Kansas Beats North Carolina to Win NCAA Basketball Championship with Biggest Comeback in Title Game History

Kansas pulled off the biggest comeback in men’s national championship game history to beat North Carolina, 72-69, and win the 2022 NCAA tournament.

The Jayhawks were down by 15 at halftime and trailed at 16 at one point in the first half. The 16-point deficit breaks a record held by Loyola Chicago after the Ramblers came back from a 15-point deficit to win the national title. And until Monday night, the biggest halftime deficit ever turned around in a national title game was 10 when Kentucky came back to beat Utah.

David McCormack’s basket with 22 seconds left put the Jayhawks up by three after North Carolina’s Armando Bacot turned his right ankle and had to limp off the court with less than a minute left. Bacot injured that ankle on Saturday against Duke.