Sports Fact of the Day 1/9/2007

1/9/1971:
Maryland upsets South Carolina, 31-30, in overtime at Cole Field House in College Park, scoring six points in the last 14 seconds to steal the game. In the much-anticipated rematch between the two bitter rivals after their December meeting was halted with four minutes left following a wild player brawl, Terps head coach Lefty Driesell employs stalling tactics throughout to throttle the favored Gamecocks. Maryland's Jim O'Brien scores a basket to tie the game at the end of regulation and another in the closing second of OT to win it.

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