Loyola men’s basketball head coach Porter Moser pinned his team’s season-ending loss to Valparaiso University on one thing: free throws.
“It’s been our Achilles heel all year,” Moser said in a somber postgame press conference. “If it wasn’t tonight, it was going to be one of these other two nights [of the tournament].”
The Ramblers — who led by as much as 18 points in the second half — saw their season come to an abrupt ending with a 74-73 loss to Valparaiso in overtime of the quarterfinal round of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) men’s basketball tournament.