Basketball winning streaks

This is a list of notable winning streaks in basketball.

The United States men's national basketball team has 45 straight wins at official FIBA competitions as of October 2014. Previously, the team had a 58-game winning streak from the 1992 Olympic Games to the 2002 FIBA World Championship.

On January 19, 1974, the UCLA Bruins lost a basketball game to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, 71–70. It ended a streak of 88 consecutive victories, which coincidentally began after losing to Notre Dame exactly three years earlier on January 19, 1971. The streak encompassed 88 games, an NCAA division I basketball record eclipsing the 60 game streak of San Francisco in 1956. The streak is still an active Division I men's basketball streak, but the Division I basketball streak was matched when the University of Connecticut women's basketball team won a game against Ohio State on December 19, 2010 and the old record was eclipsed when the team won their 89th consecutive victory against Florida State on December 21, 2010. UConn's streak ended at 90 games, after losing to Stanford, who was the last team to beat UConn before the start of the streak. The streak is also intact and was the highest winning streak in Division I College Basketball history for seven years, until UConn surpassed it after they won their 91st straight game.

In 1950, Phil Woolpert, a high school coach at the time, took over as head basketball coach of the San Francisco Dons when Pete Newell left to coach Michigan State University. The school had no gym, and arranged for practices at a nearby high school. The team went 44–48 in its first four seasons, and weren't expected to be very good in the 1954–1955 season.

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