A trip to the Final Four for Loyola-Chicago has resulted in a 660 percent increase in donations as compared to the previous year, the school announced Monday.
The private school declined to give actual dollar amounts, but said the increase represented the time period from March 1 to April 2, 2018, versus the prior year.
The amount of donations the athletic department received for this time period was 28 percent more than the previous highest total received in 1988, said Tom Soboro, Loyola's senior associate athletic director of external operations.
Some of the money will be earmarked for the Alfie Norville Practice Facility, which is being built to give new practice courts to men's and women's basketball teams and women's volleyball.