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Georgia Tech and Illinois both hit Loyola with a zone defense. The fact that Loyola was shooting below 20% from the perimeter for most of the game (1-9 in the first half) had a way of making the zone look obvious today. Loyola had lots of good looks all around, but they were obviously not falling.

Interesting. Also, I totally forgot about Nolan Berry as a Division I prospect.

The Big 10 is the best conference in the...(checks notes...) Big 10.

Best announcing crew in the tournament so far is doing the Houston and Rutgers game.

This is so true. My parents became big bandwagon Loyola fans in 2018 and hoped on the bandwagon again when Loyola played Drake in the regular season. And Sister Jean is to blame.

Agreed on Moser, he can go anywhere. A dominate performance from wire to wire. Just as long as he does not go to DePaul.

It will be very interesting. Porter Moster basically has tenure at Loyola and earns $1.2 million. No way he goes to Indiana. He can double his salary at Marquette but the pressure... Loyola has two families that have been kicking in money so I expect his salary to go up $500K.

Illinois motto: #everydayguys Reduced to average, everyday guys.

Loyola makes mistakes, but the effort is never in doubt. Quick story about the history... SLU thought that Washington University kept them out of the MVC in 1907. Later, Washington University thought that SLU kept them from playing the conference teams when the Bears left the Valley in 1942.

Historically, they were almost a founding member of the MVC. Joined 7-10 years later.

I like SLU in back in the MVC, but I thought we were not supposed to talk about that...

Fact check: true.

Porter Moser was good enough to get a job, but not keep it until he worked for Majerus. No question.

I could not agree more...

This game is terrible and the announcers are making it worse. May go watch Eastern Washington if they maintain the lead over Kansas.

Is the answer not obvious? A poster responded to my question with what he or she thought was a very clever The Office reference. I responded and then responded again with a The Office reference. I’m not usually the butt of the joke. I’m usually the face of the joke. -Michael Scott

Boom, roasted.

Then why all the Loyola talk? Sir, this is a NCAA tournament thread and SLU is not in it.

If North Texas beat Purdue and Loyola beat North Texas, does the latter count as a good non-conference win now?

Mean Green, baby! Purdue goes down. Bad day for the best conference in the country.

Let's go Ramblers!

Hey guys, it's Sparty sponsored by Rocket Mortgage. I turned off the game with Michigan State leading by 7 and assuming that State would win. Dang.

The App State-Norfolk State is getting good with 8:00 minutes left. Good by First Four standards.

I managed to watch that entire first half with my 3:00 minute free preview. Mostly bad basketball...

Yeah, Grand Canyon is officially a non-profit according to the accrediting body, but the Department of Education has twice denied their petition to non-profit status. If Liberty and Arizona State qualify as non-profits, then Grand Canyon should too.