2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game
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University of Phoenix Stadium before the NCAA men's Final Four. | |||||||||||||
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| Date | April 3, 2017 | ||||||||||||
| Venue | University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Arizona | ||||||||||||
| MVP | Joel Berry II, North Carolina | ||||||||||||
| Favorite | North Carolina by 2 | ||||||||||||
| Referees | Verne Harris, Michael Stephens, & Mike Eades | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 76,168 | ||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||
| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||
| Announcers | Jim Nantz (play-by-play) Bill Raftery and Grant Hill (color) Tracy Wolfson (sideline) | ||||||||||||
| Nielsen Ratings | 14.5/24 (22.998 million viewers) | ||||||||||||
The 2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the final game of the 2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. It determined the national champion for the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The game was played on April 3, 2017, at University of Phoenix Stadium, now known as State Farm Stadium, in Glendale, Arizona, between the Gonzaga Bulldogs and the North Carolina Tar Heels. North Carolina defeated Gonzaga, 71–65, to win its sixth men's basketball national championship.
This was the first national championship game to be played in a state in either the Mountain or Pacific time zones since the 1995 game, which was held at the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington. North Carolina was playing in its second consecutive title game (and eleventh overall), after losing to Villanova at the buzzer the previous year. Meanwhile, Gonzaga was playing in its first-ever title game. It was the second national title game in three years – and the eighth overall – to be played between two No. 1 seeds.