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A summary of UCLA’s 88-game college basketball winning streak as it played out, following a loss at Notre Dame on Jan. 23, 1971: 1970-71 season: Win 1: Jan. 30, 1971: 74-61 vs. UC Santa Barbara ...

50 years later, Notre Dame's snapping of UCLA's win streak remains a landmark event in the history of basketball, even if the streak itself has already been surpassed numerous times.

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 ...

On Jan. 19,1974 a seismic event occurred in college basketball when a Pittsburgh kid, Dwight Clay, hit a corner jump shot to end UCLA’s 88 game winning streak. Clay, born and raised in the Hill ...

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.

SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 19—U.C.L.A.'s record 88game basketball winning streak came to an end today on the same court where the Bruins had last lost three years ago.

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 ...

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. In fact, only UNLV's streak of 45 in a row in 1989-91 is slightly ...

The winning streak was over. 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 ...

And that’s what led to Clay ending UCLA’s 88-game winning streak 50 years ago on Jan. 19, 1974, with what came to be known as “The Shot Heard ’Round The World.”

Besides winning 88 in a row, UCLA's average margin of victory was nearly 23.5 points per game ... the same school ranked number one in football and number one in basketball. Though the streak ...

UCLA’s record 88-game winning streak was over. ... UCLA, the NCAA and the game of basketball down. I didn’t get the job done. We had a chance to do something really special at UCLA. It’s my ...

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.

The legend began in January 1973 when Clay, appearing in just the ninth game of his college career, nailed a jump shot with 2 seconds left to end Marquette’s 81-game homecourt winning streak. That victory over the nation’s No. 4 team helped to turn the struggling Irish into a burgeoning basketball power.

This is less a story about the day a streak ended as much as it is the streak itself. Still, it’s worth noting that 50 years ago, on Jan. 19, 1974, the UCLA men’s basketball team’s 88-game ...

UCLA went on to lose three more games and got beat by North Carolina State 80-77 in double overtime in the national semifinals, ending its other streak of seven NCAA titles in a row. share Top Leagues

The Winning Streak. UCLA's winning streak was unparalleled, stretching over 1,092 days, a record that still holds in Division I men's basketball.

It was March 1, 1971. Win Number 8 in a remarkable, iconic streak of 88. UCLA’s top-ranked basketball team had somehow escaped with a victory at the University of Washington — Curtis Ro…

Walton had 32 points and 27 rebounds in UCLA’s 87-73 victory over Loyola of Chicago, a victory that tied the University of San Francisco’s NCAA-record 60-game winning streak.