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Award Thoughts from a Couple Ramblers

How voting was done: We assigned point values to players based on where we thought they should land. These all-conference, all-defensive and all-rookie teams are listed by how the votes were received, in the interest of full transparency. Player of the Year: Daron Holmes Dayton Defensive Player of the Year: Daron Holmes Dayton & Ace …

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Ramblers Lose a Heartbreaker in the First A10 Tournament Game

After a Duquesne missed open layup, on a broken baseline out of bounds play, the Duquesne players admitted they weren’t matched up to play defense on the correct players. The Loyola Ramblers had a chance to win the game. True freshman guard, Kira Chivers hoisted a midrange jump shot that came up just short. As …

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Senior Day Means More Than a Box Score

Senior Day may have come and gone for four Loyola Chicago Seniors, but their rejuvenated love for the game is something that will stay with them forever. During a regular season that has seen a few bad losing streaks, more than a few injuries, and increasingly tougher conference opponents – the seniors had nothing but …

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Ramblers Hot Start isn’t Enough to Stop Explorers

FINAL: Loyola Chicago 51, La Salle 67 The Ramblers got off to a blazing hot start, but cooled off after half time. Loyola built an 8 point lead and was up 28-20 late in the second quarter, but La Salle fought back to gain a 30-28 lead going into halftime. That 10-0 run to end …

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UMass Uses Hot Shooting to Outlast the Ramblers

FINAL: Loyola 59, Massachusetts 76 UMass and Loyola played a highly competitive game for 3 quarters on Saturday afternoon. The Minutewomen used a hot shooting streak to extend their lead in the fourth and win by a comfortable 17 point margin. In a game that saw 6 lead changes and 3 ties, Loyola seemed …

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Ramblers Can’t Squash Spiders, Lose 68-49

FINAL: Loyola 49, Richmond 68 The Ramblers were outshot and outsized in their Atlantic 10 home opener on Wednesday. Coach Guth gave credit to Richmond’s offense, “Credit to Richmond’s players. They played a fabulous game of playing beautiful basketball – sharing the ball and scoring it in a multitude of ways.” Richmond had 5 …

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Game 13 Preview – George Washington

Intro/History Between Teams: Loyola’s matchup with George Washington on Saturday will mark their first game against each other in about 84 years.they last played each other in 1939, when the Ramblers won 44-33. I have a feeling that we won’t see quite that low of a scoring output in this matchup, but there should be …

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Loyola WBB Ramblings, Response, and Wrap Up

The Ramblers wrapped up their non-conference slate in Orlando this past week. They played in the Christmas Classic which was put on by the University of Central Florida. I have a big gripe about this event. Both of Central Florida’s games were streamed on ESPN+, while neither of Loyola’s games were streamed anywhere. This was …

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Game 11 Preview – Albany

Intro/History Between Teams: Loyola and University of Albany have played each other once before. They met each other just about 13 years ago at Gentile. Loyola beat Albany 68-56 on Dec 22, 2009. In that game Loyola great Ben Averkamp finished with 17 points and 9 rebounds – one of his first stat-stuffing games of …

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Chandler’s Career High 23 Points Not Enough Against DePaul

FINAL: Loyola 52, DePaul 78 Two games in a row Allison Guth has been able to coach against someone with whom she has a personal connection. Two games in a row their pregame hugs held a little more weight. And yet, the results of the games could not have been any more different. DePaul’s …

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