When the games were played ...
Daily look back at some of the great sporting events that happened on this day
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1893: The first women’s college basketball game is played at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. In this game, each basket is worth one point and the freshman class beats the sophomore class, 5-4. The game takes place behind locked doors, and men are prohibited from watching.
1941: Joe Louis knocks out Abe Simon in the 13th round at Olympia Stadium in Detroit to retain the world heavyweight title.
1945: George Mikan of DePaul scores 53 points in the semifinals of the National Invitation Tournament.
Mikan matches Rhode Island in offensive output and his teammates add another 44 for a final score of 97-53.
1953: Rookie Bob Cousy sets an NBA record with 50 points and leads the Boston Celtics to a 111-105 victory over the Syracuse Nationals in a quadruple-overtime playoff game.
Cousy scores 30 points from the foul line.
1959: California edges West Virginia, 71-70, for the NCAA basketball championship. Jerry West scores 28 points for West Virginia.
1959: Oscar Robertson scores the first triple-double in the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four, totaling 39 points, 17 rebounds and 10 assists in Cincinnati’s 98-85 win over Louisville in the third-place game.
1964: UCLA caps a 30-0 season with a 98-83 victory over Duke in the NCAA basketball championship.
UCLA is the third team to go undefeated and win the title. The victory gives coach John Wooden the first of his 10 NCAA Tournament championships.
1970: Curtis Rowe scores 19 points and Sidney Wicks adds 17 points and 18 rebounds to lead UCLA to an 80-69 victory over Jacksonville for its fourth consecutive NCAA basketball championship. Jacksonville ends the season with a scoring average of 100.4 points per game, the first team to average more than 100 points per game in a college basketball season.
1973: Frank Mahovlich scores his 500th goal as the Montreal Canadiens beat the Vancouver Canucks, 3-2.
1984: Glenn Anderson of Edmonton scores his 50th goal of the season and helps the Oilers beat the Hartford Whalers, 5-3. The Oilers become the first NHL team to have three 50goal scorers in one season.
1990: Brett Hull of St. Louis becomes the sixth player in NHL history to score 70 goals in a season with a goal in the Blues’ 8-6 loss to the Edmonton Oilers.
1993: Patty Sheehan wins her 30th tournament to become the 13th member of the LPGA Hall of Fame, shooting a 3-under 70 for a five-stroke victory over Kris Tschetter and Dawn Coe-Jones in the Standard Register Ping.
1996: Todd Eldredge becomes the first American in eight years to win the gold medal at the World Figure Skating Championships.
2002: Missouri becomes the first 12th-seeded team to reach the round of eight by beating UCLA, 82-73, in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
2008: Alex Ovechkin becomes the NHL’s first 60-goal scorer in 12 years by netting two in the Washington's 5-3 victory over at Atlanta.
2008: For the first time, four NCAA men’s basketball tournament first-round games at the same site on the same day are classified as upsets. Two No. 12 seeds, Western Kentucky and Villanova, and No. 13s, San Diego and Siena, win first-round games in Tampa, Fla.
2010: Louis Dale scores 26 points, Ryan Wittman adds 24 and No. 12 seed Cornell upsets the fourth-seeded Badgers, 87-69, becoming the first Ivy League school in more than 30 years to advance to the round of 16.
2010: Teemu Selanne becomes the 18th player in NHL history to score 600 goals, reaching the milestone in the Anaheim Ducks’ 5-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche. The only other European-born players in the 600-goal club are Finnish countryman Jari Kurri (601) and the Czech Republic’s Jaromir Jagr (646).
2011: Courtney Vandersloot has 29 points and 17 assists to help Gonzaga beat UCLA, 89-75, in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Vandersloot becomes the first player in Division I history — men or women — to record 2,000 points and 1,000 assists in a career.
2011: Jantel Lavender scores 17 of her 21 points in the second half to set an NCAA record with her 135th straight double-figure scoring game, leading Ohio State past Georgia Tech, 67-60.
Abe Simon sits dazed on the canvas for a count of nine after being floored by Joe Louis in the 13th round of their bout in Detroit on March 21, 1941.
Soon after this, Louis was awarded the bout on a technical knockout.
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Anaheim Ducks right wing Teemu Selanne poses in the Ducks locker room with the puck from his 600th goal, scored against the Colorado Avalanche in a game in Anaheim, Calif., on March 21, 2010.
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Gonzaga’s Courtney Vandersloot in action against UCLA in the second round of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament in 2011.
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