Pope Leo receiving teams and fans from US college basketball before their games in Rome

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is set to hold a private audience on Saturday with basketball teams from his alma mater, Villanova , and fellow Catholic university Notre Dame , plus thousands of traveling American fans in town for the season opener. A total of about 7,000 people are expected Saturday in the Paul VI audience hall inside the Vatican. The audience precedes the U.S. college…

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