Loyola's run shines light on barrier-breaking '63 title team

Posted Mar 22, 2018
Under the bright lights of the flashbulbs, Jerry Harkness grasped the magnitude of the moment. There he was that day in March 1963, a black player from Loyola of Chicago shaking hands with a white player from Mississippi State at center court. They were about to tip off in a regional semifinal in East Lansing, Michigan, that would come to be known as the Game of Change. (Associated Press)

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