Niko Blanas

CHICAGO – On the heels of Loyola upsetting the 11 seed Nevada and entering the Elite Eight, the first team from Illinois to go this deep in March Madness since Illinois in 2005, DePaul Athletic Director Jean Lenti Ponsetto decided the time was now to put DePaul Basketball on the road to victory getting “one of our own 98 year old nun” like Loyola’s Sister Jean.

Every student is either blissfully unaware of or simply goes along with the fact that our school mascot is a literal blue demon. We all just go around pretending that’s a thing when it’s not a thing anywhere. We’ve already established how it’s super weird that the largest Catholic school in the nation has demons as their mascots, regardless if it provides a “fun” story for stressed and pissed off student tour guides to tell to parents who haven’t been on a college campus in 40 years.

In this latest hard-hitting investigative series, Life After DePaul, we set out to see how well our beloved university equips its denizens for survival in the big bad world. This installment follows one of DePaul’s infamous sadbois, Tyler Bougoilee, as he wanders from the hazy womb of the smoker’s steps to the dangerous, unpredictable world of his childhood home. According to Tyler and his friends, Tyler got along just fine at DePaul.