When the games were played ...
Daily look back at some of the great sporting events that happened on this day
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1944: St. John’s, coached by Joe Lapchick, cruises by DePaul, 47-39, to become the first back-to-back winner of the National Invitation Tournament.
1946: Hank Iba’s Oklahoma A&M Aggies beat North Carolina, 43-40, for their second straight NCAA men’s basketball title. Bob Kurland scores 23 points, including the first two dunks in NCAA tournament history.
1949: Alex Groza leads Kentucky to a 46-36 victory over Oklahoma State for the NCAA championship.
1952: Kansas’ Clyde Lovelette scores 33 points to lead the Jayhawks to a 80-63 win over St. John’s for the NCAA basketball title.
1972: The Los Angeles Lakers beat Seattle, 124-98, to finish the season at 69-13, the best record in NBA history, until the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls finish at 72-10.
1973: Bill Walton scores 44 points to help UCLA win its record seventh NCAA basketball championship with an 87-66 triumph over Memphis State.
1974: George Foreman knocks out Ken Norton in the second round in Caracas, Venezuela, to retain the world heavyweight title.
1974: Rick Barry of the Golden State Warriors scores 64 points in a 143-120 victory over Portland.
1987: Southern Mississippi defeats La Salle, 84-80, in the championship of the 50th NIT.
1992: Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is sentenced to six years in prison for rape.
1995: Nanci Bowen wins the Dinah Shore, her first LPGA victory, by one stroke over Susie Redman.
1996: Mario Lemieux scores five goals and two assists in his first headto- head competition against Wayne Gretzky in more than three years to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins to an 8-4 victory over the St. Louis Blues.
2002: Utah’s John Stockton turns 40, becoming the 10th player in NBA history to play at that age. Stockton scores 20 points in the Jazz’s 109-105 victory over Houston.
2004: Ian Crocker closes out his career at Texas by setting a world record in the 100-meter butterfly at the NCAA men’s swimming and diving championships, winning the event for the fourth straight year.
Crocker wins in 49.07 seconds, joining Mark Spitz and Pablo Morales as the only swimmers to win the butterfly four times in NCAA championships history.
2005: In the NCAA men’s basketball regional finals, Louisville and Illinois make tremendous comebacks to force overtime and advance.
Louisville, trailing by 20 to West Virginia, completes an amazing rally for a 93-85 win. Illinois, trailing by 15 with just four minutes to play, goes on a dazzling 20-5 run to send Arizona to a crushing 90-89 defeat.
2006: George Mason stuns No. 1 seed UConn, 86-84, in overtime to become the first No. 11 seed to reach the men’s Final Four since LSU in 1986.
2009: Evan Lysacek becomes the first American in 13 years to win the World Figure Skating Championship thanks to a spectacular free skate.
2010: Gilbert Arenas is sentenced to 30 days in a halfway house for bringing guns into the Washington Wizards locker room. District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin also adds a litany of conditions associated with the sentence — two years of probation, a $5,000 fine and 400 hours of community service.
2011: Shelvin Mack scores 27 points, including five in overtime, as Butler returns to the Final Four with a 74-71 victory over Florida in the Southeast regional. Kemba Walker scores 20 points, freshman Jeremy Lamb adds 19 as Connecticut beats Arizona, 65-63, to win the West regional.
2012: Jaime Alas scores in stoppage time and El Salvador forges a 3-3 tie that ousts the United States from Olympic qualifying. The Americans miss the Olympics for the second time since 1976.
Heavyweight champion George Foreman follows through after throwing a right to Ken Norton's head in the second round at the Poliedro in Caracas, Venezuela on March 26, 1974.
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The Penguins’ Mario Lemieux had five goals and two assists on this date in 1996 in an 8-4 win over Wayne Gretzky’s St. Louis Blues.
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