Happy St. Patrick's Day Basketball Fans

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

St. Patrick's Day is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa AD 385–461), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17.

The day is the national holiday of Ireland. It is a bank holiday in Northern Ireland and a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland and Montserrat. In Canada, Great Britain, Australia, the United States, and New Zealand, it is widely celebrated but is not an official holiday.

St. Patrick's feast day was placed on the universal liturgical calendar in the Catholic Church due to the influence of the Waterford-born Franciscan scholar Luke Wadding in the early part of the 17th century, although the feast day was celebrated in the local Irish church from a much earlier date. St. Patrick's Day is a holy day of obligation for Roman Catholics in Ireland. The feast day usually falls during Lent; if it falls on a Friday of Lent (unless it is Good Friday), the obligation to abstain from eating meat can be lifted by the local bishop. The church calendar avoids the observance of saints' feasts during certain solemnities, moving the saint's day to a time outside those periods. St. Patrick's Day is very occasionally affected by this requirement. Thus when March 17 falls during Holy Week, as in 1940 when St. Patrick's Day was observed on April 3 in order to avoid it coinciding with Palm Sunday, and again in 2008, having been observed on 15 March.

Source: Wikipedia

On This Day In Kentucky Basketball History:

Kentucky vs. Duke: On March 17, 1978 Kentucky’s Jack ''Goose'' Givens put on one of the finest individual performances in NCAA Championship history and led the Kentucky Wildcats past the Duke Blue Devils 94 to 88 for the school’s fifth NCAA title.

Other Basketball History on March 17:

1988 Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115 (Was highest scoring game ever until last week's Big East Tournament)

More Notable Events on March 17:

1997 CNN begins Spanish broadcasts

1995 U.S. approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck

1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th Prime Minister

1966 U.S. submarine locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean

1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India