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| Date | April 8, 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Venue | State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona | ||||||||||||
| MVP | Tristen Newton, UConn | ||||||||||||
| Favorite | UConn by 6[1] | ||||||||||||
| Referees | Jeffrey Anderson, Terry Oglesby, Roger Ayers | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 74,423 | ||||||||||||
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| Network | TBS, TNT, and TruTV | ||||||||||||
| Announcers | Ian Eagle, Bill Raftery, Grant Hill, and Tracy Wolfson | ||||||||||||
The 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the final game of the 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. It determined the national champion for the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season and was contested by the Purdue Boilermakers from the Big Ten Conference and the UConn Huskies from the Big East Conference. The game was played on April 8, 2024, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
The game began with each team holding the lead for short periods of time. After the score was tied at eleven points apiece, UConn took the lead on a shot by Tristen Newton, though later shots by Zach Edey and Braden Smith gave Purdue the lead with eight minutes left in the first half. Field goals afterwards by Newton, Donovan Clingan, and Stephon Castle resulted in a six-point UConn lead at halftime. The lead grew to nine points a short time into the second half and soon expanded to thirteen, though two shots by Edey brought it back to nine for a short time. UConn pulled away after shots by Alex Karaban and Hassan Diarra and the Huskies ultimately led by seventeen with under eight minutes to play. Later in the half, Purdue went on a run of six unanswered points which was ended with two free throws by Newton. Despite three field goals by Edey in the final minutes of the game, UConn's Clingan and Castle scored the final points of the game to make the final score 75–60 in favor of the Huskies.
UConn's victory marked their second consecutive national championship, making them the first team to do so since Florida did so in 2006 and 2007.
- ^ Salerno, Cameron (April 6, 2024). "2024 NCAA basketball championship game: UConn vs. Purdue matchup set as March Madness concludes". CBS Sports. Retrieved April 6, 2024.