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Late in the second half of Connecticut’s victory in the Big East tournament final against Louisville, Kemba Walker came to the sideline and told his coach, Jim Calhoun, that he couldn’t feel his legs.

Isaiah Thomas hit a fadeaway jumper at the buzzer, lifting Washington past No. 16 Arizona 77-75 Saturday for the Pac-10 tournament championship in the first overtime title game in league history.

The Arc: Notre Dame grabs the final No. 1 seed and is slotted out West. Ohio State is a lock for the top line.

The Huskies matched the N.C.A.A. Division I basketball winning streak set by the U.C.L.A. men from 1971 to 1974.

The first jolt came in the early semifinal, when unranked Connecticut knocked off No. 2 Michigan State. Then came the real one - a magnitude-4.7 earthquake off the coast that rattled chairs, tables and the rims for about five seconds in the late game between No. 8 Kentucky and No. 13 Washington.

The Connecticut men’s basketball program, coached by Jim Calhoun, received notice of eight major rules violations, and two assistants have resigned because of them.

The NCAA is on the verge of expanding the men’s basketball tournament from 65 to 68 teams beginning next year and announced a new, $10.8 billion broadcasting deal with CBS Sports and Turner Broadcasting on Thursday that will allow every game to be shown live for the first time.

Duke ended Butler's miracle run through the NCAA basketball tournament by defeating the gritty underdogs 61-59 to win the national championship on Monday.

Yes, it's a matchup pitting a cute bulldog against a devil, America's favorite underdog against the team people love to hate.

After tossing a big, wet blanket on one feel-good story, Duke gets to go after another. They don't call 'em the Devils for nothing. Jon Scheyer scored 23 points Saturday night to lift Duke, the team so many folks love to hate, to a 78-57 victory over West Virginia and set up a meeting against tiny Butler - a classic matchup of big vs. little, with the national title on the line.