The 2022 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is down to the final two teams: Kansas and North Carolina. This evening, the best teams in the country will go head-to-head for the national championship.
In New Orleans on Saturday, these blue blood each won their respective Final Four games to secure a spot in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Game in 2022.
Find out all you need to know about tonight’s exciting game here. The full schedule for the UNC vs. Kansas matchup, including start time, TV channel, and live stream site, can be found below.
FanDuel has the most recent March Madness odds, as well as an updated NCAA Tournament bracket showing how the Jayhawks and Tar Heels got here.
2022 NCAA Tournament National Championship Game
Matchup: No. 1 Kansas vs. No. 8 North Carolina
Date: Monday, April 4
Start Time: 9:20 p.m. ET
Kansas vs. North Carolina Odds
A four-point spread favours Kansas in this matchup, and the public is generally in favour of the team.
Kansas has drawn 55% of all bets and 77% of the money wagered against the spread since opening as 4.5-point favourites.
Although the action has been rather lopsided, the majority of books have decreased the score of KU by half a point. That shows that the smart money is betting on UNC as an underdog in the national championship game.
Total: 152 points on the over/under. A high-scoring college basketball matchup is expected by the betting public, and this one is no exception.
Over 60 per cent of bets are on the over as of Monday morning. The 152-point total is viewed by many sharp bettors as a little overpriced, as evidenced by the fact that only 51% of the total bets went over.
Only a half-point has been added to the over-under since Saturday night’s game, which has remained stable since then.KU is a 200-point underdog, while UNC is a 160-point favourite.
Betting on the 2022 national championship game without taking into account the point spread will find Kansas as a -200 underdog to win the school’s fourth NCAA Tournament title. There is a 67% chance that Kansas will win tonight, but bettors must place a $2 bet to win $1.
North Carolina has a 38 per cent chance of pulling off another March Madness upset as a +160 underdog. If the Tar Heels win the NCAA Tournament for the seventh time in a row, each $1 bet would return $1.60 to the backers.
2022 NCAA Tournament National Championship Game Preview, Prediction
Both Kansas and UNC have won numerous national championships in college basketball and are two of the most storied programmes in the sport.
With 64 teams in 1985, the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams and the Jayhawks have been to five national championship games—winning two of them. However, KU hasn’t made it back in a decade and hasn’t cut down the nets since winning it all back in 2008.
After five NCAA Tournament finals appearances since 1985, the North Carolina Tar Heels have outperformed their opponents. During that period, UNC finished second only once while winning four championships, the last of which occurred five years ago.
For the 12th time in a row, Kansas and North Carolina will face off on the hardwood in this matchup. These two illustrious programmes have met six times previously during the March Madness tournament. First meeting: In an epic triple-overtime game that decided the 1957 national championship, they met and have since fought in three Final Four games, the most recent of which was played in 2008.
A 6-5 all-time advantage in this series belongs to North Carolina but Kansas has emerged as a more dominant team in recent years. Kansas has a 3-0 record against the Wildcats, with victories in the Sweet 16 in 2013, the Elite 8 in 2012, and the Final Four in 2008.
The Tar Heels haven’t beaten Kansas in nine years, but the Jayhawks are now expected to do so. The 2022 NCAA Tournament final between the Kansas Jayhawks and the Louisville Cardinals has the Jayhawks as 4.5-point underdogs.
In the Round of 32 and Sweet 16, Kansas appeared vulnerable, but in the Elite 8, the Wildcats went on the offensive and haven’t looked back. No. 10 Miami’s Cinderella runs to the Final Four ended with a 76-50 defeat by Kansas in the Midwest regional final.
On Saturday, the Jayhawks beat No. 2 seed Villanova 81-65 to advance to the second round of the NCAA tournament.
UNC will likely be the toughest test for Kansas’ top-seeded team in the NCAA Tournament in 2022.
After defeating the East region’s top seed, Baylor, in the second round, and No. 4 UCLA, another defending Final Four team, in the Sweet 16, the Tar Heels proved they are a national championship contender despite being an unheralded No. 8 seed.
Saint Peter’s became the only No. 15 seed in NCAA tournament history to advance to a regional final, and North Carolina then faced longtime foe, Duke, in the Final Four.
On Saturday, the Tar Heels showed that they can beat anyone in the country, handing Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski his final defeat and forcing him to retire. In a game that saw 12 ties and 18 lead changes, UNC showed resiliency by closing out the game with an 11-3 run to earn a place in the national championship game.
UNC must now demonstrate that it can stop a Kansas team that made over 50% of its three-point attempts in the Final Four and hasn’t shot below 50% from the field since the Elite 8. With the national championship on the line, the Jayhawks are the team to beat because they are focused and playing their best basketball of the season.
If you’re looking for an ATS pick here, you should go with the underdog, Kansas. No matter how good the Tar Heels look in March, they won’t be able to beat the Jayhawks in the national championship game.
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