home win streak

[romey]

"Back in the day" when my dad had season tickets, I remember going to a game at the old Milwaukee Arena (later, it was referred to as the MECCA) with my best buddy and MU lost to Creighton - it was late in the 1974(?) season I believe.  I remember the crowd was in stunned silence because we lost.  It was the first home loss in 5 years or so - maybe more.  Does anyone know how many consecutive home wins MU had - I know it was a school record.  And does anyone know what the longest home win streak ever was? I assume it was probably UCLA.  I think MU's was 70+ games.

[spartan3186]

The Wiki is all knowing... it was 18 games starting with South Carolina on Jan 20 1973 and ending with Creighton on Feb 9 1974.

[spartan3186]

They had won 83 straight homecames Starting Dec 20 1967 vs Villanova and ending Jan 13th 1973 however.... unless that game was @ ND and there is a typo in the Wiki then it would be 101 straight wins at home.

[muhoosier260]

not sure about home win streaks, but i know UCLA's streak of 88 games from Jan. of 1971-Jan. 1974 is the longest consecutive win streak period. amazing.

[muhoosier260]

here we go. according to this article written in 2000, kentucky holds the record for D-1 with 129 straight home wins!!!! spanning 12 seasons! apparently the collegiate record is held by (juco) college of southern idaho at 137 straight home games

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/statitudes/news/2000/02/15/home_streaks/

[bilsu]

Marquette's home winning streak was broken by Notre Dame on a buzzer beater by Dwight "Ice" Clay. I thought it was 82 games, but I could be wrong on that. I probably attended 80 of those 82 games.

[mu-rara]

Marquette's home winning streak was broken by Notre Dame on a buzzer beater by Dwight "Ice" Clay. I thought it was 82 games, but I could be wrong on that. I probably attended 80 of those 82 games.

ND, Dwight Clay, 81 games     I'm pretty sure Clay hit the shot that ended UCLAs 88 game streak too.

[ecompt]

I went there from 1968-72 and they never lost a home game while I was there. I remember Dwight Clay's jumper from the corner beat us the year after I graduated. I believe mu-rara has it exactly right.