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The Maddest March ever

Sister Jean, the 98-year-old team chaplain for Loyola-Chicago, greets players after a win

QUICK, AND BE HONEST NOW: WHEN you filled out your March Madness bracket a few weeks back, along with millions of your fellow Americans, did you actually pick 16th-seeded University of Maryland, Baltimore County to upset the University of Virginia, the top team in the entire NCAA men’s basketball tournament? Or Loyola University Chicago to knock off a string of bigger-name and better-funded programs on its

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