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Sportsview: Williams finally wins big one
Apr 4 2005 11:44PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Roy Williams started walking slowly up the sideline as the longest three seconds of his life ticked off the clock. Instead of jumping, shouting or even pumping a fist, he calmly reached up to make sure his glasses sat squarely on the bridge of his nose.
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Carolina tops Illini 75-70 for NCAA title
Apr 4 2005 11:36PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Sean May had 26 points and the North Carolina Tar Heels didn't allow a basket over the final, excruciating 2 1/2 minutes Monday night to defeat Illinois 75-70, a win that finally gave Roy Williams, the 17-year coaching veteran, the national championship that was missing from his otherwise stellar resume.
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May matches Dad's title 29 years later
Apr 4 2005 11:29PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Sean May no longer needs to carry around that old videotape of his father's national championship game. Now he has one of his own.
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Felton carries Carolina in final minute
Apr 4 2005 11:12PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - In one spectacular final minute, Raymond Felton outplayed Illinois' talented trio of guards all by himself. The North Carolina junior stole a pass, then sank three free throws in the last 25.8 seconds of Monday night's championship game, securing the Tar Heels' 75-70 win.
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Felton carries Carolina in final minute
Apr 4 2005 11:10PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - In one spectacular final minute, Raymond Felton outplayed Illinois' talented trio of guards all by himself. The North Carolina junior stole a pass, then sank three free throws in the last 25.8 seconds of Monday night's championship game, securing the Tar Heels' 75-70 win.
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Illinois can't get 3-pointers to fall
Apr 4 2005 10:51PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - With 20 seconds left, Luther Head darted to the right side and waited for someone to get him the ball. When he got it, he quickly put up a 3-pointer. But like so many other shots the Illini took, it missed. Badly.
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Pitt's Taft to leave for NBA draft
Apr 4 2005 10:21PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Pitt sophomore center Chris Taft said Monday he'll bypass his final two college seasons and enter the NBA draft.
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Tennessee's year ends with disappointment
Apr 4 2005 6:06PM (CT)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee coach Pat Summitt picked up loss No. 172, and the Lady Vols left the Final Four again without a trophy. This is not how Tennessee envisioned the season ending. The Lady Vols finished an up-and-down year on a low by losing to Michigan State in the national semifinals on Sunday in Indianapolis.
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Baylor coach on brink of history
Apr 4 2005 4:47PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Back in Tickfaw, La., there's a street named after the little girl with big dreams. Suitably, it's called Kim Mulkey Drive. Avenue or Boulevard just wouldn't have made sense.
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Michigan State makes teamwork its star
Apr 4 2005 4:18PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Michigan State will take its gang of five over a couple of blue-chip players any day. After all, this season has proven the Spartans can win in unconventional ways _ without All-Americans, without dominant inside players, even beating the nation's most established women's programs by rallying from seemingly impossible deficits.
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Baylor, Michigan State new faces in finals
Apr 4 2005 4:03PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Steffanie Blackmon saw a challenge at Baylor and jumped at it. Kristin Haynie was told she could win championships at Michigan State and believed it. Each took a chance at a struggling program with the goal of making a difference. Just look where they are now: On Tuesday night, one of them will leave the RCA Dome as part of a national championship team.
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Boeheim joins Basketball Hall of Fame
Apr 4 2005 2:40PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Last month, Jim Boeheim and Jim Calhoun became the first college basketball coaches with 700 wins to face each other. On Monday, they shared the stage again, proudly holding jerseys signifying their election to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Pitt's Taft to leave for NBA draft
Apr 4 2005 1:24PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Pitt sophomore center Chris Taft said Monday he'll bypass his final two college seasons and enter the NBA draft.
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Ex-coaches watch teams reach NCAA finals
Apr 4 2005 12:38PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - One left for greener pastures. The other made a mess out of Carolina Blue. Neither Bill Self nor Matt Doherty was on the sideline Monday night when the teams they used to coach, Illinois and North Carolina, met for the national championship.
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43 arrested after Michigan State's loss
Apr 4 2005 11:38AM (CT)
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Forty-three people were arrested last weekend after Michigan State's loss in the men's Final Four, police said in a revised report Monday.
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Haynie's second-half play sparks Spartans
Apr 4 2005 9:31AM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Kristin Haynie's comeback was almost as impressive as her team's. Haynie shook off a forgettable first half to provide a steadying presence for the Spartans as they rallied from a 16-point deficit against Tennessee, then made the biggest play of Michigan State's 68-64 national semifinal victory on Sunday night.
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Newcomers reveal parity in women's game
Apr 4 2005 9:31AM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Tennessee coach Pat Summitt has been talking about parity in women's basketball for years. On Sunday night, she finally saw it play out _ at her own expense and in front of a national audience. Most figured this year's national title game would be another version of the SEC title game between LSU and Tennessee, two programs with deep-rooted traditions, once the women's Final Four was set.
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Baylor to meet MSU in matchup of unlikelys
Apr 4 2005 9:31AM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - No lead will be safe in the all-green women's national championship game Tuesday night. Michigan State and Baylor, both in the Final Four for the first time, showed incredible resiliency in staging stirring comebacks to win the semifinal games Sunday night.
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Baylor beats LSU 68-57 to reach finals
Apr 4 2005 9:31AM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Baylor's comeback ranked among the best in Final Four history. Its defense was determined and incredibly stingy. The Lady Bears were simply better _ and now the end of their remarkable, uplifting redemption story will be told on the final night of the season in the national championship game.
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Spartans upset Lady Vols in Final Four
Apr 4 2005 9:30AM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Michigan State's climb to national prominence took the Spartans all the way over Rocky Top. Down by 16 points in the second half, Michigan State rallied _ tying the largest comeback in Final Four history _ then finished off Tennessee with a pair of fast-break baskets to complete the 68-64 upset Sunday night. The win sets up Tuesday's title game with Baylor, another unlikely championship contender.
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Cardinals cap resurgence with Final Four
Apr 4 2005 9:30AM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Francisco Garcia and Ellis Myles hugged after Louisville lost to Illinois in the Final Four, then walked off the court together for the last time. While disappointed in the 72-57 defeat, the Cardinals' junior star and senior leader hold a deep sense of accomplishment for how much Louisville improved after they arrived.
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Illinois-North Carolina a rare 1-2 game
Apr 4 2005 9:30AM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - It's been 30 years since the top two teams in The Associated Press poll met in college basketball's national championship game. No matter what happens Monday night when top-ranked Illinois faces North Carolina, it won't affect the sport the way the last 1-2 title matchup did.
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Illinois frontcourt has chance play big
Apr 4 2005 9:29AM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Sean May. Jawad Williams. Marvin Williams. If the NCAA championship game truly is Team vs. Talent, those North Carolina big men might be the best example. All have a variety of skills that not only carried the Tar Heels this far, but should serve them well in the NBA. Illinois' front-line rotation of James Augustine, Roger Powell Jr., Nick Smith and Jack Ingram probably can't win the individual matchups. Then again, they don't have to.
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Title game will feature good guard play
Apr 4 2005 9:19AM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Deron Williams is sure to wind up in the NBA, likely as a lottery pick. Yet week by week, as each of the Illinois starters picked up individual Big Ten honors, Williams was left out. "He keeps trucking along, doing what he does," Illinois coach Bruce Weber said Sunday. "He just makes a difference with all the little things, whether it's defense, assists, getting us into our offense. Whatever it may be, it makes a difference in the game."
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