December 13

From Hoopedia

• 1952 - Larry Kenon, veteran of three ABA and two NBA All-Star games, is born in Birmingham, Alabama.

• 1977 - (Above) Thirty people, including the entire University of Evansville basketball team, its coaches, trainers and sportscaster, die when a chartered plane crashes and burns in dense fog soon after take-off from the Evansville airport.

• 1983 - The Denver Nuggets and the Detroit Pistons play in the highest scoring NBA game in history, with the Pistons winning 186-184 in triple overtime. In addition to most points in a game, this game also set the record for most field goals made (136), and most assists (93).

• 2001 - Larry Costello, who guided the Milwaukee Bucks to their only NBA championship in 1971, passes away after battling cancer for more than a year. He was 70 years old.

• 2003 - Kentucky defeats Michigan State, 79-74, before a collegiate record crowd of 78,129 in Detroit’s Ford Field.