ATLANTA -- Loyola wouldn't need any last-minute theatrics to make history this time around. No buzzer-beaters. No Sister Jean magic. Nothing but good basketball.
If you didn't take this year's Cinderella seriously before, you better now.
The team from the shores of Lake Michigan, the forgotten squad from the Missouri Valley Conference, the 11-seed almost everyone believed would be a one-and-done in the NCAA tournament, punched its ticket to the Final Four thanks to a a complete dismantling of Kansas State in Atlanta.
"Yo!" Lucas Williamson shouted during the postgame celebration. "We dominated!"
The freshman guard from Chicago wasn't wrong.