{"id":22839,"date":"2016-03-20T08:04:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T15:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-march-20\/"},"modified":"2016-03-20T08:04:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T15:04:11","slug":"today-in-sports-history-march-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-march-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: March 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

1897 \u2014 Yale beats Penn 32-10 in New Haven, Conn., in the first men\u2019s intercollegiate basketball game.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1939 \u2014 In a game of unbeaten teams, Long Island U. defeats Loyola of Chicago 44-32 to win the National Invitation Tournament title.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1940 \u2014 Springfield College makes only eight of 63 shots from the field (12.7 percent) against Indiana, setting the NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Tournament record for both fewest field goals made and lowest field-goal shooting percentage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1954 \u2014 In the first televised NCAA championship game, La Salle defeats Bradley 92-76 and sets a record for most points in the title game.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1965 \u2014 Gail Goodrich\u2019s 42 points lead UCLA to a 91-80 victory over Michigan in the NCAA basketball championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1965 \u2014 St. John\u2019s sends Joe Lapchick out a winner, as the Redmen beat Villanova 55-51 to win their fifth National Invitation Tournament championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1965 \u2014 Bill Bradley scores 58 points to lead Princeton to a 118-82 rout of Wichita State in the NCAA third-place game. UCLA beats Michigan 91-80 to win its second National championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1968 \u2014 Dave Bing of the Detroit Pistons finishes the season with a league-leading 27.1 ppg. average, becoming the first guard in 20 years to lead the NBA in scoring.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1969 \u2014 Less than two months after she becomes the first woman to ride in a pari-mutuel race in America, Diane Crump rides her first winner at Gulfstream Park.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1971 \u2014 Milwaukee\u2019s Lew Alcindor is named NBA Most Valuable Player for the first of his record-breaking six times. Alcindor averaged 31.7 points and 16 rebounds per game.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1976 \u2014 Boston\u2019s John Havlicek becomes the first NBA player to score more than 1,000 points per season for 14 consecutive years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1988 \u2014 Mike Tyson knocks out Tony Tubbs in the second round to retain his world heavyweight title in Tokyo.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1994 \u2014 Jockey Penny Chavez returns to the winner\u2019s circle after a 19-year hiatus from the saddle. The 42-year-old rider wins aboard Singer Slew, a 50-1 long shot, at Turfway Park, Florence, Ky.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2005 \u2014 Liz Johnson becomes the first woman to advance to the championship match of a Professional Bowlers Association tour event, but loses by 27 pins to Tommy Jones in the final of the PBA Banquet Open.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2005 \u2014 LeBron James, 20, becomes the youngest player to score 50 points in an NBA game, when he scores 56 in the Cavaliers\u2019 105-98 loss to the Raptors.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2006 \u2014 Japan beats Cuba 10-6 in the title game of the inaugural World Baseball Classic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2010 \u2014 Northern Iowa pulls off one of the biggest NCAA upsets in years by knocking No. 1 overall seed Kansas with a 69-67 win. Ali Farokhmanesh buries an open 3-pointer with the shot clock still in the 30s to give the Panthers a four-point lead with 35 seconds left.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2014 \u2014 Bernard Tomic loses the shortest completed ATP match on record, lasting only 28 minutes at the Sony Open in his first tournament since having surgery on both hips. Ending a two-month layoff, Tomic wins just 13 points and loses to Jarkko Nieminen 6-0, 6-1. It\u2019s the quickest match since the ATP started keeping such records in 1991.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1897 \u2014 Yale beats Penn 32-10 in New Haven, Conn., in the first men\u2019s intercollegiate basketball game. 1939 \u2014 In a game of unbeaten teams, Long Island U. defeats Loyola of Chicago 44-32 to win the National Invitation Tournament title. 1940 \u2014 Springfield College makes only eight of 63 shots from the field (12.7 percent) […]<\/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-22839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22839","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=22839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22839"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}