SAN ANTONIO _ The Michigan fans at the bar in Honolulu couldn't resist teasing the sole Villanova fan.
They saw Father Chris wearing a T-shirt from the Salesianum School in Wilmington, Del., so they assumed he was pulling for the Wildcats, and when they found out he has a graduate degree from Notre Dame, that didn't help. He seemed unusually interested in a redheaded bench player, and he confessed that he'd coached the kid in high school.
By the time the Wolverines took a seven-point lead nine minutes into the game the Michigan folks started riding the priest.
"Hey," said one man, dressed in maize and blue, "your boy hasn't done much, huh?" Donte DiVincenzo then scored 18 points in the first half, 13 more in the second and finished with 31, a record for a bench player in a title game. He hit five 3-pointers, blocked two shots at the rim and led the team with three assists. DiVincenzo was named most outstanding player of the Final Four. As he accepted the award, Father Chris got off his barstool.
"Yeah!" he yelled. "That's my guy!"
