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1938 — Temple defeats Colorado 60-36 within the first Nationwide Invitation Event and the primary main postseason basketball event.
1947 — Billy Taylor of the Detroit Purple Wings units an NHL document with seven assists in a 10-6 conquer the Chicago Black Hawks.
1955 — NHL President Clarence Campbell suspends Maurice “Rocket” Richard for the rest of the common season and playoffs after hanging linesman Cliff Thompson throughout a melee in a recreation in opposition to the Boston Bruins.
1961 — Montreal’s Bernie Geoffrion turns into the second participant to attain 50 objectives in a season in a 5-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs. Maurice Richard was the primary to do it, in 1945.
1971 — Goaltender Glenn Corridor will get his 407th and ultimate NHL victory because the St. Louis Blues put up a 6-2 win in opposition to the visiting Montreal Canadiens.
1990 — Philip Hutcheson of David Lipscomb College hits a working 5-foot hook shot within the NAIA Event to change into the all-time scoring champion of faculty basketball. The 6-foot-8 Hutcheson, who scored in double figures in each school recreation he performed, breaks the document of 4,045 set in 1969-72 by Travis Grant of Kentucky State.
2005 — Norway’s Robert Sorlie wins his second Iditarod Path Sled Canine Race in one of many closest races in years. Sorlie completes the 1,100-mile race throughout Alaska in 9 days, 18 hours, 39 minutes and 31 seconds. He’s nonetheless within the winner’s circle when Ed Iten of Kotzebue crossed the road 34 minutes later.
2007 — Kobe Bryant scores 33 of his 65 factors within the fourth quarter and additional time to guide the Los Angeles Lakers to a 116-111 win over Portland.
2008 — Denver units NBA season highs for factors in a half with 84 and factors in a recreation with a 168-116 rout of the Seattle SuperSonics.
2010 — Lance Mackey wins the 1,100-mile Iditarod Path Sled Canine Race to change into the primary musher within the occasion’s 38-year historical past to win 4 consecutive races.
2012 — Kyle O’Quinn has 26 factors and 14 rebounds to assist No. 15 seed Norfolk State stun second-seeded Missouri 86-84 within the West Regional of the lads’s NCAA event. C.J. McCollum scores 30 factors and Lehigh upsets Duke 75-70 within the South Regional to change into the second No. 15 seed to beat a No. 2 throughout a wild day within the NCAA event.
2013 — Mikaela Shiffrin delivers an astonishing second run to overhaul Tina Maze and clinch the World Cup slalom title with an unbelievable come-from behind victory at Lenzerheide, Switzerland. The American teenager trailing Maze by an enormous 1.17 seconds after the primary leg, finishes forward of the Slovenian within the second run to win the slalom title in her first full season on the circuit.
2013 — Ted Ligety caps his dominant season in big slalom with a sixth World Cup win at Lenzerheide, Switzerland. The American skier joins Ingemar Stenmark as the one males within the 47-year World Cup historical past to get six GS victories in a season. Stenmark’s 10-race sweep in 1978-79 is the document.
2018 — Senior guard Jairus Lyles scores 28 factors and the College of Maryland-Baltimore County pulls off essentially the most surprising upset in NCAA Event historical past, defeating Virginia 75-54 to change into the primary No. 16 seed to beat a No. 1 seed in males’s basketball. Virginia enters the NCAA Event because the No. 1 general seed after going 31-2 this season, together with 20-1 in ACC competitors.
2020 – Main League Baseball suspends the rest of Spring Coaching and delays begin of standard season in response to COVID-19 pandemic; return depending on suggestions by Facilities for Illness Management
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