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Latest on the 2025 NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments.

Sports >  NCAA basketball

Florida returns to college basketball’s peak, rallying past Houston for first title since 2007

SAN ANTONIO – The shorts were shorter than the parachutes with drawstrings preferred by college basketball players a couple of decades ago. The rest of this rhapsody in blue at the Alamodome? That matched the moments Florida fans of certain ages surely recall. Players leaping and bouncing off each other, sprinting to the side of the floor to scream at elated supporters, falling into their coaches’ arms for long embraces as the confetti fell.
Sports >  NCAA basketball

After five long years at Connecticut, Paige Bueckers gets her moment

TAMPA, Fla. – After such a long, winding climb to the top, what a luxury it is to spread your arms, take a breath and enjoy the view unburdened. As her college career was coming to a close, Paige Bueckers played with a demon’s ferocity, hurtling through three straight 30-point performances in the NCAA tournament to ensure her team did not miss out on the chance to end Connecticut’s nine-year championship drought in Sunday’s title game. But when she finally got there, the pressure seemed to release a bit. All she had to do was right there in front of her: win a basketball game.
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