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Because when Notre Dame battled UCLA as the Bruins sought to extend an NCAA-record 88-game winning streak, and when the Fighting Irish recovered from an 11-point deficit inside the final 4 minutes ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame, with Austin Carr scoring 46 points, knocked top‐ranked UCLA from the undefeated ranks, 89‐82, on Jan. 23, 1971. The aggressive Irish led all the way except for a 47‐47 tie early in the second half. A crowd of 11,343 saw Notre Dame hand the Bruins their first defeat of the season after 14 triumphs and end the two-year victory streak of the National ...

50 years ago on the afternoon of Jan. 19, 1974, the Notre Dame men's basketball team ended the UCLA Bruins' 88-game winning streak.

UCLA and Notre Dame played 42 times between 1966 and 1995, and the height of the rivalry was when Notre Dame ended UCLA's consecutive game winning streak at 88 on January 19, 1974. UCLA also broke a 60-game Notre Dame winning streak in South Bend. [1] Former UCLA head coach Ben Howland had since scheduled Notre Dame four times: ...

The Bruins beat Notre Dame by a combined 128 points, including an 82-63 victory in South Bend in 1973, a victory that gave UCLA its 61st straight win, breaking San Francisco's previous college record of 60 straight wins. ... The call was made by Richard Weiler, who happened to also be the lead official in Notre Dame's win over UCLA in 1971 ...

The irony of the loss: Notre Dame had defeated UCLA, 74-61, on Jan. 30, 1971, and the Bruins didn’t lose again for 1,084 days, until that fateful afternoon of Jan. 19, 1974.

He was not Notre Dame's star or leading scorer, but when the Fighting Irish ended UCLA"s record 88-game winning streak 50 years ago, Dwight Clay -- the Iceman -- landed the clinching shot. Because ...

The End of a Streak for the Ages. On January 19, 1974, one of the most remarkable runs in sports history came to an end. UCLA’s legendary 88-game winning streak—still the longest in NCAA Division I men’s basketball history—was snapped by Notre Dame in a nail-biting 71-70 victory.In just 3 minutes and 32 seconds, the Irish erased an 11-point deficit, culminating in Dwight Clay’s ...

But for Notre Dame the flush of victory was exhilarating. There is little harmony between the two teams. Both are vain, and defeat does not dwell comfortably. During Phelps' first season at Notre Dame, UCLA beat the Irish by 58 points. Last year Wooden admonished Shumate for jostling with Walton and implied reprisal.

Notre Dame scores the game's last 12 points to end UCLA's record 88-game winning streak, 71-70. It's the first loss for UCLA since Jan. 23, 1971 when the Bruins were beaten 89-82 by -- who else?

🏀 Experience the historic moment as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Notre Dame's astonishing victory over UCLA, ending their 88-game winning streak! 🎉...

But UCLA did not score another point. And Notre Dame scored the last 12 to win, 71-70. Pittsburgh-native Clay hit a corner shot with a half-minute left and Notre Dame led, 71-70. UCLA called time out with 21 seconds remaining, then set up quickly on offense to try to get a good shot. Actually, it got five of them -- and missed every one.

It was the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. And as previously mentioned, they were also the same team that beat UCLA on January 23, 1971, during the 1970-1971 season. Ad

One such moment occurred on January 23, 1971, when the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men’s basketball team achieved a monumental upset over the UCLA Bruins, the reigning powerhouse of the era. In a ...

Pittsburgh native Dwight Clay hits the game-winning shot from the corner in Notre Dame’s 71-70 win over UCLA on Jan. 19, 1974, which put a halt to the Bruins’ 88-game winning streak.

For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we revisit one of Monty’s most unforgettable performances in a Notre Dame uniform — the Fighting Irish’s thrilling 79-63 upset of No. 4 UCLA in 1994.

And yet “Notre Dame 71, UCLA 70” has stood firm against the sands of time. It is crystallized in the sport’s collective memory, and not just because one team scored 12 unanswered points in ...

Notre Dame beats UCLA 71-70 to snap the Bruins’ 88-game winning streak, the longest in the history of college men’s basketball. The Fighting Irish had been the last team to beat John Wooden’s Bruins four years earlier, and 32-year-old coach Digger Phelps was confident his squad could end it. UCLA jumped out to a 17-point first-half lead ...

When UCLA surpassed USF’s mark with an 82-63 victory over Notre Dame, Lee said the record wouldn’t last long because the Bruins would break their record the following week. For another year ...