2012 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game
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The Mercedes-Benz Superdome after the championship game. | |||||||||||||
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| Date | April 2, 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Venue | Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||||||||||
| MVP | Anthony Davis, Kentucky | ||||||||||||
| Favorite | Kentucky by 7 | ||||||||||||
| Referees | Verne Harris, Mark Whitehead, Mike Stuart | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 70,913 | ||||||||||||
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| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||
| Announcers | Jim Nantz (play-by-play) Clark Kellogg and Steve Kerr (color) Tracy Wolfson (sideline) | ||||||||||||
| Nielsen Ratings | 12.3 | ||||||||||||
The 2012 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the finals of the 2012 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and it determined the national champion for the 2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The game was played on April 2, 2012, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, and featured the South Regional Champion, #1-seeded Kentucky and the Midwest Regional Champion, #2-seeded Kansas. The two head coaches for this game, Kentucky's John Calipari and Kansas's Bill Self also coached at the 2008 National Championship Game where Bill Self was coaching for Kansas and John Calipari was coaching for Memphis. This was a rematch of a regular season encounter at the 2011 Champions Classic, which Kentucky had won 75–65.
This was the last time that an SEC team won a men's basketball national championship until 2025, when Florida defeated Houston, 65–63.