Jerry Harkness, captain of the 1963 Loyola team that won the NCAA men’s basketball title, shows off his championship ring at his Indianapolis home. Former Loyola basketball star Jerry Harkness poses ...

Jerry Harkness laughed when asked about how his Loyola University basketball coach, George Ireland, ticked off other coaches in 1963 by playing his four Black starters for the entire game, even in ...

MARION - There was never a boys basketball team like it at Marion Harding and there hasn’t been one since. The 1962-63 Presidents weren’t just special, they were the Class AA state runners-up. “It ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- The 1963 Loyola University Chicago men's basketball team will be the first team ever inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on November 24 in Kansas City, ...

The Dresden Jefferson Jayhawks won back-to-back basketball titles in 1963 and 1964. The following is a recap of their 1963 season: On Feb. 8 the Jayhawks of Dresden lost a close game: “Tom Durant’s ...

College basketball has few stories better than Loyola Chicago’s miraculous run to the Final Four. Perhaps one of them came when the Ramblers did it the first time. It was a sprint in 1963 that helped ...

Brookline High’s basketball season in 1963 ended on a March night at a sold-out Boston Garden after a heartbreaking 1-point loss to Brockton High. But the players’ admiration for the coach who led ...

Central alum and 1963 Indiana Mr. Basketball award winner Rick Jones sat on a folded chair behind the basket as his alma mater played Southside in a girls basketball game Friday night in the Muncie ...

It seems impossible but the 1962 -1963 Ross County League basketball season was 58 years ago. For those of us who were part of that season it seems like yesterday but there have been many winters ...

Geneva High School may be hard-pressed to ever top the Hall of Fame induction it presented Saturday night. How do you do better than welcoming the first wrestler in school history to win a state title ...

Brookline High’s basketball season in 1963 ended on a March night at a sold-out Boston Garden after a heartbreaking 1-point loss to Brockton High. But the players’ admiration for the coach who led ...