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'We're ready to set the world on fire:' No. 11 Loyola to face No. 6 Miami in Dallas on Thursday

After a grueling two-week preseason boot camp, during which training sessions began at 5:45 a.m., coaches guided Loyola players into a video room to watch the "One Shining Moment" highlight reel from the 2017 NCAA Tournament.

The purpose?

"All your hard work, sweat and tears, aches and pains, it's for a goal," coach Porter Moser said. "To get where this program hasn't been in 33 years."

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