After a big non-conference win during the 2017-18 season, former guard for Loyola men’s basketball Donte Ingram uttered words that would stick with his team nearly four years after his departure: “We ain’t going.”
The saying was meant to mean that the team refused to go home — a fitting saying for the season where they continuously managed to edge out fierce opponents by playing until the end.
At the time, Ingram said it went over everyone’s heads, but by the end of the season it became a phrase every member of the team lived by.
Now, as the 2021 team heads into the Sweet 16, it’s a phrase that has returned to the Ramblers’ regular vernacular.