It’s the second national championship for Kansas Coach Bill Self, who also led the Jayhawks to the title in 2008.
For 59 years, Loyola Chicago had held on to that honor born of dishonor, having recovered from 15 points down with 14 minutes left in 1963 to nudge the great Cincinnati. Now comes this Kansas team through one last three-point shot that flew from North Carolina’s Caleb Love at the horn and came up well short, through the depths and up to the clouds, giving the program its fourth national championship and Coach Bill Self his second, in his Kansas seasons Nos. 5 and 19.
By the 10:53 mark of the second half, when Agbaji drove and Puff Johnson fouled him, and Agbaji added one, Kansas had made it to 50-50. With Remy Martin’s three-point shot among his big contributions — 14 points and 4 for 6 from afar — and with Jalen Wilson’s drive and three-point play, Kansas even reached 56-50 with 10:08 left.
It soared into the final minute. Bacot, so great in this tournament, slipped with his injured ankle with 50 seconds left. Another McCormack inside power score with 22 seconds left made it 72-69. North Carolina missed three three-point shots from there, getting one more chance after a Kansas turnover when Dajuan Harris barely stepped out of bounds with 4.
Yet a bloodletting began right there. It went from the 5:48 mark to the 2:11 mark. As North Carolina won that patch of the game by 16-0, Kansas started to look strangely helpless, especially as McCormack picked up a second foul. North Carolina started to look fully realized, almost placid in its confidence.
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