NCAA Championship Finals Results

March Madness is at an end, and the Kansas Jayhawks are this year’s NCAA champions. And what an exciting game it was, as Mario Chambers sunk a three-pointer with 2.1 seconds remaining to send the game to overtime. The Jayhawks then roared out and scored six straight points on the way to a 75-68 win over the Memphis Tigers.

This was the third NCAA title for the Jayhawks, and the first since 1988. The team finished the season with a record of 37-3. It was also the first championship win for Kansas coach Bill Self, and his first Final Four appearance in 15 years of coaching at the college level.

COMING FROM BEHIND

With two minutes left in regulation, the Jayhawks were down by nine.

“I thought we were national champs,” said Memphis coach John Calipari.

But Memphis failed to close the deal, due in large part to an inability to make free throws. This had plagued Memphis all season, but it finally caught up with them at the worst time possible. With 16.8 seconds left, Chris Douglas-Roberts missed two free throws. Moments later, another Memphis player went 1 for 2.

BUILDING A LEGACY

With the win, Kansas becomes the sixth school to win three or more NCAA titles. Only North Carolina, UCLA and Duke have more Final Four appearances.

And perhaps it’s appropriate that James Naismith, the inventor of the game of basketball, was the program’s first coach.

“I think when you talk about tradition and history, there’s other great programs that have it,” said Self. “But nobody has the inventor of the game as their first coach.”

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