After North Carolina claimed another national title over Gonzaga, there was one question left unanswered for college basketball fans.

Just whom did CBS play-by-play man Jim Nantz give his tie to this year after he handed one out to Villanova’s Ryan Arcidiacono, not knowing a post-tournament tradition he started in 2006 was filmed by a local camera crew?

“I did not present the tie last night,” Nantz told For The Win in a phone call on Tuesday afternoon as he was preparing to fly to Augusta to cover The Masters. “I decided it was not going to be for public viewing. As we talked about before, it was a private moment out of view of the cameras and the media. It was never intended to be something to gain any kind of attention.”

“I didn’t want any one of those kids to enter the locker room and have to answer questions about it,” he added.

Last month, Nantz had this to say to For The Win about how the giveaway became a national story:

“I never asked for any attention. I didn’t know there was a camera crew on me. It was from the station that hired me to be an anchor when I was a junior in college. They weren’t trying to make it into a snarky story, they wondered what it was about.”

Does this mean the end of the tradition, in which Nantz delivers a tie to “someone who represented great character and leadership, who was a good kid on and off the court”? Not quite.

Nantz says he hasn’t decided what he’ll do. After all, he just finished covering the national title game and will turn right around to announce the biggest golf tournament of the year, so he hasn’t had much time to think.

But he did say he might write a note and send a tie or give a UNC player a call. As he said, “It was always a private thing.”