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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO – In the history of Division 1 men’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On February 17, 1963, American basketball superstar Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York. Before his first birthday, Jordan’s parents moved to Wilmington, where he played three sports ...

Sunday’s state semifinal wins by Olentangy Orange and Reynoldsburg created a first-of-its-kind situation: two Columbus-area teams will play for a boys basketball state championship. Orange and ...