TODAY IN SPORTS

March 12

1937 – The first National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) men's basketball tournament is won by Central Missouri State. Central Missouri wins the eightteam, single-elimination tournament by defeating Morningside College (Iowa) 35-24.

1966 – In the last race of his 40-year career, John Longden wins the San Juan Capistrano Handicap at Santa Anita, aboard George Royal. He retires with a then-record number of victories, 6,032.

1985 – Larry Bird scores 60 points, including Boston's last 16, to set a Celtics record and lead them to a 126-115 victory over Atlanta. 1994 – The Arkansas men's track and field team wins its 11th straight NCAA Indoor Championship with a meet-record 94 points. The 54-point victory margin is the biggest in the meet's 30-year history.

2002 – Siena (17-18), with an 81-77 victory over Alcorn State in the play-in game, becomes first team in 47 years to win an NCAA men's basketball tournament game with a losing record. 2003 – Damian Costantino's NCAA-record hitting streak ends at 60 games, one day after he broke Robin Ventura's 16-yearold mark. Costantino, an outfielder for Division III Salve Regina of Newport, R.I., fails to get a hit in the first game of a doubleheader against Baldwin-Wallace. It's the first time he finishes a game hitless since March 25, 2001.

2008 – The Houston Rockets are the third team in NBA history to win 20 straight games and ties for the secondlongest winning streak with an 83-75 victory over the Atlanta Hawks. 2009 – Syracuse outlasts Connecticut in the second-longest Division I game ever played, capping a Big East tournament quarterfinal doubleheader in which the second- and thirdranked teams in the nation both lose. Andy Rautins hits a 3-pointer 10 seconds into the sixth overtime, to give the Orange their first lead since regulation and they go on to a 127-117 victory over the thirdranked Huskies. Much earlier in the evening, West Virginia beats No. 2 Pittsburgh 74-60. 2020 – 2020 NCAA men's basketball tournament is cancelled over concerns of the spread of COVID-19; first time ‘March Madness' not held since it began in 1939; women's tournament also cancelled.

2020 – NHL announces the pausing of the 201920 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.