NCAA Title Game

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NCAA Title Game
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The University of Connecticut defeated the
Kentucky Wildcats 60-54 to win the NCAA men's
basketball championship Monday night at ATT
Stadium in Arlington, Texas (the home of the
Dallas Cowboys). Shabazz Napier scored a
game-high 22 points to lead the Huskies. The
difference came at the free-throw line where
Connecticut was 10-for-10 and Kentucky was just
13-for-24. The Huskies never trailed in the game
as Napier, the Most Outstanding Player of the
Final Four, hit key baskets any time the Wildcats
got close. Kentucky drew to within one point on
three occasions, the final time with 813
remaining in the game. But Napier, a senior who
was on the 2011 UConn national championship team,
drilled a three-pointer. The Huskies won their
fourth national title, all of them achieved since
1999. It was the first championship for UConn
Coach Kevin Ollie. UConn will have a chance to
match its unique accomplishment of both the men's
and women's teams winning titles in the same
year. The Huskies play the Notre Dame Fighting
Irish in Tuesday night's women's title game.
UConn last performed the feat in 2004.
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In Other News

• Neuroscientist Susan Harkema designed and ran a
  study, which involves sending electrical
  stimulation to broken spinal cords to learn more
  about nerve pathways. However, after seeing
  movement in a patient, Harkema's team applied
  electrical stimulation to other paralyzed men,
  and all developed movement, and not just small
  movements. In addition to wiggling their big
  toes, they can lift and swing their legs, move
  their ankles and sit up without support. One
  patient can even do a sit-up. Their study, funded
  in part by the Christopher Dana Reeve
  Foundation, is being published Tuesday in the
  journal Brain. It's not the first time electrical
  stimulation has made paralyzed patients move, but
  Harkema says it's the first time electrical
  stimulation directly to the spinal cord has shown
  voluntary activity. Experts say this new
  technique is another piece of the puzzle toward
  helping paralyzed people walk again. And it's
  another avenue doctors can go down to try to help
  these patients.
• Russia warned Tuesday that any use of force in
  Ukraine's eastern region could lead to civil war,
  as Kiev seeks to regain control after pro-Moscow
  uprisings in three cities. Pro-Russian protesters
  seized government buildings in the three cities
  of Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv on Sunday. Rebels
  occupying Donetsk's regional government building
  Monday declared a "people's republic" and called
  for a referendum on secession from Ukraine to be
  held by May 11. Russia's Foreign Ministry said
  reports that the protesters are facing a
  crackdown by Ukrainian authorities are of
  particular concern.