KWBG Sports for April 4th

HOUSTON (AP) - Connecticut, the Big East Conference champion, can earn its third national title when it plays Butler out of the Horizon League in tonight's NCAA men's basketball championship. The eighth-seeded Bulldogs are in the championship game for the second straight year after losing to Duke last season. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - After two upsets in the women's Final Four, it's Notre Dame and Texas A&M in Tuesday night's NCAA women's championship. Skylar Diggins scored 28 and the Irish upset the UConn women 72-63 after the Aggies earned their first title trip by rallying from 10 down to nip Stanford 63-62 on Tyra White's go-ahead layin with 3.2 seconds left. HUMBLE, Texas (AP) - Phil Mickelson warmed up for this week's Masters by firing a final-round 7-under 65 to win the Houston Open by finishing 20 under par. Lefty is the last player to win the week prior to a Masters victory, capturing the BellSouth Classic in 2006 before earning his second green jacket at Augusta. RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - The first major of the golf season goes to Stacy Lewis, who captured her first LPGA Tour win in the Kraft Nabisco Championship. Lewis closed with a 3-under 69 to overtake Yani Tseng (YAH'-nee sehng), who stumbled with a final-round 74. NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Knicks are back in the playoffs, clinching their first postseason berth since 2004. The Knicks clinched a berth with a 123-107 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers behind Amare Stoudemire's (ah-MAR'-ay STOW'-duh-my-urz) 28 points.