See also: 2002 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
| 2002 NCAA Tournament Championship Game | |
| Type: | ncg |
| Date: | April 1, 2002 |
| Year: | 2001-02 |
| Visitor School: | Indiana University |
| Visitor Name Short: | Indiana |
| Visitor Nickname: | Hoosiers |
| Visitor Record: | 25–11 |
| Visitor Conference: | Big Ten |
| Visitor Ap: | 23 |
| Visitor Coaches: | NR |
| Visitor Coach: | Mike Davis |
| Visitor Per1: | 25 |
| Visitor Per2: | 27 |
| Home School: | University of Maryland |
| Home Name Short: | Maryland |
| Home Nickname: | Terrapins |
| Home Record: | 31–4 |
| Home Conference: | ACC |
| Home Ap: | 4 |
| Home Coaches: | 4 |
| Home Coach: | Gary Williams |
| Home Per1: | 31 |
| Home Per2: | 33 |
| Arena: | Georgia Dome |
| City: | Atlanta, Georgia |
| Attendance: | 53,406 |
| Referee: | Jim Burr, Richard Cartmell, Tony Greene |
| Mvp: | Juan Dixon, Maryland |
| Odds: | Maryland by 7.5 |
| Us Network: | CBS |
| Us Announcers: | Jim Nantz (play-by-play) Billy Packer (color) Bonnie Bernstein and Armen Keteyian (sideline) |
| Previous: | 2001 |
| Next: | 2003 |
The 2002 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the finals of the 2002 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and it determined the national champion for the 2001-02 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The game was played on April 1, 2002, at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia and featured the 2002 East Regional Champion, #1-seeded Maryland versus the South Regional Champion, #5-seeded Indiana.
| Indiana | Position | Maryland | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Coverdale | G | Steve Blake 2 | |||
| G | † Juan Dixon 1 | ||||
| Jared Jeffries 1 | F | Byron Mouton | |||
| Jarrad Odle | F | Chris Wilcox 1 | |||
| Kyle Hornsby | F/C | Lonny Baxter 2 | |||
| † | |||||
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 coach Gary Williams' only men's basketball National Championship. Senior Juan Dixon was named the tournament's Most 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 the Big 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]