Final Four returns to Indianapolis next year
The Final Four, the NCAA's highlight event of the year, returns to Indianapolis in 2015. It will be held April 4 and 6 in Lucas Oil Stadium. It was also held there in 2010, when Butler came within a halfcourt shot of beating Duke for the championship.
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Here is a look back at the previous Final Fours in Indianapolis.
1980
Louisville beat UCLA 59-54 at Market Square Arena behind Darrell Griffith's 23 points. Roger Burkman of Franklin Central High School played 11 minutes in the title game for Louisville. Purdue, led by Joe Barry Carroll, beat Iowa 75-58 in the last third-place game in tournament history.
1991
UNLV arrived at the Hoosier Dome undefeated, but Duke took out the Runnin' Rebels in the semifinal game before beating Kansas 72-65 in the championship game. A Grant Hill dunk is the memorable moment from the title game, in which Christian Laettner had 18 points and 10 rebounds.
1997
Arizona, which finished fifth in the Pac-10, defeated top seeds North Carolina and Kentucky in the RCA Dome. Mike Bibby and Michael Dickerson came in as the Wildcats' stars, but Miles Simon earned Most Outstanding Player honors, scoring 30 points in the 84-79 overtime title-game victory.
2000
Michigan State beat Wisconsin and Florida in the RCA Dome, led by Morris Peterson's 41 points in the Final Four. He had 21, A.J. Granger had 19 and Mateen Cleaves (pictured) 18 in an 89-76 title-game victory.
2006
Florida secured the first of two consecutive championships in the RCA Dome behind a balanced lineup including Joakim Noah, Al Horford and Corey Brewer. Noah had 16 points and nine rebounds in the Gators' 73-57 victory over UCLA in the title game.
2010
The Final Four moved into Lucas Oil Stadium, and there was a home team to root for. Butler made the first of its two consecutive Final Four trips, beating Michigan State before falling to Duke 61-59 in the title game. Leave it to the ESPN "Sports Science" crew to explain just how close Butler came to winning it all. (The video includes the greatest pick ever set, by Matt Howard on Duke's Kyle Singler.)