December 20

From Hoopedia

• 1954 - (Right) Ken Sears of Santa Clara University becomes the first basketball player to be featured on a Sports Illustrated cover.

• 1966 - The NBA announces that the cities of Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington had been awarded franchises, beginning with the 1967-68 season. Those team were eventually named the Portland Trail Blazers and Seattle SuperSonics, respectively.

• 1973 - Jenny Boucek, former Virginia Cavaliers star and current head coach of the Sacramento Monarchs, is born in Nashville, Tennessee.

• 1985 - North Carolina blocks 18 Stanford shots, setting the NCAA Division I men's record, in an 87-55 rout.

• 1989 - The Big Ten Conference announces that Penn State will become their eleventh member. This move causes a chain reaction of schools jumping conferences, new conferences forming and old conferences folding.

• 2006 - New York Knicks forward David Lee scores a game-winning basket with only 00:00.1 seconds left on the clock. The shot counts because Lee deflects the inbounds pass into the basket. It is the first occurrence of a team winning an NBA game with one-tenth of one second left since the NBA implemented the Trent Tucker Rule in 1990.