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NCAA Final Four Champion > Loyola Illinois > 1963 |
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1963 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Teams 25 Finals Site Freedom Hall Louisville, Kentucky Champions Loyola (Chicago) (1st title) Runner-Up Cincinnati (3rd title game) Semifinalists Duke (1st Final Four) Oregon State (2nd Final Four) Winning Coach George Ireland (1st title) MOP Art Heyman West Duke Attendance 153,065 Top scorer Mel Counts Oregon State (123 points) |
The 1963 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 25 schools playing
in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division
I college basketball in the United States. It began on March 9, 1963, and
ended with the championship game on March 23 in Louisville, Kentucky. A total
of 29 games were played, including a third place game in each region and a national
third place game. Loyola, Illinois, coached by George Ireland, won the national title with a 60-58 victory in the final game over Cincinnati, coached by Ed Jucker. Art Heyman of Duke was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. |
Loyola is considered one of the 262 "national universities" by U.S.News & World
Report, with a ranking of 112. Loyola also was ranked as the 49th best value in
the country by U.S.News & World Report. Founded in 1870 as the St Ignatius College on Chicago's West Side. In 1908 the School of Law was established as the first of the professional programs. St Ignatius College changed its name to Loyola University in 1909, while also adding the Stritch School of Medicine. |
Loyola University Chicago is a private co-educational religious-affiliated university
established in Chicago in 1870 as Saint Ignatius College. It was founded by
the Roman Catholic religious order of the Society of Jesus and bears the name
of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Loyola is one of twenty-eight
member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and,
with its current enrollment of more than 15,500 students, is the largest Jesuit
University in the United States. |
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1923 saw the affiliation of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery with Loyola University,
later to be known as Loyola University School of Dentistry (no longer
open). In 1934 West Baden College affiliates itself with Loyola University, later
to be known as the Bellarmine School of Theology then the Jesuit School of Theology
in Chicago. Loyola established the Loyola University Chicago School of
Nursing in 1935, the first fully accredited collegiate school of nursing in the
state of Illinois. Loyola then opened the Rome Center for Liberal Arts in 1962,
the first American university sponsored program in Rome. 1969 saw the establishment
of the Loyola University Chicago School of Education and the opening of
the Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. |
