So maybe God isn’t a Catholic–or maybe she is, but felt Catholics could use a lesson in humility (another one?!) and thus Villanova had to lose, badly, in the Final Four and North Carolina had to continue its dynastic ways and crush Michigan State to win the NCAA tourney. BOH-ring. I liked it better during what The Times’ Jack Styczynski noted was the zenith of Catholic college hoops, in the 1980s, when seven of the 40 Final Four Teams were from Catholic colleges. (Of course, are they really Catholic?).

But in the 20 years since then, only three achieved the feat–Marquette in 2003, Georgetown in 2007 and now Villanova in 2009.

The last Catholic school to play in the national championship game?

Seton Hall in 1989.

The last Catholic school to win it all?

You guessed it. Villanova in 1985.

Let it go. Opening Day has come, and the Yankees lost and the Mets won–the magic number is 161–and that’s a beautiful thing. For today. But if you are perverse and insist on rooting for a baseball team in The Bronx, why not go with a true dynasty: The Fordham Rams, which has the most wins–that is the MOST wins–of any N.C.A.A. Division I baseball program. As this Times feature reports:

And it is not close. Fordham has 4,010 wins; Texas is second with 3,117. Of course, Fordham had a huge head start since it began playing baseball 150 years ago, which was 36 seasons before Texas did and more than half a century before many other teams. Still, Fordham proudly relishes having more victories than elite programs like Stanford and Miami.

And they had Vin Scully and the Fordham Flash (below), a.k.a. Frankie Frisch, who held the team’s single-season steals record for 67 years and played 19 seasons in the majors.