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As the highest-ranked team left standing, it's up to No. 4 seed UConn to restore order in a tournament that's been marked by wild upsets. But it's not the only team with a strong resume.

The sweet-spot combination of confidence and skill in Division I basketball is tricky to find and trickier to maintain. A player can be brimming with one, but betrayed by the other. One day can be draped in a sense of sky-high invincibility. The next feels like an unraveling golf swing…

As San Diego State cavorted around the KFC Yum! Center basketball court Sunday with sections of snipped netting dangling from championship hats and black and red confetti sticking to sneakers, every beaming face told a story.

Don’t let perhaps the most polarizing foul call of the last few years of college basketball overshadow a deserved winning effort from the Aztecs.

Darrion Trammell knocked down the second of two free throws with 1.2 seconds left to push the Aztecs into the Final Four with a 57-56 victory Sunday.

The NCAA offered an explanation for the controversial final seconds.

The Creighton coach admitted that “officiating is part of the game.”

Like many people, he wasn’t happy.

Greg McDermott took the high road with this answer here.

A bid to the Final Four came down to the last second and a critical call by the officials.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The program that 25 years ago was among the worst in college basketball, that had 14 losing seasons in 15 years, that had never been ranked in the Associated Press poll until 2010, that hadn’t won an NCAA Tournament game until 2011, that hadn’t been past the…