Tyrone 1-17 Cavan 0-15
Connor McAliskey and Ronan O'Neill led the scoring at Croke Park as Tyrone maintained their impressive unbeaten start to 2016, picking up their third piece of silverware in the process.
The cup for winning the Allianz league Division 2 title will now reside in Tyrone's trophy cabinet alongside the Dr McKenna and O Fiaich Cups, which were won in the pre-season.
McAliskey hit five points, all from play, for the 2015 All-Ireland semi-finalists, while O'Neill's 49th minute goal put the Red Hands six points clear and set the seal on victory.
Tiernan McCann was named Man-of-the-Match while Mattie Donnelly and Sean Cavanagh contributed 0-05 between them.
The commanding performance and clear progression throughout spring means Tyrone will head into their Championship opener with Derry in a month's time as many people's dark horses for an All-Ireland challenge.
As for Cavan, promotion was their big target this season and with that achieved they gave a strong performance but just came up short of a talented Tyrone team.
Both sides are renowned for their defensive strategies and duly dropped men back from the moment the ball was thrown in but it was rollicking good entertainment all the same.
With less than half an hour played, Tyrone led 0-09 to 0-08 and 16 different players had got on the score sheet, eight from each side.
Perhaps that was down to the fact that it's still only April and with fitness levels still being honed, it's difficult to shut off all the wide open spaces at Croke Park.
Counter-attacker football certainly flourished in the conditions with both sides breaking out of defence to register eye catching scores.
Tyrone, masters of the style of play, did it that bit better than Cavan and took a deserved 0-11 to 0-08 lead into the interval.
The spread of scorers meant that nobody dominated the attacking though McAliskey and Sean Cavanagh were influential close to goal, while Peter Harte troubled the Cavan defence with his continuous solo runs.
Cavan were beaten by two points by Tyrone in the opening round of the group campaign. They showed no signs of any inferiority complex on the bigger stage as they ran at Mickey Harte's side and picked off some fine scores.
Michael Argue got the best of the early ones, splitting the posts just moments after a Tyrone goal chance at the other end was narrowly averted.
Gearoid McKiernan, moved up to Cavan's attack this year, scored a brilliant point from the left wing early in the second-half to narrow the gap to two.
Unfortunately for Cavan, that was as good as it got for them as Tyrone put daylight between the sides with two McAliskey points and a well taken O'Neill goal.
McAliskey was involved in the goal, feeding midfielder Donnelly who did well to get his pass away under pressure, picking out O'Neill who rifled to the net.
That strike put Tyrone 1-13 to 0-10 clear and though Cavan fought courageously from them on, getting the margin down to three again at one stage, the Red Hands held on.
Tyrone: M O'Neill; C McCarron, R McNamee, J McMahon; R Brennan (0-01), A McCrory, T McCann (0-01); C Cavanagh, M Donnelly (0-02); N Sludden, M Bradley (0-01), P Harte (0-01); C McAliskey (0-05), S Cavanagh (0-03), R O'Neill (1-03, 0-01f).
Subs: C Meyler for Sludden, B Tierney for McMahon, R Donnelly for Bradley, L Brennan for O'Neill, K McGeary for McAliskey, F Burns for McCarron.
Cavan: R Galligan (0-01, 0-01f); J McLoughlin (0-01), K Clarke, K Brady; P Faulkner, C Moynagh (0-01), C Brady; T Corr (0-01), L Buchanan (0-01); D McVeety (0-02), G McKiernan (0-03, 0-01f), M Reilly (0-01); D Givney (0-01), M Argue (0-01), S Johnston (0-01, 0-01f).
Subs: N Murray for K Brady, E Keating (0-01) for Johnston, C Mackey for Buchanan (BC), R Dunne for Argue, F Flanagan for C Brady, J Brady for Moynagh.
Referee: C Branagan (Down).
