The 2018 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the final game of the single-elimination tournament to determine the men's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national champion for the 2017–18 season.

The game was played on April 2, 2018, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, between the Michigan Wolverines and the Villanova Wildcats.

[2] At one point unranked in the AP Poll, Michigan won their final 14 games before the title game to end the 2017–18 regular season with a 28–7 win–loss record after winning the 2018 Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament.

[10] After completing a 30–4 regular season, including winning the 2018 Big East men's basketball tournament, Villanova was ranked No.

[16] They defeated the Kansas Jayhawks by a score of 95–79 in the Final Four to reach the championship game.

[17] In their victory over Kansas, Villanova set an NCAA Tournament Final Four single-game record with 18 three-point shots.

[2] Donte DiVincenzo, who entered the game off of the bench as a reserve player, scored 18 points out of Villanova's first 32.

[20] With the 17 point victory, Villanova won each game in the tournament by double digit margins.

[20] DiVincenzo scored a total of 31 points, the most in a national championship game by a player who did not start.

DiVincenzo's 31 points led the game, and he was named the NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player.

The pre-game and post-game shows included analysis by Greg Gumbel, Ernie Johnson Jr., Seth Davis, Clark Kellogg, Kenny Smith, and Charles Barkley.

On TNT's Michigan-centered broadcast, Michigan women's basketball play-by-play announcer Matt Park worked alongside former NFL kicker Jay Feely and CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, both Michigan alums.