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UConn Tops Louisville and Reaches 12th Straight Final Four

Kathy Willens/Associated Press

ALBANY — In the moments after Connecticut advanced to the Final Four on Sunday for the 12th year in a row, blue, yellow and orange confetti rode the waves of Coach Geno Auriemma’s undulating hair. The pieces dusted the shoulders of his blue suit jacket and hid inside the top of his unbuttoned shirt.

For Auriemma, the caretaker of the most dominant women’s basketball program in history, this could get old. In some years, it has. In those years, the 65-year-old Auriemma would like to point out, people seemed to forget how hard it can be to march through an N.