Game rewind | Duke wins national title

Refresh often (or click here) for updates throughout the 2015 national championship game between Duke and Wisconsin in Lucas Oil Stadium.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Hello and welcome in to our national championship live blog from Lucas Oil Stadium. Wisconsin and Duke are playing for the title.

The game tips at 9:15 p.m. ET. You can watch it on CBS. As of 9 p.m. Monday night, the Vegas spread was Wisconsin by a point. KenPom.com's algorithm projected a one-point Wisconsin win and has 55-percent confidence in Wisconsin winning.

Follow along here for more updates throughout the night.

FINAL: Duke 68, Wisconsin 63.

Some stats from what was a really fun title game. Click here.

The bottom line: Duke made some really important shots down the stretch and somehow managed to nudge Wisconsin away from what it does best. The Badgers passed up a ton of shots and kept trying to attack. They shot just 41 percent.

Duke got a huge game from Tyus Jones, who dropped 23 points. Has to be the MOP, right?

Hope y'all enjoyed our fun tonight. See you next season.

SECOND HALF

1:05: Tyus Jones hits a big shot, and m'man Steve Jones lobs into my timeline with this.

1:51: How about Jahlil Okafor, dogged all game by foul trouble, coming in for two hugely important baskets in this game? Wisconsin is really crumbling, and Duke is getting all the big buckets.

2:30: It's getting weird, y'all.

3:22: This is probably not a good time for Wisconsin to go 2 for its last 8. I mean, I'm not a doctor, but call it a hunch.

If Duke does win this game, it'll be on the backs on its "little" guys. The combo of Tyus Jones and Grayson Allen has 34 points

4:06: This game has, uh, really picked up. Well, actually, I guess it never really slowed down. But it's been nuts. Grayson Allen(!) is having a huge game. Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker keep answering. Duke's up one. Strap in, folks.

7:29: We've arrived at the second-to-last media timeout of the evening, and we have ourselves quite a little shindig here. Wisconsin's up two, but Duke is hanging around despite Jahlil Okafor's four fouls essentially rendering him ineffective until the final few minutes of this game. Duke's getting a lot of help from Grayson Allen (14 points) off the bench.

For Wisconsin, it's time to return to the ol' stud feeding. Traevon Jackson's trying to do too much, and his 1-of-7 shooting line is evident of that. Just not the same player he was earlier this season, or last year.

10:42: This is an enjoyable game of basketball. Back to a one-point game. Get you to the TV, my friend.

11:43: As soon as I wrote the whole Wisconsin is taking over thing, Duke roared back. OK, Grayson Allen roared back, with a 6-0 one-man run. A 3 and an and-one finish. Kid can really play, and Duke desperately needed him to pump some life back into them. By the way, EVERYONE made the "I Hate Grayson Allen" joke after that run.

But, and there's always a but, Wisconsin came back down and splashed a momentum-killing triple.

14:00: Sorry, folks. Had to step away for a few minutes to chase some news of a potential transfer to Louisville. When I looked back up, Wisconsin was up seven. Badgers off to a sharp start here in the early part of the second half.

A few items of note: Justise Winslow and Jahlil Okafor both have three fouls, and Wisconsin is up nine.

Meanwhile ...

HALFTIME: Wisconsin 31, Duke 31.

It's anyone's game. Both teams have had their moments, with 13(!) lead changes. Duke will get Jahlil Okafor and Justise Winslow back on the floor, but important for them both to avoid tacky fouls.

Wisconsin hasn't always looked comfortable on offense, but the Badgers appear to have found a bit more of a rhythm in the final six minutes or so.

Some stats for you guys right here.

FIRST HALF

1:43: Only downside of not being home on the couch for this game? Missing Raftery on the call.

3:04: Well, that escalated quickly. Wisconsin got some life blown into it with Sam Dekker's crazy athletic putback from the weakside. He came screaming into the lane, jumped across the rim, grabbed a miss and glanced it in all in one motion. Unreal.

Also: Two fouls now on Jahlil Okafor is big. Frank the Tank has been highly effective so far, with seven points and six boards.

7:14: Couple significant developments as the first half continues ... JJ Watt is here. Also, Justise Winslow has two fouls and Wisconsin 2 of its last 8. No bueno for either team.

But the most important thing that happened in that last stretch was the most theatric block call ... maybe ever? Definitely ever. Well, maybe ever.

11:15: Off to a really fun start. Okafor-Kaminsky has potential to be an awesome matchup, but Duke's problem is that Okafor pretty much has to be on the floor. Marshall Plumlee can't guard Kaminsky.

Duke's up 13-12 thanks to 6 of 12 shooting. Five Blue Devils have already scored. Well-rounded early attack.

By the way, Wisconsin guard Josh Gasser had a weird moment early on, with him bending over and grabbing his face. Turns out he had an issue with his contacts.

15:36: Duke looks really confident in the early going, attacking the basket on offense and hustling to loose balls with a little more urgency. Long way to go, but it's a good start for the Blue Devils. Duke's up 6-5.

Here's our preview of the game.

Pregame: If the all-student-athlete national anthem on Saturday wasn't enough entertainment, Monday's special treat certainly was. They had a bald eagle -- like, a real bald eagle -- fly around Lucas Oil during a thundering national anthem.

Awesome pregame atmosphere here. Big-time Wisconsin advantage in terms of crowd noise (and red shirts).

The starting lineups are out and no different than the Final Four games on Saturday ... Wisconsin starts Bronson Koenig, Josh Gasser, Nigel Hayes, Sam Dekker and player of the year Frank Kaminsky. For Duke, it's Jahlil Okafor, Justise Winslow, Matt Jones, Quinn Cook and Tyus Jones.