With a furious second-half comeback against the University of North Carolina, top-seeded Kansas Jayhawks won the US collegiate basketball championship.
After being 25:40 behind at the break, the Jayhawks turned up the heat in New Orleans. 40 seconds before the end of the game, David McCormack scored the final score for Kansas to make it 72:69.
North Carolina's last four attacks have come to nothing.
According to US media, there has never been a major comeback in a college championship final.
"I grinned at my teammates in the dressing room at half-time and said to them: Yo, we're going to have a lot of fun now," McCormack reported. "They thought I was completely crazy."
It was the fourth title for the Jayhawks.
The students at Kansas University have thus ended a 14-year dry spell.
North Carolina, former college of NBA world star Michael Jordan, failed to become the first team to win the championship for the eighth time.
Both universities rank among the nation's most important college basketball programs in the United States.
James Naismith, inventor of basketball, was the first coach at Kansas University.