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APRIL 2, 1920
SAN FRANCISCO AND TEXAS TO PLAY FOR COLLEGE HOOPS TITLE
It will be San Francisco against Texas in the NCAA college basketball title game after each won in the semi-finals. San Francisco topped Kentucky 59-49 while the Longhorns beat Yale 64-54. None of the number one seeds reached the championship game as Kentucky and Yale were the last number one's standing. San Francisco knocked off the nation's number one team, North Carolina, in the Midwest Regional final while the South's top seed, Alabama, failed to advance past the Sweet 16.
In the opening game freshman center Jefferson Harley scored 20 points and added 13 rebounds as the Dons beat the top seed in the East. San Francisco was the #3 seed out of the Midwest Region. In the nightcap Texas actually trailed by 1 at the half before pulling away early in the second half. Guard Matt Rogers led the Longhorns, who were the 6 seed in the South, with 26 points. Yale was the top seed in the West Region.
Meanwhile, Washington won the NIT Tournament with a 96-69 victory over Arkansas-Little Rock in the championship game at Madison Square Garden. Arizona and Wyoming were the other two teams to reach the final four.
APRIL 2, 1920
SENATORS REPEAT AS STANLEY CUP CHAMPS
For the second year in a row the Ottawa Senators defeated the Seattle Metropolitans to win the Stanley Cup. Ottawa won the best-of-five series 3 games to one with one contest ending in a tie.
The series opened in the nation's capital on March 22nd with the western side showing full effects of a cross-country train ride. Ottawa capitalized on a tired Seattle club by scoring 4 times in the third period to earn a 6-2 victory. Buck Boucher scored three times for the winners.
With a couple of days rest Seattle was a different team in Game Two and carried the play to the Senators. Only an amazing 61 save performance from Ottawa goalie Clint Benedict allowed the Senators to escape with a 3-3 tie.
Seattle would get it's only win of the series in Game 3 as Frank Foyston scored 5 times in a 6-4 Metropolitans victory. Foyston, an Ontario native and future Hockey Hall of Famer, had previously won 2 Stanley Cups with the old Toronto Blueshirts and a third with Seattle 3 years ago.
Game Four was scoreless through 2 periods before Ottawa broke through with 3 goals in the third to win 3-0. Clint Benedict was once again outstanding between the pipes for the Senators.
Despite being outshot 33-17, Ottawa would wrap the series up in the next game with a 3-1 victory. Frank Nighbor would get the Cup clincher shorthanded midway through the third period and Sprage Cleghorn would seal the win with his second goal of the game coming in the final minute of play.
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