<Tr> <Th> Announcers </Th> <Td> Jim Nantz (play - by - play) Bill Raftery and Grant Hill (color) Tracy Wolfson (sideline) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Nielsen Ratings </Th> <Td> 14.5 / 24 (22.998 million viewers) </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 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 . </P> <P> 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 (and eleventh overall), 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 . </P>

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