The NCAA Basketball Tournament has come a long way in the past 50 years. When Loyola of Chicago beat Cincinnati, 60-58, to win the 1963 championship, it marked the first time that the majority of the players on the floor were black. “The unspoken rule then,” Loyola coach George Ireland told Sports Illustrated in 1987, “was two blacks at home, if you had to play them, and one on the road.