2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game
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| Date | April 7, 2008 | |||||||||||||||
| Venue | Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas | |||||||||||||||
| MVP | Mario Chalmers, Kansas | |||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Memphis by 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Referees | John Cahill, Ed Hightower, Ed Corbett | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 43,257 | |||||||||||||||
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| Network | CBS | |||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Jim Nantz (play-by-play) Billy Packer (color) Sam Ryan (sideline) | |||||||||||||||
| Nielsen Ratings | 12.1 | |||||||||||||||
The 2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the finals of the 2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and it determined the national champion for the 2007-08 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The game was played on April 7, 2008, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas and featured the South Regional Champion, #1-seeded Memphis, and the Midwest Regional Champion, #1-seeded Kansas.
All four #1 seeds were in the Final Four for the first time in NCAA Tournament history and, for the second consecutive year, the national title game was played between two #1 seeds.