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Representing the United States. FIBA World Championship. 2006 Japan. National team. Goodwill Games. 2001 Brisbane. National team. Shane Courtney Battier ( / ˈbætieɪ / BAT-ee-ay; born September 9, 1978) is an American former professional basketball player. He also worked for ESPN and recently joined the board of Yext.
Duke is the first team to be seeded No. 1 over four consecutive seasons since the NCAA began seeding teams in 1979. Duke swept all the major National Player of the Year Awards: Jason Williams was named the NABC Player of the Year. Shane Battier claimed the AP National Player of the Year, Oscar Robertson Trophy, Wooden Award, Naismith Award, and ...
The 2001 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball for the 2000–01 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It began on March 13, 2001, with the play-in game, and ended with the championship game on April 2 ...
After playing four years at Duke, a career that included a national championship and two Final Four appearances, Shane Battier played 13 years in the NBA and won two titles with the Miami Heat.
The 2001 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the finals of the 2001 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and it determined the national champion for the 2000-01 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The game was played on April 2, 2001, at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota and featured the East Regional Champion, #1-seeded Duke versus the ...
The preseason AP All-American team was named on November 13. Shane Battier of Duke was the leading vote-getter (71 of 72 votes). The rest of the team included Troy Murphy of Notre Dame (62 votes), Loren Woods of Arizona (46), Joseph Forte of North Carolina (39) and Jamaal Tinsley of Iowa State (39).
Jason Williams was a National Player of the Year winner for the second straight year, but oddly enough didn't win ACC Player of the Year in either 2000–01 or 2001–02. Shane Battier and Joseph Forte shared the award in '01 and Maryland's Juan Dixon won it in '02. Team players drafted into the NBA
The 2001 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball tournament took place from March 8 to 11 in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Georgia Dome. Duke won the tournament for the third year in a row, defeating North Carolina in the championship game. Duke's Shane Battier won the tournament's Most Valuable Player award.