NCAA Title Game

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NCAA Title Game
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In the first ever head-to-head matchup of
undefeated teams in the NCAA championship game,
University of Connecticut defeated Notre Dame
79-58 to win the NCAA women's basketball
championship Tuesday night in Nashville,
Tennessee. Shabazz Napier scored a game-high 22
points to lead the Huskies. The victory makes
Connecticut the second men's and women's teams in
history to sweep their Division I
tournamentsjoining the 2003-04 UConn teams. It
was a pure team effort from start to finish. This
is Geno Auriemma's fifth undefeated season and
his third in his last six seasons at the helm.
Only John Wooden (10-0) has a better record in
national championship games than Auriemma (9-0).
He's now passed longtime rival Pat Summitt for
most national championships for a women's coach
in history.
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• A New York judge Tuesday vacated the conviction
  of a man who spent nearly a quarter of a century
  behind bars for a Brooklyn slaying that occurred
  while he was vacationing in Florida. onathan
  Fleming, 51, was found guilty in 1989 in the
  death of Darryl Rush in the Williamsburg
  neighborhood of Brooklyn and served the next 24
  years and 8 months in prison. He was released
  Tuesday afternoon. Fleming has always maintained
  he was on a family trip to Disney World in
  Florida when Rush was shot to death early on the
  morning of August 15, 1989, in a dispute over
  stolen money. After years of reviewing documents
  and re-interviewing witnesses as part of a joint
  investigation between his attorneys and the
  Brooklyn district attorney's Conviction Review
  Unit, it was determined that the only evidence
  tying him to the crime was an alleged witness who
  later recanted her statement.