For anyone about to dismiss the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers from this point forward in the NCAA tournament, they have 98-year-old Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt and your team doesn't.
At least that's one way to look at what happened to Tennessee at the close of its 63-62 loss to the Ramblers in the second round of the South Regional on Saturday night. A late Ramblers shot bounced multiple times on the rim before falling through.
Asked what she told the team before the game, Sister Jean - the Ramblers' team chaplain since 1994 - told a TNT reporter: "I told them we were going to win, that God was on our side."
Everyone in UT Orange will no doubt take offense at that, and theologians outside the Windy City surely would argue that the Almighty has far more important things to worry about than who wins and loses in a college basketball tournament.
But Clayton Custer's game winner - and Volunteers guard Jordan Bone's last-second miss - delivered a sudden, bitter conclusion to one of the most uplifting seasons in Big Orange history.
The good news is that thanks to the Maryland-Baltimore County Retrievers, most of the country, if not the whole universe, will little note or longer remember anything that happened on this first weekend of March Madness except the 16th-seeded Retrievers' historic victory over No. 1 Virginia late Friday night.
It wasn't just enough that this was the first time in 136 meetings between a No. 1 seed and a No. 16 that the No. 16 team had won. It wasn't even that the final score was a mind-blowing 74-54 against a Cavaliers squad that stood 22-1 this season against the lordly ACC (America's Cockiest Conference).
If you want another perspective on the absurdity of this upset, consider this: On Jan. 21 of this year, UMBC lost 83-39 to Albany.
So if you're a romantic, if you love the underdog and believe in miracles, this tourney already has provided you a memory to last a lifetime, a win that just might be the greatest upset in the history of team sports.
This was the 1980 USA hockey team beating the Soviet Union. This was Joe Namath and the New York Jets upsetting the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. This was - so sorry to bring this up, Cavaliers - NAIA member Chaminade knocking off top-ranked Virginia and its All-America big man Ralph Sampson in 1982.
Only this was really bigger than any of those because this never had happened before. And no one really thought it was going to happen this time, given that Virginia was favored by at least 20.5 points.
But the Wahoos looked uninspired bordering on disinterested until it was far too late, and UMBC looked like anything but the worst No. 16 seed in the tourney.
So history was shockingly made, or as CBS analyst Bill Raferty told ESPN late Friday night: "You know what this is like? This is like saying, well, you know, one day the aliens are going to land here and that's going to be incredible. But in the back of your mind you're like, 'C'mon, man, we all know the aliens are never going to land here.'"
And now that it's happened, is it equally fair to wonder if Albany, had it made the 68-team field a week ago tonight, could have beaten Virginia by 64 points? Especially if UMBC defeats Kansas State today to reach the Sweet 16.
Actually, the better question might be whether there's a team out there capable of derailing a Villanova-Duke semifinal, because both those schools have played like national champion contenders thus far.
For despite all this first-weekend fun - which easily could continue today - it was hard to watch Villanova vaporize Alabama and Duke destroy Rhode Island and not think the really big upsets are almost done, the really big names once again about to take over March Madness.
Of the eight teams already through to the Sweet 16, Villanova certainly looks the best bet to win the East and Duke is again looking like the team that was ranked No. 1 in the preseason. Nor should anyone sleep on Kentucky returning to the Final Four for the first time since 2015 and the fifth time since John Calipari took over the Wildcats prior to the 2009-10 season.
Big Blue may have gotten a big break when Buffalo shocked Arizona on Thursday, but they out-talented Davidson and out-toughed Buffalo to reach what's often been known as Cat-lanta for Thursday night's South Regional semi.
And who's guaranteed not to join the fifth-seeded Wildcats there? Try No. 1 seed Virginia, No. 3 Tennessee and No. 4 Arizona. Talk about Blue Heaven, even if Sister Jean won't be saying any prayers for UK if Loyola reaches Saturday's regional final.
That said, after the impressive 'Nova and Duke wins Saturday, it's actually a shame that they'll have to meet in the national semis should they win their regionals. Makes you want the NCAA to far more strongly consider reseeding the teams for the Final Four.
But that won't do much to soothe the broken hearts of the Big Orange Nation today at the close of a truly storybook run for a team that began the season picked to finish 13th in the 14-team SEC. Especially considering the Rambler who may have done the most to do them in was Sister Jean.
If only Virginia had such an excuse.
Contact Mark Wiedmer at mwiedmer@timesfreepress.com