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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Perfect champion: Baylor tops Notre Dame for NCAA women's championship

The Baylor team explodes off the bench at the end of Tuesday's championship-game victory over Notre Dame in Denver. The Bears won their first NCAA title since 2005 and became the first NCAA team, men's or women's, to win 40 games in a season. The Irish, meanwhile, lost in the title game for the second consecutive season.