•With Connecticut and Louisville advancing, this is the first time the Big East Conference has landed two teams in the title game and the fourth time a conference has done it since the NCAA began overseeing women's athletics in 1981-82. The Southeastern Conference did it twice (1989, 1996) and the Atlantic Coast Conference once (2006).
•Louisville is trying to join an exclusive club of schools that own NCAA men's and women's basketball titles: Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina and Stanford.
•Louisville coach Jeff Walz is the first women's coach to reach the title game in his first Final Four since Maryland's Brenda Frese in 2006. Walz was an assistant on that team, which won the title.
•UConn's 38-0 mark is its best since it went 39-0 in 2001-02.
•Oklahoma's Courtney Paris had offered to repay the $64,000 value of her scholarship if the Sooners did not win the title. After Sunday's semifinal loss to Louisville, she said that is still her plan: "I (will) make good on it. But not today. I don't have $64,000 on me, but I (will) make good on it."
