The Pennsylvania university best known for its basketball program has a new most famous alumnus in Pope Leo XIV.

During the period surrounding Pope Leo’s earlier time on campus, the Wildcats men’s basketball team, then coached by Steve ...

It's not a new or unique thing for a pope to be a sports fan. Pope Francis was a supporter of San Lorenzo, one of the oldest ...

The Augustinian-affiliated university has pulsed with nonstop celebration, including ‘pope punch’ and ringing bells, since an ...

Galetto, Prevost’s former classmate turned fellow priest, said Prevost’s years saw the beginning of Rollie Massimino’s reign.

Some Knicks fans think the fact that Pope Leo is a Villanova alum — like the team’s stars Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Mikal ...

As the campus winds down for the semester, bells rang and memes were created for 1977 graduate Robert Prevost, who's now Pope Leo XIV.

The pope is a graduate of Villanova University, where Father Hagan is a senior associate athletic director and a long-serving team chaplain for Villanova football and men’s basketball programs.

the Wildcats men’s basketball team, then coached by Steve Lappas, made NCAA Tournament appearances in 1995, 1996 and 1997 but never made it past the second round. In 2025, Villanova stands alone ...

Brunson and Bridges won a second title in 2018. Rev. Robert Hagan, the Villanova men’s basketball team chaplain — who served the Wildcats when Brunson, Hart and Bridges played — told The ...