When Loyola moved to the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) from the Horizon League in 2011, men’s basketball head coach Porter Moser wrote “Top Defensive Teams” on a whiteboard and then listed the top three.
“As we enter this league, look at who wins the Missouri Valley every year,” Moser recalled telling the team. “It’s the teams who finish in the top three in defense. After a couple of years it built credibility because it felt that way.”
Now, 10 years later, the Ramblers have three MVC titles under their belt and are on their second March Madness run with Moser as coach.