Fresh off its first season in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) in the 2013-14 season, the Loyola men’s basketball team welcomed Chicago-native Donte Ingram and Overland Park, Kansas-native Ben Richardson to the program. The Ramblers had just finished 4-14 in MVC play and the first-year duo was looking to jumpstart a program that had just three winning seasons in 30 years prior to joining the MVC.
The 2014-15 team won the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) and ended with a 24-13 overall record. But, for Ingram and Richardson, it was just the beginning of two program-altering careers.
Four years later, after Loyola went 25-5 overall and 15-3 in MVC play, Ingram and Richardson will graduate having won the fourth-most games over four years in program history.