ST. LOUIS — Appropriately, in the most blessed season in decades for Loyola men’s basketball came a blessing-filled speech Thursday by Porter Moser in his acceptance of the Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year award.
Moser, whose Ramblers won their first outright regular-season conference title since 1984-85 in the MCC, garnered 40 of 47 first-place votes in becoming the first Loyola coach since Gene Sullivan in that long-ago season to win a Coach of the Year award of any kind.
“I have so many things to be blessed about,” Moser told the COY luncheon crowd. “First and foremost, I wouldn’t be here today without my faith.