My mother got a graduate degree from UCLA just a couple of years before its basketball team began its historic run of NCAA championships, but she’s not much of a roundball fan.

Until tonight.
She was on the edge of her seat the entire second half hoping UCLA could pull it out over Texas A&M, and when they did with 9.5 seconds left there was great joy.

Earlier, Stanford managed to beat Marquette with 1.3 seconds left in overtime.