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| Date | April 1, 2002 | ||||||||||||
| Venue | Georgia Dome,Atlanta, Georgia | ||||||||||||
| MVP | Juan Dixon,Maryland | ||||||||||||
| Favorite | Maryland by 7.5 | ||||||||||||
| Referees | Jim Burr, Richard Cartmell, Tony Greene | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 53,406 | ||||||||||||
| National anthem | Maryland Pep Band | ||||||||||||
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| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||
| Announcers | Jim Nantz (play-by-play) Billy Packer (color) Bonnie Bernstein andArmen Keteyian (sideline) | ||||||||||||
The2002 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the finals of the2002 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and it determined the national champion for the2001-02 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The game was played on April 1, 2002, at theGeorgia Dome inAtlanta, Georgia and featured the 2002 East Regional Champion, #1-seededMaryland versus the South Regional Champion, #5-seededIndiana.
| Indiana | Position | Maryland | ||
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| Tom Coverdale | G | Steve Blake 2 | ||
| Dane Fife | G | †Juan Dixon 1 | ||
| Jared Jeffries 1 | F | Byron Mouton | ||
| Jarrad Odle | F | Chris Wilcox 1 | ||
| Kyle Hornsby | F/C | Lonny Baxter 2 | ||
| †2002 Consensus First Team All-American | ||||
| Players selected in an NBA draft (number indicates round) | ||||
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The Maryland Terrapins completed the task they set out to do one year earlier by defeating the Indiana Hoosiers, 64–52. Maryland led virtually the entire game except for a brief point with 9:50 left in the basketball game when Indiana took a 44–42 lead. Maryland answered the Hoosier run and ended the game with a 22–8 run to bring home the school's first and coachGary Williams' only men's basketball National Championship. SeniorJuan Dixon was named the tournament'sMost Outstanding Player (MOP).[2]
Each team has not reached the NCAA championship game since the end of this game. Each have also not made it past the Sweet Sixteen since 2002; Davis was let go after the 2005–06 season.
On November 19, 2012, Maryland would join theBig Ten Conference, becoming the 13th member to join the conference. Since Indiana was already in the Big Ten Conference, the two teams would later become conference foes and end up facing each other at least once every year.[3]
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 Full game broadcast by CBS onYouTube |