{"id":25066,"date":"2016-03-22T08:04:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-march-22\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T08:04:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T15:04:10","slug":"today-in-sports-history-march-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-march-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: March 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

1952 \u2014 St. John\u2019s beats top-ranked Kentucky 64-57 in the East Regional championship game. St. John\u2019s, led by Bob Zawoluk\u2019s NCAA Tournament-record 32 points, advances to its first Final Four.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1953 \u2014 The United States beats host Chile 49-36 to win the first FIBA World Championship for Women basketball tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1958 \u2014 Vern Hatton and Johnny Cox combine for 54 points to give Kentucky an 84-72 victory over Seattle in the NCAA basketball championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1967 \u2014 Muhammad Ali knocks out Zora Folley in the seventh round at Madison Square Garden to retain his world heavyweight title.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1969 \u2014 Lew Alcindor leads UCLA to the NCAA title with a 97-72 win over Purdue, and is chosen MVP for the third straight year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1969 \u2014 West Chester State beats Western Carolina 65-39 to win the first women\u2019s national college championship. The game is played using the six-player format.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1986 \u2014 Trevor Berbick wins a unanimous 15-round decision over Pinklon Thomas in Las Vegas for the WBC heavyweight title.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1994 \u2014 The NFL announces the addition of the 2-point conversion, the league\u2019s first scoring change in 75 seasons.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1997 \u2014 Tara Lipinski\u2019s jumps, the cleanest and the surest in women\u2019s figure skating, lift the 14-year-old into history as the youngest women\u2019s world champion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2000 \u2014 Pat Verbeek of the Detroit Red Wings scores twice in a 2-2 tie with Calgary to become the 28th player in NHL history with 500 career goals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2007 \u2014 Kobe Bryant becomes the fourth player in NBA history to score at least 50 points in three straight games. Bryant scores 60 points in the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 121-119 win over Memphis. Bryant joins Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2008 \u2014 Detroit reaches 50 wins for the third straight season by defeating Columbus 4-1. No NHL franchise has done that since Montreal did it four years in a row from 1975-79.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2008 \u2014 The first of two assists Colorado captain Joe Sakic has in a 7-5 loss to Edmonton are the 1,000th of his career. He is the 11th player in NHL history to reach the milestone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2011 \u2014 The NFL owners vote to make all scoring plays subject to review by the replay official and referee.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2013 \u2014 Florida Gulf Coast, a school so new it wasn\u2019t eligible for the NCAA men\u2019s tournament until last year, upsets second-seeded Georgetown 78-68 in the second round of the South Regional. The Eagles used a 21-2 second-half run to pull away from the Hoyas and hold on in the final minute to become the seventh No. 15 seed to beat a No. 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2015 \u2014 Oklahoma advances in the NCAA Tournament with a 72-66 victory over Dayton. Sooners coach Lon Kruger becomes the second coach to take four schools to the round of 16.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1952 \u2014 St. John\u2019s beats top-ranked Kentucky 64-57 in the East Regional championship game. St. John\u2019s, led by Bob Zawoluk\u2019s NCAA Tournament-record 32 points, advances to its first Final Four. 1953 \u2014 The United States beats host Chile 49-36 to win the first FIBA World Championship for Women basketball tournament. 1958 \u2014 Vern Hatton and […]<\/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-25066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25066","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=25066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25066"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}