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Denzel Valentine says Loyola basketball hired an ‘it’ factor with Drew

Denzel Valentine is obviously biased when it comes to Loyola basketball and its new head coach.

Little brothers usually are.

But the way the Bulls guard sees it, he wouldn’t be where he was if it wasn’t his older brother, Drew, and neither would the Ramblers program over the last four years.

Drew became the program’s new head coach with the departure of Porter Moser to Oklahoma, and on Tuesday, Denzel was raving about the school’s decision.

“He knows his analytics, he knows X’s and O’s, he knows how to talk to people,’’ Denzel said in a Zoom meeting after the morning shootaround.