The Loyola men’s basketball team (32-5, 15-3) is headed to its first NCAA Tournament Final Four since winning the 1963 national championship. The journey to San Antonio wasn’t easy — it was a long, bumpy road.
“One thing I learned from Rick Majerus [at Saint Louis University] … is it’s long-term, not short-term,” Porter Moser said when he was introduced as Loyola’s head coach in 2011. “Develop the program, don’t develop a team. That is so important to what my vision is at Loyola. It’s so important that it’s going to take some time.”
Time, it did take — seven seasons to be exact.