History of undefeated NCAA basketball champions – NBC Connecticut

The South Carolina girls’s basketball workforce is 2 wins away from perfection.

Daybreak Staley’s Gamecocks are getting into their fourth consecutive Ultimate 4 having not misplaced a single recreation all season.

That is truly the second straight NCAA Event the place South Carolina carried an ideal report within the Ultimate 4. Final 12 months, the then-36-0 Gamecocks had been shocked by Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes within the nationwide semifinals.

Whereas South Carolina may nonetheless run into Clark and Co. once more, it will not be within the Ultimate 4. This time round, the 36-0 Gamecocks are up towards No. 3 NC State, which is making simply its second Ultimate 4 look and first since 1998.

Earlier than the Gamecocks and Wolfpack sq. off, this is a take a look at the historical past South Carolina is closing in on:

What number of undefeated NCAA girls’s basketball champions have there been?

There was an undefeated champion 9 instances in girls’s NCAA Event historical past. The uncommon feat has been achieved by 4 totally different applications: Baylor, Tennessee, Texas and UConn.

The 1985-86 Longhorns had been the primary to drag it off.

When was the final undefeated NCAA girls’s basketball champion?

UConn is the one program with a number of unblemished championship seasons. Geno Auriemma’s Huskies went unbeaten a staggering six instances, with two coming in consecutive seasons.

Here is a full take a look at every undefeated girls’s champion:

Texas, 1985-86: 34-0

UConn, 1994-95: 35-0

Tennessee, 1997-98: 39-0

UConn, 2001-02: 39-0

UConn, 2008-09: 39-0

UConn, 2009-10: 39-0

Baylor, 2011-12: 40-0

UConn, 2013-14: 40-0

UConn, 2015-16: 38-0

What number of undefeated NCAA males’s basketball champions have there been?

There have been even fewer good championship seasons on the boys’s aspect. It has been completed a mixed seven instances by 4 totally different applications: Indiana, North Carolina, San Francisco and UCLA.

San Francisco turned the primary undefeated males’s champ in 1955-56.

When was the final undefeated NCAA males’s basketball champion?

It has been practically 50 years for the reason that final unbeaten males’s champ, which was the 1975-76 Hoosiers. Gonzaga was getting ready to ending the drought in 2020-21, however the Bulldogs fell to Baylor within the nationwide title recreation.

Here is a full take a look at every time it has been completed:

San Francisco, 1955-56: 29-0

North Carolina, 1956-57: 32-0

UCLA, 1963-64: 30-0

UCLA, 1966-67: 30-0

UCLA, 1971-72: 30-0

UCLA, 1972-73: 30-0

Indiana, 1975-76: 32-0

There’s a lot on the road within the 2024 males’s Ultimate 4. UConn is trying to go back-to-back as champions whereas the opposite groups are on the lookout for their first win, or first win in over 4 a long time.