{"id":17954,"date":"2026-03-26T15:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/today-in-sports-philadelphia-76ers-tie-the-nba-record-for-futility-with-their-26th-straight-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:36:11","slug":"today-in-sports-philadelphia-76ers-tie-the-nba-record-for-futility-with-their-26th-straight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/today-in-sports-philadelphia-76ers-tie-the-nba-record-for-futility-with-their-26th-straight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Sports \u2013 Philadelphia 76ers tie the NBA record for futility with their 26th straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>March 27<\/p>\n<p>1939 &mdash; Oregon beats Ohio State 46-33 in the NCAA&rsquo;s first national basketball tournament.<\/p>\n<p>1942 &mdash; Joe Louis knocks out Abe Simon in the sixth round at Madison Square Garden to retain his world heavyweight title.<\/p>\n<p>1945 &mdash; Oklahoma A&amp;M beats New York University 49-45 for the NCAA basketball championship.<\/p>\n<p>1951 &mdash; Bill Spivey scores 22 points to lead Kentucky to a 68-58 win over Kansas State for the NCAA basketball title.<\/p>\n<p>1960 &mdash; The Boston Celtics score a then NBA Finals record 76 points in the first half a 140-122 win over the St. Louis Hawks. Tom Heinsohn (24), Bill Sharman (23), Frank Ramsey (22) and Bob Cousy (20) each score 20-or-more points to win the series opener.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>1971 &mdash; UCLA beats Villanova 68-62 for its fifth NCAA basketball title.<\/p>\n<p>1978 &mdash; Jack Givens scores 41 points to lead Kentucky to a 94-88 victory over Duke for the NCAA basketball title.<\/p>\n<p>1983 &mdash; Larry Holmes wins a unanimous 12-round decision over Lucien Rodriguez to retain his world heavyweight title in his hometown of Scranton, Pa.<\/p>\n<p>2005 &mdash; Annika Sorenstam shoots a final-round 68 to finish at 15-under to win the Nabisco Championship by eight shots over Rosie Jones. It&rsquo;s he 59th victory of the Swedish star&rsquo;s LPGA Tour career &mdash; and her eighth major championship win.<\/p>\n<p>2010 &mdash; Long shot Al Shemali wins the $5 million Dubai Duty Free, pulling away from a crowded field to pull off a surprisingly easy win in the Dubai World Cup. Al Shemali, at 40-1, starts slow then duels it out with Bankable before taking the lead for good.<\/p>\n<p>2011 &mdash; Jamie Skeen scores 26 points as Virginia Commonwealth delivers the biggest upset of the NCAA tournament, a 71-61 win over No. 1 seed Kansas in the Southwest Regional final.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>2014 &mdash; The Philadelphia 76ers tie the NBA record for futility with their 26th straight loss, falling 120-98 to the Houston Rockets. Philadelphia matches the 2010-11 Cleveland Cavaliers for the NBA&rsquo;s worst skid.<\/p>\n<p>2017 &mdash; UConn&rsquo;s women&rsquo;s basketball team advance to its 10th consecutive Final Four with a 90-52 victory against Oregon. The victory moves coach Geno Auriemma past Pat Summitt for the most NCAA Tournament victories at 113.<\/p>\n<p>_____<\/p>\n<p>Source<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Today in Sports &ndash; Philadelphia 76ers tie the NBA record for futility with their 26th straight loss<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 27 1939 &mdash; Oregon beats Ohio State 46-33 in the NCAA&rsquo;s first national basketball tournament. 1942 &mdash; Joe Louis knocks out Abe Simon in the sixth round at Madison Square Garden to retain his world heavyweight title. 1945 &mdash; Oklahoma A&amp;M beats New York University 49-45 for the NCAA basketball championship. 1951 &mdash; Bill&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/today-in-sports-philadelphia-76ers-tie-the-nba-record-for-futility-with-their-26th-straight-loss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Today in Sports \u2013 Philadelphia 76ers tie the NBA record for futility with their 26th straight loss&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}