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SAN ANTONIO — Before Saturday, Cole Aldrich was an afterthought, the fourth big man off the Jayhawks bench — just another big body. But in the semifinals against UNC, the freshman submitted one of the great relief performances in Kansas basketball history.

SAN ANTONIO — Kansas beat the Tar Heels at their own game Saturday at the Alamodome, running past them at the beginning and end and upsetting the tournament’s No. 1 seed, 84-66.

LOS ANGELES — For a third straight year, the UCLA basketball team will leave the Final Four without a national title. The Bruins fell 78-63 in the national semifinals Saturday to a high-flying Memphis team led by Derrick Rose and Chris Douglas-Roberts.

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LAWRENCE, Kan. — When Cole Aldrich began his athletic career, basketball was not the first sport on his mind. Aldrich, a 6’11 Bloomington, Minn., native, never gave much thought to the game that would eventually bring him a great deal of success until his mother signed him up for basketball in the second grade.