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==Athletics==
==Athletics==
The men's basketball team won a national championship in 1963.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncaasports.com/basketball/mens/history|work=NCAA|title=History|language=English}}</ref> The team started four [[African American]] players, which caused controversy in the second round when [[Mississippi]] Governor Ross R. Barnet banned [[Mississippi State University]] from traveling to play the Loyola team.<ref>{{cite web|work=Rogers Park|url=http://www.rogerspark.org/Newspaper%201_files/2006.1%20March.RP2000.pdf|aurhor=Jacque Day Archer and Jamie Santoro|title=Lasting Legends, Current Contenders|language=English|format=pdf}}</ref>
The men's basketball team won a national championship in 1963.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncaasports.com/basketball/mens/history|work=NCAA|title=History|language=English}}</ref> The team started four [[African American]] players, which caused controversy in the second round when [[Mississippi]] Governor Ross R. Barnet banned [[Mississippi State University]] from traveling to play the Loyola team.<ref>{{cite web|work=Rogers Park|url=http://www.rogerspark.org/Newspaper%201_files/2006.1%20March.RP2000.pdf|aurhor=Jacque Day Archer and Jamie Santoro|title=Lasting Legends, Current Contenders|language=English|format=pdf}}</ref>
55 years later the 2018 team would become a "Cinderella" story, as an #11 seed they would make the Final Four before losing to national runner-up Michigan.
==Notes==
==Notes==
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