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It's UConn vs. Purdue in the NCAA men's national championship game.

The NCAA men’s basketball national championship game is finally here, capping off an action-packed March Madness season. No. 1 seeds Connecticut and Purdue square off in Glendale, Arizona tonight at 9:20 p.m ET. It’s a rare top matchup that features two of the biggest names in the league, Zach Edey and Donovan Clingan.

The Purdue Boilermakers face the UConn Huskies in the 2024 National Championship game at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on Monday, April 8, 2024.

Here’s what you need to know:

What: National Championship

Who: Purdue vs. UConn

When: Monday, April 8, 2024.

Where: State Farm Stadium

Time: 9:20 p.m.

TV: TBS and TNT

The NCAA Tournament has reached its finish line, down to one game pairing the two best teams that routinely win in romps and boasting a marquee post matchup that features a two-time national player of the year.

Maybe that will make this version of March Madness something to remember after all.

Reigning champion UConn meets Purdue on Monday night in a matchup of top seeds that have combined to win their first five tournament games by an average margin of 22.3 points. They have been at the center of a tournament lacking in drama, with its second-highest average margin of victory since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985, only one last-second winning shot and few of the highlight-reel thrills that had become a staple of the event.

The tournament’s allure remains strong, from casual-at-best basketball fans scribbling out their own bracket projections to TV ratings that keep coming in strong. Yet there’s a short list of unexpected moments this year: namely, Jack Gohlke making 10 3-pointers to help Oakland stun blueblood Kentucky in the first round and North Carolina State’s wild ride as an 11-seed to the program’s first Final Four since the “Cardiac Pack” title run of 1983 under the late Jim Valvano.

As for those last-second shots that live on in tournament lore, the closest this year was KJ Simpson rattling in a baseline jumper with 1.7 seconds left to lift Colorado past Florida 102-100 in Round 1.

Everything else has largely been about UConn’s run to greatness, and Purdue’s march to redemption from last year’s stunning loss to 16th-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson.

By comparison, North Carolina in 2009 holds the record for highest points differential of that elite group at 121 points through six games, so another double-figure win by the Huskies to complete a 6-for-6 run would shatter that record.

After nearly three weeks of basketball games, only two teams remain in the NCAA tournament. The men’s March Madness tournament comes to an end today with UConn facing fellow No. 1 seed Purdue. The Huskies and Boilermakers will go head-to-head in a clash of the titans to close out the 2023-24 season.

UConn is looking to become the first team to win back-to-back titles since Florida in 2006 and 2007. Meanwhile, Purdue is competing for its first national title since the tournament's inception in 1939. Both the Huskies and Boilermakers have been dominant throughout most of the year, giving tonight's title game all the makings of a heavyweight showdown.

After losing in first round of last year's NCAA Tournament, the Boilermakers have been on a mission to capture the national title. Edey scored 20 points and had 12 rebounds to lead the Boilermakers past upstart N.C State, 63-50, in their Final Four matchup.

Edey is the first Purdue player to earn back-to-back consensus first-team honors since Rick Mount in 1969 and 1970. Edey, Mount and Terry Dischinger (1961, 1962) are the only two-time consensus first-team All-Americans in school history.

It's all been leading up to this: Two No. 1 seeds face one another today as the Purdue Boilermakers take on the UConn Huskies in the men's March Madness 2024 NCAA Tournament Championship Game. The Huskies will try to defend their title, while Zach Edey and the Boilermakers hope to bring Purdue its first national title.

March Madness ends today with No. 1 UConn taking on No. 1 Purdue for the men's college basketball national championship.

Tonight's national championship between No. 1 UConn and No. 1 Purdue has an old-school feel to it. In an era where guard play and the three-point shots have dominated college basketball, the headliners of tonight's game are neither ball handlers nor long-distance shooters but are big men who live in the lane and protect the rim. Centers Zach Edey of Purdue and Donovan Clingan of UConn are leading the pre-game chatter.

Edey, a 7-foot, 4-inch senior and back-to-back player of the year, has averaged 28 points, 15.4 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game during the tournament. He has looked unguardable at times as he's overpowered smaller opponents, but he'll have someone nearly his size guarding him tonight. Clingan is a 7-foot, 2-inch sophomore who isn't as much of a focus on offense for UConn as Edey is for Purdue, but he has been elite on the defensive end, averaging 3.6 blocks per game in the tournament.

UConn is seeking to become the first school to repeat as national champions since Florida in 2006 and 2007. Purdue is hoping to follow the path of Virginia, who became the first No. 1 seed to lose in the first round to a 16 seed in 2018 and then turned around and won the national championship as a No. 1 seed the following year. Purdue became only the second No. 1 seed to lose in the opening round when it was ousted by Fairleigh Dickinson last year, a loss that likely played a large role in Edey foregoing the NBA draft and returning for his senior season.