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San Diego State is not the 2023 men’s basketball national champion. UConn won by 17.

UConn Huskies Win Own Iditarod Invitational, Running Away From San Diego St. And Everyone Else For NCAA Men’s Title

Although the Aztecs were unable to win its first-ever national title, you would not be able to tell based on the right butt cheek of one student who made the trip to Houston. It indicates the exact opposite.
San Diego State reached its first-ever Elite Eight and Final Four this season. The program had never advanced past the Sweet Sixteen until this year’s NCAA Tournament.

No. 4 Connecticut was one of the most impressive teams all NCAA tournament, and the Huskies finished the job by dominating 5-seed SDSU in the championship.

Something’s bothering Nashville Predators‘ Matt Duchene, but he can’t put a finger on it.
In the strangest bit of news to come out of the NHL this week, Duchene — the 32-year-old Predators forward — apparently lost a chunk of his left ring finger after taking a slapshot to the hand from teammate Dante Fabbro on Mar. 26.
Preds’ Matt Duchene Suffers Nasty Injury, Return in Question
On Monday, TNT’s Darren Pang gave an update and more details of the grisly in-game accident.
According to Pang, Duchene is week to week after losing the tip of his left-hand finger.

UConn basketball went into the locker room at halftime of Monday’s national championship with a 12-point lead. That wasn’t good enough for head coach Dan Hurley.
Dan, the younger brother of Arizona State head coach Bobby Hurley, turned 50 years old in January. He is in his fifth season with the Huskies after six years at Rhode Island and two years at Wagner.
To call Hurley passionate would be an understated.

No ref is safe when he’s around.

Dan Hurley letting the refs know how bad of a ball that was pic.twitter.

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As San Diego State tipped off against UConn in the national championship game on Monday night, 700 Aztecs were in the stands on the school’s dime. It was a pretty cool gesture.
San Diego State Aztecs fans react from the stands prior to the game against the Connecticut Huskies during the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament National Championship game at NRG Stadium on April 03, 2023 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)
San Diego State, a California state university located inside of a city, has a student population of about 34,000.

Texas Rangers left fielder Josh Smith ate a nasty pitch to the grill during the third inning of Monday’s game against the Baltimore Orioles.
Orioles reliever Danny Coulombe’s 89-mph sinker connected with Smith’s jaw in the third quarter of the game.
Smith Survives Gnarly Pitch To The Face
Smith hit the ground and required attention from the Rangers’ medical staff.
WATCH:

Scary moment. @Rangers Josh Smith hit in the face on this pitch. Left the game. @NBCDFW pic.twitter.com/kdKFXG4p3K
— Pat Doney (@PatDoneyNBC5) April 4, 2023

Just broke Josh Smith’s face. pic.twitter.

Buried deep in a Golfweek article by Adam Schupak is a gem of a story told by Jordan Spieth about Masters tickets.
Shupak interviewed golfers and asked them one, simple question: “What’s the strangest request you’ve received pertaining to the Masters?”
Decent starting point for a Masters week article, but certainly depends on the answers. Shupak starts with Keegan Bradley, who had nothing interesting to say.
From there, we start going down a list of notable golfers, but few have much to offer. Tommy Fleetwood notes that he takes extra Masters pencils for his dad and golf coach.

While New York Yankees pitcher Nestor Cortes was very solid on the mound against the Phillies on Monday, giving up just one run in his five innings of work, it was a play he made behind the plate that had MLB fans in awe. It also happened to result in the final out of his night and stopped the Phillies from possibly putting some more runs on the board. 
With two outs in the fifth inning, Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto hit a single to right. New York’s Franchy Cordero fired a ball to home plate that sailed over catcher Jose Trevino’s head.

Angels third baseman Anthony Rendon will serve a four-game suspension starting Monday due to a public altercation with a fan in Oakland last week.