When the Ramblers were marching toward the Final Four three years ago, I was as big of a Loyola fan as anyone. I wanted to taste March Madness so badly while I was still in school that I forced my TCR staff to write Loyola-related content as we rebranded as The Rambler Room.
My, how those days are behind us.
I don’t think any win on Friday was as impressive as Illinois’ demolition of Drexel, even if No. 2 Houston beat No. 15 Cleveland State by more points. Take away the opening minute jitters, and the team we saw taking care of business over the final three weeks of the regular season was the exact same one that showed up in Indy.