University of Virginia (UVA) defeated Texas Tech University (TTU) 85-77 after overtime in the Final of the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament (March Madness) at the U.S. Bank Stadium on Monday, winning the first national championship in in franchise history and becoming the 36th team to claim the title.

Kyle Guy, 1.88-meter-tall guard of UVA won the Final Four Most Outstanding Player (MOP) award with 24 points and three rebounds in the game. Ty Jerome, the team's 1.96-meter-tall junior guard put down 16 points, six rebounds and eight assists.

DeAndre Hunter also made great contributions with his 27 points and seven rebounds. Though he was struggling with his shooting in the first half and made only one out of eight shots, Hunter exploded in the second half to sink seven out of eight attempts, including burying a game-tying three-pointer in the end.

The victory meant more than a championship for Virginia. As top-seeded team last year, they were eliminated by 16th seed University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in the first round of the 2018 March Madness, which was more than humiliating. Having pocketed the 2019 title finally gave them a good reason to move on. UVA are also the fourth comeback champion after first-round elimination since 1985, following Indiana University (IU) in 1987, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1995 and Duke University in 2005.

"I don't know if all these guys will remember this, but when they come into my office I got a poster of Rocky on the steps, and I told them, I just want a chance at a title fight one day," Bennett said after the win. "That's all we want. These guys came to fight in this title and now we're the champs. I'm so thankful because this is a great story," said UVA's head coach Tony Bennett after the game.

By contrast, Texas Tech did their best, too but it's hard to say that for Jarrett Culver who continued to be disappointing since Elite 8. In the game against Gonzaga University, he made only five of 19 shots; in the semi-final against Michigan State University, Culver missed nine of his 12 attempts; on Sunday, he only sank five shots out of 22 after missing eight in a row.

Culver had the chance to be hero in the Final. His two points helped Texas Tech gain the lead 66-65 with 35 seconds to go in the regular time before Hunter buried that game-tying shot. However, that seemed to be Culver's last magic. He never managed to escape UVA's intense defense in OT and missed all four of his shots.

As two of this year's top 3 defensive teams, UVA and Texas Tech were giving each other a hard time in most time of the game. For example, the two sides scored in total five points in the first five minutes; Texas Tech did not make any field goal in seven minutes and sank only one three-pointer in 10 minutes.

Then what led to UVA's win? The answer is offense. Though Texas Tech did not fall behind much in field goal rate (42.9 percent to 45.8 percent), their trailing in 3-pt (33.3 percent to 45.8 percent) is lethal, especially when three-pointer played a much more important role for Texas in offense.

Difference in defensive style also contributed to the result of the Final. Texas Tech were known for their aggressive double-teaming which was sharp in forcing turnovers but also a great consumption of players' strength. As the game went on, the team were not fast enough to cover their job, leaving more and more open shots for the opponent.

By contrast, UVA carried on their usual paid more attention to position choosing and kept trying to keep their game at a slow pace, which's why they were still able to maintain their defensive pressure in OT.