It’s Saturday night, and I just watched the Loyola (Chicago) Ramblers lose their semifinal NCAA basketball game to Michigan. These guys were Chicago’s team, and they became America’s team by ignoring their #11 seed and taking down opponent after opponent on their way to the Final Four.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say no one actually thought they could get to the Final Four. But they did, and they made their 98-year-old team chaplain, Sister Jean, America’s favorite nun—hell, America’s favorite college basketball figure, period—in the process.

So they lost. So what? They took a Big Ten team deep into the 4th quarter before the game finally turned in Michigan’s favor. And you know that their coach, and their chaplain, and their school’s fans and alumni, are proud of this team, proud of what they accomplished. It’s not a championship, but it’s a Cinderella story, and while it might not be the dream they were dreaming this morning i’s still a dream come true, and they’re going to be talking about it with their grandchildren. Just making it to the Sweet Sixteen, making it to the Elite Eight, making it to the Final Four, were dreams come true.

Right on, Ramblers. Be proud.

They’re not the only ones whose dreams came true this week. I love their Cinderella story, but there’s another one that I love even more this week. In case you missed it, a 36-year-old accountant who had never played a professional hockey game got called into action as emergency goalie for the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday and blocked seven shots on goal to hold the Winnipeg Jets in check and save the Blackhawks’ win. Three Blackhawks goalies came down injured—two before the game started and the last one in the final period—to bring our hero accountant onto professional ice for the first time in his life. And he saved the day.

Dreams can come true. Believe. Try. Never give up.