NCAA men’s tournament 2022 final: UNC 69-72 Kansas – as it happened

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Final thoughts

It was the result many predicted, with Kansas taking advantage of a winded and banged-up North Carolina team to win a championship. It’s just that it took a very peculiar path to get there. The results? An incredible game, featuring a historic comeback, to put a bow on a particularly entertaining NCAA men’s tournament.

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Ochai Agbaji is named most outstanding player. It’s now officially net-cutting time in New Orleans!

Self deflects any talk of winning a second championship as a head coach, saying that what matters is that the Kansas men’s program has now won four. That is the correct answer in college sports-ese.

Trophy presentation time! Bill Self gets the first crack at holding it up. They ask him what exactly he said at halftime.

In summary, basically he just told his team that it was still early and they still had 20 minutes left.

There hasn’t been an obvious player of the game, but I think David McCormack, with his 15 points and 10 rebounds, has a solid case.

I’m not a big on using graphs as a narrative storytelling device, but I’ll be darned if this isn’t the tale of the game.

Kansas wins the men’s N.C.A.A. Championship. https://t.co/fdTpWQl0MA pic.twitter.com/p5f3f0tjaR

As per usual whenever a team wins a championship,