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Hugh McCutcheon has been Minnesota's coach in-waiting since last February. He starts after the 2012 Olympics. Find out the challenges he expects after spending 11 years on the international level.

UCLA won its first national championship in two decades on Saturday. Behind 20 kills from Rachael Kidder, the ninth-seeded Bruins defeated Illinois 3-1 at the Alamodome in San Antonio.  

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Head coach Michael Sealy got advice from assistant coach Dan O'Dell on Saturday night. It was time to shake things up -- again. This time, the call may have led UCLA to a national title.

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Kelly Reeves was around the last time UCLA won a national title in 1991. She just wasn't born yet. Her mother Jeanne, an assistant coach on that Bruins team, was -- ironically enough -- pregnant with Kelly.

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