You Tube Gold: UCLA’s 88-Game Win Streak Ends

UCLA’s Bill Walton gets one off over Notre Dame’s John Shumate.Think about this: UCLA won every title from 1966-67 to 1972-73.

Now think about this: between 1966 and January 20, 1974, UCLA lost just five games total.

So while the might Bruins took an 88-game win streak into South Bend on that long-ago January 20th, it wasn't all that far off from being a 223 game win streak.

Even so, 88 straight? In the immortal words of an eternally astonished Dickie V, “are you serious?”

One of those five losses, as we detailed here the other day, was to Houston in the Superdome in what was billed as “The Game of The Century.” In that game though, UCLA’s greatest star, Lew Alcindor, since known as Kareem…