UConn is the 15th team to win the national title w/ each victory by double digits. Michigan St (2000), Duke (2001), UNC (2009), Villanova (2018) and last 2 UConn teams did it for 6 games. UConn total margin of victory of 140 is easily the highest ever, breaking UNC’s total of 125

Most points in a title game by a player from the runner-up team:
Zach Edey, Purdue, 37 (2024)
John Morton, Seton Hall, 35 (1989)
Kevin Grevey, Kentucky, 34 (1975)
Larry Finch, Memphis, 29 (1973)
John Wallace, Syracuse, 29 (1996)

Tonight's attendance of 74,423 is the third-highest in championship game history. The two-day session of 149,143 is the fifth-highest in Final Four history.

What’s better than a Final Four? One that I get to share with my son, who’s a ball boy tonight.

To all the fans who have followed and engaged with me this year, thank you for your passion for the best sport in the world. Enjoy the national championship.

On the other hand, this will be the 62nd different championship matchup in the past 62 years of the men’s tournament. You have to go back to 1962 (Ohio State-Cincinnati, which also met the year before) to find the last championship matchup that materialized a second time.

This is the 14th time a school has sent men's/women's teams to the Final 4 in same year. NC St is the 11th school to do it. UConn has done it 4x and is only school to do it more than 1x. If UConn women win tomorrow, it will mark 1st time 2 schools made both Final 4s in same year.

The Final Four is set and will air Saturday on TBS. Game 1 will feature Purdue and NC State at 6:09 p.m. ET, followed by UConn taking on Alabama.

Here is the All-Region team for the West:

Mark SearsAlabama (MOP)
PJ HallClemson
Ian SchieffelinClemson
Chase HunterClemson
Grant NelsonAlabama

UConn players since '99 named region MOP: Rip Hamilton, Ben Gordon, AJ Price, Kemba Walker, Shabaaz Napier, Jordan Hawkins, Donovan Clingan. Cam Spencer and Stephon Castle of UConn, along with Jaedon LeDee of SDSU and Terrence Shannon Jr. of Illinois, were also named to the team.

FYI, the all-time scoring run by a Division I team against another Division I is 40-0 by Ohio against Cleveland St. on December 6, 2020. I don't have a record for scoring run in a tournament game. If anyone has this information or remembers anything, please pass it along.

In the past 20 tournaments, teams with an additional day of rest between the round of 32 and the regional semifinals have now gone 44-44 in regional semifinal games.

Sunday's schedule:

2:20 p.m. ET: Purdue vs. Tennessee (CBS).

5:05 p.m. ET: Duke vs. NC State (CBS).

The winner of the Iowa St.-Illinois game will play UConn Saturday at 6:09 p.m. ET on TBS and truTV.

The winner of the North Carolina-Alabama game will play Clemson at 8:49 p.m. ET, also on TBS and truTV.

From 2006-19, only 2 No. 6 seeds made it to the Elite 8, but Clemson is the 3rd team to do it in 4 years (Creighton in '23, USC in '21). Clemson will try to become the first No. 6 seed to reach the Final Four since Michigan in '92, and just the 7th since seeding began in '79.