2001 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game
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| Date | April 2, 2001 | ||||||||||||
| Venue | Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota | ||||||||||||
| MVP | Shane Battier, Duke | ||||||||||||
| Favorite | Duke by 3.5 | ||||||||||||
| Referees | Scott Thornley, Frankie Bordeaux, Ed Corbett | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 45,944 | ||||||||||||
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| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||
| Announcers | Jim Nantz (play-by-play) Billy Packer (color) Bonnie Bernstein and Armen Keteyian (sideline) | ||||||||||||
The 2001 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the finals of the 2001 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and it determined the national champion for the 2000-01 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The game was played on April 2, 2001, at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota and featured the East Regional Champion, #1-seeded Duke versus the Midwest Regional Champion, #2-seeded Arizona.