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By Tyler Bednar
Cronkite News
PHOENIX – Tip-off for the first Final Four game is four days away, but preparation for Arizona’s second college basketball finale started long before this week.
A 12-member NCAA men’s basketball committee selected Phoenix to host the 2024 men’s Final Four on July 16, 2018, and preparations by the NCAA, the City of Phoenix, Arizona State University and local organizing committees ramped up over the past 18 months.
The latest feature of Final Four week was unveiled Tuesday at Eastlake Community Center, where the NCAA men’s Final Four Legacy Project showed off refurbished indoor and outdoor basketball courts and a mural dedicated to 11 impactful community members. Continue reading “Countdown to tip-off: Final Four Week brings hoops fever to Arizona with fan festivities, college basketball’s best”