{"id":17284,"date":"2016-03-16T08:04:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T15:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-march-16\/"},"modified":"2016-03-16T08:04:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T15:04:49","slug":"today-in-sports-history-march-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-march-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: March 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

1938 \u2014 Temple defeats Colorado 60-36 in the first National Invitation Tournament and the first major postseason basketball tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1947 \u2014 Billy Taylor of the Detroit Red Wings sets an NHL record with seven assists in a 10-6 triumph over the Chicago Blackhawks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1961 \u2014 Montreal\u2019s Bernie Geoffrion becomes the second player to score 50 goals in a season in a 5-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs. Maurice Richard was the first to do it, in 1945.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1990 \u2014 Philip Hutcheson of David Lipscomb University hits a running 5-foot hook shot in the NAIA Tournament to become the all-time scoring champion of college basketball. Hutcheson, who scored in double figures in every college game he played, breaks the record of 4,045 set in 1969-72 by Travis Grant of Kentucky State.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2001 \u2014 A record number of low-seeded teams advance in the men\u2019s NCAA Tournament. Indiana State, Butler, Temple, Charlotte and Fresno State join 12th-seeded Gonzaga in advancing, meaning 13 of the tournament\u2019s 32 first-round games were won by underdogs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2003 \u2014 Svetlana Feofanova reclaims the pole vault world record from Stacy Dragila by clearing 15 feet, 9 inches at the World Indoor Championships at Birmingham, England. The Russian betters the mark of 15-8 1\/4 Dragila set at the U.S. Indoor Championships on March 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2006 \u2014 The U.S. squad loaded with All-Stars loses 2-1 to Mexico to be eliminated from the World Baseball Classic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2007 \u2014 Kobe Bryant scores 33 of his 65 points in the fourth quarter and overtime to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 116-111 win over Portland.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2009 \u2014 Kevin Durant scores 25 points and Oklahoma City spoils Gregg Popovich\u2019s 1,000th game as San Antonio\u2019s coach with a 78-76 victory over the Spurs. Popovich becomes the 24th coach to reach 1,000 games and only the seventh to do it with one team.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2010 \u2014 Lance Mackey wins the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to become the first musher in the event\u2019s 38-year history to win four consecutive races. He finishes in eight days, 23 hours, 59 minutes \u2014 the second-fastest finish in race history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2012 \u2014 Kyle O\u2019Quinn has 26 points and 14 rebounds to help No. 15 seed Norfolk State stun second-seeded Missouri 86-84 in the West Regional of the men\u2019s NCAA tournament. C.J. McCollum scores 30 points and Lehigh upsets Duke 75-70 in the South Regional to become the second No. 15 seed to beat a No. 2 during a wild day in the NCAA Tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2013 \u2014 Mikaela Shiffrin delivers an astonishing second run to overtake Tina Maze and clinch the World Cup slalom title at Lenzerheide, Switzerland. The American teenager, trailing Maze by a massive 1.17 seconds after the first leg, finishes ahead of the Slovenian in the second run to win the slalom title in her first full season on the circuit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2013 \u2014 Ted Ligety caps his dominant season in giant slalom with a sixth World Cup win at Lenzerheide, Switzerland. The American joins Ingemar Stenmark as the only men in the 47-year World Cup history to get six GS victories in a season. Stenmark\u2019s 10-race sweep in 1978-79 is the record.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1938 \u2014 Temple defeats Colorado 60-36 in the first National Invitation Tournament and the first major postseason basketball tournament. 1947 \u2014 Billy Taylor of the Detroit Red Wings sets an NHL record with seven assists in a 10-6 triumph over the Chicago Blackhawks. 1961 \u2014 Montreal\u2019s Bernie Geoffrion becomes the second player to score 50 […]<\/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-17284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284","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=17284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17284"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}