SAN ANTONIO — Seven Villanova players piled into Dylan Painter's Ford Expedition at the end of July and set off for Ocean City, New Jersey. Two other drivers followed with the rest of the team. Jalen Brunson's parents helped arrange for a house so the Wildcats could get away for a night amid a summer full of two-a-day workouts and open scrimmages.
Brunson and Donte DiVincenzo played pop-a-shot on the boardwalk, but still couldn't break the high score. Mikal Bridges posed for pictures with fans. At night, they played NBA 2K and FIFA on X-Box and ate hoagies that walk-on Tom Leibig's mom brought them. But the main event was a beach football game clouded by a controversial ending.
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