This Day in Sports History

Tar Heels Win their first National Championship, Bobby Knight becomes first to win National Title as Coach and Player, and Swimmer sidetracks Sluman - This DiSH for March 29


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EPISODE SUMMARY

In 1982, the North Carolina Tar Heels beat the Georgetown Hoyas 63-62.

In 1976, the Indiana Hoosiers beat the Michigan Wolverines to win the the National Championship and finish the year a perfect 32-0. The Hoosiers are the last team to go through the season and win the title undefeated. Also Bobby Knight became the first to win a championship as a player and head coach.

In 1981, it was the beginning of the end for the AIAW Championship. Louisiana Tech beat Tennessee 79-59.

In 1987, Jeff Sluman and Sandy Lyle were locked in a sudden death playoff at the Players Championship. Sluman was lining up a potential tournament winning putt when a guy jumped into the water surrounding the 17th green. Sluman missed the putt and Lyle won on the next hole.

In 2014, Laura Diaz had her second ace in two days at the Kia Classic in Carlsbad, California. It was just the second time in LPGA history that a golfer had aced two holes during the same tournament.

And in 1981, American Dick Beardsley and Norwegian Inge Simonson crossed the finish line at the inaugural London Marathon to win as a pair in 2 hours 11 minutes and 48 seconds.

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Relive the greatest moments in sports every day of the year. From the triumphs to the tragedies, the first to do it to the last time it happened, the unbelievable to the strange, This Day in Sports History is a 365-day journey remembering those significant events that made a lasting impact.

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