Poor Sister Jean.
The 105-year-old superfan and staff chaplain of the Loyola Chicago males’s basketball program didn’t obtain fist bumps from a number of distracted gamers Wednesday evening in a clip that has gone viral.
Sister Jean sat in a wheelchair exterior the tunnel that presumably results in the locker room and prolonged her fist to have a good time the 76-54 residence win over Japanese Michigan.
The brief clip reveals junior guard Kymany Houinsou extending his left hand to have a good time earlier than an unknown participant walks by with out greeting Sister Jean.
Junior guard Justin Moore and senior ahead Jalen DeLoach then each handed her with out extending their fists, however the pair appeared to be distracted. Each upperclassmen turned their heads to the suitable towards the stands whereas exiting, seemingly not seeing Sister Jean whereas they handed her.
Naturally, seeing Sister Jean left hanging — seemingly unintentionally — didn’t sit properly with some.
“Why’d they do Sister Jean like that? 💔,” the Faculty Basketball Content material account on X tweeted.
Barstool Sports activities’ X account posted: “Sister Jean didn’t carry Loyola Chicago all the best way to a Remaining 4 simply to be handled like this.”
Sister Jean rose to fame in 2018 whereas she cheered for Loyola Chicago throughout its underdog run to the Remaining 4 as an 11-seed earlier than shedding to Michigan within the Remaining 4.
Broadcasters revealed her backstory to the world whereas she attended the Ramblers’ video games, with the squad capturing the hearts of America throughout its upsets of Miami, Tennessee, Nevada and Kansas State en path to reaching its first Remaining 4 since successful the nationwide title through the 1962-63 season.
Sister Jean first served as an instructional advisor with the lads’s and ladies’s packages in 1994 earlier than changing into the lads’s staff chaplain in 1994, per the college web site.
She entered the varsity’s Athletics Corridor of Fame in 2017.
“That advanced right into a place as official staff chaplain for the lads’s basketball staff, along with her pre-game prayers and recommendation to gamers changing into a essential a part of the staff’s success,” reads the varsity web site’s profile of Sister Jean. ” Her function with the staff has additionally earned her quite a few accolades, together with a much-deserved induction within the Loyola Athletics Corridor of Fame.
“However make no mistake, Sister Jean is greater than only a fan—she is aware of her basketball in addition to anybody on the court docket. Upon arriving at Loyola, Coach Porter Moser bought a scouting report from Sister Jean on each one among his gamers.”
Sister Jean has had a lot to cheer for this season with Loyola Chicago off to a 7-0 begin. The Ramblers ranked fifth within the Atlantic 10 preseason ballot.
