{"id":10995,"date":"2016-03-27T08:15:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T15:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-march-27\/"},"modified":"2016-03-27T08:15:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T15:15:51","slug":"today-in-sports-history-march-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-march-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: March 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1939 \u2014 Oregon beats Ohio State 46-33 in the NCAA\u2019s first national basketball tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1942 \u2014 Joe Louis knocks out Abe Simon in the sixth round at Madison Square Garden to retain his world heavyweight title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1945 \u2014 Oklahoma A&amp;M defeats New York University 49-45 for the NCAA basketball championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1951 \u2014 Bill Spivey scores 22 points to lead Kentucky to a 68-58 win over Kansas State for the NCAA title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1971 \u2014 UCLA beats Villanova 68-62 for its fifth NCAA title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1978 \u2014 Jack Givens scores 41 points to lead Kentucky past Duke 94-88 for the NCAA title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1983 \u2014 Larry Holmes wins a unanimous 12-round decision over Lucien Rodriguez to keep his world heavyweight title in his hometown of Scranton, Pa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1994 \u2014 Donna Andrews sinks a 6-foot birdie putt on the final hole to win the Dinah Shore by one stroke, her second straight victory and first LPGA major.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1998 \u2014 Michael Jordan scores 34 points to lead the Chicago Bulls to an 89-74 victory over the Atlanta Hawks before 62,046 at the Georgia Dome \u2014 the largest crowd in NBA history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2005 \u2014 Annika Sorenstam shoots a final-round 68 to win the Nabisco Championship by eight shots over Rosie Jones. It\u2019s Sorenstam\u2019s fifth win in a row over two seasons, tying a record set by Nancy Lopez in 1978.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2010 \u2014 Al Shemali, a 40-1 shot, wins the $5 million Dubai Duty Free in a surprisingly easy victory in the Dubai World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2010 \u2014 Joe Mazzulla scores a career-high 17 points in his first start this season and West Virginia beats Kentucky 73-66 to reach its first Final Four since 1959. Butler, behind 22 points from Gordon Hayward, defeats Kansas State 63-56 in the West Regional final to advance to the Final Four.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2011 \u2014 Jamie Skeen scores 26 points and Virginia Commonwealth delivers the biggest upset of the NCAA Tournament, a 71-61 win over No. 1 seed Kansas in the Southwest Regional final. The Rams are the third 11th seed to make the Final Four. Kentucky restores some order to the Final Four with a 76-69 win over North Carolina in the East Regional final.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1939 \u2014 Oregon beats Ohio State 46-33 in the NCAA\u2019s first national basketball tournament. 1942 \u2014 Joe Louis knocks out Abe Simon in the sixth round at Madison Square Garden to retain his world heavyweight title. 1945 \u2014 Oklahoma A&amp;M defeats New York University 49-45 for the NCAA basketball championship. 1951 \u2014 Bill Spivey scores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10995"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}