Basketball
- FIBA World Championship –
- Gold: United States
- Silver: Brazil
- Bronze: Philippines
- NCAA Men's Basketball Championship –
- La Salle wins 92-76 over Bradley
- NBA Finals|NBA Finals –
- Minneapolis Lakers win 4-3 over the Syracuse Nationals
- March 13 – Milan High School, enrollment 161, defeated Muncie Central High School (enrollment over 1,600) 32-30 to win the Indiana state title. The 1986 movie classic Hoosiers was very loosely based on the story of this Milan team.
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“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)