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For Bowling Green, Loyola-Chicago's tourney run recalls its own magical past

Chances are you know them as the cuddly underdog, and they are. The Loyola-Chicago Ramblers are the feel-good story of the NCAA basketball tournament, right down to Sister Jean, their 98-year-old team chaplain and super fan.

But in Bowling Green, at least, fans of a wiser generation might remember them as something else.

America’s Cinderella? Nah, try the big, bad Wicked Stepmother.

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BGSU's Butch Komives scored 32 and with Nate Thurmond helped the Falcons rout Loyola of Chicago, then rated No. 2 in the country and the eventual NCAA champion, 92-75.