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


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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