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Sports Jersey Dispatch March Daily Digits

Sports history is made every day of the year. We will preserve at least a small sampling from some great athletes every day based on the uniform number they wore.

34 - 4 - 22 - 11

March 30, 1940 - Indiana knocked off Kansas, 60-42 in the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship game. Hoosiers' forward Marvin Huffman, Number 34 was named tournament Most Outstanding Player.

March 30, 1943 - At the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship it was Wyoming beats Georgetown, 46-34; Cowboys' point guard Ken Sailors, Number 4 is named tournament Most Outstanding Player

March 30, 1975 - Washington Capitals player Ron LaLonde, Number 22 scored the first hat trick in franchise history.

March 30, 1981 - Point guard Isiah Thomas, Number 11 won the Most Outstanding Player award for the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament as his Indiana team coached by Bobby Knight, defeated the North Carolina Tarheels coched by Dean Smith, 63-50.

Credits

A Very Special thanks to information obtained from the following brilliant internet sites: On This Day Sports, the Sports Reference's family of website databases & Stathead.com.

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