February 7
From Hoopedia
- 1893 - A team made up of Vanderbilt College men takes on the Nashville (Tennessee) YMCA team, and wins 3 goals to 2. It is the first documented game involving a college team. The game is a 9-v-9 affair, since the 5-v-5 format did not become standard until the late 1890s.
- 1969 - Rick Barry of the Oakland Oaks sets an ABA and professional basketball record by going 23-for-23 from the free throw line, as Oakland defeats the Kentucky Colonels, 124-122, in overtime. Dominique Wilkins of Atlanta later matches Barry’s feat and sets the NBA mark on December 8, 1992.
- 1970 - "Pistol Pete" Maravich scores 69 points against Alabama to set a new NCAA Division I men's scoring record. His mark would be broken on January 5, 1991, when Kevin Bradshaw would score 72 points.
- 1973 - Juwan Howard, one of the University of Michigan Fab Five, is born in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1974 - Steve Nash (right), winner of back-to-back NBA Most Valuable Player Awards in 2005 and 2006, is born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 1987 - Michael Jordan wins his first NBA Slam Dunk title in Seattle. The highlight is an end to end dunk, which mesmerizes the sell-out crowd, as he starts at the opposite foul line to get a running start, takes off from the nearer foul line, and dunks without touching the floor.
- 1991 - Larry O'Brien, the NBA's third commissioner is elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame along with Bobby Knight, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin and Larry Fleisher.
