Loyola-Chicago's chaplain, 98 year old Sister Jean, will be the best part of this tourney

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The Chicago Tribune has a great profile of Sister Jean, who’s been the team chaplain since 1994. She prays with the team as part of a pregame ritual, and she leads the fans in prayer before the games, too, “asking God to help the referees call fouls ‘justly’ and asking that the scoreboard ‘at the end indicates a Ramblers win,’” according to the Tribune. She knows her shite—er, stuff—too:

“She’s like another coach,” senior guard Donte Ingram said. “The first game (as a freshman), it caught me off guard. I thought she was just going to pray. She prayed, but then she starts saying, ‘You’ve got to box out and watch out for 23.’

And when current Ramblers coach Porter Moser took the job in 2011, Sister Jean left a manilla envelope on his desk, which contained “pages of detailed notes on the strengths and weaknesses of each returning player.”

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