Kentucky's Jared Prickett (32) and Arizona's Mike Bibby go for a loose ball on an Arizona inbound play during the first half of the championship game at the NCAA Final Four Monday, March 31, 1997, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Cliff Schiappa)

 CLIFF SCHIAPPA

1.ย RCA Dome, Indianapolis, 1997. Downtown Indy was juiced. Everyone was working on a sleep-debt in a contagious party fever. Everything was within walking distance and two No. 1 seeds โ€” Kentucky and North Carolina โ€” joined the Wildcats in the most historic sporting event in UA history. The RCA Dome itself was enormous (47,028 attended) but the tension and electricity made it feel like McKale Center.ย 

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