The lone senior on the Loyola women’s basketball team knew her days playing in the maroon and gold were winding down, but she didn’t think it would be over quite yet.
Tiara Wallace and the rest of the women’s basketball team were already in Moline for the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) tournament — known as Hoops in the Heartland — when the announcement was made that the tournament would be canceled due to concerns about COVID-19, the illness caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus. As of publication, there have been over 1,200 confirmed cases in Illinois, including a Loyola student.