Today in sports history: March 11

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1922 — Cornell wins the first IC4A indoor track meet, held at the 2nd Regiment Armory in New York.

1947 — Harry Boykoff of St. John’s sets a Madison Square Garden scoring record with 54 points in the Redmen’s 71-52 win over St. Francis, N.Y.

1958 — Manhattan upsets top-ranked West Virginia 89-84, in the first round of the NCAA Division I basketball tournament. Jack Powers leads the Jaspers with 29 points. Manhattan holds sophomore Jerry West to 10 points in the Mountaineers’ second loss of the year.

1963 — Chicago Loyola blows out Tennessee Tech 111-42 for the largest margin of victory (69) in the history of the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament.

1979 — St. John’s and Penn post two of the biggest upsets ever in the NCAA tournament in the second round of the East Regional in Raleigh, N.C. St. John’s, the 40th and last team selected, beats No. 2 seed Duke 80-78, and Penn comes from behind to beat No. 1 seed North Carolina 72-71.

1991 — Steffi Graf’s streak of 186 weeks ranked No. 1 in women’s tennis ends when she is replaced by Monica Seles.

2003 — The longest winning streak in women’s Division I history ends at 70 games when No. 18 Villanova hands No. 1 Connecticut its first loss since the end of the 2001 season, 52-48 for the championship of the Big East Conference tournament.

2007 — Chris Simon of the New York Islanders is suspended for an NHL-record 25 games, missing the rest of the regular season and playoffs for his two-handed stick attack to the face of Ryan Hollweg.

2009 — Mike Singletary leads Texas Tech to the biggest rally in Big 12 Tournament history, scoring all 29 of Texas Tech’s points during a second-half surge that pushed the Red Raiders to a 88-83 win against the Aggies. The Red Raiders erase a 21-point deficit. Singletary, who outscored A&M 29-18 to give Tech the lead for the first time, finishes with 43 points.

2009 — Wesley Matthews scores 20 points and Marquette ends a four-game losing streak by holding St. John’s to a Big East Tournament-record 10 points in the first half on the way to a 74-45 victory.

2011 — Jimmer Fredette scores a career-high 52 points to lead No. 8 BYU to an 87-76 win over New Mexico in the Mountain West Conference semifinals. Fredette, who takes just one free throw, makes 22 baskets, including seven 3-pointers. He breaks Danny Ainge’s career scoring record at BYU and his 2,417 points also was a Mountain West Conference record.

2014 — Florida International’s Jerica Coley becomes the 10th female player in NCAA Division I history to break the 3,000-point barrier, doing so with a 20 points in a 85-65 win over Rice in the first round of the Conference USA Tournament.

2015 — Ndamukong Suh signs a $114 million, six-year contract with the Miami Dolphins to become the highest-paid defensive player in NFL history.

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