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 Final Four Replay Review

 

HOOP HISTORIANS 1999
INDIANAPOLIS, IN

Championship Game:  Connecticut 77, Duke 74.
National Semifinals:  Michigan State 53, Wisconsin 41;
Florida 71, North Carolina 59.


 

• Connecticut's championship game victory was the biggest point spread upset (9.5 points) in title game history.

• The group formally assembles with ten charter members: Brian Burmeister, Dorothy Kim, Surl Kim, John Mayberry, Dennis Mishko, Ted Reineking, Al Sack, Joe Spagnolo, Frank Wilson and Bruce Ziemer.

• Traffic after the National Semi-final was at a stand-still on the Howard Franklin Bridge.  A concert was held in Raymond James Stadium on the same night. 

• A six person shuttle bus took 75 minutes to go from the Tropicana Stadium in Saint Petersburg to downtown Tampa.

• Some Hoop Historians took a post-championship game ride in a red convertible from Saint Petersburg to Tampa -- the only favorable  transportation of the weekend.

• On the afternoon of the title game, a number of Hoop Historians saw the Yankees play in an exhibition game at Legends Field.