{"id":30631,"date":"2016-03-28T08:01:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T15:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-march-28\/"},"modified":"2016-03-28T08:01:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T15:01:02","slug":"today-in-sports-history-march-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-march-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: March 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

1939 \u2014 The barnstorming Renaissance Five beat the NBL champion Oshkosh All-Stars, 34-25, to win the first annual World Professional Basketball Tournament in Chicago. Sports reporters of the day make no mention of the fact that all the Rens are black and the All-Stars are all white.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1942 \u2014 Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38 for the NCAA basketball championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1944 \u2014 Arnold Ferrin\u2019s 22 points leads Utah to a 42-40 victory over Dartmouth for the NCAA basket championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1950 \u2014 CCNY beats Bradley 71-68 in the NCAA basketball final to become the only team to win the NIT and NCAA titles in the same year. CCNY beat Bradley 69-61 in the NIT on March 18.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1977 \u2014 Marquette beats North Carolina 67-59 for the NCAA basketball title.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1982 \u2014 Louisiana Tech beats Cheyney State 76-62 in the NCAA\u2019s first women\u2019s basketball championship. The tournament replaces the AIAW championship which had been held since 1972.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1985 \u2014 The North American Soccer League, reduced to two surviving franchises, suspends operations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1989 \u2014 Southwestern Louisiana pitchers Cathy McAllister and Stefni Whitton pitch back-to-back perfect games against Southeastern Louisiana, a first in NCAA Division I softball history. McAllister strikes out 10 in a 5-0 victory and Whitton has 14 strikeouts in a 7-0 triumph.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1990 \u2014 Michael Jordan scores 69 points to help Chicago beat Cleveland 117-113 in overtime and clinch a playoff spot.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1992 \u2014 Christian Laettner hits a 15-foot turnaround jumper at the buzzer to give defending champion Duke a 104-103 overtime victory over Kentucky and a fifth consecutive trip to the Final Four.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1992 \u2014 Eric Forkel posts a 217-133 victory over Bob Vespi in the title match of the $300,000 PBA National Championship. Vespi\u2019s 133 sets a record for the lowest in tournament final history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1993 \u2014 Teemu Selanne of the Winnipeg Jets scores his 69th and 70th goals of the season in a 3-3 tie with Los Angeles Kings. Selanne is the eighth player, and first rookie, to have a 70-goal NHL season.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1995 \u2014 Michael Jordan, playing in his fifth game in 22 months, scores 55 points to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 113-111 victory over the New York Knicks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2006 \u2014 Oklahoma center Courtney Paris is the first freshman selected for The Associated Press All-America team in women\u2019s basketball.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2009 \u2014 Well Armed, ridden by Aaron Gryder, runs away with the $6 million Dubai World Cup by a record 14 lengths. The 6-year-old gelding turns the final race at Nad al Sheba into one to remember and claims the richest prize in horse racing. The winning margin nearly doubles the record of 7 3\/4 lengths set by Curlin last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2011 \u2014 Skylar Diggins scores 24 points and second-seeded Notre Dame upsets the top-seeded Lady Vols 73-59 to earn a spot in the Final Four. The Fighting Irish came in 0-20 all-time against the Lady Vols. Nnemkadi Ogwumike dominates the inside with 23 points and 11 rebounds, sister Chiney chips in with 18 points to lead Stanford to an 83-60 win over Gonzaga and reach its fourth straight Final Four.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2012 \u2014 The NFL\u2019s new rule for postseason overtime is expanded to cover the regular season on a 30-2 vote by the NFL owners. All games that go into overtime cannot end on a field goal on the first possession.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2015 \u2014 Breanna Stewart has 31 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists to help UConn rout Texas 105-54, earning coach Geno Auriemma his 100th NCAA Tournament win. Auriemma is the second coach to reach the century mark, joining Pat Summitt, who finished with 112 victories in her career.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1939 \u2014 The barnstorming Renaissance Five beat the NBL champion Oshkosh All-Stars, 34-25, to win the first annual World Professional Basketball Tournament in Chicago. Sports<\/a> reporters of the day make no mention of the fact that all the Rens are black and the All-Stars are all white. 1942 \u2014 Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38 for the […]<\/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-30631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30631","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=30631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30631"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}