The Sun couldn't quite win game three at the casino: the scrappy Lib-kids will advance.

New York led a low-scoring game almost all the way, though Connecticut tied things up with minutes to go. The star of the show turned out to be Essence Carson, who played Scarlet Knight basketball all the way-- intense defense, lots of time taken off the clock, and then a killer three from the corner, which gave the Lib their final lead.

Carson finished with 15, Whalen with a game-high 19... but Lindsay's teammates just couldn't get shots to fall. "All we had to do was be the same as we were Saturday," coach Thibault said, "and we would have won."

Instead, New York will enter their first conference finals since 2004... and they might not even have to play Detroit.