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• They played each other 12 times over the previous three seasons. But with Notre Dame moving to the Atlantic Coast Conference, they didn't play this year -- setting up Tuesday night's title game between the undefeated squads. It's the first time in the NCAA tournament that unbeaten teams have played -- either the men or women.
• Still, absence has not made their hearts grow fonder -- especially not the coaches.
• "We don't have a relationship," Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw said. "I think that (the civility) got lost. When we were in the same conference, I think there was a modicum of it, but I think after beating them and not feeling any respect from that, we lost something."
• Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma believes it's only natural for the teams be testy having played so many times lately. Only the Irish bolting for a new conference ended the repeated showdowns.
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• FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- Army investigators on Monday released a more detailed timeline of last week's fatal shootings at Fort Hood, describing an eight-minute rampage in which the suspect fired 35 shots over an area spanning the equivalent of two city blocks.
• Three people were killed and 16 others wounded in the shooting spree before the suspect, Spc. Ivan Lopez, killed himself, authorities said.
• During a news conference Monday, Army spokesman Chris Grey said the shootings at the Texas post followed an argument related to Lopez's request for taking leave, but he didn't indicate whether it was granted or describe circumstances behind the request.
• A spokesman for Lopez's family said last week that Lopez was upset he was granted only a 24-hour leave to attend his mother's funeral in November. That leave was then extended to two days.
• The shooting spree Wednesday ended when Lopez killed himself with his .45-caliber pistol after confronting a female military police officer, who Grey said fired once at Lopez but didn't strike him.
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