ESPN: Donations for Loyola-Chicago up 660 percent after Final Four run

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per ESPN:

A trip to the Final Four for Loyola-Chicago has resulted in a 660 percent increase in donations as compared to the previous year, the school announced Monday.

The private school declined to give actual dollar amounts, but said the increase represented the time period from March 1 to April 2, 2018, versus the prior year.

The amount of donations the athletic department received for this time period was 28 percent more than the previous highest total received in 1988, said Tom Soboro, Loyola's senior associate athletic director of external operations.

Some of the money will be earmarked for the Alfie Norville Practice Facility, which is being built to give new practice courts to men's and women's basketball teams and women's volleyball. Other donation money will go toward the general needs of enhancing the student-athlete experience, including academic services, nutrition and sports performance and a bump in travel and recruiting budgets for the Ramblers.

The donation money doesn't include additional licensing revenue, which hasn't been tallied yet. Sorboro said that the school had at least 30 new licensees come aboard to make merchandise. Some licensed their team chaplain Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt, who became the darling of the tournament. One of those licensees was the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame, which sold more than 17,000 bobbleheads of the nun, a company record. Sorboro said that Sister Jean approved of the school licensing her name and image, but did not ask for anything in return.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...ramblers-increased-660-percent-final-four-run

Go Gophers!!
 

The Big East should try to work out a Loyola for DePaul trade with the Missouri Valley.
 

My neighbor leads Loyola's annual giving program. He said business has been VERY good.
 





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