"Coach K's secretary called me on the phone and said, 'Hey, we got your letter. We were in tears reading it. We want to do it for her,'" Judkins said.
So the 38-year-old Day and her husband, Preston, an attorney in the Salt Lake City Prosecutor's Office, will make the trip to Durham, N.C., next month to watch Tar Heels and Blue Devils battle.
"I'm still in shock," Day said Monday. "When I put that game on my bucket list, it was more of a joke than anything, because no one gets to go to that game.