This date in sports history: March 16

^{1938 — Temple defeats Colorado, 60-36, within the first Nationwide Invitation Event and the primary main postseason basketball match.}

1947 — Billy Taylor of the Detroit Pink Wings units an NHL report with seven assists in a 10-6 overcome the Chicago Black Hawks.

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.

1989 — Denver’s Michael Adams surpasses his personal NBA mark of 379 3-point makes an attempt in a season when he fires six 3-pointers in a 119-102 win over the San Antonio Spurs. Adams finishes the season with 466 makes an attempt.

1990 — Philip Hutcheson of David Lipscomb College hits a operating 5-foot hook shot within the NAIA Event to turn into the all-time scoring champion of faculty basketball. The 6-foot-8 Hutcheson, who scored in double figures in each school sport he performed, breaks the report of 4,045 set in 1969-72 by Travis Grant of Kentucky State.

2001 — A report variety of low-seeded groups advance within the NCAA males’s basketball match. Indiana State, Butler, Temple, Charlotte and Fresno State be part of Twelfth-seeded Gonzaga in advancing, that means 13 of the match’s 32 first-round video games have been gained by underdogs.

2003 — Svetlana Feofanova reclaims the pole vault world report from Stacy Dragila by clearing 15 ft, 9 inches on the World Indoor Championships at Birmingham, England. The Russian betters the mark of 15-8 1/4 Dragila set on the U.S. Indoor Championships on March 2.

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 crosses the road 34 minutes later.

2006 — The U.S. squad loaded with All-Stars loses 2-1 to Mexico to be eradicated from the World Baseball Traditional.

2007 — Kobe Bryant scores 33 of his 65 factors within the fourth quarter and additional time to steer 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 sport with a 168-116 rout of the Seattle SuperSonics.

2009 — Kevin Durant scores 25 factors, and Oklahoma Metropolis spoils Gregg Popovich’s 1,000th sport as San Antonio’s coach with a 78-76 victory over the Spurs. Popovich turns into the twenty fourth coach to achieve 1,000 video games and solely the seventh to do it with one group.

2010 — Lance Mackey wins the 1,100-mile Iditarod Path Sled Canine Race to turn into the primary musher within the occasion’s 38-year historical past to win 4 consecutive races. He finishes the race in eight days, 23 hours and 59 minutes — the second-fastest end in historical past.

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 turn into the second No. 15 seed to beat a No. 2.

2013 — Mikaela Shiffrin delivers an astonishing second run to overhaul Tina Maze and clinch the World Cup slalom title with an inconceivable 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 report.

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