Miss USA 2002 was the 51st Miss USA pageant, held at the Genesis Convention Center in Gary, Indiana on March 1, 2002. Shauntay Hinton of the District of Columbia won the title and was crowned by outgoing Miss USA Kandace Krueger of Texas. The host was Deion Sanders. This was the final Miss USA telecast on CBS; beginning with Miss USA 2003, NBC assumed co-ownership of the pageant and began broadcasting the event.