The Hardest-Working Paper in America | 
Friday, April 19, 2024
College Sports Sports

Loyola knocks off Drake for ninth consecutive home win

Tate Hall and Marquise Kennedy scored 11 points apiece for the Ramblers

By  Associated Press
   
SHARE Loyola knocks off Drake for ninth consecutive home win
Porter Moser

Loyola coach Porter Moser

Tony Gutierrez/AP

Cameron Krutwig scored 17 points, grabbed seven rebounds and made three assists and Loyola held off Drake 64-60 on Tuesday night at Gentile Arena for its ninth straight home win.

Tate Hall and Marquise Kennedy scored 11 points apiece for the Ramblers (20-10, 12-5 Missouri Valley Conference), who made 19 of 31 free throws.

Liam Robbins scored 13 points with 10 rebounds and four blocks and Garrett Sturtz added 17 points with eight rebounds for Drake (18-12, 8-9). Roman Penn had six assists.

The Ramblers evened the season series against the Bulldogs with the win. Drake defeated Loyola 65-62 on Jan. 7. Loyola finishes out the regular season against Bradley on the road on Saturday. Drake finishes out the regular season against Northern Iowa at home on Saturday.

Next Up In College Sports
Minneapolis will host Big Ten basketball tournaments
Illinois’ Kofi Cockburn will enter NBA Draft
Illinois gamblers bet $286 million on March Madness
Notre Dame’s success will start on the lines, new coach Marcus Freeman says
Former Bradley, NBA coach Dick Versace stood by his players and by Chicago
Note to self: It’s the players, Stupid
The Latest
The Cubs’ Kyle Hendricks beat the Royals on Sunday for only his second win in two months.
Cubs
Polling Place: Is it time for the Cubs to pull Kyle Hendricks from the rotation?
Other poll questions: Do you wish Tim Anderson were still with the White Sox? And how sure are you that Caleb Williams is the best QB in next week’s NFL draft?
By Steve Greenberg
 
20221111028.bmp
Crime
Kim Foxx won't take sides on request by man facing rape trial for 'certificate of innocence' in murder case
William Dukes Jr. was acquitted of the 1993 killings of a Cicero woman and her granddaughter after a second trial in 2019. In 2022, he was arrested in an unrelated sexual assault case in Chicago.
By Frank Main and Matthew Hendrickson
 
Northwestern football helmets at an NCAA college football against Stanford in Evanston, Ill, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015.
College Sports
NCAA approves helmet radios for next football season
An NFL-style two-minute warning was also OK’d.
By Associated Press
 
Blackhawks
Blackhawks
Analyzing most encouraging, discouraging aspects of Blackhawks’ 2023-24 season
From Connor Bedard to Lukas Reichel, from Alex Vlasic to Arvid Soderblom, from leadership to coaching, the Hawks’ just-finished season was full of both good and bad signs for the future.
By Ben Pope
 
Jim Gwinn, who has worked at Conn-Selmer for 11 years, works on a trombone at the factory in Elkhart, Indiana Wednesday, March 27, 2024. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Photography
Picture Chicago: 18 must-see Sun-Times photos from this week in news
Hundreds gathered for a memorial service for Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough, a mysterious QR code mural enticed Taylor Swift fans on the Near North Side, and a weekend mass shooting in Back of the Yards left 9-year-old Ariana Molina dead and 10 other people wounded, including her mother and other children.
By Sun-Times staff