The point guard-guard

Jared Butler

contributed 22 points with seven assists and became the great hero of the Baylor Bears that this Monday beat the Gonzaga Bulldogs 86-70 in the game for the NCAA men's college basketball national title.

Along with Butler, guard

Macio Teague had

another 19 and point guard

Davion Mitchell

contributed 15 that also helped the surprise victory that gave the Bears (28-2) the first national title in their history after returning to the Final Four. for the first time in 71 years.

The big losers were the Bulldogs who not only lost the title but also undefeated on the season (31-1) and the streak of 35 consecutive wins.

Gonzaga's team, which entered the March Madness as the No. 1 seed and won the West Region title, failed to become the first team to win the champion title and went undefeated since Indiana did it in 1976. when they had

Larry Bird

.

And on the last night of the season, the most important and decisive, the Bulldogs, who had apparently had everything in full sync, starred in their worst performance, with a disjointed game and no player on the track at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis could change the team's fortunes.

Gonzaga had 51 percent shooting from the field, but finished with 70 points, the season low, after averaging 91.6, the best national level, more than six goals better than any other team in the Division. I.

Suggs

, who contributed 22 points with three assists, this time could not save his team, and had to go to the bench after committing two early fouls, leaving his team without its best weapon on the field, while the Bears took advantage 9-0 partial and on the way to the national title.

Their 22 points, including 15 in the second half, were no longer decisive, because the rest of the team was still not united, quite the opposite of what happened with the Bears that in the end proved to be the best team of the tournament and some deserved champions. .

Forward

Corey Kispert

did not have his best

scoring

inspiration and finished with just 12 points and two triples.

The second team,

Drew Timme

, also scored 12, but made just seven shots as he ran into foul trouble in the second half and healed from injury.

Gonzaga hit just 5 of 17 triples, his lowest total of the six NCAA final tournament games.

The surprise victory of the Bulldogs was the same that was experienced the night before in the final of the Final Four of women's basketball with the Stanford Cardinals as new champions after they beat the Arizona Wildcats 54-53, which left them with third national title.

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