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On This Day ▪ March 16

If you know of an event that is missing from a particlular date and have a verifiable source, please contact me.

Note: Several football game date and location issues prior to 1940 have been found in the media guides that need further research. In the 2024 media guide, several dates/locations from 1895 to 1910 have been fixed.


Games

Men's Basketball
1985 – W 75-69 N Illinois State
1989 – W 72-71 N East Tennessee State
1995 – L 77-67 N Manhattan College
2000W 74-50 N Winthrop
2001L 70-68 (1OT) N Indiana State
2003W 49-47 N Missouri
2006L 82-74 N Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Women's Basketball
1984 – L 84-78 N Tennessee-Chattanooga
1986 – W 86-67 H Vanderbilt
1995 – W 90-55 N Loyola-Maryland
2002 – W 84-52 H Hartford
2018L 90-79 N DePaul

Baseball (1962-present)
1942 – L 10-8 A Texas
1956 – L 6-2 A Texas
1957 – W 4-0 A Texas
1974 – W 10-6 A Arizona State
1974 – L 4-3 A Arizona State
1974 – L 7-3 N Southern Utah
1976 – W 1-0 H Southeastern State
1976 – W 5-1 H Southeastern State
1979 – L 10-9 N Northern Arizona
1979 – W 20-2 N Linfield College
1982 – W 5-3 H Illinois
1982 – W 3-2 H Illinois
1984 – W 5-1 A Texas-Pan American
1986 – W 9-3 A Houston
1988 – W 10-4 H North Texas
1989 – W 14-6 H Stephen F. Austin
1989 – W 26-14 H Stephen F. Austin
1990 – W 4-1 N St. John's
1990 – W 5-2 N Missouri Southern
1991 – W 10-0 N Colorado State
1993 – L 5-3 H TCU
1994 – W 12-3 H Emporia State
1996 – W 7-4 H Michigan
1997 – W 13-12 H Kansas
1999 – W 17-6 H Sam Houston
2001 – L 5-3 A Baylor
2002 – L 6-4 A Arizona State
2003 – L 10-2 A Arizona State
2004 – L 6-3 A TCU
2007 – L 4-3 H Michigan State
2008 – W 14-2 H Washington State
2010 – W 4-2 H Massachusetts
2011 – L 6-4 A Arizona State
2012 – L 7-6 (12) H Texas
2013 – W 7-2 H Northwestern State
2014 – W 10-1 H Belmont
2018 – W 3-1 H Kennesaw State
2019 – W 11-2 H Missouri State
2021 – W 8-5 A Arkansas
2022 – W 8-7 H Air Force
2024 – W 7-5 A TCU
2025 – W 6-5 (10) A South Carolina

Softball
1981 – W 6-5 H Buena Vista College
1981 – W 2-1 H Southern Illinois
1982 – W 6-0 H Northern Iowa
1982 – L 2-0 H Arizona State
1984 – W 5-1 H Northern Illinois
1985 – W 1-0 H Texas A&M
1985 – L 3-0 H New Mexico
1986 – L 1-0 H Kansas
1990 – L 3-2 A Florida State
1990 – L 4-2 N Adelphi
1990 – L 2-0 N Louisiana
1991 – W 8-7 N Barry
1991 – W 5-4 N Barry
1994 – W 18-0 A Oklahoma Baptist
1994 – W 14-0 A Oklahoma Baptist
1996 – W 7-4 A Oklahoma State
1996 – W 8-1 N Wichita State
1999 – L 1-0 A Fresno State
1999 – L 4-0 A Fresno State
2000 – W 5-4 N DePaul
2000 – W 9-0 N Oregon State
2001 – W 4-2 N Notre Dame
2001 – W 5-4 N New Mexico State
2002 – W 8-0 N Utah
2004 – W 4-1 A San Diego State
2006 – L 5-0 N Alabama
2007 – L 7-0 N NC State | no-hitter
2008 – W 4-3 N Princeton
2011 – L 2-1 N Notre Dame
2012 – W 6-1 N Penn State
2012 – W 9-1 N Virginia
2013 – W 4-0 N Arizona
2015 – W 9-0 (5) H Iowa
2016 – L 12-10 (8) H Minnesota
2017 – W 6-4 A Loyola Marymount
2017 – W 8-1 N UC Santa Barbara
2018 – W 7-1 N Cal State Northridge
2018 – W 9-1 (5) N DePaul
2019 – W 11-1 (6) A Illinois
2024 – W 15-2 (5) A Texas Tech
2025 – W 10-7 A Arkansas

Births/Deaths

Football Players
Died in 2013 – Jim Cook (b. 1941)

Football Coaches
Born in 1934 – Howard Schnellenberger (d. 2021)

Men's Basketball Players
Born in 1978 – Kelley Newton
Born in 1983 – Kevin Bookout
Born in 1989 – Blake Griffin

Softball Players
Born – Mackenzie Donihoo