Kansas University’s college basketball team has won the US NCAA championship for the fourth time, ending a 14-year drought
The favoured Jayhakws edged the Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina 72-69 in the final game for the title on Monday night (local time) in New Orleans. Kansas rallied from a 15-point second-half deficit in the process. There has never been a bigger comeback in a college championship final, according to US media.
David McCormack scored with 40 seconds left to make the final score 72-69 for Kansas. North Carolina’s final four attacks went for naught.
“Yo, we’re gonna have a lot of fun now “
“I grinned at my teammates in the locker room at halftime and told them, ‘Yo, we’re going to have a lot more fun now,'” McCormack reported. “They thought I was out of my mind.” It was the Jayhawks’ fourth title. North Carolina, once the college of NBA world star Michael Jordan, failed to become the first team to win the championship for the eighth time.
Both universities are among the nation’s premier programmes for college basketball in the US. James Naismith, inventor of basketball, was the first coach at Kansas University. For the college, based in Lawrence in the US state of Kansas, it is the first championship since 2008.
