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UConn vs. San Diego State in the 2023 NCAA championship game.

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After a wild Saturday in the Final Four, No. 4 UConn will play No. 5 San Diego State on Monday night in Houston (9:20 p.m., CBS) for the 2023 NCAA Tournament Championship. Teams, coaches, and programmes are affected. San Diego State is fighting for their first men's basketball national championship after never making the Final Four, while UConn is seeking its sixth since 1999 but first since 2014. UConn's Dan Hurley and San Diego State's Brian Dutcher might win their first national championships as head coaches, while Dutcher won as an assistant with Steve Fisher at Michigan. The five San Diego State players who won 30 games and were headed towards a top-two seed before the 2020 NCAA Tournament was cancelled each have their own objectives. UConn's mission is to restore glory, but more specifically to honour the upperclassmen who helped get them here. The Huskies returned to the NCAA Tournament in 2021 after five years. Following two straight first-round losses, UConn ne...
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LSU overcomes Iowa for their first NCAA women's basketball title.

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Kim Mulkey went back to Louisiana because she wanted to help LSU win its first basketball title. In only her second year at the school, the Hall of Fame coach did just that. On Sunday, her Tigers beat Caitlin Clark and Iowa 102-85 thanks to a record-setting offence. This was the school's first basketball title, men's or women's. "I turn around and look at the Final Four banners (in the home arena), and nowhere does it say national champion," Mulkey said. "I came home to do just that." Mulkey became the first coach of women's teams to win a national championship at two different schools. Before going to LSU two years ago, she won three at Baylor. Mulkey said, "Coaches coach for their whole lives, and this is the fourth time I've been lucky enough to do it." "In the history of men's or women's basketball at LSU, no one has ever played for a championship." Mulkey, who was dressed in a sparkly, golden, tiger-striped outfit...
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