HOUSTON
The improbable end of Monday night’s unforgettable national-title game is easy to place in history. It was the first buzzer-beater to win a national title since Lorenzo Charles dunked Dereck Whittenberg’s miss in 1983, the Triangle falling on the wrong side of this one.
Kris Jenkins’ shot to deliver the title for Villanova will, as several North Carolina players ruefully noted afterward, be replayed for the rest of their lives – when it easily could have been Marcus Paige’s improbable 3-pointer to tie being replayed instead.
Assessing this North Carolina team’s place in history is a little tougher.