Eric Gay / AP Led by Emeka Okafor, Connecticut won the NCAA men's title, beating Duke in the semifinal and Georgia Tech in the final.

3 – Connecticut, led by Emeka Okafor, advances to the title game, beating Duke 79-78. In the other bracket, Georgia Tech beats Oklahoma State 77-65. Duke had been the only top-seeded team to make it to the Final Four, and the championship game will pit a third seed – Tech – against a second seed.

5 – UConn turns the title game in San Antonio into a blowout, with the Huskies winning, 82-73. UConnn is the first team since Kentucky in 1996 to win the title after beginning the season ranked first in the country. Okafor scores 25 to go with 15 boards while Ben Wallace throws down 21 for the champs.

6 – The Husky women, led by everyone’s player-of-the-year, Diana Taurasi, takes a big lead, then weathers a rally by Tennessee in New Orleans to win their third straight national title. Taurasi scores 17 in the 70-61 win.

8 - Tom Watson’s caddie, 49-year-old Bruce Edwards, dies of Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

11 – Phil Mickelson sheds the label of “best golfer never to win a major” as he shoots a fourth-round 69 to beat Ernie Els by a stroke at the Masters.

22 - The U.S. Army announces that Pat Tillman, who left the Arizona Cardinals and a big contract to join the Army, was killed in combat in Afghanistan. It is later revealed he died from friendly fire. He was 27.

24 – The San Diego Charges take Eli Manning with the first pick in the NFL draft and immediately trade his rights to the New York Giants, who send the fourth pick, quarterback Philip Rivers, to San Diego. Offensive tackle Robert Gallery goes second to Oakland and wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald goes third to Arizona. Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who would play a huge role for the Steelers in the coming season, goes eleventh.

25 – The WBC fills its vacant heavyweight crown when Vitali Klitschko scores an eight-round technical knockout over 38-year-old South African Corrie Sanders.

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