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| Date | April 2, 2018 | ||||||||||||
| Venue | Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas | ||||||||||||
| MVP | Donte DiVincenzo, Villanova | ||||||||||||
| Favorite | Villanova by 6.5 | ||||||||||||
| Referees | Doug Sirmons, Terry Wymer, Jeffrey Anderson | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 67,831 | ||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||
| Network | TBS TNT and truTV (TeamCast) | ||||||||||||
| Announcers | Jim Nantz, Bill Raftery, Grant Hill and Tracy Wolfson (TBS) Matt Park, Jay Feely, and Dr. Sanjay Gupta (Michigan TeamCast - TNT) Scott Graham, Randy Foye, and Kacie McDonnell (Villanova TeamCast - truTV) | ||||||||||||
| Nielsen Ratings | 7.5 (13.334 million) | ||||||||||||
The 2018 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the final game of the single-elimination tournament to determine the men's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national champion for the 2017–18 season. The game was played on April 2, 2018, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, between the Michigan Wolverines and the Villanova Wildcats. Michigan last won the NCAA championship in 1989, while Villanova won the championship in 2016.
Villanova defeated Michigan, 79–62. Donte DiVincenzo, a reserve player, scored 31 points for Villanova, and was named the NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player. It would be the last national championship game to feature a team from the Big Ten until 2024.