Home winning streaks (aka: Cameron is king... for now)

[JasonEvans]

In the wake of Kansas going down and its 69 game home winning streak being busted, Yahoo did a little article on the current longest home court streaks (http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Which-remaining-home-win-streak-has-the-most-sta?urn=ncaab-311328#remaining-content)and the odds they will last into the 2011-12 season.

They give Duke an excellent chance (5:3) of retaining our 30 game streak until the end of the season.


1. Duke - 30 games — Next: Thursday vs. Boston College

There's a very strong chance that this streak is still intact when the 2011-12 season tips off, as the ACC is beyond down this year. Plus, the Blue Devils have only five homers remaining in league play (BC, N.C. State, North Carolina, Georgia Tech, Clemson). They also host a non-con game against Temple in late February. Nothing too scary here. Odds - 5:3

Sorta amusing that Pitt comes in at #4 in this list with a 20-game streak. The article comments that Pitt has a tough home slate coming up. Of course, the article was published just hours before Pitt lost AT HOME to Notre Dame.

-Jason "what is the all-time record? Probably held by UCLA" Evans

[Duvall]

-Jason "what is the all-time record? Probably held by UCLA" Evans

No, UCLA was playing in a major conference when it set the record. Kentucky holds the record, 129 games from 1943-55 (http://www.ukathletics.com/sports/m-baskbl/archive/kty-m-baskbl-archive.html).

[airowe]

The streak gets even longer if you take out the UNC games: 59 games going back to the Maryland defeat in the 2007 season.

Impressive.

[bluepenguin]

The streak gets even longer if you take out the UNC games: 59 games going back to the Maryland defeat in the 2007 season.

Impressive.

It's not a streak if you have to take out some loses, is it?

[airowe]

It's not a streak if you have to take out some loses, is it?

Details, details. :)

I'd be interested to see when the last loss was to a non-UNC, non-Maryland team.

[94duke]

Details, details. :)

I'd be interested to see when the last loss was to a non-UNC, non-Maryland team.

I think...
Jan 6, 2007
against VPI
67-69 OT

http://goduke.statsgeek.com/basketball-m/games/boxscore.php?gameid=20070106

[BlueDevilBaby]

Details, details. :)

I'd be interested to see when the last loss was to a non-UNC, non-Maryland team.

VA Tech maybe - was that the game Paulus got posterized?

[Duvall]

I think...
Jan 6, 2007
against VPI
67-69 OT

http://goduke.statsgeek.com/basketball-m/games/boxscore.php?gameid=20070106

Yes and no. Duke's last home loss to a non-UNC, non-Maryland team came against Florida State on February 4, 2007, 67-68. However, Florida State was forced to vacate that win as part of an academic dishonesty scandal.

[Olympic Fan]

The last home loss to somebody OTHER than UNC was to Maryland on Feb. 28, 2007.

Obviously, Duke has been unbeaten at home this season (so far) and all of last year.

In the 2008 and 2009 seasons, the only home loss each year was to UNC.

In 2007, Duke was pretty vulnerable at home -- Jan. 6 vs. Va Tech (when Paulus was posterized), Feb. 4 vs. Florida State (Duke blew a huge early lead), Feb. 7 to UNC, and the Feb. 28 game to Maryland.

So 4-4 at home in the ACC that season ... and it could have been worse without the David McCloure game-winner against Clemson.

Note: I see Duvall beat me to it. Just thought I'd add, since Wake beat Duke in Cameron on Jan. 6, 1997 (the game when Greg Newton dissed Tim Duncan afterwards), Duke has lost just three ACC home games to anybody other than UNC or Maryland in the last 13-plus years -- the two losses to FSU and Va Tech in 2007 and a 2004 loss to Georgia Tech.

[94duke]

Yes and no. Duke's last home loss to a non-UNC, non-Maryland team came against Florida State on February 4, 2007, 67-68. However, Florida State was forced to vacate that win as part of an academic dishonesty scandal.

Doh! My bad. I scanned the season results from top to bottom instead of bottom to top.

[OldPhiKap]

If you take out the teams that have beaten us, we have NEVER lost at Cameron. Ever.

So we have that going for us. Which is nice.

[BlueDevilBaby]

Doh! My bad. I scanned the season results from top to bottom instead of bottom to top.

Doh! Me too. My first inclination was to say FL State before I thought I may as well check the facts. So much for that.

[rasputin]

Is Bob Green gonna jinx this for us like he did in the "undefeated" thread?;)

[airowe]

The streak gets even longer if you take out the UNC games: 59 games going back to the Maryland defeat in the 2007 season.

Impressive.

My favorite comment received to date was on the above post.


Thread: Home winning streaks...

Stupid post.

Thanks to whoever left that comment! You make me better with your criticism. :D

[wilson]

...a 2004 loss to Georgia Tech.On Senior Night. That game was a harbinger of the pinnacle of Paul Hewitt's career, as well as of the worst current contract in all of college athletics.