At a massive rally in Gentile Arena Sunday to celebrate the Ramblers’ first Final Four appearance since its famed 1963 championship run, head coach Porter Moser told hundreds of cheering students, alumni and fans in attendance, “This is the way it should be.”
“You can see what spirit does to a university,” Moser said. “We’re never going back … this is how it’s going to be from here forward.”
Moser’s words echoed a sentiment shared between students and alumni as the men’s basketball team has stunned its way to the Final Four — Loyola, with a student body that’s traditionally been ambivalent to sports, has become a mega fandom in fewer than two weeks.