They won it all in 1963. First team to play 4 black players in a championship game. Mad respect.
"For
the 1962–63 season, Ireland played four black Loyola starters in every game. That season, Loyola also became the first team in NCAA Division I history to play an all-black lineup, doing so in a game against
Wyoming in December 1962.
[6] In that season's NCAA tournament, Loyola defeated the all-
white team of then-segregated
Mississippi State by a score of 61–51, a game especially notable because the Bulldogs defied a state court order prohibiting them from playing against a school with black players.
In 1963, Loyola shocked the nation and changed college basketball forever by starting four black players in the
NCAA Championship game.
[7] Loyola's stunning upset of two-time defending NCAA champion
Cincinnati, in overtime by a score of 60–58, was the crowning achievement in the school's nearly decade long struggle with racial inequality in men's college basketball, highlighted by the tumultuous events of that year's NCAA Tournament.
[8] Loyola's
1963 NCAA title was historic not only for the racial makeup of Loyola's team, but also due to the fact that Cincinnati had started three black players, making seven of the 10 starters in the 1963 NCAA Championship game black.
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