{"id":30110,"date":"2016-03-24T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-march-24\/"},"modified":"2016-03-24T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:00:26","slug":"today-in-sports-history-march-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-march-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: March 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

1936 \u2014 Detroit\u2019s Mud Bruneteau ends the longest game in NHL history with a goal after 116 minutes, 30 seconds (six overtimes) to edge the Montreal Maroons 1-0 in the semifinals of the Stanley Cup playoffs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1941 \u2014 Long Island University wins the NIT championship with a 56-42 victory over Ohio.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1945 \u2014 NYU rallies from a 10-point deficit with two minutes to force overtime and beat Ohio State 70-65 in an NCAA Tournament semifinal. At that time, a team got one free throw when fouled near end of game, but could elect instead to inbound. Ohio State is fouled three times, chooses to take foul shots and misses each time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1952 \u2014 Chicago\u2019s Bill Mosienko scores three third-period goals in 21 seconds to lead the Blackhawks to a 7-6 comeback win over the New York Rangers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1962 \u2014 Paul Hogue scores 22 points and grabs 19 rebounds and Tom Thacker adds 21 to lead Cincinnati to a 71-59 victory over Ohio State for its second NCAA basketball championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1970 \u2014 Jerry West of the Los Angeles Lakers wins his only NBA scoring title, accumulating 2,309 points in 74 games for a 31.2 ppg. average.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1973 \u2014 Kansas City-Omaha\u2019s Nate Archibald becomes the first player in NBA history to lead the NBA in scoring (34.0 ppg.) and assists (11.4 apg.) in the same season.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1975 \u2014 Muhammad Ali knocks out Chuck Wepner in the 15th round to retain the world heavyweight title in Cleveland.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1975 \u2014 Princeton becomes the first Ivy League school to win the NIT with an 80-69 win over Providence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1979 \u2014 Indiana State, led by Larry Bird, advances to the NCAA championship game by squeezing past DePaul 76-74. Bird has 35 points, 16 rebounds and 9 assists.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1980 \u2014 Louisville beats UCLA 59-54 to win the NCAA basketball title.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1991 \u2014 Dean Smith becomes the first coach to win regional titles in four different decades when North Carolina beats Temple 75-72 in the East Regional of the NCAA tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1992 \u2014 Pittsburgh\u2019s Mario Lemieux becomes the 36th player in NHL history with 1,000 points, getting an assist in the second period of the Penguins\u2019 4-3 loss to the Detroit Red Wings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1994 \u2014 Kansas State\u2019s Askia Jones scores 62 points in 28 minutes in a 115-77 victory over Fresno State in the NIT quarterfinals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1996 \u2014 Vancouver loses its 18th consecutive game, 90-85 to Cleveland. The Grizzlies, with losing streaks of 18 and 19 games in 1995-96, are the first team in NBA history to have two losing streaks of 18 or more games in the same season.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2006 \u2014 Davis Love III makes history at The Players Championship as he finishes 18 shots worse than his opening round and entered the PGA Tour record books as the only player in the 33-year history of its showcase event go from first to the weekend off. Love has a quadruple-bogey 9 on his final hole for an 11-over 83, missing the cut by four shots.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2013 \u2014 Florida Gulf Coast goes from shocking the men\u2019s college basketball world to downright impressing it. The Eagles beat San Diego State 81-71 to become the first No. 15 seed to reach the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2013 \u2014 Minnesota breezes past Boston University 6-3 to finish the first perfect season in the 13-year history of NCAA women\u2019s hockey. The Gophers (41-0) win their second straight national championship and stretch their record win streak to 49 games. Their last loss was to North Dakota on Feb. 17, 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1936 \u2014 Detroit\u2019s Mud Bruneteau ends the longest game in NHL history with a goal after 116 minutes, 30 seconds (six overtimes) to edge the Montreal Maroons 1-0 in the semifinals of the Stanley Cup playoffs. 1941 \u2014 Long Island University wins the NIT championship with a 56-42 victory over Ohio. 1945 \u2014 NYU rallies […]<\/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-30110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30110","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=30110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30110"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}