ON THIS DATE

;897 — Yale beats Penn 32-10 in New Haven, Conn., in the first men’s intercollegiate basketball game.

;965 — Gail Goodrich’s 42 points lead UCLA to a 91-80 victory over Michigan in the NCAA basketball championship.

;968— Dave Bing of the Detroit Pistons finishes the season with a 27.1 ppg. average, becoming the first guard in 20 years to lead the NBA in scoring.

;97; — Milwaukee’s Lew Alcindor is named NBA Most Valuable Player for the first of his record-breaking six times. Alcindor averaged 31.7 points and 16 rebounds per game.

;976 — Boston’s John Havlicek becomes the first NBA player to score more than 1,000 points per season for 14 consecutive years.

;988 — Mike Tyson knocks out Tony Tubbs in the second round to retain his world heavyweight title in Tokyo.

2003 — Shaquille O’Neal becomes the 28th player in NBA history to score 20,000 points during the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against Sacramento.

2005 — LeBron James, 20, becomes the youngest player to score 50 points in an NBA game, when he scores 56 in the Cavaliers’ 105-98 loss to the Raptors.

2006 — Japan beats Cuba 10-6 in the title game of the inaugural World Baseball Classic.

20;0 — Northern Iowa pulls off one of the biggest NCAA upsets in years by knocking off No. 1 overall seed Kansas with a 69-67 win. Ali Farokhmanesh buries an open 3-pointer with the shot clock still in the 30s to give the Panthers a fourpoint lead with 35 seconds left.

20;0 — Wladimir Klitschko knocks out Eddie Chambers in the 12th and final round to retain his WBO and IBF heavyweight belts in Duesseldorf, Germany.