November 29
From Hoopedia
- 1956 - Team USA (above) sets an Olympic record for free-throw efficiency in a game, going 23 of 24 (95.8%) from the charity stripe, as they cruise past the Soviet Union, 85-55.
- 1972 - Former Kentucky Wildcats and NBA star Jamal Mashburn is born in New York City.
- 1980 - Ronnie Carr of Western Carolina makes the first three-point field goal in college basketball history in a game against Middle Tennessee State, as the Southern Conference begins a season-long experiment with a 22-foot three-point field goal with the approval of the NCAA Rules Committee.
- 1989 - Oklahoma sets an NCAA record by scoring 97 points in the first half of a 173-101 win over U. S. International University.
