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South Carolina’s players and coach celebrate after the college basketball championship game against Iowa in the women’s NCAA Tournament on Sunday. South Carolina won 87-75.
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The South Carolina Gamecocks on Sunday became NCAA champions for a third time by beating fellow top-seed rival Iowa and its star Caitlin Clark 87-75. The president posted his congratulations for a perfect season. 

The NCAA men’s championship game will be played tonight.

UConn is attempting to win back-to-back national championships — the first to do it since Florida in 2006 and 2007 — after one of the most dominant tournament runs.

Purdue has a chance to win its first national championship ever. In doing so, it could also break the Big Ten’s national championship drought: no team from the conference has won since 2000.

No matter what’s happened in the past three weeks, chances are we’ll remember this tournament simply as the year when the Huskies faced the Boilermakers for the championship.