Sister Jean, long a local celebrity on the Loyola-Chicago campus has only recently been catapulted into our collective meme-drunk consciousness. The 98-year-old nun isn’t merely just a pretty face and an easy distraction, either. She appears to be a vital member of the tightly knit Ramblers squad and apparently still does her best, in between nationally televised interviews, to crank out scouting reports.

(via Jesuits.org)

She is, in many ways, the perfect foil for Musselman, the hard-swearing and wild-eyed catalyst for the Wolfpack’s miraculous run. Where Sister Jean is Lake Placid, Musselman is the scene in Lake Placid where the Giant Crocodile devours a swimmer. Where Sister Jean is an EWTN special to be played in the background of Nana’s nursing home bedroom while she knits, Musselman is The Wolf Wall Street playing at a bachelor party poker game.

Here’s the beauty of it: we need both.

I want to root for Musselman to keep chucking his shirt off like an overzealous frat dude about to hit the slip and slide and I want Sister Jean to keep reminding me that clean living, love, and an understanding of the pick and roll can help you live forever.

I want to keep listening to Musselman curse like a sailor and string together whole paragraphs that being with nothing but the F-word. And I want to keep writing half-assed parodies for Sister Jean to “Billie Jean” by Michael Jackson because she’s just a little too much fun in a year when we need an escape.

The problem is: I don’t want either of these two March Dynamos to have to stop taking up screen time. What happens when they’re gone? We get more Bilastrator breakdowns of ass-checks from Grayson Allen?

I guess, I should just be happy they were here to bring me a brief moment’s respite from the napalm flames engulfing my bracket.

As Alfred, Lord Tennyson once said: ‘Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.”

And, as another immortal poet of his generation Eric, Lord Musselman once said: “What a fucking game, man!”

(Author’s note: tell me here or on Twitter, who are you rooting for?)