Wichita Eagle · Feb 21, 2017
KU’s record-tying streak won’t offend UCLA coach
Kansas’ chase of UCLA’s record is almost complete.
With one more victory, the Jayhawks will clinch their 13th straight Big 12 championship, an amazing streak that will match the longest in college basketball, owned by UCLA from 1967-79.
Some of the sports’ most iconic figures built that Bruins’ run. John Wooden won eight of his 10 NCAA championships in that window, and the coach who frequently clutched a rolled up program was there for the first nine titles in the league then known as the Pacific-8.
Lew Alcindor, later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, Sidney Wicks, Jamaal Wilkes and Marques Johnson were among the stars that never lost a Pac-8 title.