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Loyola-Chicago is back in this year's tournament. They will be facing Ohio State.
Loyola earned an automatic bid by winning the MVC Tournament against Drake last week.
Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the lovable team chaplain and superfan, was introduced to America during the Ramblers’ improbable run to the 2018 Final Four. She was perhaps the most recognizable face of that year’s tournament.
Last year, she was with the Ramblers in the Indianapolis bubble and correctly predicted their upset of Illinois to go to the Sweet 16.
Now 102, Sister Jean attended Loyola’s Missouri Valley Conference Tournament opener in St. Louis and got a shout-out from first-year coach Drew Valentine as the Ramblers cut down the nets after winning the championship March 6. Loyola is making back-to-back tournament appearances for the first time since 1963-64.
The Fighting Illini are here too.
They earned a No. 4 seed.
It's the 14th time in program history Illinois has been a top-four seed in the NCAA Tournament. Since 1985, they've advanced to the Sweet Sixteen as a top-four seed five of 12 times. They have not advanced to the second weekend until 2005. They lost in the second round to No. 8 seed Loyola-Chicago 71-58 last season as the No. 1 seed.
And this won't be the first time they meet Chattanooga in the tournament.
In 1997, No. 14 seed Chattanooga upset No. 6 seed Illinois to advance to the Sweet Sixteen.
- Mary Montgomery, Gambling911.com
