{"id":34538,"date":"2016-03-25T08:04:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-march-25\/"},"modified":"2016-03-25T08:04:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T15:04:46","slug":"today-in-sports-history-march-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-march-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: March 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

1934 \u2014 Horton Smith wins the first Masters by one stroke over Craig Wood.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1947 \u2014 Holy Cross, led by George Kaftan, beats Oklahoma 58-47 to take the NCAA basketball championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1958 \u2014 Sugar Ray Robinson regains the middleweight title for a record fifth time with a 15-round decision over Carmen Basilio.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1961 \u2014 Cincinnati ends Ohio State\u2019s 32-game winning streak with a 70-65 win in the NCAA championship. In the third-place game, St. Joseph\u2019s beats Utah 127-120 in quadruple overtime.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1967 \u2014 UCLA, led by sophomore Lew Alcindor\u2019s 20 points, tops Dayton 79-64 for the NCAA championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1972 \u2014 Bill Walton scores 24 points to lead UCLA to an 81-76 victory over Florida State and the NCAA title. The Bruins finish with a 30-0 record and increase their winning streak to 45 straight.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1972 \u2014 Maryland beats Niagara 100-69 in the NIT championship, becoming the first team to score 100 points in the finals of the tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1995 \u2014 Mike Tyson is released from a Plainfield, Ind., prison after serving three years for rape.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1999 \u2014 Geno Carlisle, just 3-of-17 from the field, came through with a three-point play with 4.7 seconds left, to give California a 61-60 win over Clemson and the NIT championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2006 \u2014 Following the tradition of teenage American women pulling off big upsets, 16-year-old Kimmie Meissner uses the performance of her life to soar to the World Figure Skating Championships title. U.S. champion Sasha Cohen falls apart again in the free skate, winding up third overall behind Japan\u2019s Fumie Suguri.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2007 \u2014 Cullen Jones becomes the rare black swimmer to claim a world championship, teaming with Michael Phelps, Neil Walker and Jason Lezak on a U.S. squad that wins the 400-meter freestyle relay at the world championships in Melbourne, Australia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2008 \u2014 Tennessee gives coach Pat Summitt her 100th NCAA Tournament win, a 78-52 rout of host Purdue. The win sends the Lady Vols to the NCAA regional semifinals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2011 \u2014 The Southwest Regional is the first in NCAA men\u2019s basketball history with three double-digit seeded teams in the semifinals. Virginia Commonwealth, an 11th seed beats 10th seed Florida State 72-71 in overtime and the top-seeded Kansas Jayhawks beat No. 12 seed Richmond 77-57 in the region\u2019s other semifinal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2012 \u2014 In the NBA\u2019s first quadruple-overtime game since 1997, Joe Johnson scores 37 points and Josh Smith adds 22 as the Atlanta Hawks beat Utah 139-133. The four overtimes tie for the third-longest game in NBA history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2013 \u2014 The Miami Heat extend their winning streak to 27 games with a 108-94 win over Orlando.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2015 \u2014 Road teams win 12 of the 13 games played in the NBA, breaking the league record for most wins by visiting teams in a single day. The previous mark was 10 on April 18, 2007. San Antonio is the only team to win its home game.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1934 \u2014 Horton Smith wins the first Masters by one stroke over Craig Wood. 1947 \u2014 Holy Cross, led by George Kaftan, beats Oklahoma 58-47 to take the NCAA basketball championship. 1958 \u2014 Sugar Ray Robinson regains the middleweight title for a record fifth time with a 15-round decision over Carmen Basilio. 1961 \u2014 Cincinnati […]<\/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-34538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34538","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=34538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34538"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}