 season, Ireland played four black Loyola starters in every game. That season, Loyola also became the first team in NCAA Division I history to play an all-black lineup, doing so in a game against Wyoming in December 1962. In that season's NCAA tournament, Loyola defeated the all-white team of then-segregated Mississippi State by a score of 61-51, a game especially notable because the Bulldogs defied a state court order prohibiting them from playing against a school with black players.
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