| Year |
|
Champion |
Result |
| 2025 |  | Florida Gators | Florida 76 Houston 70 |
| 2024 |  | Connecticut Huskies | Connecticut 83 Purdue 73 |
| 2023 |  | UCLA Bruins | UCLA 78 San Diego State 61 |
| 2022 |  | Kansas Jayhawks | Kansas 87 Duke 81 |
| 2021 |  | Baylor Bears | Baylor 78 Gonzaga 75 OT |
| 2020 |  | Gonzaga Bulldogs | Gonzaga 70 Florida State 64 |
| 2019 |  | Virginia Cavaliers | Virginia 87 Auburn 80 |
| 2018 |  | Villanova Wildcats | Villanova 78 Kansas 65 |
| 2017 |  | North Carolina Tarheels | North Carolina 73 Gonzaga 69 |
| 2016 | | Kansas Jayhawks | Kansas 80 North Carolina 78 |
| 2015 |  | Duke Blue Devils | Duke 72 Arizona 60 |
| 2014 | | Florida Gators | Florida 78 Kentucky 69 |
| 2013 |  | Louisville Cardinals | Louisville 82 Michigan 75 |
| 2012 |  | Kentucky Wildcats | Kentucky 74 Ohio State 64 |
| 2011 | | Connecticut Huskies | Connecticut 53 Butler 41 |
| 2010 | | Duke Blue Devils | Duke 61 Butler 58 |
| 2009 | | North Carolina Tarheels | North Carolina 91 Connecticut 77 |
| 2008 | | Kansas Jayhawks | Kansas 68 North Carolina 66 |
| 2007 |  | Georgetown Hoyas | Georgetown 74 North Carolina 58 |
| 2006 | | UCLA Bruins | UCLA 77 West Virginia 50 |
| 2005 | | North Carolina Tarheels | North Carolina 90 Illinois 57 |
| 2004 | | Connecticut Huskies | Connecticut 85 Georgia Tech 77 |
| 2003 |  | Syracuse Orange | Syracuse 78 Texas 73 |
| 2002 |  | Maryland Teripans | Maryland 80 Duke 78 |
| 2001 |  | Arizona Wildats | Arizona 76 Florida 71 |
| 2000 |  | Michigan State Spartans | Michigan State 84 Florida 77 |
| 1999 | | Michigan State Spartans | Michigan State 64 New Mexico 53 |
| 1998 | | Kentucky Wildcats | Kentucky 84 Utah 77 |
| 1997 | | North Carolina Tarheels | North Carolina 87 Kentucky 83 |
| 1996 | | Kentucky Wildcats | Kentucky 89 Massachusetts 82 |
| 1995 | | UCLA Bruins | UCLA 80 Arkansas 76 |
| 1994 | | North Carolina Tarheels | North Carolina 81 Arizona 64 |
| 1993 | | Duke Blue Devils | Duke 67 Kentucky 66 |
| 1992 | | Duke Blue Devils | Duke 82 Kansas 79 |
| 1991 |  | UNLV Rebels | UNLV 79 Indiana 67 |
| 1990 | | North Carolina Tarheels | North Carolina 104 Texas 101 |
| 1989 |  | Nebraska Cornhuskers | Nebraska 102 Michigan 82 |
| 1988 | | Duke Blue Devils | Duke 83 Indiana 79 OT |
| 1987 |  | Indiana Hoosiers | Indiana 81 Syracuse 79 |
| 1986 | | Louisville Cardinals | Louisville 72 Duke 66 |
