March 8

From Hoopedia

• 1901 - Indiana University defeats Wabash College, 26-17, to record its first-ever win.

• 1912 - Cumberland Posey and his Monticello Athletic Association team upset Howard University, the reigning Colored Basketball World's Champions, 24-19.

• 1913 - Herman “Suz” Sayger, Culver High School, sets the Indiana high school individual scoring record with 113 points against Winamac, in a 154-10 victory. His scoring consists of 56 field goals and one free throw.

• 1926 - Hall of Fame NBA ref Mendy Rudolph is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

• 1954 - In the only double-header with the same two teams in NBA history, the Milwaukee Hawks beat the Baltimore Bullets twice, 64-54 and 65-54.

• 1960 - Buck Williams, the 1982 NBA Rookie of the Year, is born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

• 1993 - (Right) Don Barksdale, the first African American to play in the NBA All-Star Game, passes away at age 69.

• 2006 - In the first major professional sporting event in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city more than six months ago, the Lakers defeat the Hornets, 113-107. A sellout crowd of 17,744 shows up at New Orleans Arena, which encountered flooding problems following one of the worst hurricanes in American history on August 29, 2005.

• 2008 - Atlanta defeats the Miami Heat in the first NBA "do-over" game in a quarter-century. On December 19, 2007 Atlanta's scorer mistakenly fouled out Miami's Shaquille O'Neal with 51.9 seconds left in overtime and the Hawks up, 114-111, after the foul shots were made. Miami appealed and the league ordered the end of the game to be replayed. The game ends in anti-climactic fashion, as neither team scores. Despite having only five fouls, Shaq does not play in the redo, having been traded in the interim to the Phoenix Suns.