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 DALLAS (AP) - Ivory Latta snatched the rebound and immediately looked at the clock. Only 10 seconds left. Just 10 seconds until she was going back to the Final Four. Latta held to the ball and hardly moved a muscle, except to flash a smile that stretched as the clock thinned. Once the buzzer sounded on North Carolina's 84-72 victory over Purdue in the finals of the Dallas Regional on Tuesday night, the senior star threw the ball straight up and ran to join her teammates in celebration.
She blew kisses to the crowd and slapped on a Final Four hat. Later, she wound up with the cut-down net as her new necklace.
Act like you've been there before? No way, not after having hurt her knee in last year's Final Four, then having had to fight through various things this season, all the way down to a leg cramp that sent her to the locker room several minutes before halftime of this game.
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