Some nice "day after" coverage of the Division II championship game. The Florida Gulf Coast team gets some love from naplesnews -- and their fans. Two of whom greeted the returning players with roses as they stepped of the bus.

"We wanted to make sure," Judy Emens said, "they understood they're winners."

In the Nutmeg State, Gov. M. Jodi Rell joined the crowd at Moore Field House Sunday to welcome home Southern Connecticut's NCAA Division II women's basketball champions. Writes Joe Palladio:

The Southern girls became the first Connecticut women's basketball team to claim an NCAA title this spring. The celebration was not as intense in New Haven as the ones we have come to expect in Storrs, but it may be far more appreciated because, well, you don't really go to Southern with the expectation of winning a national title, do you?

But, considering their coach, perhaps you should. Keep an eye on Southern's Joe Frager, as his name has been tossed around as a possible candidate for some of the open D-I coaching positions. Frager was an incredibly successful Connecticut high school coach at Seymour, wining three state championships while amassing a 208-58 record over 11 years.

"Circle of Life" basketball moment? Frager played basketball (correction: baskeball) at UConn. As a high school coach, one of the players he coached (and won state championships with) was Maria Conlon. Conlon then went to UConn, where she won three D-1 championships. Where is Conlon now serving as an assistant coach? Southern Connecticut.