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 Final Four Replay Review

 

HOOP HISTORIANS 2012
NEW ORLEANS, LA

Championship Game:  Kentucky 67, Kansas 59
National Semifinals:  Kentucky 69, Louisville 61;
Kansas 64, Ohio State 62.

 

• The Final Four saw the first time ever that both National Semi-Finals and the National Championship game were all regular season rematches.

• The annual Welcome dinner had 41 people in attendance.  The event was held in the American Sector Restaurant at the National World War II Museum. 

• The Hoop Historians Headquarters was located at the Embassy Suites Downtown on Julia Street in the heart of New Orleans.

• Bruce Ziemer received the Hoop Historians Recognition Award for his many years and service to the game of basketball.

• Hoop Historian John McCann, a World War II veteran, was the special guest of the World War II Museum in New Orleans.

• The longest line at the NCAA Bracket Town was for autographs for ESPN sportscaster Erin Andrews.

• John McCann, Rick Schabowski and John Tierney were elected as full members.
  
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