The Gonzaga Bulldogs and North Carolina Tar Heels will play for college basketball’s national championship on Monday night. The Zags beat South Carolina in one national semifinal on Saturday, and the Heels beat Oregon in the other. That sets the stage for what seems like an outstanding final chapter to this season.
Gonzaga vs. North Carolina 2017: Date, tipoff time, and TV channel for NCAA championship game
A brief look ahead at the Final Four’s final game.
Date and time for the national championship game
Monday, April 3 at 9 p.m. ET
TV channel for Gonzaga-UNC
CBS. The play-by-play announcer will be Jim Nantz, alongside analysts Grant Hill and Bill Raftery. Tracy Wolfson will report from the sidelines.
How do I stream the national title game?
March Madness Live is the official streaming home of the NCAA tournament. It’s available on CBS All-Access, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire tablets, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, Roku, and Microsoft Windows 10 mobile, desktop and Xbox One.
This should be a great final.
Gonzaga is a college basketball powerhouse. The Bulldogs have been a presence in the tournament for 19 seasons running. This is their first Final Four experience ever, though, which gives them a bit of an underdog’s feeling. (They aren’t really an underdog. I think they’re going to win this game.) Gonzaga was already on new ground just by getting to Glendale. There’s no reason not to break a little more.
The Zags got here by beating South Dakota State and Northwestern on the tournament’s opening weekend, West Virginia and Xavier in the West regional rounds, and a Cinderella South Carolina in a national semifinal on Saturday. They have the country’s top defense by adjusted efficiency and a great offense to go with it.
North Carolina is loaded with talent, just like always. If the Tar Heels can win, they’ll avenge a crushing loss in last year’s national title game, when Villanova’s Kris Jenkins ruined them with a three-pointer at the buzzer. So this is a redemption shot, and it’s also a chance for Roy Williams to lock in his third title in his ninth Final Four. There’s a lot of juicy narrative on both sides, though most neutral observers will probably choose to side with the team that’s never won a title before.
The Heels’ path to the title game went through Texas Southern, Arkansas, Butler, Kentucky, and Oregon. Their Elite Eight win against UK was one of the tournament’s most compelling dramas. If they manage to beat Gonzaga, that likely will be, too.
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