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For Louisville, season may be over but the magic lives on

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NEW ORLEANS -- The Louisville Cardinals took us on a magical ride through this year’s postseason, a ride that opened our hearts and minds to the possibilities implicit in dreaming big. They refused to let injuries, statistics, the expectations of others, an opponent’s home-court advantage or the star power of the game’s biggest names limit their imaginations or their performance.

Will principles or profit guide NCAA bracketing?

There will be tension aplenty this Selection Monday evening for the bubble teams and their fans gathered for viewing parties across the country as the NCAA Selection Committee announces the brackets for the 2013 Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament. There will be a little bit of drama, as well, as teams higher in the bracket discover their seedings, where they’ll be sent and whom they must play in their quests to survive and advance through the postseason.

Notre Dame's Mallory brings misery to UConn in overtime thriller

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DENVER – In one of the all-time semifinal thrillers at the Women’s Final Four, Notre Dame rallied twice Sunday night with the game on the line to oust its Big East rival national heavyweight Connecticut 83-75 in overtime for the second straight year and move on to Tuesday night’s NCAA championship.

Kingston Regional: Kentucky is the last hurdle for another UConn Final Four trip

Will the Big East be big again with two teams in the Women’s Final Four?

Top-seeded Connecticut gets the first shot at answering in the affirmative on Tuesday night when the Huskies (32-4) meet second-seeded Kentucky (28-6) at 7 p.m. to battle for the Kingston (R.I.) title and a fifth-straight trip to the Women’s Final Four, which will be held this weekend in Denver at the Pepsi Center.

Kingston Regional: UConn and Kansas State finally meet

No. 1 Connecticut vs. No 8 Kansas State: March 18, 7:05 p.m.

Three of the four teams who will land in the NCAA Sweet 16 at the Kingston Regional at the University of Rhode Island’s Ryan Center this weekend will be determined Monday night.

In the Bridgeport subregional, top-seeded Connecticut (30-4) will host eighth-seeded Kansas State (20-13), which will play the Huskies for the first time ever though the team has made three previous appearances in Connecticut in the NCAA field.

Big East Semis a night of retribution for Notre Dame and UConn

Turns out that in Big East Women’s basketball revenge is a dish best served on the occasion of the conference tournament semifinals, as West Virginia (No. 5) and St. John’s (No. 2) discovered tonight at the XL Center.

West Virginia lost to top-seeded Notre Dame in a 73-45 routing. St. John’s fell to third-seeded Connecticut 74-43.

The two games shared similar backgrounds, followed similar cadences. Even the final scores were eerily similar.

Form Holds In The Big East As The Quarterfinals Begin

The seeds have held through the first two rounds of the Big East tournament at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn., and now the schools at the top of the bracket move from their double-byes into action on the court.

Form is expected to hold again on Sunday when four quarterfinals games are played .

Some urgency is removed in terms of the impact of the outcomes on NCAA Tournament selections, because most of the survivors still here are already likely to land in the 64-team field with at-large bids except, of course, the one that becomes the champion and gets automatic entry.

Clock strikes 12 for UConn as Irish seize Big East Regular-Season Championship

HARTFORD, Conn. – The clock struck midnight about an hour earlier than real time Monday night on the East Coast in lower New England for powerful Connecticut’s run of five regular-season Big East titles when No. 3 Notre Dame topped the host No. 4 Huskies, 72-59, in the XL Center, the site of next week’s conference tournament.

St. John’s ends UConn’s home winning streak on last-possession three, 57-56

Jim Clark's Husky Report: Regular-Season Wrap

Did you miss me? Sometimes the rigors of everyday living can interfere with a person's enjoyment of a good basketball game. During most of the month of February, I was traveling, and unable To report on the final eight games of the Connecticut season. The results, of course, were the same as they have been all year: The Huskies are now 30-0, and have one 69 straight games by double figures.

So, very quickly, what's worth remembering about these final eight games of the Connecticut regular season?