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North Carolina, Villanova Meet For NCAA Tournament Title

North Carolina will look for its sixth NCAA championship when the Tar Heels meet the Villanova Wildcats, trying for their second, on Monday night.

 

The Tar Heels (33-6) last won it all in 2009 and Villanova's only title came in 1985.

 

Both teams advanced to the championship game with lopsided wins, but Villanova's was far more of a blowout than North Carolina's.

 

The top-seeded Tar Heels beat 10-seed Syracuse 83-66 on Saturday night in a national semifinal for their 10th straight win. That was after the Wildcats made easy work of Buddy Hield and Oklahoma, with a 95-51 trampling that was the biggest margin of victory in a national semifinal game.

 

Villanova (34-5) did it with 71.4 percent shooting led by Josh Hart, who scored 23 points on 10 of 12 shooting.

 

North Carolina has reached the title game for the 10th time and it will be just the third appearance for Villanova.

 

The two schools have some tournament history with the Tarheels beating Villanova in the tournament on the way to their titles in 1982, 2005 and 2009. They downed the Wildcats in the national semifinals in 2009 before beating Michigan State for the championship.

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