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Sister Jean gets the vaccine and seat at the NCAA Tournament

Sister Jean Delores Schmidt, fully vaccinated and eight months past her 101st birthday, is back at the NCAA Tournament. The chaplain for Loyola Chicago's basketball team was on hand to watch her beloved Ramblers put away Georgia Tech in the tourney's first full day of action after the pandemic forced cancellation of the event last year. The time away hardly blunted its reputation for producing upsets. Lower-seeded teams won six of the 16 games played in the South and Midwest Regions, highlighted by No. 15 Oral Roberts stunning Big Ten powerhouse and No. 2 seed Ohio State.