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March 29, 2010 | By David Wharton
The road to Storrs runs through small towns and stretches of wooded countryside where the trees are still mostly bare. On a drizzly afternoon with few cars around, it is hard to imagine that day in 1995 when the people of Connecticut lined this route for miles on end, waving flags, cheering as their college basketball team came home with a championship trophy. Their women's college basketball team. "From the airport all the way to campus," recalled Geno Auriemma, the women's coach at the University of Connecticut.
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April 8, 2008 | Dan Arritt
at St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Fla. Stanford (35-3) vs. Tennessee (35-2), 5:30 p.m., PDT, ESPN -- Plenty of attention is being paid to the Candice vs. Candace showdown, but there will be plenty of other talent on the floor. Stanford senior guard Candice Wiggins is averaging 27.4 points in five tournament games, the highest of any player in the tournament. But the second-seeded Cardinal also has one of the better back-to-the-basket post players in center Jayne Appel, who is averaging 20.2 points and 9.8 rebounds in the tournament.
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April 8, 2008 | Chris Dufresne, Times Staff Writer
SAN ANTONIO -- The game was over, Memphis had won on a Monday, freshman Derrick Rose was going to be the star and Coach John Calipari was finally going to get his due. Cue the confetti and the CBS theme music. But then it wasn't over. In what will be remembered in Kansas lore as Mario's moon shot, Jayhawks junior guard Mario Chalmers landed a three-point basket with 2.1 seconds left to send a great NCAA championship game into overtime. "I knew it was going in when it left my hand," he said.
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April 8, 2008 | Bill Plaschke
SAN ANTONIO -- That's the thing about one shining moment. Somewhere else, there is darkness. Somewhere else, there is chill. After one shining moment carried Kansas to a breathless national championship that will live forever, somewhere else kids were crying. Somewhere else, kids were biting the bottoms of their jerseys, hiding their heads in their towels, throwing punches through the confetti. One shining moment gave Kansas a 75-68 overtime victory in the national title game Monday night.
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April 8, 2008 | Robyn Norwood, ON COLLEGE BASKETBALL
SAN ANTONIO -- The shot was off-balance, but Mario Chalmers' aim was true. Rock, shock, Jayhawk. It wasn't over, but it might as well have been. Chalmers' desperate three-point basket with 2.1 seconds left in regulation forced Memphis to overtime Monday, and a Kansas team that outlasted some of the best this NCAA tournament had to offer won the national title, 75-68. "It'll probably be the biggest shot ever made in Kansas history," Coach Bill Self said.
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April 8, 2008 | Dan Arritt, Times Staff Writer
TAMPA, Fla. -- Stanford plans to force Tennessee standout Candace Parker to play with her left hand in tonight's NCAA championship game. Up until this point of her college career, everything has always gone right. As in, she could do no wrong, because she can score with either hand, from up close or from outside, and has the awards to prove it. But an injured left shoulder has thrown a curve at the 6-foot-4 redshirt junior and given the Cardinal at least some kind of idea on how to defend her.