Men’s Basketball Passing the Eye Test

Aundre Jackson going for a layup against Alcorn State University.Based on the eye test, the Loyola men’s basketball team (5-2) has improved since last season.

After head coach Porter Moser lost three starters to graduation last May, expectations were low for this year’s Ramblers. The Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) preseason poll put Loyola in seventh place entering this season, only ahead of the University of Evansville, which lost its top two scorers to graduation, and perennial MVC bottom-dwellers Bradley University and Drake University.

But don’t tell that to the Ramblers, who won their first game against a current Pac-12 team since 1987 after defeating Washington State University on…