After standing in midtown Atlanta for 25 years, the Georgia Dome was demolished Monday morning, and with it went a piece of Terps’ history.
Maryland men’s basketball won its first and only National Championship there in 2002, beating Indiana, 64-52. Maryland beat the highest possible seed it could have in each of its games before the championship.
Here’s the game in its entirety, in case you feel like doing nothing at work today.
Later that year, Maryland football returned to those same hallowed grounds and lambasted the Tennessee Volunteers, 30-3, in the Peach Bowl.