Deadspin has every reported U.S. call, and two foreign-broadcaster calls, of the finish of Monday’s NCAA Division I men’s basketball championship game.

This play henceforth shall be called “Villanova” or “Nova” by every coach who uses it. And it’s a good play, because the ball-handler ends up acting as an additional screen for the shooter. Even though the point guard was apparently the designated shooter, I think it works better with the inbounder and trail guy taking the shot.

TBS extended its Team Stream — featuring team-biased announcers — to the national championship, which is great, and should be emulated by all pro and Division I college sports broadcasters.

To no one’s surprise Villanova’s announcers were bigger fans of the finish than North Carolina’s. I don’t know that if I were the Tar Heel announcer I’d go to dead silence, but given the audience it isn’t necessarily inappropriate. Nearly always on TV less is more.

(I got to call a buzzer-beater that went the wrong way this college basketball season. What I should have said was something like “this was a great game … for 39 minutes and 59 seconds.”)

As for Villanova radio …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_aitDV9mJ0

The one thing that got somewhat ignored in the frenetic finish was that the final shot had to be reviewed by the officials, even though the confetti and streamer bombs had been fired off already. Imagine what would have happened had officials waved off the shot. Before overtime would have been played, the floor would have had to have been cleaned off of all the debris.

The postgame interview is a sad moment. TBS’ Craig Sager has leukemia, which is no longer in remission, meaning this may be the final Final Four he gets to work.