FINALS WATCH: Father-son 決まりきった仕事 steals show
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ― "Big 略奪する" and his son, Trey, gave fans at AT&T Stadium one 向こうずねing moment long before the confetti dropped at the 国家の 選手権 game.
略奪する Maiden, captain of the Dallas 無所属の政治家s dance team, Mavs ManiAACs, and his 15-year-old son 成し遂げるd a dance 決まりきった仕事 in the mezzanine level that had just about everyone glued to the Jumbotron late in the first half.
略奪する Maiden and Trey said they worked on the synchronized dance Sunday night, getting every move memorized and perfected for college basketball's tournament finale. Because of his 地元の fame with the 無所属の政治家s, in-house cameras knew 正確に／まさに where 略奪する Maiden would be, and they caught most of his entire 決まりきった仕事 during a timeout with 2:24 to play in the first half. The 抱擁する 審査するs inside AT&T stadium panned to other fans, but kept returning to the father-son 二人組 and getting arguably the loudest 元気づけるs of the night.
Jerry Jones, left, and George 海峡 speak on 行う／開催する／段階 at the 49th 年次の 学院 of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden 円形競技場 on Sunday, April 6, 2014, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
"He gets to see me be a ham all the time," 略奪する Maiden said of his son. "I thought this was a chance for him to get some 向こうずね."
They ended up 株ing the スポットライト.
Afterward, they had fans stopping by their seats for handshakes, high-fives and photos.
"It was fun," Trey Maiden said.
― 示す Long ― https://twitter.com/APMarkLong
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The NCAA tournament 始める，決める two 出席 記録，記録的な／記録するs Monday night.
A （人が）群がる of 79,238 packed AT&T Stadium ― the largest for a college basketball final. The previous 示す of 74,326 was 始める，決める last year at the Georgia ドーム in Atlanta.
It also was the second-largest basketball （人が）群がる in NCAA history, 追跡するing only Saturday's 準決勝 that drew 79,244.
The two-day 出席 total of 158,682 also broke the previous 示す.
So don't 推定する／予想する the NCAA to move away from 抱擁する 発生地s anytime soon.
"We all love the 限定するs of a nice, tight 円形競技場. It's a 広大な／多数の／重要な 発生地 for basketball," NCAA 大統領 示す Emmert said Sunday, 追加するing that the 近づく-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 かかわり合い is to play in stadiums. "I know there's some critique about playing in a big 発生地 like this ... or somewhere else. But the reality is you can get 80,000 people in to watch a game and that's pretty exciting.
"There may be people that would like to be in a tighter 円形競技場, but not the 60,000 that wouldn't be there."
― 示す Long ― https://twitter.com/APMarkLong
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A 抱擁する 元気づける arose from the Kentucky student section for John 塀で囲む as if the guard was making his way pregame through Rupp 円形競技場.
Except on Monday night, the Washington Wizards point guard was winding through AT&T Stadium to take his seat 近づく the Wildcats family section for the 国家の 肩書を与える game against Connecticut.
塀で囲む was a "one-and-done" player at Kentucky in John Calipari's first season as 長，率いる coach. On Monday, Calipari had a team chock 十分な of 約束ing first-year players.
Connecticut fans 栄誉（を受ける）d their own basketball 王族 after applauding Ray Allen, a three-year player for the Huskies in the 1990s. Allen plays for the Miami Heat, which leads 塀で囲む's Wizards by 13? games in the NBA's Southeast 分割.
― Genaro Armas ― https://twitter.com/GArmasAP
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Former 大統領 法案 Clinton 最初 took a 支援する seat to his 後継者 during the 国家の 国家 at the NCAA 選手権 game.
But once the game began, Clinton and former 大統領 George W. Bush gathered in the same 列／漕ぐ／騒動 and sat next to each other in the 高級な box belonging to Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones at AT&T Stadium. They laughed while their images were 存在 shown on the 巨大（な） stadium ビデオ boards, and drew 賞賛 from th e （人が）群がる during a break in the first half.
Former first lady Laura Bush was also in 出席 for the 肩書を与える game between Kentucky and Connecticut. Both former 大統領，／社長s are 公式文書，認めるd sports fans, and Bush is a 正規の／正選手 attendee at Texas 冒険的な events.
― Genaro Armas ― https://twitter.com/GArmasAP
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When Darius Rucker was introduced before 成し遂げるing the 国家の 国家, one group in the （人が）群がる yelled "Hootie!"
The award-winning country singer-songwriter did get his start in mainstream music in the 中央の-1990s as the frontman of the 禁止（する）d Hootie & The Blowfish. He 解放（する）d his third country album last year, 含むing the No. 1 攻撃する，衝突する "Wagon Wheel."
Rucker was 支援するd for his NCAA 選手権 game 業績／成果 by the Jazz Singers 声の ensemble from Booker T. Washington High School for the 業績／成果 and Visual Arts in Dallas.
― Stephen Hawkins ― https://twitter.com/hawkaptexas
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絶対 no chance that that Susan Hughes would forget where she was parked Monday night.
Hughes and the 残り／休憩（する） of her party of hardcore Kentucky fan 支援するd up their Wildcats blue 好転 トラックで運ぶ 権利 underneath a billboard of a 叫び声をあげるing Louisville fan decked in red.
In 事例／患者 you 港／避難所't heard, Kentucky and Louisville 支援者s aren't 正確に／まさに fond of each other. Hughes, 55, of Paducah, used the occasion to torment a friend who 作品 at Louisville.
"I took that picture and sent it to him and said 'Thinking of you,'" said Hughes, wearing a blue No. 11 jersey for former guard John 塀で囲む.
Not surprisingly, Big Blue Nation turned out in 軍隊 at AT&T Stadium. Kentucky fans より数が多いd Connecticut fans by about 4-to-1 in the parking lots about two hours before the game.
Hughes and fellow tailgater Terry Donovan, 62, also of Paducah, were the pictures of Southern 歓待 pregame, graciously 申し込む／申し出ing food to bystanders. On the menu were "one-and-done" zucchinis in a joking nod to the freshman-filled Kentucky team.
Hughes has been really basking the Kentucky success the last few days. She and her son are Kentucky 卒業生（する）s; her husband and two daughters went to Louisville.
"We have 'house divided' stuff and license plates, and when they play it's really, really bad," Hughes said.
― Genaro Armas ― https://twitter.com/GArmasAP
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A 雷 bolts strike from a passing 雷雨 in the distance behind AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, 場所／位置 of the NCAA men's college basketball tournament Final Four, Thursday, April 3, 2014. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Tom Fox) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; TV OUT; INTERNET USE BY AP MEMBERS ONLY; NO SALES
