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Before playing Notre Dame in Rome, four Villanova basketball players — Tyler Perkins and Matt Hodge from the men’s team, and Brynn McCurry and Jasmine Bascoe from the women’s team — presented the school’s most famous alumnus, Pope Leo XIV, with gifts.
The first American pope, formerly Robert Prevost, a 1977 Villanova graduate, took a golden basketball, faked a shot, then dribbled it before signing it.
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