page_title: 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game
section_title: Media coverage
hierarchical_section_title: 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game / Background / Media coverage
caption_attribution_description: English: The University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Az. where the NCAA Final Four was played in 2017.
context_page_description: The 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game was the final game of the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. It determined the national champion for the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The game was played on April 3, 2017, at University of Phoenix Stadium, now known as State Farm Stadium, in Glendale, Arizona between the Gonzaga Bulldogs and the North Carolina Tar Heels. North Carolina defeated Gonzaga, 71–65, to win its sixth men's basketball national championship.
  This was the first national championship game to be played in a state in either the Mountain or Pacific time zones since the 1995 game, which was held at the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington. North Carolina was playing in its second consecutive title game, after losing to Villanova at the buzzer the previous year. Meanwhile, Gonzaga was playing in its first-ever title game. It was the second national title game in three years – and the eighth overall – to be played between two No. 1 seeds.
context_section_description: The game was televised in the United States by CBS. ESPN International had the media rights outside of the United States.
  Radio coverage in the United States was provided by Westwood One.
caption: University of Phoenix Stadium, the site of the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game
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