March 12

This day in sports history March 12

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March 12, 2020: The Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, which had been played every year since 1939, and the Division I Women’s Basketball Championship are canceled for the first time by the NCAA Board of Governors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All 2020 NCAA winter and spring sports are canceled, as well.

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Chris Jackson Makes History

March 12, 1996 49

Boom Boom Geoffrion Wins

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March 11-12, 1988: Abilene Christian and Saint Augustine’s tie for the 1988 team crown in the Division II Men’s Indoor Track and Field Championships, marking the first of 13 team titles through 2011 for Abilene Christian and the second of 13 titles through 2014 for Saint Augustine’s. Abilene Christian’s women also win the first of 12 team titles extending through 2000.

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March 11-12, 1988: Christopher Newport wins the first of six Division III Women’s Indoor Track Championships team titles between 1988 and 1998 under coach Vince Brown.

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Woody Hayes Passes Away

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March 11-12, 1983: The first National Collegiate Women’s Indoor Track and Field Championships are conducted in Pontiac, Michigan.

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buck-weaver and 1919 Black sox

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