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ROME (AP) — It hit Villanova coach Kevin Willard early Thursday morning when he got off the charter flight that carried the university’s men’s and women’s teams to Rome for Sunday’s season-opening college basketball doubleheader against Notre Dame.
Villanova, Willard believes, has a responsibility to represent Pope Leo XIV, who graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the Augustinian school near Philadelphia.
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who → hit → Philadelphia
“At first, I didn’t think it was going to be that big of a deal, but when we landed, you understand he is our best alumnus and most notable alumnus,” Willard said.
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Willard → think → deal
“He’s also the most famous person on earth.”
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He → ’ → earth
That honor likely belongs to the private audience that Leo is scheduled to hold with the four teams and their 7,000 traveling fans on Saturday.
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Leo → belong → Saturday
The team already drove by the Colosseum on their way to practice and plans to see the Spanish Steps, too.
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team → drive → Steps
“It’s crazy, the things that basketball has led us to do,” Villanova guard Jake Fiegen said.
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Fiegen → ’ → us
Villanova 7-foot-3 freshman center Luigi Suigo, a 19-year-old Italian who is a projected NBA draft lottery pick, is the team’s unofficial tour guide.
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who → project → ?
“At the hotel he was instructing us not to put meatballs in our pasta,” Fiegen said.
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Fiegen → instruct → pasta
Villanova women already came to Italy
Jasmine Bascoe, a junior guard from Milton, Ontario, on the Villanova women’s team, said the players were told not to sleep more than a half hour at a time on the flight to avoid jet lag.
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players → come → lag
“So we were active on that plane, up walking, joking around, playing lots of games, keeping our legs moving,” Bascoe said.
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Bascoe → walk → games
“I brought my Switch.
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I → bring → Switch
I was playing some Switch games.
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I → play → games
I love Sudoku, lots of Sudoku.”
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I → love → Sudoku
Bascoe is one of four members of her team who already came to Italy on a preseason trip in 2024 that included three practice games, continuous gelato, and “a lot of pasta.”
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that → come → pasta
“When you do the summer tour, you have an opportunity to see everything.
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you → do → everything
But with this trip, we’re going to focus (on) Pope Leo and then the game itself,” coach Denise Dillon said.
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Dillon → go → Leo
So how can Villanova contain Notre Dame guard Hannah Hidalgo, last season’s Naismith national defensive player of the year and a top WNBA prospect?
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Villanova → contain → year
“I don’t know if there’s really anyone who has learned to contain Hannah Hidalgo,” Dillon said.
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Dillon → know → Hidalgo
“So it’s just the recognition of her abilities and the team itself.”
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it → ’ → abilities
Villanova isn’t ranked.
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Villanova → rank → ?
But the Wildcats hold a wild card they hope can negate even “the luck of the (Fighting) Irish.”
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they → hold → Irish
“I never thought that one day I would go to the same school as the pope,” Bascoe said.
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Bascoe → think → pope
“We’re definitely going to take his luck and his holiness on our side.”
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We → go → side
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