Under first-year coach Drew Valentine, Loyola earned their second straight NCAA Tournament invitation with a 64-58 win over Drake in the Missouri Valley Conference title game Sunday in St. Louis.
Under 30-year-old first-year coach Drew Valentine, the Ramblers earned their second straight NCAA Tournament invitation — and their third in five years — with a 64-58 win over Drake in the Missouri Valley Conference title game Sunday in St. Louis.
The Ramblers entered the conference tournament seeded fourth after finishing the regular season in a three-way tie for second, then cruised to wins over Bradley and regular-season champion Northern Iowa before holding off Drake. Loyola advanced to the Final Four in 2018 and went to the Sweet 16 last year in the final season under former coach Porter Moser.“We’re blue-collar,” he said. “Nobody probably expected me to be here at 30. I did. Sorry.”Loyola coach Drew Valentine tries to motivate his team during a game against Missouri State on Jan. 22, 2022, at Gentile Arena.
[Most read in Sports] Nebraska stuns Wisconsin 74-73, opening the door for Illinois to earn the No. 1 seed in the Big Ten Tournament“We weren’t playing good at all,” Uguak said. “We were turning the ball over. And then playing defense and locking in helped us get some easy baskets and get us going.”“I just tried to keep telling guys: ‘Calm down, we’re playing in a championship game. Emotions might be a little high,’” he said.
“This is why you play college basketball,” Williamson said. “This is something you grow up watching, wanting to play in games like this. ... It means a lot to me and a lot to the other seniors on this team. This is what we envisioned when we decided to run it back, all the way back in April.”
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