Kansas Jayhawks coach Bill Self, left, and North Carolina Tar Heels coach Hubert Davis, right. Davis photo-Jamie Squire/Getty Images.
Self photo-Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty Images. WASHINGTON - The college basketball season will end Monday night when the North Carolina Tar Heels and Kansas Jayhawks battle for the national championship in New Orleans.Kansas and North Carolina are meeting in the title game for the first time since 1957, a triple-overtime game won by the Tar Heels 54-53 over Wilt Chamberlain and the Jayhawks.These two blue-blood programs have championship pedigree and are seeking to add another title to their respective trophy cases.
The Tar Heels are playing for their seventh national championship, while Kansas is going for a fourth title.UNC head coach and alum Hubert Davis is having a great season leading a team on the cusp of a title in his first year.
Kansas head coach Bill Self is seeking to win his second national championship.RELATED: NCAA: North Carolina upsets rival Duke, joins Kansas for title gameDavis played for the Tar Heels when they lost to Kansas in a 79-73 heartbreaker in the 1991 national semifinals.