2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game
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| Date | April 4, 2022 | ||||||||||||
| Venue | Caesars Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||||||||||
| MVP | Ochai Agbaji, Kansas | ||||||||||||
| Favorite | Kansas by 4 | ||||||||||||
| Referees | Jeff Anderson, Ron Groover, Terry Oglesby | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 69,423 | ||||||||||||
| National anthem | Preservation Hall Jazz Band | ||||||||||||
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| Network | TBS, TNT, and truTV | ||||||||||||
| Announcers | Jim Nantz, Bill Raftery, Grant Hill, and Tracy Wolfson | ||||||||||||
The championship game of the 2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was contested on April 4, 2022, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The game featured the Kansas Jayhawks of the Big 12 Conference and the North Carolina Tar Heels of the Atlantic Coast Conference. This was a rematch of the 1957 national championship game, in which undefeated North Carolina defeated Kansas by a 54–53 score in triple-overtime to win their first-ever national championship.
Kansas narrowly defeated North Carolina to claim their first national championship since 2008. The victory marked Kansas's sixth national championship, and their second under head coach Bill Self. Trailing 38–22 near the end of the first half, Kansas rallied from a 16-point deficit for the largest comeback win in the championship game's history. The Jayhawks' Ochai Agbaji was named the Most Outstanding Player (MOP) of the 2022 tournament.