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 ...
1/19/1974 - On this day in 1974 One of the longest college win streaks is ended when the UCLA's men's college basketball team's 88 game win streak comes to a...
Notre Dame had defeated UCLA 74-61 three years earlier. The Bruins didn’t lose again until that historic South Bend afternoon in 1974. It was an 88-game winning streak book-ended by losses to ...
Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014, marked the 40-year anniversary of the University of Notre Dame's most celebrated men's basketball victory. On that date in 1974, the Irish ended UCLA's 88-game winning streak, an accomplishment that has not been approached in men's college basketball since.
This week is the 50-year anniversary of when UCLA began its streak of 88 straight games between 1971 and 1974. ... behind in the final 3 ½ minutes to utterly shock UCLA 71-70. So Notre Dame was ...
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?
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 ...
Who broke UCLA’s 88-game winning streak? 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 ...
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 ...
In the shadow of The Stadium and The Gipper and The Golden Dome, on a leaden Saturday in South Bend, Dwight Clay stared opportunity in the face and never shivered. His jump shot with 29 seconds remaining wiped clean UCLA's 88-game winning streak and once again cast Notre Dame as the bad seed in the Bruins' victory garden.
🏀 Experience the historic moment as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Notre Dame's astonishing victory over UCLA, ending their 88-game winning streak! 🎉...
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.
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. TSN Archives: Notre Dame snaps UCLA's 88 ...
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.
Wednesday, November 19, 2003 Irish end UCLA's 88-game win streak By Larry Schwartz Special to ESPN.com. Jan. 19, 1974. Three weeks after Notre Dame's football team becomes No. 1 by beating Alabama in a thrilling Sugar Bowl, the Irish score their greatest basketball victory when they end UCLA's record 88-game winning streak in an equally magnificent contest.
John Shumate, who sparked Notre Dame to the 1974 upset of UCLA that snapped the Bruins’ record 88-game winning streak, has died. He was 72. Notre Dame announced that Shumate died Feb. 3.
UCLA's men's college basketball looked unstoppable, and they were, until Notre Dame beat them to end an historic run. They had won 218 of their last 223 game...
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.
Wednesday, January 20, 1999 Greatest UCLA sport moment was loss ending 88-game streak COLUMN: Notre Dame defeat reminded us that Wooden was only human In the storied history of UCLA basketball ...
