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Syracuse women's basketball achieves its goal of a title game . . . but now what does it do?

Indianapolis, Ind. — So there was William Wallace, all painted up, rallying his guys from the top of his horse as the spit-shined English army gathered across the way. And by the time he barked the last of his passionate words, Wallace's rag-tag bunch was rarin' to fight.

And then …

"Nice speech," Wallace was told by his top aide. "Now what do we do?"

It was a good question and it remains one with which Quentin Hillsman, now facing his "Braveheart" moment, can identify.

For months he's been telling his Syracuse women's basketball team that it could win the national title, and his athletes came to believe that they could.