Caltech’s Basketball Team Just Ended a 26-Year, 310-Game Losing Streak!

Caltech . . . in Pasadena, California . . . is an amazing school.  It has fewer than 1,000 undergraduate students a year, but has churned out 31 Nobel Prize winners and some of the best science and engineering minds in the history of America.

What it's not good at . . . is sports.  Believe it or not.  Caltech doesn't give out athletic scholarships, so anyone who plays on their basketball team has to get into the school the hard way . . . by being a super genius-slash-gigantic nerd.

But they have a Division Three basketball team.  They're part of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.  And Caltech holds quite a record.

They had a 26-YEAR, THREE HUNDRED AND TEN-game losing streak in the conference.  They hadn't won a game against another SCIAC team since January 23rd, 1985.  Until Tuesday.

On Tuesday night, the Caltech Beavers beat their SCIAC rivals, Occidental College, 46-to-45 in their final game of the season to snap the streak.  (--Yes, the same Occidental College that PRESIDENT OBAMA went to.)

Besides owning the worst CONFERENCE record in history, Caltech is also the NCAA record holder for the worst losing streak in general.  In 2007, they snapped a 207-game losing streak by beating Bard College of New York.

Via (USA Today)