Tennessee Lady Volunteers

Start Xeroxing those brackets, strike up the Siena fight song, tell the boss you're taking a long lunch: 65 teams and 65 reasons that prove this is the best basketball month of the year

UConn's the team to beat, but again the Vols stand in the way

Tennessee's Candace Parker has topped last year's all-world season with a better one—and is SI's pick for women's POY

ANGIE BJORKLUND, F, Tennessee The sharp-shooting 6-footer (right) leads the No. 3--ranked Lady Vols with 55 three-pointers and averages 10.3 points per game.

From across the U.S. and around the globe, they dominated their respective sports and, in many cases, primed themselves for next summer's Beijing Olympics—and immortality