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UNC HOLDS OFF GONZAGA 71-65 TO WIN 6TH NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP

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North Carolina lost last year's national title game to Villanova on Kris Jenkins' buzzer-beater. But the Tar Heels were the ones dancing as the confetti fell this year.

Basketball royalty reigned supreme Monday, as North Carolina added to its illustrious history with a 71-65 victory over the Gonzaga Bulldogs in the 2017 national championship game at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

The Tar Heels' victory marked their sixth national title-which ranks third all time behind UCLA and Kentucky-and first since the 2008-09 campaign. It was also the program's third championship under coach Roy Williams. The Bulldogs (37-2) made their first Final Four but couldn't eclipse North Carolina (33-7) on the marquee stage.

North Carolina continued an extended run of excellence:

The Tar Heels were the No. 1 seed in the South Region and beat No. 16-seeded Texas Southern, No. 8-seeded Arkansas, No. 4-seeded Butler, No. 2-seeded Kentucky and Midwest Region No. 3 seed Oregon to reach Monday's clash, and players such as junior guard Joel Berry II, junior forward-guard Justin Jackson and senior forward Kennedy Meeks cemented their status in North Carolina lore with the title.

Jackson and Meeks made clutch plays for North Carolina at winning time after Nigel Williams-Goss scored eight straight Gonzaga points to put his team up 65-63 with less than two minutes remaining.

Jackson converted an and-1 to seize the lead for good, and Meeks blocked Williams-Goss with the Tar Heels up three and just 15 seconds on the clock. The swat led to a Jackson dunk in the open floor that all but sealed the win. For good measure, Meeks notched a steal on the ensuing Bulldogs possession.

Those plays helped North Carolina join an exclusive club, as ESPN Stats & Info noted:

Jackson and Meeks may have played the roles of late-game heroes, but Berry led all players with 22 points:

Williams-Goss scored 15 points but didn't receive much offensive help. Josh Perkins was the only other Gonzaga player to score in double figures, and he tallied all 13 of his points in the first half.

Despite the late drama, the majority of the game could only be described as ugly. There were 44 combined fouls and just 46 made field goals, and the victorious Tar Heels shot an abysmal 4-of-27 from three-point range (14.8 percent). The Bulldogs shot just 33.9 percent from the field, and star big man Przemek Karnowski finished a mere 1-of-8.

The officials played a major part in the game, as four players were whistled for four fouls apiece and Gonzaga's Zach Collins fouled out. Also, Isaiah Hicks' basket that put North Carolina ahead 68-65 in the final minute came after Meeks' hand appeared to be out of bounds while he tied up Silas Melson for possession of the ball.

What's more, Karnowski was whistled for a flagrant foul for making contact with Berry's neck on the same play Berry was called for a common foul. The Associated Press (h/t Dallas Morning News) reported the sequence resulted in "booing from every corner of the massive Phoenix University Stadium."

The Bulldogs' No. 1 defense in Ken Pomeroy's pace-adjusted rankings set the tone for the majority of the first half, and Gonzaga built a 35-32 lead.

The Tar Heels struggled to penetrate against the Bulldogs' size and settled for quick perimeter jumpers. The sight of Karnowski in front of the rim was likely intimidating, as ESPN The Magazine's Mina Kimes analogized:

With Gonzaga protecting the paint, North Carolina shot a mere 2-of-13 from deep and 30.6 percent overall in the first half. But the Bulldogs didn't extend their advantage on the other end because Karnowski missed all four of his shots, as ESPN's Maximiliano Bretos noted:

Meanwhile, Perkins carried the Gonzaga offense, which probably caught the Tar Heels off guard considering he went scoreless in the Bulldogs' Final Four victory over South Carolina:

The second half started in ominous fashion for Gonzaga even though it bounced back from North Carolina's opening 8-0 run with an 8-0 spurt of its own. Collins picked up his third and fourth fouls in the opening five minutes, which put more pressure on the struggling Karnowski.

Those whistles were part of the foul fest, and both teams found themselves in the bonus before the under-12-minute timeout.

NBA stars LeBron James and Dwyane Wade described the scene:

With so many fouls-which also included Meeks' fourth with 9:42 to play-neither team established a rhythm, and the players continued to throw up bricks. That allowed the Bulldogs to survive Collins' absence for the majority of the second half, though Karnowski and Johnathan Williams also picked up their fourth fouls.

Between the foul-induced frontcourt attrition and poor shooting, momentum was not on either squad's side heading into the closing stretch.

Williams-Goss temporarily seized it for the Bulldogs when he went into takeover mode on the offensive end, but Jackson's and-1, Hicks' controversial basket and Meeks' defense were too much for Gonzaga to overcome in crunch time.
Postgame Reaction
ESPN College Basketball shared video of the celebration in Chapel Hill, North Carolina:

NCAA March Madness passed along postgame comments by Meeks and Berry:

"It was a slugfest out there," Gonzaga coach Mark Few said, per Kevin Armstrong of the New York Daily News. "It's two teams that desperately wanted to be crowned national champion. And I think to be so close for us is a temporarily crushing blow right now."

Williams, who passed former Tar Heels coach Dean Smith with his third title, discussed his place in North Carolina history, per the Associated Press (h/t ESPN.com): "I think of Coach Smith, there's no question. I don't think I should be mentioned in the same sentence with him. But we got three because I've got these guys with me, and that's all I care about right now-my guys."

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Tom Pennington/Getty Images North Carolina lost last year's national title game to Villanova on Kris Jenkins' buzzer-beater. But the Tar Heels were the ones dancing as the confetti fell this year. Basketball royalty reigned supreme Monday, as North Carolina added to its illustrious history with a 71-65 victory over the Gonzaga Bulldogs in the 2017 national championship game at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

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The Russian Investigative Committee said the bomber was Akbarjon Djalilov, 22, identified earlier by Kyrgyz authorities as a Russian national born in Kyrgyzstan.

Investigators matched Djalilov's DNA to a bomb left at a second metro station that was defused by authorities, the committee said.

The Russian health ministry on Tuesday raised the number of dead from 11 to 14. It was unclear whether that number included the attacker. Four of the dozens of people injured are in critical condition, Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said, according to state-run TASS.

Key developments

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev described the blast as a "terrorist act."

Train driver praised for actions that likely saved lives.

President Vladimir Putin was in St. Petersburg earlier on the day of the attack.

Flowers and tributes laid at memorials Tuesday as three-day period of mourning began.

Some metro stations reopened after a complete network shutdown.

The victims

The Investigative Committee on Tuesday identified 10 of the victims as Dinara Samandarovna Alieva, 20; Maxim Vitalievich Aryshev, 20; Ksenia Sergeevna Malyukova, 17; Irina Kuzminichna Medyantseva, 50; Angelina Sergeevna Svistunova, 27; Yuri Pavlovich Nalimov, 71; Oksana Gennadievna Danilenko, 25; Larisa Grigoryevna Shchekina, 66; Denis Romanovich Petrov, 25; Mansour Takhrovich Sagadeev, 16 or 17.

DNA testing will be used to identify the remaining victims, according to the committee.

The explosion

The explosion took place between the Sennaya Ploshchad and Tekhnologichesky Institut stations at about 2:40 p.m. Photographs from the scene showed bandaged and bloodied bodies being carried from the station where the train came to a stop.

Others showed bodies lying by the train at Tekhnologichesky Institut as the station filled with smoke.

The second, larger device was found and defused at another station, Ploshchad Vosstaniya, and is believed to have been planted by Djalilov, Russian investigators said.

"Criminalists found his DNA on a bag with a bomb left at the Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station, investigators said in a statement, adding that CCTV footage was also used to come to their conclusions.

Earlier state media reports quoted law enforcement sources saying the device had been hidden in a fire extinguisher and was larger than the one that exploded. It carried about a kilogram of TNT, the reports said.

Train driver praised

The driver of the train, Alexander Kaverin, has been praised in Russia for continuing to the next station after the blast, ensuring a quick evacuation of passengers.

"At that moment there was no question of fear. It was just a question of working, rolling up your sleeves," he said. "I just acted according to instructions, because we have instructions worked out especially for such cases. We have had explosions before and I think these instructions are very clever, very correct."

Kyrgyzstan connection

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which led to the shutdown of the city's metro system. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev described it as a "terrorist act."

Erlan Abyldaev, the Kyrgyz Foreign Minister, confirmed the bombing was a suicide attack but said the perpetrator''s motives were unclear.

"Regarding the link with Islamic radicalism, we have to wait to know more until the investigation yields its full results," Abyldaev said at a press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Kyrgyzstan is a Muslim-majority nation in Central Asia of around six million people. It is formerly part of the Soviet Union and remains a close ally of Russia.

Kyrgyzstan has a large population of Chechens. They were initially displaced from Chechnya -- a Russian province -- during World War II. Moscow still battles an insurgency in Chechnya and has fought wars over the territory. It is not clear whether the metro bombing suspect has Chechen origins.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was in St. Petersburg for a media conference the morning of the attack. At a press conference Tuesday, reporters asked Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov whether he thought the President may have been a target.

"Of course the fact that the terror attack happened when the head of the state was in town is a food for thought and is subject to analysis by the special services. Any terror attack that happens in the country is an attack on every single Russian citizen. Including the head of state," he responded.

Analysts have speculated that the bomber could be affiliated with either a Chechen separatist group or ISIS. The bombing of a Russian MetroJet flight over the Sinai desert in Egypt, which killed all 224 people aboard, was claimed by ISIS

Another possibility, says former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief and Woodrow Wilson Center Global Fellow Jill Dougherty, is a hybrid Chechen rebel-ISIS attack.

Many Chechen fighters have gone to fight in Syria, she said, and it has long been feared that they could bring their battlefield expertise back home to carry out attacks.

This would fit in with Putin's theory of ISIS as an international terror network.

"It makes it easier for him to make that proposal... to President Trump and the West -- 'let's get on board, let's fight terrorism together.'"

However, former FBI special agent Bobby Chacon says that to stay silent after an attack goes against the ISIS modus operandi. "The first thing that's missing from an investigator's perspective is the claim of responsibility," he told CNN.

"Last year when two ISIS operatives attacked police officers on the outskirts of Moscow... one of the first things that was released was the video where they claimed allegiance to al-Baghdadi, the ISIS leader and ISIS itself and that's a hallmark, as we've seen in San Bernardino, of an ISIS attack."

Russia was once a hotspot for terror attacks, but the country has experienced relatively few in recent years. Many previous attacks were aimed at progressing separatist causes in Russia's North Caucasus, including movements in Chechnya and Dagestan.

In December 2013, a suicide bombing at a train station in Volgograd killed at least 16 people, in an attack linked to a network in Dagestan. The following day, in the same city, a suicide bombing on a trolley bus killed 14 people.

In 2010, two female suicide bombers linked to the Chechen insurgency blew themselves up at two Moscow metro stations, killing 40. In 2002, Chechen rebels killed 170 hostages in a theater in the capital, Moscow.

CNN's Emma Burrows, Schams Elwazer, Judith Vonberg, Donie O'Sullivan, Mariya Ilyushina, Radina Gigova, Nick Thompson, Eliott C. McLaughlin, Alla Eshchenko, Sara Murray and Darran Simon contributed to this report.

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World leaders expressed shock and outrage Tuesday at reports of a suspected chemical attack in northwestern Syria that killed scores of civilians, with one UK official suggesting the incident amounted to a war crime.

Activists said the Syrian regime was responsible for the killings of at least 70 people -- 10 children among the dead -- leading the United Nations to replace a scheduled Security Council session for Wednesday morning with an emergency meeting.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's military denied using chemical weapons and blamed rebels for the carnage. Russia, Syria's strong ally, said it had no warplanes in the vicinity.

But from Washington to London to Jerusalem, leaders denounced the reported airstrike, which if proven true would be one of the deadliest chemical attacks in Syria in years.

"Today's chemical attack in Syria against innocent people, including women and children, is reprehensible and cannot be ignored by the civilized world," US President Donald Trump said, adding that he thinks the attacks was a consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution. "President Obama said in 2012 that he would establish a 'red line' against the use of chemical weapons and then did nothing."

UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, speaking at a news conference with his German counterpart, had harsh criticism of the Syrian government.

"If this were to be proved to have been committed by the Assad regime then it would be another reason to think they are an absolutely heinous outfit, that is, it is a war crime," he said.

International condemnation

An emergency UN Security Council session has been scheduled for Wednesday morning, according to US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley. French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, who called for the meeting, described the attack as a "despicable act."

The United States, United Kingdom and France ‎have circulated a resolution at the Security Council regarding the attack. It could be put to a vote.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote a series of tweets, saying in one: "There's no, none, no excuse whatsoever for the deliberate attacks on civilians and on children, especially with cruel and outlawed chemical weapons."

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called on Russia and Iran "to exercise their influence over the Syrian regime" and said that the two nations "bear great moral responsibility for these deaths."

UK Prime Minister Theresa May said she was appalled by the attack.

"I am very clear that there can be no future for Assad in a stable Syria, which is representative of all the Syrian people," May said, "and I call on all of the parties involved to ensure that we have a transition away from Assad."

Doctor cannot shake horrible sights

Airstrikes hit the rebel-held city of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province on Tuesday morning, giving off a "poisonous gas," according to Anas al-Diab, an activist with the Aleppo Media Center.

Many casualties were the result of asphyxiation, doctors said. Videos on social media purporting to be from the scene show people, including children, who appear unresponsive; others struggle to breathe or wear oxygen masks.

A doctor in a hospital close to Khan Sheikhoun told CNN: "Today around 7:30 a.m., about 125 ... arrived to our hospital. Twenty-five of them were already dead, 70% to 80% of the wounded people were kids and women.

"The symptoms were pale skin, sweating, narrow or pin-eye pupils, very intense respiratory detachments. Those symptoms match the usage of sarin."

The doctor, who cannot be named for security reasons, said tests were needed to identify whether sarin gas, a man-made nerve agent, was to blame.

Dr. Fares al-Jundi rushed to the hospital. He estimated there were 500 wounded people. They covered the floors of the entire hospital, from the patients' rooms to the operating rooms and the corridors.

The doctor said whole families were killed. They died of asphyxiation; foam covered their mouths. Many died suddenly, he said. "I believe this horrible memory will stay with me for the rest of my life."

Chaos, confusion at the scene

Hadi al Abdullah, a citizen journalist, arrived at the scene two hours after he says a single gas rocket hit the town.

Abdullah, who had common side effects of a nerve gas attack -- blurred vision, a splitting headache and lethargy -- told CNN the scene was chaos. Families died in their homes, and in the streets, children risked exposure looking for their parents.

At first, people were unaware it was a gas attack, Abdullah said. People who rushed to help others were overtaken by the gas, including several White Helmets, who had to be rescued by others from the group, also known as the Syrian Civil Defense.

The Aleppo Media Center put the death toll at 70 but there were different numbers from other groups. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 58 were dead, including 10 children. The High Negotiations Committee, an umbrella opposition group, said as many as 100 died.

Syrian military denies responsibility

The Syrian army "categorically denies the use of chemical and poisonous material in Khan Sheikhoun," the General Command said in a statement.

"The Syrian army holds the terrorist groups and those supporting them responsible for the use of chemical and poisonous material and for the careless wasting of innocent civilians' lives to achieve their despicable goals and agendas," the statement said.

In an apparent reference to the crisis, two state-run Syrian media outlets earlier reported an explosion at a "rebel poison gas factory" in the countryside of Idlib province,implying that it was an accident related to rebels building chemical weapons. Idlib province is largely controlled by an alliance of rebel forces and is regularly targeted in airstrikes by the Syrian military and its ally, Russia.

The Russian Defense Ministry said none of its jets carried out airstrikes in the area, according to a ministry statement carried by state-run news agency Tass.

The Syrian Coalition, an umbrella opposition group, referred to the suspected chemical attack as a "crime similar to that in Eastern Ghouta in 2013 that the international community allowed to pass without accountability or punishment."

The tweet was in reference to a 2013 chemical attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, which was blamed on the Syrian regime and prompted US President Barack Obama to threaten military action.

If reports of a chemical attack by the regime are confirmed, experts say it could be the biggest since Ghouta.

McCain: Assad must pay a price

US Sen. John McCain called for President Donald Trump to send a strong signal to Assad that the attack will not be tolerated.

Referring to the 2013 chemical attack, McCain told CNN: "We've seen this movie before, it was when Barack Obama said they would have a red line, they crossed it and he did nothing. Bashar Assad and his friends, the Russians, take note of what Americans say."

The Ghouta attack prompted Obama to ask Congress to authorize military action against Syria in 2013. Shortly after, Syria agreed to a Russian proposal to give up control of its chemical weapons, leading Obama to retreat from threats of military action.

Analyst: Regime may increase attacks

Haid Haid, a Syrian columnist and researcher, told CNN that he thinks the United States is "not interested in any way challenging the rule of Assad."

"The regime has been systematically using small scale (chemical) attacks over a long time in order to normalize the use of those attacks," said Haid, an associate fellow at Chatham House, an international policy think tank based in London.

"Once the regime is sure that the attacks won't trigger any sort of reaction from the international community, I believe the regime will start increasing those attacks."

Since the civil war began in 2011, an estimated 400,000 Syrians have been killed, according to figures issued by the United Nations last year.

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