saint0917
March 16th, 2009, 05:57 AM
3/14/70:
St. Bonaventure wins the Eastern Regional of the NCAA basketball tournament with a 97-74 rout of Villanova but loses All-American center Bob Lanier with torn knee ligaments in his right leg, sidelining him for next week’s Final Four. Lanier had 26 points and 14 rebounds before Villanova guard Chris Ford drove the lane and crashed into him. The third-ranked Bonnies improve to 25-1 with this victory, but they’ll be hopelessly out-manned by Jacksonville’s tandem of seven-footers, Artis Gilmore and Pembroke Burrows, in the national semifinals and lose, 91-83.
B I R T H D A Y S
Bob Charles b. 1936
Wes Unseld b. 1946
Kirby Puckett b. 1961
Kevin Brown b. 1965
Larry Johnson b. 1969
St. Bonaventure wins the Eastern Regional of the NCAA basketball tournament with a 97-74 rout of Villanova but loses All-American center Bob Lanier with torn knee ligaments in his right leg, sidelining him for next week’s Final Four. Lanier had 26 points and 14 rebounds before Villanova guard Chris Ford drove the lane and crashed into him. The third-ranked Bonnies improve to 25-1 with this victory, but they’ll be hopelessly out-manned by Jacksonville’s tandem of seven-footers, Artis Gilmore and Pembroke Burrows, in the national semifinals and lose, 91-83.
B I R T H D A Y S
Bob Charles b. 1936
Wes Unseld b. 1946
Kirby Puckett b. 1961
Kevin Brown b. 1965
Larry Johnson b. 1969