In a city with two rival baseball teams, Loyola isn’t immune to inter-city rivalries. The university’s athletics, although not professional, have rivalries with other Chicago schools. Like the Cubs and the White Sox, Loyola and University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have a rivalry that dates back for more than 20 years to when UIC joined the Horizon League in 1994.
UIC is the only Chicago school the men’s basketball team regularly plays, with the teams continuing their rivalry each year even after Loyola left the Horizon League for the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) in 2013. The Ramblers haven’t played Chicago State University since 2012 and DePaul University in 2011.