The Loyola Ramblers are back in the NCAA tournament, three years after their incredible underdog run to the Final Four.
That means Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, their most prominent fan and a wheelchair-bound, now-101-year-old nun, is back as well. Or she should be.
As of now, Sister Jean isn’t headed to Loyola Chicago’s first-round game against Georgia Tech scheduled for 4 p.m. Friday at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Despite being fully vaccinated and, she said, having tested negative for COVID-19 some 30 times, restrictions on the number of people at games and the size of travel parties have left perhaps the sport’s most famous fan on the outside looking in.