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LSU tops 1-seed Virginia Tech to reach first national title game

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DALLAS -- LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey insists she didn't have a timeline for when she could get the program back in the hunt as a national title contender. And if she could have envisioned one, it certainly wouldn't have been this quickly.

But here Mulkey was -- in her second season in Baton Rouge after her storied career at Baylor, where she won three national titles -- bringing the Tigers somewhere they'd never been before: the national championship game.

The third-seeded Tigers snapped their winless streak in Final Four games (0-5 entering Friday) with a 79-72 victory over No.