TODAY IN SPORTS
March 27
• 1939 — Oregon beats Ohio State 46-33 in the NCAA’s first national basketball tournament.
• 1942 — Joe Louis knocks out Abe Simon in the sixth round at Madison Square Garden to retain his world heavyweight title.
• 1971 – Indiana University hires Bobby Knight.
• 1971 – UCLA beats Villanova 68-62 – UCLA’s 5th consecutive NCAA title.
• 1983 — Larry Holmes wins a unanimous 12-round decision over Lucien Rodriguez to keep his world heavyweight title in his hometown of Scranton, Pa.
• 1987 – NY Mets trade for David Cone – 1988 record will be 20-3 with 2.22 ERA.
• 1994 – Magic Johnson becomes LA Lakers head coach – 16 games with a 5-11 record.
• 1994 – Moses Malone plays in his 1,304th NBA game – 3rd most ever.
• 1998 — Michael Jordan scores 34 points to lead the Chicago Bulls to an 89-74 victory over the Atlanta Hawks before 62,046 at the Georgia Dome — the largest crowd in NBA history.
• 1998 – Karl Malone scores his 27,409th point to tie Moses Malone for 4th all time.
• 1999 – Both Karl Malone and John Stockton are held under 10 points in a game – last time it happened was November 21, 1987.
• 2002 – Jose Canseco released by Montreal – will not play again – .266 average, 462 HRs, 1,407 RBI.
• 2005 — Annika Sorenstam shoots a final-round 68 to win the Nabisco Championship by eight shots over Rosie Jones. It’s Sorenstam’s fifth win in a row over two seasons, tying Nancy Lopez from 1978.
• 2011 — Jamie Skeen scores 26 points and Virginia Commonwealth delivers the biggest upset of the NCAA Tournament, a 71-61 win over No. 1 seed Kansas in the Southwest Regional final. The Rams are the third 11th seed to make the Final Four.