The Post’s Zach Braziller breaks down Monday night’s national championship game between Kansas, a No. 1 seed, and North Carolina, a No. 8 seed, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
Leaky Black is the glue to North Carolina, its best defender, a strong rebounder and distributor, and an iron man, averaging 37.2 minutes per game in the tournament. Black will likely see plenty of time defending Agbaji, the Jayhawks’ leading scorer. Similar to Black, Christian Braun doesn’t draw a lot of headlines, but he is very important to Kansas. He’s a big shot-maker and taker who possesses defensive versatility with immense upside he has yet to fully tap into.
It will be the most watched right ankle in the country Monday night, the one belonging to North Carolina star forward Armando Bacot. He turned it late in the win over Duke as he was posting his second straight game of at least 20 rebounds, the first player to do so in the NCAA Tournament since Tim Duncan in 1991. His health will be particularly significant facing Kansas big man David McCormack, who destroyed Villanova to the tune of 25 points and nine rebounds.
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