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January 20 Categories: Sports

on January 20, 1968January 20, 1968 By Sheila Gallagher

Game of the Century! Top-ranked UCLA, led by the future Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, faces second-ranked University of Houston, led by Elvin Hayes, at the Astrodome. Houston snaps UCLA’s 47-game winning streak, 71-69, in the first NCAA basketball game to be nationally televised in prime time—the granddaddy of March Madness.

UCLA-Houston ‘Game of the Century’ still leaves impression 50 years later

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