In the eyes of students, the only bad thing about the Loyola Hall of Fame ceremonies is that we were either in grade school or not yet born when the inductees were shooting, racing, pitching or spiking their way into the history books.

Unless you spend your free mornings going through crumbling sports scrapbooks, students don’t have the time to soak in what the new Hall of Famers accomplished during their careers while Loyola sports historian Felix Gaudin reads the inductees’ 150-word biographies during halftime of the men’s basketball game. And that’s for students who actually make it out to the games. But even for those who do, all they get is Gaudin’s words. The only 2008 Hall of Fame careers students may have witnessed were volleyball Hall of Famer Cristin Favre, A’98, and cross country record-holder Sean Fitzwilliam, A’99. At that point I was a 12-year-old playing “The Legend of Zelda” on Nintendo 64 and illegally downloading Cash Money Records’ jams off Napster. I wasn’t going to Favre’s volleyball games or Fitzwilliam’s cross country races.

I’m here to offer you a solution. Spend March 1 at The Den when both the men’s and women’s basketball teams conclude their regular seasons against Tougaloo College. You will behold two things: Luke Zumo sprucing up his Hall of Fame resume and the entire women’s basketball team putting the finishing Hall of Fame touches on becoming the best Loyola basketball team since the 1945 national champions.

Zumo, the school’s first ever scholarship athlete and the program’s best player for the last four years, has led the Wolfpack in scoring (17.6 points a game) during their run to the program’s first winning season under Michael Giorlando. Their 15-win total as of Feb. 24 tied the most men’s wins since Loyola reinstated athletics in 1991. When it’s all said and done, Zumo should end up being the program’s second-highest scorer of all time.

As for the women’s basketball team, their 33-game win streak over conference opponents as of Feb. 24 is the most dominant stretch of performances by any team in Loyola’s 86-year history and ensures their team’s enshrinement. A second-consecutive trip to the NAIA national tournament and home-court advantage through the GCAC tournament is just another sterling line on the resumes of future individual Hall of Famers Dobee Plaisance (four 20-win seasons in a row), sophomore sensations Trenell and Trenese Smith (habitually GCAC and national players of the week), and senior Kiely Schork (the program’s career scoring leader).

So, for once, witness school history. Don’t just read or listen to it.