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Virginia, Texas Tech To Play For NCAA Championship Monday

Virginia's Kyle Guy (5) shoots the last free throw to defeat Auburn 63-62 in the semifinals of the Final Four NCAA college basketball tournament, Saturday, April 6, 2019, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

The University of Virginia has a chance to avenge its shocking first-round loss in last year's NCAA basketball tournament, and only one team stands in the way.

Kyle Guy was fouled on a three-point attempt with less than a second left in Saturday's game, and had to hit all three free throws to pull off a thrilling win against Auburn.

The Cavaliers face Texas Tech in the championship game tonight. If they win, it would be Virginia's first national title, and the third championship in the last five years by an ACC team.

Both Duke and North Carolina entered the tournament as number one seeds, but neither made it to the Final Four.

Duke did get some good news over the weekend, though. Freshman standout Zion Williamson was named the Associated Press Men's college basketball player of the year.

He's widely expected to be taken as the first pick in the NBA draft in June.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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