Most college basketball fans will remember Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt as a delightful courtside fixture who provided a spiritual lift when the Loyola Chicago men's basketball team made an unlikely Cinderella run to the 2018 NCAA Final Four.

But to the Rev. Thomas Rausch, a professor of theology at Southern California's Loyola Marymount, Sister Jean was a warm-hearted and kind third-grade teacher at St. Charles Borromeo in North Hollywood.

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"I don’t remember the exact number in the classroom, but it was huge," Rausch said. "It was somewhere around 70, and she taught all of those kids and did a wonderful job.

"She was just a wonderful woman."

The beloved chaplain for Loyola Chicago's men's basketball team died

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