So dominant was music in his life that a promising school record was one day suddenly ruined.
Louisville's come-from-behind 72-68 semifinal victory was its 34th of the season, a school record for wins.
It also was the 18th straight Big East win for the Irish, tying a school record.
"We're real excited, " said Marasco, whose 35 assists this season are a school record for a midfielder.
Murphy Holloway had 14 points for Mississippi, which fell one win shy of breaking the school record.
The team has already surpassed the school record for wins and is in its fourth straight NCAA tournament.
She's two points away from the single-season school record of 552 points set last year by Iasia Hemingway.
The Irish have won 23 straight, matching a school record set by the national championship team in 2000-1.
The Gamecocks grabbed 26 offensive boards, a school record for an NCAA game, and they had three players post double-doubles.
Syracuse defeated 13th-seeded Montana 81-34, the margin just two points off the school record for the largest in the tournament, then outlasted 12th-seeded California 66-60.
Syracuse defeated 13th-seeded Montana 81-34, the margin just two points off the school record for the largest in the tournament, then outlasted 12th-seeded California 66-60 to advance.
As evidence of how aggressively defended he was, he went to the free-throw line 12 times in a 1992 tournament game against Indiana which at the time was a school record.
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Diggins, a South Bend native, and fellow senior Kaila Turner have led the Irish to a school record 121 victories in their four years at Notre Dame and back-to-back national championship game appearances.
The Huskies built a 10-point halftime lead playing incredible defense and Notre Dame (35-2) could only get within six in the second half as its school record 30-game winning streak came to an end.
Then 17-year-old Cain broke the high school record in the 800 in 1:59.51, placing fifth in an elite field that included Olympic bronze medalist Yekaterina Poistogova and Janeth Jepkosgei, third in last year's world championships.
Kwamain Mitchell scored 18 points and Dwayne Evans had 16 points and nine rebounds for the Billikens (28-7), who set a school record for wins this season following the death of coach Rick Majerus in December.
In his lone year as a starter, Carter-Williams broke the school record for steals in a season with 111 and finished with 292 assists, the second-highest total in Syracuse history behind only Sherman Douglas's record of 326 in 1988-89.
He won 70 games with the Lions, including a school-record 18 four years ago.
The Orange have now won a school-record 36 straight games at home, the longest active streak in Division I.
Albany became the first team seeded lower than third to win the title and set a school season record for victories.
Boeheim answered the challenge by guiding the Orange to a school-record 34 wins, just missing his fourth berth in the Final Four.
Albany became the first team seeded lower than third to win the title, and also set a school season record for victories.
Still, Boeheim somehow managed to guide the team to a school-record 34 wins in 2011-12, falling one victory shy of the Final Four.
His teams at New Mexico won at least 22 games in each of his six seasons, highlighted by a school-record 30-5 mark in 2009-10.
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The Albany men became the first team seeded lower than third to win the title and set a school season record with their 24th victory.
But they finished with a school-record 52 wins, had the co-national player of the year in Travis Jankowski and had five of their seven draft picks taken in the first 12 rounds.
He led the Eagles to a school-record 26 wins this season, including upsets of No. 2 seed Georgetown and No. 7 seed San Diego State as a 15th-seed in the NCAA tourney.
"There's no team that doesn't have distractions during the course of the year, " Boeheim, who guided the Orange to a school-record 34 victories last season with scandal swirling around his program, said Monday.
Boeheim answered the challenge by guiding the team to a school-record 34 wins, just missing his fourth berth in the Final Four when the Orange lost to Ohio State in the East Regional finals in Boston.
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