{"id":2022,"date":"2016-03-18T08:02:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-march-18\/"},"modified":"2016-03-18T08:02:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T15:02:23","slug":"today-in-sports-history-march-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-march-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: March 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1945 \u2014 Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens becomes the first NHL player to score 50 goals in a season during a 4-2 triumph over the Boston Bruins in the final game of the season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1950 \u2014 CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1953 \u2014 Don Schlundt scores 30 points to lead Indiana to a 69-68 victory over Kansas for the NCAA basketball championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1990 \u2014 Jeff Fryer\u2019s 41 points leads Loyola Marymount to a 149-115 victory over defending national champion Michigan in the highest-scoring game in NCAA tournament history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1993 \u2014 Santa Clara beats Arizona 64-61 to become the second 15th-seeded team to win a first-round game in the NCAA tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2000 \u2014 Colorado\u2019s Ray Bourque becomes the first NHL defenseman to score 400 career goals in a 4-3 loss to Detroit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2001 \u2014 Indiana\u2019s Reggie Miller becomes the first player in NBA history to total 2,000 3-pointers after hitting four in a 101-95 win over Sacramento.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2005 \u2014 Andrew Hines has the first sub-seven-second Pro Stock Motorcycle run in NHRA history in a record day of qualifying for the Gatornationals. At Gainesville (Fla.) Raceway, defending series champion Hines powers his motorcycle to a 6.991-second run at 196.16 mph.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2006 \u2014 Dallas improves to an NHL-best 10-0 in shootouts this season, winning 4-3 over San Jose. The Stars set an NHL record with their 10th come-from-behind victory after trailing entering the third period \u2014 though four of those wins were in shootouts, which didn\u2019t exist before this season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2009 \u2014 New Jersey\u2019s Martin Brodeur breaks Patrick Roy\u2019s NHL record for career wins by a goaltender. Brodeur gets his 552nd in a 3-2 decision over the Chicago Blackhawks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2013 \u2014 LeBron James and the Miami Heat escape Boston with their 23rd victory in a row, the second longest win streak in NBA history. James scores 37 points and makes the go-ahead basket with 10.5 seconds left in Miami\u2019s 105-103 victory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 \u2014 Lindsey Vonn takes the World Cup downhill title for the seventh time, winning the last race in the discipline at the World Cup finals in Meribel, France. Vonn finishes 0.24 seconds ahead of Elisabeth Goergl and 0.30 ahead of Nicole Hosp.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1945 \u2014 Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens becomes the first NHL player to score 50 goals in a season during a 4-2 triumph over the Boston Bruins in the final game of the season. 1950 \u2014 CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship. 1953 \u2014 Don Schlundt scores 30 points to lead Indiana [&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-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","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=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}