The 1962–63 Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team represented

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. Champions of the 1963 NCAA tournament, the Ramblers were coached by

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. They defeated top-ranked and two-time defending champion

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in a 60–58 overtime

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. The 1962–63 Ramblers were one of the first NCAA men's basketball teams to have broken the so-called "gentlemen's agreement" among coaches in which no more than two black players would be on the floor at one time (and in some road games, black players would have to rotate so that only one of them was playing at any given moment): the Ramblers would regularly have three or four black starters, paving the way for the 1965–66 Texas Western Miners men's basketball team who would finally put the "agreement" to rest and have an all-black starting five. They played in the

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, in which a

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team defied segregationists to play against Loyola, breaking the unwritten law that Mississippi teams would not play against black players. On July 11, 2013, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their championship, surviving members of Loyola's team were honored by President

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in a ceremony at the

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of the

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. It also was announced that the entire team would be inducted in the

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in a ceremony scheduled for November 2013.

Roster

Schedule

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Rankings

Awards and honors

Jerry Harkness: * Consensus First Team All-American *First Team AP All-American *First Team

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All-American *First Team NABC All-American *First Team

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All-American *Second Team NEA All-American Team: *

(2013)

Records

Loyola's first-round Mideast Regional victory over Tennessee Tech, 111–42, continues to be the record margin of victory (69 points) in an NCAA men's basketball tournament game.

NBA draft

References

External links

Roster and stats
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