Josh Perkins has been on fire – leading all scorers with 13 points.   Perkins had some timely three pointers to give Gonzaga the lead, while Joel Berry II hit a few shots when UNC desparately needed it to stay in the game.   The junior point guard has led the Tar Heels with 9 points.

Neither team has been shooting well from the field, and each team’s talented big men have made it crazy hard to score points in the paint.   The difference so far has been that Gonzaga has been able to hit 5 of 9 of their three point shots, while North Carolina is 2 for 13 (including Justin Jackson being 0-6 from three).

I am sure that if you told Roy Williams that they were going to only shoot 30% in the first half, they were going to get out-rebounded by 1, and yet they are going to be only down by 3 points, he would take it.    Right now, it has been the outside shooters and defensive rebounding for Gonzaga that has been the difference.   They need to keep that up for 20 more minutes to bring home the school’s first ever national championship.