Belmont Takes Down Temple in NCAA Tournament Play-In Game to Advance to Round of 64
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The 2018 NCAA Tournament will come down to three of the nation’s top-ranked teams and one of the most memorable Cinderella stories in March Madness history. No.1 Villanova, No.1 Kansas, No.3 Michigan and No.11 Loyola-Chicago will compete in the Final Four for college basketball’s top prize.

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She's 98 years old. And this spunky nun has become the face of college basketball, as The Guardian put it: "And the sport is probably all the better for it." Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt is chaplain for the Loyola University Chicago Ramblers, a team that has now made it into the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament…

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ATLANTA - The coach of the team that lets nothing get in its way climbed across the press table Saturday at Philips Arena and made his way into the third row of rowdiness. ... and on the floor, the euphoria created by Loyola's emphatic 78-62 victory over Kansas State in the NCAA Tournament South Region final that earned the school a trip to the Final Four in San Antonio. "We did ...
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DETROIT — Miles Bridges could not make a shot. Neither could Joshua Langford or Cassius Winston. With every miss, Michigan State's dream of a national championship came closer to crashing to a halt against Syracuse's zone defense.

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DALLAS — Different day. Different hero. Loyola did it again Saturday and is headed to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1985. Clayton Custer hit a jump shot with 3.6 seconds left, falling to the ground on the defended shot for a 63-62 victory over No. 3 seed Tennessee. As has become tradition, Loyola…