{"id":702667,"date":"2026-04-07T05:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/702667\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:14:15","slug":"michigan-wins-ncaa-mens-basketball-national-championship-beating-uconn-69-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/702667\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan wins NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball National Championship, beating UConn 69-63"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ap26097147588836-scaled.jpg\" data-lb-width=\"2560\" data-lb-height=\"1707\" class=\" photoswipe gtxlightbox\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3652689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ap26097147588836-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Ncaa Uconn Michigan Basketball\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michigan head coach Dusty May celebrates after defeating UConn in the NCAA college basketball tournament national championship game at the Final Four, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo\/Michael Conroy)<\/p>\n<p>INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (CBS) \u2013 No. 1 seed Michigan defeated No. 2 seed UConn 69-63 to capture the 2026 NCAA Men\u2019s National Basketball championship tonight.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the second national title in program history for the Wolverines and the first since 1989. UConn was going for its third national championship in four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan is the first national champion from the Big Ten since Michigan State won the title in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolverines captured the title despite a cold start from the 3-point line. Michigan didn\u2019t knock down a 3-pointer until there were 12:56 remaining in the second half when guard Elliot Cadeau knocked one down.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan becomes the first team since Michigan State (1978-79) to win a national title two or fewer seasons removed from winning less than 10 games. Michigan went 8-24 during the 2023-24 campaign before hiring Dusty May away from Florida Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michigan head coach Dusty May celebrates after defeating UConn in the NCAA college basketball tournament national championship game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-702667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}