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EPISODE SUMMARY
In 2019, NC State scored only 24 points. It’s the worst performance by a ranked team in the shot clock era.
In 1954, Clarence ‘Bevo’ Francis scored 113 points against to set a collegiate basketball record.
In 1968, Wilt Chamberlain put together a double triple double with 22 points, grabbed 25 rebounds, and dished 21 assists. It was the only 20-20-20 triple double in the NBA until Russell Westbrook did it in 2019.
In 1997, ‘Frisk Me Now’ won a race at Hialeah’s Gulfstream Park as a 106-1 long shot in the $100,000 Hutcheson Stakes.
THIS DAY IN SPORTS BACKGROUND
Relive the greatest moments in sports every day of the year. From the triumphs to the tragedies, the first to do it to the last time it happened, the unbelievable to the strange, This Day in Sports History is a 365-day journey remembering those significant events that made a lasting impact.