Top Ten NCAA College Basketball Home Winning Streaks
Saturday, November 21st, 2009My quest was to find the longest home winning streaks for NCAA Division 1 College Basketball. It took me so long to find the information that I did, that I figured I would post it on my blog and perhaps make someone else’s job a little easier. I couldn’t even find the complete Top 10 but here’s what I have:
#1 Kentucky – 129 games (1943-1955) (broken by Georgia Tech 59-58 in Memorial Coliseum on Jan. 8, 1955)
#2 St. Bonaventure – 99 games (1948-1961)
#3 UCLA – 98 games (1970-1976)
#4 Cincinnati – 86 games (1957-1964)
#10 Arizona – 71 games (?-1992) (broken by UCLA)
If someone can help round out the Top 10 I’d appreciate it.
UPDATE: Here are my thoughts on the Kansas Jayhawks getting into the Top 10 on this list. Currently, they have a 59 game home winning streak. They will not play another home game until next basketball season. This year 2009-2010 they played 12 home games BEFORE league play began. If they win all of those, and they should, they’d tie Arizona at #10. As long as their non-league games don’t include some powerhouse (and it usually doesn’t) and they don’t play a high ranked team in league play the first few games, they have a legitimate shot at working their way up the Top 10 list.
They had 20 total home games this year. If they have 20 more next season and won them all, they’d have a 79 home game winning streak. My guess is that would place them in the top 5 or 6. If they went unbeaten again the following season and played 20 home games, then they’d tied St. Bonaventure at #2. That would be quite a feat in this day and age of basketball.
