Brad Kobow completely agree. Hard to build chemistry in Roy’s play style with one and done’s. All these kids come to play with the nba mentality and don’t have the “want” to play Roy Williams basketball
Oh yea tucker. I miss those days when our team hustled and played fundamental basketball. Hopefully the one and dones will stop and this young group of guys we have right now can do something in future.
The squad with Felton and the boys was amazing and sentimental because i knew him personally. The squad with Lawson, pyscho T,Ellington was probably our best starting 5 ever and they could dominate either end..i think our best squad ever.. But this team was special to me in so many ways and i grew to really love this entire group..they had rough talent and skill that had to be developed. They worked so hard,they had their hrarts ripped out.but stayed together, still improved and berry became a special leader and developed every aspect of his game..and defined this team playing this championship game on 2 sprained ankles...sprained ine in quarter finals,semifinals he reinjured it and completely rolled the other one over and i thought he was done.it was legit bad..how he got turned around and ready to start in the championship game I'll never know..love this above all.
One of my favorite tarheel team … I remember all the media talk about the zags size but they never played a team like us that matched up with them in every phase of the game
@@connorboyce9736 yeah, I would never try to take anything away from Joel. Amazing player and leader, but Kennedy came up huge in clutch situations, like the offensive rebound against Oregon to end the game and the block and steal at the end of this one. I wish they could all win it. The '09 team was all about scoring 100+ and out-talenting people, and were simply awesome to watch. This team wasn't going to win that way, but they ground their way through the tournament and just refused to lose.
I live in Spokane Washington where Gonzaga is. You guys don’t understand how hyped the city was. Literally every house had a go zags sign. Even the largest building here had a GIANT zag logo on it. Love where I’m from
Coach Davis Mite Have To Watch Old National Tittle Games And Look At The Roster Coach Roy Had .. it could be the success going back to winning championship
2016: UNC loses national championship game to Villanova on a last second shot. 2017: UNC makes it back to the championship game and beats Gonzaga. 2018: Virginia become the first 1 seed to lose to a 16 seed, losing to UMBC by 20!! 2019: Virginia wins the national championship with an overtime victory over Texas Tech. Redemption is a beautiful thing 💯
The great thing about being a Heels fan is that there are so many national championship games to watch. 1957, 1982. 1993, 2005,2009 and this one my my which one to pick next😁
@Hunter. When this season began I had Michigan State winning it all. I knew Carolina was rebuilding. I just didn't know how much they needed to rebuild😂. Much respect to Michigan State and especially Tom Izzo, who I feel is the most underrated Coach in college basketball.
Love my Heels! Watched the '93 in middle school, the 05 in Iraq, 09 in Japan, and 17 in my living room in Raleigh NC! So many memories! I think that 09 team was dominant!! This team had so much ❤️! 🐏👣🩵🤍
Crazy - Gonzaga one of the most disciplined teams in the country lost their minds for approximately 8 seconds and that was that. College basketball is insane.
Still feel this is one of the most underrated title games ever. Very few times do we get the two best teams in the nation. Gonzaga was not only the best offensive team, but they were a top 5 defensive team. They dominated most metrics, which factors in SoS. But North Carolina was right behind them in those metrics with a coach with plenty of final 4 experience. Only two things were bad about this game. The refs were terrible, and the bad calls went both ways. It was if they wanted Zach Collins out of the game who was the most gifted player on the floor. The other was Nigel Williams-Goss, one of my all-time favorite college players reinjuring his ankle. He made so many clutch plays, but when he hurt his ankle, game over. Coach Few should have used him as a decoy, but the big game dominator insisted on taking the tough shots. I felt so bad for him when Meeks blocked his shot for the game winning score. Even if healthy, Nigel may have missed but he deserved a better chance. But all teams who win titles need to catch some breaks. Another reason this game was so important is that so much of what Gonzaga does is based on the Carolina System. When Few first landed the GU job, Roy and Wanda took him under his wing at Nike events. Few looked up to Roy so much.
I'm a lifelong UNC Tarheel fan. But this video just served to remind me how POORLY this game was officiated. Possibly one of the worst officiated games in the history of the NCAA tournament. Carolina shoots 35% from the floor, 4 out of 27 from 3 point range, and 15 out of 26 from the free throw line and somehow still win this game?!? Such a frustrating team to watch at times. The 2016 team was honestly the much better team but I'm glad this team got its vengeance.
Ah yes, the game that had the potential to be an all-timer that the officials decided they were bigger than. Hard to forget this one. Two great teams deserved better.
@@zekecleere230 That's correct. I forget where I heard it, but he basically could only see clearly in one eye... If he had his full vision I believe that this game would have turned out differently.
Partially true. I also felt that Few's decision to continue to go to Nigel Williams-Goss besides him badly reinjuring his ankle near the end led to the Meeks block and the game closer. Gonzaga may have lost anyway, but Nigel deserved a better chance. The biggest myth of this game is that Meeks dominated Karnowski. Karno was missing 3 footers. No defensive player ever, even Bill Russell, can stop a big that close to the basket when he's skilled and has a major height and weight advantage. No one. I saw every game Karno ever played, and he dominated centers far better than Meeks who were his height. Meeks did his best, but those were, as you say Gabe, point blank shots.
Carolina defense played a roll on him missing was very hard layups made him keep guessing and made him hit tougher shots and he wasn’t a great free throw also
@@malcolmbrown95 Granted that is a lot, imagine what he could have made had he stayed another year or two and been a lottery pick. He's not ready for the big time.
@@killerseddie8295 Some guys who were projected first rounders have went back to school and completely fell out of the draft altogether. If you have a chance at a guaranteed contract, you gotta go.
Wish It would have went to overtime.I think my Wildcats would have pulled it off.Respect to UNC though hit the big shot when it counted.Although I can say Kentucky has had wat better NBA players than UNC in the past 10 years by a landslide.
@@PlusUltraAdrian nah, we woulda beat you again and you wouldn't have been able to handle it again. Wisconsin got lucky beating us by a few points that year.
I really think Gonzaga was getting a huge break as UNC shot poorly this game. Missed a lot of open shots they normally made. Have to take advantage of that.
Yeah zags had some chances in the first half to pull away but they didn’t get the job done. Refs were horrible but Zach Collins was also very foul prone that whole year and if he had managed to not foul out he could have maybe helped the zags win that game down the stretch with Goss playing well
How about GU's Karnowski and all the layups he blew? Forget the open 15 foot UNC jumpers. There were 7 or so layups that Karnowski missed in this game that Coach Few said after the game he makes 97% of the time That was not the result of Meeks' defense of the hoop. When you are that deep into the lane and are that much taller and weigh that much more than your defender, you can only miss shots as result of it being your own fault. People forget that GU had the #1 adjusted defense in the nation in 2017, which factors in SoS. They were tough to score on. I hate to say this about Karnowski, who is the winningest player in the history of NCAA D-1 basketball, but Justin Jackson failing to nail the occasion 12 foot jumper is different than missing a 2 footer as a 7-1,, 300+ pound center with superb touch. What was actually AMAZING about the Heels in this game were all the tough shots they hit. The Hicks shot against JWIII near the end of the end of the game was one of the toughest shots I've seen a college basketball player hit in the history of the NCAA tourney. People forget that GU was the #1 adjusted defensive team in the nation in 2017 at Pomeroy. You cannot GAME the Pomeroy ratings as they incorporate strength of schedule. The reason why that 2017 Zag team went to the final was their defense. They've many better offensive teams.
@@MattSmith-iq1ld Sort of my point. Whether UNC missed shots they normally make, or missed because of good defense, the Zags did not capitalize. Karnowski choked, Really no other way to put it. The refs let these two teams actually play the last 2 minutes. UNC won that two minutes.
I made 2 predictions about this UNC team. Firstly, Carolina would win it all after the Maui win vs Wisconsin. Secondly, Carolina would avenge the loss to Kentucky and Monk's 47points. Well, both came to pass. The best team won. Honestly, UNC should've won back to back in 2016-2017.
1:08:46 - Double foul on Berry and Karnowski, but clearly was a steal by Berry and a foul by Karnowski. 1:20:46 they called it out on UNC, but it wasn't a block. There were a lot of calls that went GU's way. Ironically, more calls went their way then UNC's...
Totally disagree. GU was the #1 defensive team in the nation according to kenpom. The big difference between this Zag team compared to many other others is that they were ELITE defensively. UNC was not just unlucky for their shooting %. IT was because the Zags were super elite on defense. They beat a super elite defensive team in South Carolina that beat Duke. You cannot fake out the Pomeroy stats because they factor in strength of schedule. GU was the #1 defensive team in nation that year. It wasn't a fluke. UNC was to be commended for winning this game.
No offense to The 2nd Monday Night game in NOLA this past year i’m not saying it because it’s a competition I’m not comparing but this is my opinion but I hate to say it but I think this final four championship was better in my opinion than the Duke Carolina semifinals this past year. I was at this game, and it was phenomenal!! Pre-COVID, and before racism, and the one-and-done format with the transfer portal is why IMO. It was so loud!! Nothing against Hubert Davis but Roy Williams in my opinion was a better basketball coach IMO. I miss him! I was screaming my head off! As a matter of fact I have never heard anywhere louder I have never been in a louder building in my life! Not even the loudest concert I have ever been to was this loud. Not even an NFL football games I have been to a few Panthers games in Charlotte not even they were this loud! I was so lucky to be with 70,000 other fans who attended this game.
I was so livid Gonzaga lost this game! Hopefully they make it up this year and win it. If not, I'm fine with Baylor or Houston. Both of them seem new to the final four.
I hated how CBS and Turner said that Meeks played great defense on Karnowski. A bunch of B.S. When you are 3 feet from the basket, and you miss a layup, no defender can stop you when you are that much taller, stronger and weigh more than your defender. Karno also had outstanding touch around the basket. He just blew it. Meeks did nothing defensively that Karno had not seen. He had played against great centers during non-league play during his career. Coach Few said he was missing layups that Karno would nail 97% of the time. It was clearly the biggest factor in Gonzaga losing the game. This was a very tight game. It's not like Karnowski needed to go 12-12 from the field to win the thing.
@@harp1288 2017 was the best imo although I will say this year was exceptionally awesome. I mean this year was really really good too. This year, Florida Atlantic, who would have ever envisioned ever was in it that would be like saying we will make it to the college football playoff. North Carolina will in football this year although that is more of a likely possibility, then Florida Atlantic going all the way to the final four my gosh! Florida Atlantic would be like not even wake forest making it all the way to the final four it was a feat that I mean nobody saw coming I mean nobody even dreamed of that reality it’s more of a reality like I said that we will make it to the national championship college football playoff this year. The Tar Heels will then Florida Atlantic going all the way to the final four in college basketball this past year, that was truly something nobody nobody saw it was about as big as TCU making it all the way to the national championship to play Georgia in college football. This year Florida Atlantic did the unthinkable. They went all the way to the Sweet 16, and took down some powerhouse teams, they went all the way to the elite eight I forget what the bracket was but I think they may have played Kansas State. I can’t remember 100% off the top of my head but they beat them. I think it may have been at Madison Square Garden to make it all the way to the final four wow that was a story! This year was pretty phenomenal also. How about Jim Larranaga making it to his first final four? How about San Diego State? I’ll say that this final four was arguably pretty special also, and I’m not even a fan of any of those teams I definitely watched the national championship let alone the final four it was pretty special too but just seeing this year was pretty special as well though even though it wasn’t our year to not even make the tournament at all for that matter, but just seeing those four teams, Uconn, San Diego State, Miami, and Florida Atlantic was just mind-blowing! This year’s final four knocked my socks off! It was so fun to see Dan Hurley, forget that he’s a Dookie, or has a Dookie connection, win the national championship! It was also cool to see Brian Dutcher have a run. He had a great season! UConn won the national championship. They are not exactly our rival per-say, but we are indeed no stranger to their basketball program. We do play them occasionally in Chapel Hill. We do play the Huskies we absolutely know them. They absolutely know Carolina Uconn is no stranger to the Tar Heels at all. Without a shadow of a doubt they know us. We are like a second-fiddle rival to them. It was cool this year also wasn’t it? It was also cool to see early on Farleigh Dickinson take down Purdue that was identical to UMBC versus Virginia. It was a repeat of UMBC. That was just something that will go down in infamy. That will live in lore in Cinderella. That was Cinderella herself that night on March 17 that was something that will go down in history. Cinderella herself 👗 👠 🏀 came to the ball that night when #16 FDU won.
@@Gonzoweirdo1 LAST YEARS is what I said so like 2022, not this year, even tho we didn’t win, last years final four was BY far the best I have ever seen in terms of semifinal and championship excitement…..especially the semifinal
UNC dominated everyone in that tournament. They were by far and away the best team in the NCAA that season. In fact, it can be argued that Gonzaga gave the Heels their best game in that tourney.
No they didn’t outplay is they went on their spurt and we answered with ours...then reality set it and both teams became exactly who they were the entire season. And Ty Lawson was playing on one foot too.
You know I'm not even a gonzaga fan I've always liked them as a second favorite but with the way Goss played I mean how good he was then hurting the ankle and staying in the game he was the mvp of this final four and championship
Not really...Joel Berry was playing with 2 sprained ankles and hurt the whole tourney. He powered through a whole game...Goss couldn't gut out 90 seconds.
PJ K you stated he was the “Real MVP”. Joel Berry STARTED the game on two bad ankles...Goss took 2-3 shots on a bad leg and missed, but you’re giving more credit than the guy who outplayed him...on two bad ankles. Smdh
I forgot all about Tony Bradley. He jetted for the NBA right after this game. I don't keep up with anything in the NBA. Now, all Roy Williams recruits are one and dones and it's just not fun anymore. The refs refused to let either team get into a rhythm in this game. Officiating was horrible. This was our last great team. GO HEELS!
This was Gonzaga's best team to make it to the championship it also was their last chance to win it all 2021 was a different sad story we can talk about later 😭
As a Carolina fan, I've got a lot of respect for the Zags of Gonzaga University. I've actually predicted the Zags a perfect season, the buzzer shot VS UCLA had to be one of the greatest shots of NCAA March Madness ever.
Played a great game, but no center ever, not even Bill Russell, can stop a 7-1, 300+ pound center with great touch when he's 3 feet from the hoop. Karno missed point blanks that I saw him countlessly convert against bigs better than Meeks who had a size and weight disadvantage. He is given too much credit for Carolina's deserved victory. Even the NWG block was when NWG badly hurt his ankle again. I could've blocked that shot. But Few had zero TO's and couldn't set up a play for someone else.
As a hells fan... the refs ruined what would’ve been a classic matchup. That first half was amazing to watch and ultimately ruined bc the refs forgot it was a basketball game and not a free throw shooting contest smh.
Why didn't they just go for a three when they were three down? Even if they make the 2, you are still one down, with only so few seconds left, you still had to draw a foul to get the ball back, and that would put you back to 2-3 points down. So you would still be in the same situation but with less time. With a three, if you miss, you can still get it back and shoot it again.
Ever since this game I've been pulling for a Gonzaga championship. I like the Tar Heels and they deserved this redemption, but it's past time Gonzaga gets theirs.
THE NORTH CAROLINA TARHEELS HAS WON THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!🏀 All I could sing that whole year for the Dook fans and to those who were ABC fans (Anybody But Carolina) was... WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!😄😋😚
Your men beat a team that was far better than the nation gave them credit for. You cannot "game" the kenpom.com metrics system. It incorporates SoS. GU was #1 in the nation going into this game, and anyone who knows anything about basketball could tell you that Gonzaga had a really good, high major style team. They had 2 McDonald's AA's and a roster full of top 100 players. UNC beat a good one.
@@MattSmith-iq1ld Dude, you are sadly mistaken. Gonzaga's SoS wasn't even in the top 30 that year. They played 2 REALLY good teams, but pretty light compared to UNC's, which was #1. When you play Duke 3x, VA 2x and UK 2x in one year...I think you're playing the "Best of the Best".
This run was so special ! Definitely after losing at the buzzer the previous year in the championship. So grateful to have experienced this
Let's get one more tomorrow vs Kansas! Let's go Heels!!
@@jeremywade6986this comment is the reason we lost😅 such a heartbreaking game
I really miss this Carolina team. We haven’t had a team that hustled or played as hard since this team...
32-29 the last two seasons. Borderline unacceptable.
Brad Kobow completely agree. Hard to build chemistry in Roy’s play style with one and done’s. All these kids come to play with the nba mentality and don’t have the “want” to play Roy Williams basketball
Oh yea tucker. I miss those days when our team hustled and played fundamental basketball. Hopefully the one and dones will stop and this young group of guys we have right now can do something in future.
32-30*
Last 3 NCAA Tournament losses;
2018 - 86-65 to Texas A&M
2019 - 97-80 to Auburn
2021- 85-62 to Wisconsin
How has Roy not been forced to retire?
@@thowell28513 well it looks like almost no one is leaving this year
As a beautiful Carolina Blue fan, still brings me great joy to watch this--even with whistles every 5 seconds.....
Back in my day...
Ikr
Literally every 5 seconds...
@Ashton Kabir it’s a scam don’t do it
Yes bro … but thank god they put them away towards the end of the game and that’s when we pulled away
I could watch this over and over. This team was special. After 2016 and those 4.7 seconds. This win made me cry. Then I went to Franklin St.
51:52 Although Karnowski might not have had the best game, you've got to love his heart and the love he shows towards his teammates.
his poor game was a huge factor in their loss
@@rustyshackleford9017 he played with a bad back for most of the season
Been waiting 3 years to find the CBS version. Thank you!
NCkillaSC Ik same I hate the other one, I’m a zag fan btw great game ghi
The shot of Isaiah tearing up after Joel is fouled with 7.3 seconds left gets me every time.
bro new he was gonna be a national champion after all that pain for the year before and the crazy hard work over the year
The squad with Felton and the boys was amazing and sentimental because i knew him personally.
The squad with Lawson, pyscho T,Ellington was probably our best starting 5 ever and they could dominate either end..i think our best squad ever..
But this team was special to me in so many ways and i grew to really love this entire group..they had rough talent and skill that had to be developed. They worked so hard,they had their hrarts ripped out.but stayed together, still improved and berry became a special leader and developed every aspect of his game..and defined this team playing this championship game on 2 sprained ankles...sprained ine in quarter finals,semifinals he reinjured it and completely rolled the other one over and i thought he was done.it was legit bad..how he got turned around and ready to start in the championship game I'll never know..love this above all.
One of my favorite tarheel team … I remember all the media talk about the zags size but they never played a team like us that matched up with them in every phase of the game
Nice to see with fans in the stand.
1:31:33 "Kennedy Meeks doing it all."
I loved Joel Berry, but Kennedy should have been Final Four MVP.
Eric Daniel that’s facts
remember, Joel berry was playing on TWO sprained ankles
Craig Bot oh don’t get me wrong it was well deserved and I wanted him to get it cuz he was so tuff but Meeks actually probably had the best final four
@@connorboyce9736 yeah, I would never try to take anything away from Joel. Amazing player and leader, but Kennedy came up huge in clutch situations, like the offensive rebound against Oregon to end the game and the block and steal at the end of this one.
I wish they could all win it. The '09 team was all about scoring 100+ and out-talenting people, and were simply awesome to watch. This team wasn't going to win that way, but they ground their way through the tournament and just refused to lose.
Eric Daniel fair enough
I live in Spokane Washington where Gonzaga is. You guys don’t understand how hyped the city was. Literally every house had a go zags sign. Even the largest building here had a GIANT zag logo on it. Love where I’m from
basketball town for sure
@J H nope 😭 they are so close man
Coach Davis Mite Have To Watch Old National Tittle Games And Look At The Roster Coach Roy Had .. it could be the success going back to winning championship
Upload the Arkansas and Oregon games vs UNC from this tournament
Brooklynmane I really wanna watch that Arkansas game
AMEN
The Arkansas game was the best imho. Close all the way then a shutout in the last 2 minutes.
@@agFinder2 yea lol. Because of the refs. Everyone in the nation said Arkansas won that game. We played good but Arkansas was legit
@@masonparis7957 Score
2016: UNC loses national championship game to Villanova on a last second shot.
2017: UNC makes it back to the championship game and beats Gonzaga.
2018: Virginia become the first 1 seed to lose to a 16 seed, losing to UMBC by 20!!
2019: Virginia wins the national championship with an overtime victory over Texas Tech.
Redemption is a beautiful thing 💯
The great thing about being a Heels fan is that there are so many national championship games to watch. 1957, 1982. 1993, 2005,2009 and this one my my which one to pick next😁
We don’t talk about 2005 or 2009😞😂😂
@Hunter. When this season began I had Michigan State winning it all. I knew Carolina was rebuilding. I just didn't know how much they needed to rebuild😂. Much respect to Michigan State and especially Tom Izzo, who I feel is the most underrated Coach in college basketball.
They never even have to go to class
Love my Heels! Watched the '93 in middle school, the 05 in Iraq, 09 in Japan, and 17 in my living room in Raleigh NC! So many memories! I think that 09 team was dominant!! This team had so much ❤️! 🐏👣🩵🤍
😔🥲. Gonna miss this era of Carolina basketball
same brother
North Carolina was a good team back then
Facts
2016 and 2017 UNC teams are legendary
1:28:50
Is it messed up that Meeks was outta bounds and thus should've been Gonzaga ball?
3:19 would have been out the first time in my high school game😂😂
Facts , my team would just stare at it .
Should've been back 2 back Titles. I'll take this one .
This never gets old.
Crazy - Gonzaga one of the most disciplined teams in the country lost their minds for approximately 8 seconds and that was that. College basketball is insane.
Still feel this is one of the most underrated title games ever. Very few times do we get the two best teams in the nation. Gonzaga was not only the best offensive team, but they were a top 5 defensive team. They dominated most metrics, which factors in SoS. But North Carolina was right behind them in those metrics with a coach with plenty of final 4 experience. Only two things were bad about this game. The refs were terrible, and the bad calls went both ways. It was if they wanted Zach Collins out of the game who was the most gifted player on the floor. The other was Nigel Williams-Goss, one of my all-time favorite college players reinjuring his ankle. He made so many clutch plays, but when he hurt his ankle, game over. Coach Few should have used him as a decoy, but the big game dominator insisted on taking the tough shots. I felt so bad for him when Meeks blocked his shot for the game winning score. Even if healthy, Nigel may have missed but he deserved a better chance. But all teams who win titles need to catch some breaks. Another reason this game was so important is that so much of what Gonzaga does is based on the Carolina System. When Few first landed the GU job, Roy and Wanda took him under his wing at Nike events. Few looked up to Roy so much.
51:45 Unbelievable. That is the epitome of a team hungry for victory. Three guys, including two 6-11+ bigs hustling their butts off
@@MattSmith-iq1ld it was better than the duke one last year. I’ve got news for you.
UNC's NCAA Tournament Championship record since 1983:
- Year of the Rooster: 3 for 3
- Other Chinese Years: 1 for 34 (2009 - Year of the Ox)
They won in 82. That was not year of the rooster. It was the prior 81 season so I can kinda feel ya.
@@dolphthompson7680 That is why I started at 1983 and not 1981.
So, we are a lock to win it all in 2029. Works for me.
Yep!
Game still give me chills TarHeelNation!
I'm a lifelong UNC Tarheel fan. But this video just served to remind me how POORLY this game was officiated. Possibly one of the worst officiated games in the history of the NCAA tournament.
Carolina shoots 35% from the floor, 4 out of 27 from 3 point range, and 15 out of 26 from the free throw line and somehow still win this game?!? Such a frustrating team to watch at times. The 2016 team was honestly the much better team but I'm glad this team got its vengeance.
I really felt the Kentucky revenge win was the true title game. Gonzaga was great also.
Ah yes, the game that had the potential to be an all-timer that the officials decided they were bigger than. Hard to forget this one. Two great teams deserved better.
wow! A UK fan whining about officials. What a fresh take. ROFL
It just took the air out of momentum. It was a horribly called game.
Do you realize how hard it is to make back 2 back national championship appearances , the 2017 tarheels almost didn't make it 😢😮😅😊
Crazy how the announcer said this isn’t a great Carolina team even though we won a chip lol
Forget the officials, Gonzaga lost this game because Karnowski missed so many point blank shots
He did miss a lot which was uncharacteristic.
Yeah, he had an eye injury from the South Carolina game which definitely played a factor
@@zekecleere230 That's correct. I forget where I heard it, but he basically could only see clearly in one eye... If he had his full vision I believe that this game would have turned out differently.
Partially true. I also felt that Few's decision to continue to go to Nigel Williams-Goss besides him badly reinjuring his ankle near the end led to the Meeks block and the game closer. Gonzaga may have lost anyway, but Nigel deserved a better chance. The biggest myth of this game is that Meeks dominated Karnowski. Karno was missing 3 footers. No defensive player ever, even Bill Russell, can stop a big that close to the basket when he's skilled and has a major height and weight advantage. No one. I saw every game Karno ever played, and he dominated centers far better than Meeks who were his height. Meeks did his best, but those were, as you say Gabe, point blank shots.
Carolina defense played a roll on him missing was very hard layups made him keep guessing and made him hit tougher shots and he wasn’t a great free throw also
Bradley made a huge mistake leaving after one year.
National Championship
1st Round Pick
NBA Player
Earned and estimated $10,265,469
Hardly a mistake. I wish I made those type of mistakes.
@@malcolmbrown95 Granted that is a lot, imagine what he could have made had he stayed another year or two and been a lottery pick. He's not ready for the big time.
@@killerseddie8295 Some guys who were projected first rounders have went back to school and completely fell out of the draft altogether. If you have a chance at a guaranteed contract, you gotta go.
Not sure I would say its a classic. Our Elite 8 win over UK def was, but the refs ruined this game.
Wish It would have went to overtime.I think my Wildcats would have pulled it off.Respect to UNC though hit the big shot when it counted.Although I can say Kentucky has had wat better NBA players than UNC in the past 10 years by a landslide.
Who cares. North Carolina got the title!
A title is a title.🤷♂️
@@wilfredomartinez1701 Difference being the NCAA isn't the NBA so who gives af.
Been waiting for this one!
The only thing I wish was that it was against Villanova instead of Gonzaga.
Same I wanted redemption but I could really care less tho go heels !
@@gavinmccabe1845 True, I was happy regardless lol.
@@PlusUltraAdrian nah, we woulda beat you again and you wouldn't have been able to handle it again. Wisconsin got lucky beating us by a few points that year.
@@neetrab No you wouldn't. We were meant to win in 2017. Regardless of who was in front of us. Nova wasn't winning squat in 2017.
@@PlusUltraAdrian true but nova won it in 2018 unc and nova were best teams 2016-2018
Goodbye Roy, I do not envy anyone having to follow his success.
Give another one Heels this year! So far so Good!!! What a Great Game could've gone either way but we pull it off at the end when it counted!
11 fouls the first 4:30 of the second half is ridiculous!
Both teams in the bonus with over 14 min to go in game...makes for a real slog
I dont care who you are or what team you play for showing sportsmanship in a very competitive game is respectful
Refs really tried to get Zach Collins out of this game with ticky tack calls. Incredibly fixed.
they ddnt have anything for carolina big men
Purdue-Tennessee 2019 next please
I really think Gonzaga was getting a huge break as UNC shot poorly this game. Missed a lot of open shots they normally made. Have to take advantage of that.
Yeah zags had some chances in the first half to pull away but they didn’t get the job done. Refs were horrible but Zach Collins was also very foul prone that whole year and if he had managed to not foul out he could have maybe helped the zags win that game down the stretch with Goss playing well
How about GU's Karnowski and all the layups he blew? Forget the open 15 foot UNC jumpers. There were 7 or so layups that Karnowski missed in this game that Coach Few said after the game he makes 97% of the time That was not the result of Meeks' defense of the hoop. When you are that deep into the lane and are that much taller and weigh that much more than your defender, you can only miss shots as result of it being your own fault. People forget that GU had the #1 adjusted defense in the nation in 2017, which factors in SoS. They were tough to score on. I hate to say this about Karnowski, who is the winningest player in the history of NCAA D-1 basketball, but Justin Jackson failing to nail the occasion 12 foot jumper is different than missing a 2 footer as a 7-1,, 300+ pound center with superb touch. What was actually AMAZING about the Heels in this game were all the tough shots they hit. The Hicks shot against JWIII near the end of the end of the game was one of the toughest shots I've seen a college basketball player hit in the history of the NCAA tourney. People forget that GU was the #1 adjusted defensive team in the nation in 2017 at Pomeroy. You cannot GAME the Pomeroy ratings as they incorporate strength of schedule. The reason why that 2017 Zag team went to the final was their defense. They've many better offensive teams.
@@MattSmith-iq1ld Sort of my point. Whether UNC missed shots they normally make, or missed because of good defense, the Zags did not capitalize. Karnowski choked, Really no other way to put it. The refs let these two teams actually play the last 2 minutes. UNC won that two minutes.
I made 2 predictions about this UNC team. Firstly, Carolina would win it all after the Maui win vs Wisconsin. Secondly, Carolina would avenge the loss to Kentucky and Monk's 47points. Well, both came to pass. The best team won. Honestly, UNC should've won back to back in 2016-2017.
Lol stop Gonzaga was a better team, Karnowski threw
@@tiger5600 I don't think so. Carolina didn't exactly play well and still won. I believe if they played a 7 game series Carolina would take them 4-2 .
We played terrible and still beat Gonzaga...Thats all that needs to be said
@Michaelangelo...
Yeszir!
1:28:45 Meeks put his hand out of bounds and it should’ve been Gonzaga Ball
Meeks never had full control of possession. Zags and unc were fighting for a loose ball. Stop your whining
1:08:46 - Double foul on Berry and Karnowski, but clearly was a steal by Berry and a foul by Karnowski.
1:20:46 they called it out on UNC, but it wasn't a block.
There were a lot of calls that went GU's way. Ironically, more calls went their way then UNC's...
REDEMPTION!
Good game by both teams
You've uploaded this game, UNC-Kentucky, and Florida-Wisconsin, but you haven't uploaded the best game from this tournament. Xavier vs Arizona!
Gonzaga 2021 all the way
Freshman Year in High School in 2017 all over again for me
Carolina shot 30 percent and still won. Gonzaga was lucky to even be in that game. Should've been a double digit victory easily
Totally disagree. GU was the #1 defensive team in the nation according to kenpom. The big difference between this Zag team compared to many other others is that they were ELITE defensively. UNC was not just unlucky for their shooting %. IT was because the Zags were super elite on defense. They beat a super elite defensive team in South Carolina that beat Duke. You cannot fake out the Pomeroy stats because they factor in strength of schedule. GU was the #1 defensive team in nation that year. It wasn't a fluke. UNC was to be commended for winning this game.
@@MattSmith-iq1ld now we're the #1 offence
North Carolina they’re not gonna be denied this time.
Here after they just lost to Kansas good to see Coach Roy in the building
1:32:41 same here buddy
No offense to The 2nd Monday Night game in NOLA this past year i’m not saying it because it’s a competition I’m not comparing but this is my opinion but I hate to say it but I think this final four championship was better in my opinion than the Duke Carolina semifinals this past year. I was at this game, and it was phenomenal!! Pre-COVID, and before racism, and the one-and-done format with the transfer portal is why IMO. It was so loud!! Nothing against Hubert Davis but Roy Williams in my opinion was a better basketball coach IMO. I miss him! I was screaming my head off! As a matter of fact I have never heard anywhere louder I have never been in a louder building in my life! Not even the loudest concert I have ever been to was this loud. Not even an NFL football games I have been to a few Panthers games in Charlotte not even they were this loud! I was so lucky to be with 70,000 other fans who attended this game.
42:50 Collins comes in for 2 seconds and there’s a foul, idiotic refs.
Tar heel Nation forever💯
Absolutely
Fk it il be the one to say it...homeboys face in the thumbnail is hilarious🤣🤣🤣
look like a fish 💀
I was so livid Gonzaga lost this game! Hopefully they make it up this year and win it. If not, I'm fine with Baylor or Houston. Both of them seem new to the final four.
And Gonzaga lost again tonight
2017 national champions baby! Go Heels!
Disgusting haters in these comments, Roy is a goat and Hubert Davis has worked a miracle this season
The tag line for this game could be "7 footer forgets how to make layups."
I hated how CBS and Turner said that Meeks played great defense on Karnowski. A bunch of B.S. When you are 3 feet from the basket, and you miss a layup, no defender can stop you when you are that much taller, stronger and weigh more than your defender. Karno also had outstanding touch around the basket. He just blew it. Meeks did nothing defensively that Karno had not seen. He had played against great centers during non-league play during his career. Coach Few said he was missing layups that Karno would nail 97% of the time. It was clearly the biggest factor in Gonzaga losing the game. This was a very tight game. It's not like Karnowski needed to go 12-12 from the field to win the thing.
I love North Carolina basketball I hope to see theme win this year
this was for duke ;)
I've observed that Jackson is finesse but also very active...
Love it even years later
2018 could have won it all again if Bradley came back. Had no size that next year.
Could they do Kentucky against Kansas championship in 2012
Nathan Brown It's already on here
@@bobbyyoung2935 it is
@@bobbyyoung2935 I can't find it
Hey Nathan it's on here a couple times now they just put it on a week ago again
Subscribe to Ncaa March madness they just put it on again 1 day ago
For the great shooter he was always said to be JJ did not deliver this game.....even missing crucial FTS down the stretch.
even tho we may have won the year after the painful kris jenkins shot the pain is still there.. i’m forever happy for this ring tho!! #GoHeels
UNC Nation......Priceless!!!!
Greatest final four ever in history!!
Let’s be real it was last year whether the result was bad or not last years was peak final four
@@harp1288 2017 was the best imo although I will say this year was exceptionally awesome. I mean this year was really really good too. This year, Florida Atlantic, who would have ever envisioned ever was in it that would be like saying we will make it to the college football playoff. North Carolina will in football this year although that is more of a likely possibility, then Florida Atlantic going all the way to the final four my gosh! Florida Atlantic would be like not even wake forest making it all the way to the final four it was a feat that I mean nobody saw coming I mean nobody even dreamed of that reality it’s more of a reality like I said that we will make it to the national championship college football playoff this year. The Tar Heels will then Florida Atlantic going all the way to the final four in college basketball this past year, that was truly something nobody nobody saw it was about as big as TCU making it all the way to the national championship to play Georgia in college football. This year Florida Atlantic did the unthinkable. They went all the way to the Sweet 16, and took down some powerhouse teams, they went all the way to the elite eight I forget what the bracket was but I think they may have played Kansas State. I can’t remember 100% off the top of my head but they beat them. I think it may have been at Madison Square Garden to make it all the way to the final four wow that was a story! This year was pretty phenomenal also. How about Jim Larranaga making it to his first final four? How about San Diego State? I’ll say that this final four was arguably pretty special also, and I’m not even a fan of any of those teams I definitely watched the national championship let alone the final four it was pretty special too but just seeing this year was pretty special as well though even though it wasn’t our year to not even make the tournament at all for that matter, but just seeing those four teams, Uconn, San Diego State, Miami, and Florida Atlantic was just mind-blowing! This year’s final four knocked my socks off! It was so fun to see Dan Hurley, forget that he’s a Dookie, or has a Dookie connection, win the national championship! It was also cool to see Brian Dutcher have a run. He had a great season! UConn won the national championship. They are not exactly our rival per-say, but we are indeed no stranger to their basketball program. We do play them occasionally in Chapel Hill. We do play the Huskies we absolutely know them. They absolutely know Carolina Uconn is no stranger to the Tar Heels at all. Without a shadow of a doubt they know us. We are like a second-fiddle rival to them. It was cool this year also wasn’t it? It was also cool to see early on Farleigh Dickinson take down Purdue that was identical to UMBC versus Virginia. It was a repeat of UMBC. That was just something that will go down in infamy. That will live in lore in Cinderella. That was Cinderella herself that night on March 17 that was something that will go down in history. Cinderella herself 👗 👠 🏀 came to the ball that night when #16 FDU won.
@@Gonzoweirdo1 LAST YEARS is what I said so like 2022, not this year, even tho we didn’t win, last years final four was BY far the best I have ever seen in terms of semifinal and championship excitement…..especially the semifinal
Last time both teams met, UNC dominated Gonzaga 98-77 in the South Region Sweet 16 in Memphis, TN (2009).
UNC dominated everyone in that tournament. They were by far and away the best team in the NCAA that season. In fact, it can be argued that Gonzaga gave the Heels their best game in that tourney.
@@MattSmith-iq1ld it was actually LSU in the 2nd round. LSU crumbled in the last 5 min, but outplayed UNC until then.
No they didn’t outplay is they went on their spurt and we answered with ours...then reality set it and both teams became exactly who they were the entire season.
And Ty Lawson was playing on one foot too.
2022. Good. Show. Champs tonight again!!!!
I am a big fan of North carolina
Mildred Williams good for you
You know I'm not even a gonzaga fan I've always liked them as a second favorite but with the way Goss played I mean how good he was then hurting the ankle and staying in the game he was the mvp of this final four and championship
Not really...Joel Berry was playing with 2 sprained ankles and hurt the whole tourney. He powered through a whole game...Goss couldn't gut out 90 seconds.
@@bulletTusnami what do you mean goss couldn't gut out 90 seconds he didn't leave the game no matter how much his ankle was hurting
PJ K you stated he was the “Real MVP”. Joel Berry STARTED the game on two bad ankles...Goss took 2-3 shots on a bad leg and missed, but you’re giving more credit than the guy who outplayed him...on two bad ankles. Smdh
Whatever happened to Meeks?
5:07 MARCH 20TH, 2024 (GETTING READY FOR THE DANCE)
Justin J. Is cracked
Karnowski really threw the game for Gonzaga
Let’s go Gonzaga tomorrow night!
This was great but revenge on Kentucky was tooooooo sweeet!!!
YESSSSSS my brotha!!
star LITERALLY always has and will describe john stockton and legend LITERALLY always has and will describe michael jordan
I forgot all about Tony Bradley. He jetted for the NBA right after this game. I don't keep up with anything in the NBA. Now, all Roy Williams recruits are one and dones and it's just not fun anymore.
The refs refused to let either team get into a rhythm in this game. Officiating was horrible.
This was our last great team. GO HEELS!
Love berry but Meeks deserved the final 4 mvp
Gonzaga was the best to not win a national championship that year
Well it makes sense they made it to the final and lost...
NO Sir
Sports 311 Villanova
Sports 311 they played a great UNC team that was hungry. Gonzaga was good that year. But they also have a weak conference.
@@uncleluke7789 on the final minute they where out of bounds while calling a timeout
This was Gonzaga's best team to make it to the championship it also was their last chance to win it all 2021 was a different sad story we can talk about later 😭
As a Carolina fan, I've got a lot of respect for the Zags of Gonzaga University. I've actually predicted the Zags a perfect season, the buzzer shot VS UCLA had to be one of the greatest shots of NCAA March Madness ever.
Is Jackson a star in Memphis now?
The last great Carolina TEAM.
Cam Johnson about to get an NBA chip . So many North Carolina go in to have better NBA careers than Duke players
I had to come here to remember a Heels team with some fight in ‘em.
1:35:40
The Meeks shall inherit the earth
Played a great game, but no center ever, not even Bill Russell, can stop a 7-1, 300+ pound center with great touch when he's 3 feet from the hoop. Karno missed point blanks that I saw him countlessly convert against bigs better than Meeks who had a size and weight disadvantage. He is given too much credit for Carolina's deserved victory. Even the NWG block was when NWG badly hurt his ankle again. I could've blocked that shot. But Few had zero TO's and couldn't set up a play for someone else.
As a hells fan... the refs ruined what would’ve been a classic matchup. That first half was amazing to watch and ultimately ruined bc the refs forgot it was a basketball game and not a free throw shooting contest smh.
Do Kentucky Vs Kansas state 2017
2018*
Why didn't they just go for a three when they were three down? Even if they make the 2, you are still one down, with only so few seconds left, you still had to draw a foul to get the ball back, and that would put you back to 2-3 points down. So you would still be in the same situation but with less time. With a three, if you miss, you can still get it back and shoot it again.
1:33:28 ball falls
Some ppl such as myself can make up with lack of timing with active productivity like Jackson... VS ASAF ASAD ASAB ASAZ
Ever since this game I've been pulling for a Gonzaga championship. I like the Tar Heels and they deserved this redemption, but it's past time Gonzaga gets theirs.
THE NORTH CAROLINA TARHEELS HAS WON THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!🏀 All I could sing that whole year for the Dook fans and to those who were ABC fans (Anybody But Carolina) was... WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!😄😋😚
Your men beat a team that was far better than the nation gave them credit for. You cannot "game" the kenpom.com metrics system. It incorporates SoS. GU was #1 in the nation going into this game, and anyone who knows anything about basketball could tell you that Gonzaga had a really good, high major style team. They had 2 McDonald's AA's and a roster full of top 100 players. UNC beat a good one.
@@MattSmith-iq1ld Dude, you are sadly mistaken. Gonzaga's SoS wasn't even in the top 30 that year. They played 2 REALLY good teams, but pretty light compared to UNC's, which was #1.
When you play Duke 3x, VA 2x and UK 2x in one year...I think you're playing the "Best of the Best".