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At least 15 people have been wounded in shootings across Chicago so far this weekend.

In the most recent shooting, a 31-year-old man was shot while riding in a funeral procession Saturday in Gresham on the South Side.

He was riding in a vehicle about 6:50 p.m. when someone fired shots as the procession passed through the 7600 block of South Ashland Avenue, Chicago police said. He was struck in the abdomen and arm, and rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition, police said.

A teenage bystander was wounded in a shooting Saturday afternoon East Garfield Park on the West Side.

The 17-year-old boy was walking about 4:30 p.m. in the 3300 block of West Ohio Street when someone in a vehicle drove by and fired shots at a nearby group of people, Chicago police said. Someone in the group returned fire, and the boy was caught in the crossfire, taking a bullet to the chest.

He was brought to Mt. Sinai Hospital in good condition, police said.

Hours earlier, four people were wounded, two critically, in Austin on the West Side.

The group was standing outside about 12:10 p.m. when someone fired shots at them in the 500 block of North Leamington Avenue, Chicago police said.

One man, 64, was struck in the leg, and another, 54, was struck in the thigh, police said. Both were taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in critical condition. A third man, 42, was grazed on the back and treated at the scene.

A fourth victim later showed up at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood with a gunshot wound to the shoulder, and was listed in good condition, police said.

Early Saturday morning, a man was critically wounded in a shooting in the South Shore neighborhood.

The 21-year-old was standing outside about 1:45 a.m. in the 7000 block of South Jeffery Boulevard when he heard shots and felt pain, police said. He suffered one gunshot wound to the groin and was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition.

Less than an hour earlier, a 25-year-old man was shot in Bronzeville on the South Side.

He was walking outside about 12:50 a.m. in the 800 block of East Oakwood Boulevard when a black sedan pulled up alongside him with three people inside, police said. One of the people inside the sedan began shooting and struck him in the hand. He was transported to Mercy Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.

Another 25-year old was hurt in a drive-by shooting about the same time in Oakland on the South Side.

About 12:50 a.m., the man was sitting in a parked vehicle in the 3800 block of South Langley Avenue when a white Jeep drove by him and began firing shots, Chicago police said. He was shot in the leg and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where his condition was stabilized.

Just after midnight, a 56-year-old man was wounded in a shooting in South Shore.

He was exiting his vehicle about 12:10 a.m. in the 7200 block of South Coles Avenue when a person approached him and fired shots before fleeing the scene, police said. The man was shot in the stomach and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition, police said.

In the weekend’s earliest reported shooting, a man was shot Friday evening in East Garfield Park on the West Side.

The man, 22, heard shots and felt pain about 6:55 p.m. in the 3300 block of West Ohio Street, Chicago police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital with a gunshot wound to his buttocks and was listed in fair condition.

At least four other people have been wounded in citywide shootings since 5 p.m. Friday.

Twenty people were shot, four fatally, last weekend in Chicago.

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Chicago Cubs: The good, bad, and ugly heading into Opening Day by JACOB GRANT

He is finally back! The Chicago Blackhawks have activated their former third overall pick, Kirby Dach, off of injured reserve. This came after he took warmups ahead of their game against the Nashville Predators. He is going to play and he will be their number one center before you know it. With Jonathan Toews not playing, this is an incredible addition to their lineup. He should be able to hit the ground running after making his way back from injury.

Kirby Dach is an incredible addition to the Chicago Blackhawks lineup.

Dach hurt his wrist during an exhibition game playing for Team Canada in the World Junior Classic. He was projected to take a little bit longer to come back but he is way ahead of schedule. He was going to be Team Canada’s captain and was looking like one of the best World Junior teams ever assembled.

Without Dach, Canada steamrolled their way through the tournament and was still as dominant as we thought they’d be. They did, however, fall to Team USA in the Gold Medal Gams. You never know how that would have gone with someone like Kirby Dach as their top center but it is what it is. The important thing now is how he rebounds with the Chicago Blackhawks.

Dach is going to begin the game as the third line center between Mattias Janmark and Dylan Strome. That is a very good line to start but Dach won’t last there long. He is going to find his way to a line with one of Alex DeBrincat, Patrick Kane, or Dominik Kubalik in no time. He has to get his legs going before that happens but it won’t take him long. He will be on the top power-play unit in the bumper position as well which should help him.

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This is great news all around. The Hawks weren’t expected to be a very good team going into the year. Their roster has exceeded all expectations so adding a number one center like Kirby Dach is as good of acquisition as any team can have during a season. They can also trade one of their veterans on an expiring deal for future assets and have Dach ready to go in their place. Dach coming back is so good for this team both on and off the ice so hopefully, the wrist feels good and he hits the ground running.

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There were two ways to watch Loyola’s Sweet 16 matchup with Oregon State on Saturday — one with eyes open for character-building purposes and the other with eyes closed for emotional protection.

You could watch stifling defense – yay! – or you could watch offensive basketball being set back a few centuries – make it stop!

At one point, after Loyola had missed a variety of shots in a variety of ways, I half-expected Sister Jean to snarl, “Don’t make me get out of this wheelchair and show you kids how to shoot.” It was like that for too much of the afternoon, and it’s why the Ramblers were on the painful end of a 65-58 loss that knocked them out of the NCAA Tournament.

Too bad another fun ride had to end, and too bad it had to end like this.

“I thought we played our tails off,” Loyola coach Porter Moser said. “I thought we did a lot of things. We didn’t shoot the ball well. At one point, we were 1-for-13 from three. We missed some layups early. We missed some really good three looks that, if one or two of them had (gone in), would have changed the direction of (the game.)”

It’s true that two very good defensive teams met Saturday, but it’s just as true that there was no reason for Loyola players not named Cameron Krutwig to go 1-for-18 from the field in the first half. It’s why Loyola had a measly 16 points at halftime. You don’t have to be a hoops junkie to know you can’t win like that.

“We just couldn’t find it,” Krutwig said, “it” being what every shooter feels when ball leaves fingertips.

The Ramblers mounted a nice second-half comeback, but it’s hard to come back from the cosmic crater of terrible shooting.

“It was kind of too little, too late,” Krutwig said.

Loyola’s 2018 Final Four run was beyond incredible, but you only get to do the miracle thing once. There wouldn’t be any sneaking up on opponents this time. Everybody knew about Krutwig’s basketball skills and instincts, and everybody knew about Lucas Williamson’s stickum defense. And still Loyola advanced in the tournament, a wonderful reflection of their ability and their determination.

The Ramblers did sneak up on many in the viewing audience, though, and that’s on us. We should have known better. But once reminded of why they were so much fun – teamwork, tough defense, etc. – we settled right back into the role of happy passengers. And, this being us, it didn’t take long to get ahead of ourselves. No. 8-seeded Loyola had upset No. 1-seeded Illinois in the second round. So getting past Oregon State, a 12^th seed? No problem, right?

Well, there was a problem — the Beavers’ zone defense. Moser said Oregon State’s size made it hard for Loyola to get off good shots consistently. If your thing is watching teams being forced to take awkward attempts with the shot clock dwindling, you were in heaven Saturday.

Loyola’s coaches and players believed there was another tournament run in them, for good reason. When you play defense as well at the Ramblers do, it can cover up a lot of sins. But when you go 5-of-23 on three-pointers and miss seven free throws, as they did against Oregon State, there’s an excellent chance you’re going to lose.

This might be the end of long, successful chapter for the Ramblers. Will Krutwig and Williamson, the holdovers from the 2018 team, come back for another season? And has Moser, who has left a huge footprint in Rogers Park, outgrown his shoes? Is he ready for a bigger job with better pay?

For all involved, it was too much to think about after such a painful loss. Going out with a clang tends to drown out everything in the moment. But it’s good to have options.

The 2020-21 Loyola team is out of them, and that’s too bad. It’s why more than a few players were in tears after the loss. But, as Krutwig said, after the sting wears off, they’ll be able to appreciate a season that ended in the Sweet 16. Not bad at all, especially in the middle of a pandemic.

The idea of March Madness is to survive and advance. Oregon State did both Saturday. Loyola did neither. The concept of offensive basketball was being tended to by medical professionals.

It was nice while it lasted for the Ramblers. The only thing that got in the way of their ride was a rim.

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Not this time for Loyola.

No late-game heroics. No cutting down the nets. No Final Four. No living the impossible dream.

So, it’s over. A Ramblers run that reached the Sweet 16 had nowhere else to go. A 65-58 loss Saturday to Oregon State at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis was an upset, sure, was heartbreaking, sure, came too damn soon, sure. But have we really reached a point where the Ramblers making it to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament is anything less than a gigantic success?

News flash: No, we haven’t.

All that talk about Loyola becoming the next Gonzaga? It was comically premature.

What Loyola actually is — a midsize program that, for four years now, has squeezed nearly every drop of potential out of itself — will just plain have to do.

“I think people see the Loyola name now,” coach Porter Moser said, “and I think they think different things about it than they did six, seven, eight years ago.”

They think about the 2018 Final Four squad, which included then-freshmen Cameron Krutwig and Lucas Williamson. They think about the team that, three years later — revolving around its senior duo, especially the one-of-a-kind Krutwig — stole the second-round show by lighting top-seeded Illinois’ shorts on fire. They think about Moser, a star who soon will have some big decisions to make. They think about nuns and scarves and college basketball in the city of Chicago, that last one a mighty feat for the Ramblers to have pulled off.

And they’ll think about the way this run ended, with a nightmarish shooting performance for the eighth-seeded Ramblers (26-5). Brick by brick, Moser’s squad pulled apart its own chances against the 12th-seeded Beavers (20-12), who stood taller, jumped higher and — unlike the Illini — acted the part of a major-conference team against a mid-major foe in March.

“I thought we played our tails off,” Moser said. “I thought we did a lot of things. We didn’t shoot the ball well.”

Shooting 5-for-23 from long range isn’t how you get from Point A to Point B. It’s how you get from Point A to crying faces hiding under towels. In the locker room after it was over, Moser looked at his emotionally wiped-out players and told them to pull the towels off their heads, look up and see one another. He thanked them for representing the name on the fronts of their jerseys so well.

Six minutes into the game, the Beavers still didn’t have a field goal. The Ramblers weren’t scoring, either, but a 7-1 lead seemed large. It felt like another big tournament day for a team that was a Sweet 16 favorite but self-identifies so strongly and successfully as the underdog.

Loyola’s postseason successes in 2018 and 2021 probably suckered a lot of us in. Didn’t we think the Ramblers would beat Oregon State even though the Pac-12 tournament champs were red-hot and coming off an enormously impressive second-round win against potential No. 1 NBA pick Cade Cunningham and Oklahoma State?

But these March games are about steely nerves, precious possessions, momentum swings and — when isn’t basketball about this? — knocking down shots. For all the teams that don’t do that enough, the end rushes in on a wave of disappointment and tears.

“We’ll have a lot of memories to look back on,” Krutwig said, “but as of right now, it hurts. … [But] that game will kind of fade off, and the memories that we made, the celebrations and everything, those will remain.”

Krutwig and Williamson embraced on the sideline with a couple of ticks left on the clock, their work — and their Loyola careers? — finished. There is the question about whether or not one or both will return to take advantage of the optional extra year due to the pandemic. Both Moser and Krutwig said it was too soon to discuss that publicly.

And the question that looms even larger: What does Moser’s own future hold?

Will the 52-year-old Naperville native take his shot at a higher-profile, more lucrative job? Is a 10-season stretch in Rogers Park — the second half of which was brilliant — enough? Is it time to love the name on the fronts of some other school’s uniforms?

“I need to digest this,” he said. “I’ve had my blinders on and given 110% of Porter Moser to this Rambler team. I’ve blocked out the noise. I just need time to digest this with these guys. That’s all I can tell you right now.”

And here’s all that can be said about his team: It did more than well enough.

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Morgan Park’s Camron Fulton was set to make the handoff to Aaron Warren eventually.

But like everything else in the pandemic era, the schedule got a little scrambled.

Fulton was one of the Public League’s most dynamic quarterbacks last season. But he’ll be playing defensive back in college and coach Chris James wanted to showcase him to recruiters.

Moving Fulton to the other side of the ball opened the door for Warren to be the Mustangs’ starting quarterback now. The junior showed why he’s up to the job in Saturday’s 26-0 Illini Red Bird win over Curie at Gately Stadium.

Warren ran 20 yards for Morgan Park’s first touchdown and added a 14-yard scoring pass to freshman Chris Durr.

“He’s an emotional kid,” James said of Warren, who finished with 120 total yards. “He’s just got to stay poised. … I didn’t want to say it too early, but Aaron’s got all the ability in the world and he’ll be big for us in the fall too.”

Warren credited Fulton for getting him up to speed.

“That’s my big brother,” Warren said. “He taught me everything. Every practice he taught me something.”

Among the lessons: “Lead by example. There’s going to be obstacles. We’ve got to get over them.”

“That’s my little brother,” Fulton said. “I’ve been playing football with Aaron since I was 11 years old. Off the field, I’m with Aaron every single day. It’s just a bond we’ve got.”

That bond helped Fulton, Warren and their teammates get through the strangest year of their lives, with remote learning, 16 months between games and a lack of prep time for this abbreviated season..

“I thought it was over for a second,” Warren said. “I almost cried when (it looked like) we had no season.”

“It’s a blessing,” Fulton said. “I didn’t think I’d get to play my senior year. I really didn’t.”

But he is playing, with an almost entirely new set of teammates. Morgan Park graduated 22 seniors and has a roster featuring a number of talented underclassmen.

They include Durr and fellow freshman Donta Hayes, who ran the second-half kickoff back 81 yards for a touchdown. Jacobi Beard added a six-yard TD run for the Mustangs.

“I was just happy my guys got to play and we got the win,” James said.

Turrant Johnson ran for 58 yards for Curie.

“Are we disappointed? Yes,” Condors coach Peter Grazzini said. “But it’s been 500-and-some days and we’re finally out here. And these guys finally get to be kids and compete.”

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A 17-year-old bystander was wounded by a stray bullet Saturday in East Garfield Park on the West Side.

The boy was walking about 4:30 p.m. in the 3300 block of West Ohio Street when someone in a vehicle drove by and fired shots at a nearby group of people, Chicago police said. Someone in the group returned fire, and the boy was caught in the crossfire, taking a bullet to the chest.

He was brought to Mt. Sinai Hospital in good condition, police said.

Police said the boy was not the intended target of the shooting.

Area Four detectives are investigating.

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A group of top West Side leaders on Saturday urged city officials to wrap up their investigation into The Loretto Hospital vaccine scandal and start sending doses to the Austin neighborhood safety net again as soon as possible.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot cut off Loretto’s vaccine supply pending a full probe of its misallocation of hundreds of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to ineligible people outside the hospital’s low-income Black community.

State Rep. La Shawn Ford resigned from the hospital board last week because he disagreed with how executives were reprimanded, but he called on the mayor to consider the “vital institution” as a whole, and not just the actions of its leaders.

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“People believe in The Loretto Hospital,” Ford said during a virtual news conference with other members of the West Side Black Elected Officials group. “They still want to be vaccinated by The Loretto Hospital… We cannot afford to take a step back and confuse people about where they can go get the vaccine.”

U.S. Rep Danny Davis said “we know that there have been problems. We don’t deny that at all, but I do know that there are efforts underway to correct whatever those problems might have been… We want to undergird this institution with confidence.”

The latest alleged chapter in the scandal emerged Friday night when Crain’s Chicago Business reported West Side state Rep. Camille Lilly — who serves as the hospital’s chief external affairs officer — gave Loretto staffers a list of people to vaccinate without requiring them to schedule appointments by phone or online like the rest of the public.

Loretto spokeswoman Becky Carroll flatly denied the report.

“This is a false narrative as no such list exists and Ms. Lilly is being attacked for doing her job, which is to engage community-based organizations to help recruit frontline workers and residents to get vaccinated at the hospital and protect Black and Brown communities from this deadly virus,” Carroll said in an email.

Hospital officials have acknowledged other missteps by top executives, though.

Loretto CEO George Miller and now-former chief operating officer Dr. Anosh Ahmed first came under fire earlier this month when a series of Block Club Chicago reports revealed the facility doled out doses to ineligible recipients with connections to the hospital honchos.

That included workers at Trump Tower where Ahmed owns a condominium, plus employees at his preferred Gold Coast luxury watch shop and a high-priced steakhouse. Miller also provided vaccine doses to more than 200 members of his southwest suburban church.

Ahmed resigned last week, saying he’d become a “distraction” while standing by “the good work the hospital is doing to fight COVID-19.” He claimed “only 200” ineligible people received shots under his watch, among more than 16,000 Loretto recipients.

A source previously told the Sun-Times that Miller was slapped with a two-week suspension. He apologized in a Facebook post last week, saying he’d “been misguided by my own self-serving purposes.”

State Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford, a hospital board member, has thrown her support behind Miller, calling him “one of our best presidents that we’ve had.”

On Saturday, Lightford said the board is “giving the hospital the time to audit thoroughly,” and in the meantime, “we’re going to keep pushing. We will continue to be a viable institution in the Austin community for health care and for employment moving forward.”

Sharon Grant, a director of the Loretto Hospital Foundation, said the facility is already feeling the effects of the fiasco on its finances.

“I have funders that are beginning to hold up funds because they want to see the outcome of this,” she said.

After Lightfoot cut off Loretto — which she chose as the site of the city’s first-ever COVID-19 vaccinations last December to emphasize her commitment to equitable distribution in communities of color — the city tapped Rush University Medical Center to help fill the vaccine gap in Austin.

An internal investigation is expected to wrap up next week.

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At least 14 people have been wounded in shootings across Chicago so far this weekend.

The weekend’s latest shooting left a teenage bystander wounded in East Garfield Park on the West Side.

The 17-year-old boy was walking about 4:30 p.m. in the 3300 block of West Ohio Street when someone in a vehicle drove by and fired shots at a nearby group of people, Chicago police said. Someone in the group returned fire, and the boy was caught in the crossfire, taking a bullet to the chest.

He was brought to Mt. Sinai Hospital in good condition, police said.

Hours earlier, four people were wounded, two critically, in Austin on the West Side.

The group was standing outside about 12:10 p.m. when someone fired shots at them in the 500 block of North Leamington Avenue, Chicago police said.

One man, 64, was struck in the leg, and another, 54, was struck in the thigh, police said. Both were taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in critical condition. A third man, 42, was grazed on the back and treated at the scene.

A fourth victim later showed up at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood with a gunshot wound to the shoulder, and was listed in good condition, police said.

Early Saturday morning, a man was critically wounded in a shooting in the South Shore neighborhood.

The 21-year-old was standing outside about 1:45 a.m. in the 7000 block of South Jeffery Boulevard when he heard shots and felt pain, police said. He suffered one gunshot wound to the groin and was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition.

Less than an hour earlier, a 25-year-old man was shot in Bronzeville on the South Side.

He was walking outside about 12:50 a.m. in the 800 block of East Oakwood Boulevard when a black sedan pulled up alongside him with three people inside, police said. One of the people inside the sedan began shooting and struck him in the hand. He was transported to Mercy Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.

Another 25-year old was hurt in a drive-by shooting about the same time in Oakland on the South Side.

About 12:50 a.m., the man was sitting in a parked vehicle in the 3800 block of South Langley Avenue when a white Jeep drove by him and began firing shots, Chicago police said. He was shot in the leg and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where his condition was stabilized.

Just after midnight, a 56-year-old man was wounded in a shooting in South Shore.

He was exiting his vehicle about 12:10 a.m. in the 7200 block of South Coles Avenue when a person approached him and fired shots before fleeing the scene, police said. The man was shot in the stomach and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition, police said.

In the weekend’s earliest reported shooting, a man was shot Friday evening in East Garfield Park on the West Side.

The man, 22, heard shots and felt pain about 6:55 p.m. in the 3300 block of West Ohio Street, Chicago police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital with a gunshot wound to his buttocks and was listed in fair condition.

At least four other people have been wounded in citywide shootings since 5 p.m. Friday.

Twenty people were shot, four fatally, last weekend in Chicago.

Read more on crime, and track the city’s homicides.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Ethan Thompson scored 20 points, including a pair of clinching foul shots with 35 seconds left, and No. 12 seed Oregon State kept its dream March going with a 65-58 victory over eighth-seeded Loyola Chicago in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday.

Warith Alatishe added 10 points and 11 rebounds for the Beavers (20-12), who were picked to finish last in the Pac-12 but ran roughshod through the conference tournament and have kept on winning on college basketball’s biggest stage.

They’re headed for their first Elite Eight since 1982 — one that was later vacated by the NCAA — and will play second-seeded Houston or No. 10 seed Syracuse on Monday night for a spot in the Beavers’ first Final Four since 1963.

Not even the fervent prayers of Sister Jean could help Loyola (26-4) deal with the constantly changing defenses that Oregon State coach Wayne Tinkle rolled out. The Ramblers, who played with such poise and perfection in toppling top-seeded Illinois, wound up shooting 33% from the field and 5 of 23 from beyond the arc.

All-America forward Cameron Krutwig led Loyola with 14 points. Lucas Williamson and Braden Norris added 10 apiece, though both of them missed 3-pointers in the closing minutes as Loyola tried to mount a comeback.

It was the first meeting between the teams since Dec. 31, 1927, when Loyola won 31-19 in Chicago — and Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the Ramblers’ beloved 101-year-old chaplain, was still a schoolgirl.

For most of Saturday, it looked as if 31 points would be plenty.

Oregon State turned it over twice before getting off a shot, went nearly 6 1/2 minutes before making its first field goal and at one point was 1 of 8 with four turnovers. Then the Ramblers, who failed to take advantage of their defense, proceeded to miss 11 consecutive shots as Oregon State flip-flopped between man-to-man and zone defenses.

The Beavers wound up shutting out Loyola the last 5:48 to take a 24-16 halftime lead, the lowest-scoring first half of the entire tournament. Krutwig was 3 of 5 from the field; the rest of the Ramblers were 1 of 18.

You’d have sworn the Beavers sported the nation’s No. 1 scoring defense, not the other way around.

Oregon State built on Warith Alatishe’s buzzer-beating bucket to end the first half by finally getting some shots to go in the second. Thompson did most of the damage, hitting an early jumper, beating the shot clock with another fadeaway jumper, then catching a Hail Mary heave to beat a full-court press and give the Beavers a 37-24 lead with 12 minutes to go.

Meanwhile, the Ramblers were hitting everything but the bottom of the bucket.

Williamson rimmed out 3-pointers on back-to-back trips down the floor. Tate Hall clanked a couple of free throws when that’s about the only place they were scoring. Krutwig even had a baby hook go halfway down and right back out.

Even when the shots wouldn’t fall, Loyola continued to play defense, and that kept the game close. And when Braden Norris knocked down a 3 and Aher Uguak tipped in an ally-oop with 2:43 to go, the Ramblers had trimmed their deficit to 49-44 and had the partisan crowd sitting mostly in the rafters of Bankers Life Fieldhouse cheering.

Kennedy hit a 3-pointer to get the Ramblers within 51-47, then another shot to get within 53-49, but the Beavers kept finding answers. Lucas provided one with a 3, Alatishe provided another from the foul line, and that was enough to keep the Pac-12’s dream tournament going into the Elite Eight.

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Oregon State is making the most of its second NCAA Tournament appearance since 1990. The Beavers had beaten higher-seeded teams in Tennessee and Oklahoma State to reach the second weekend, then ramped up the defense against one of the nation’s best on that end of the court to keep their run going.

Loyola Chicago was trying to become the first No. 8 seed since Kentucky in 2014 to reach the Elite Eight. But its slow start from the field proved to be too much to overcome. The Ramblers’ last lead came with about six minutes left in the first half.

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The Beavers play the Cougars or the Orange for a spot in the Final Four. Oregon State has never played Syracuse, but it beat Houston in the 1966 West Region semifinal and again in the 2009 CBI Tournament.

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Four people were wounded, two critically, Saturday in a shooting in Austin on the West Side.

Three men were standing outside about 12:10 p.m. when someone fired shots at them in the 500 block of North Leamington Avenue, Chicago police said.

One man, 64, was struck in the leg, and another, 54, was struck in the thigh, police said. Both were taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in critical condition.

The third man, 42, was grazed on the back, police said. He was treated at the scene.

Later, a fourth person showed up at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood with a gunshot wound to the shoulder, police said. He was in good condition.

No one is in custody as Area Five detectives investigate.

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