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UCLA had a basketball rivalry with Notre Dame that started when Digger Phelps was the Notre Dame coach and John Wooden was the UCLA coach. UCLA and Notre Dame played a home-and-home meeting for several seasons in the 1970s and 1980s, which is otherwise uncommon outside conference play. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the schools met once ...

It was a bookend three years in the making. On Jan. 19, 1974, Notre Dame men's basketball did something no one did in three years — beat UCLA and coach John Wooden, 71-70.

There might not have been a more important game in the sport of basketball than Notre Dame's 71-70 upset over UCLA in 1974. Looking back on the game that helped shape college basketball into what ...

On that January afternoon in 1974, the Notre Dame men’s basketball team had closed like a freight train, holding John Wooden’s Bruins scoreless while notching 12 straight points to win 71-70.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you think – like so many fans -- that it was ND’s victory over UCLA in 1974, breaking the Bruins 88-game winning streak, you'd be wrong. Notre Dame’s grea...

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.

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. ... (UCLA first, Notre Dame second), it appeared to be a ...

🏀 Experience the historic moment as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Notre Dame's astonishing victory over UCLA, ending their 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. ... 1974, the UCLA men’s basketball team ...

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.

UCLA’s 88-game winning streak started, coincident­ally, a few years earlier after a loss to Notre Dame. In 1974, UCLA was coming off seven consecutiv­e NCAA championsh­ips. The program was college basketball royalty, while Notre Dame was an up-and-coming program under Phelps.

Notre Dame 71, UCLA 70 will live forever precisely because it, more than any other game, connects us to an era in college basketball so utterly alien from our own.

Notre Dame has a 10‐0 record and U.C.L.A. is 13‐1 This was only the sixth defeat for U.C.L.A. in the last eight seasons during which Wooden's Bruins have won 218 games. Wooden said

In those days, Notre Dame vs. UCLA in basketball was one of the sport's greatest rivalries. From 1960-70, UCLA won five matchups in a row by scores of 31, 29, 51, 13 and 31 points. Still, the ...

Notre Dame reappeared on UCLA’s schedule in 2004 and 2005, Ben Howland’s first two seasons. Howland, a basketball purist, grew up in Santa Barbara watching the titanic struggles and seeks to ...

Change was everywhere this past season as college basketball moved to 31 conferences and a Power 4. ... UCLA and Texas will head into next season as the favorites. ... 5 Notre Dame. 12 aq - Green ...