National championship 2017: Officiating impact will linger over UNC-Gonzaga

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UNC takes down Gonzaga to become 2017 National Champion

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North Carolina and Roy Williams claimed its third national title since 2005 on Monday night, 364 days after getting buried by Villanova on a buzzer-beater on the very same stage. But while last year’s college basketball finale is most memorable for one of the NCAA Tournament’s greatest shots, the sixth national title for one of the game’s blue bloods came in a clunky game where both UNC and Gonzaga played hard but not particularly well, and the officiating generated as much buzz as the buckets.

Monday night’s national championship game, a 71-65 win for the Tar Heels, finished with an average of more than one foul…